The 5th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Engineering
Distinguished Speakers
ICMLDE 1.0 – 4.0 (2022–2025)
A look back at our keynote and invited speakers across four editions
Since its inaugural edition in 2022, ICMLDE has hosted keynote and invited speakers from leading universities, national research institutions, and industry, spanning machine learning, data engineering, computer vision, quantum computing, and beyond. Browse each edition below to see who took the stage.
Endowed Chair in Wide Area Surveillance and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Dayton, USA; Fellow of SPIE with over 600 publications in computer vision and deep learning.
Director, National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand; previously Director of NIT Jalandhar; three decades of experience in computer science academia and administration.
Professor, São Paulo State University, Brazil; Humboldt Fellow; associate editor for several IEEE and computing journals, working in image processing and pattern recognition.
Professor and Head, Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago; founding Director of UIC's MS Business Analytics program.
Director of Data Science, Bold Technologies; PhD from EPFL, Switzerland; has led data science initiatives across telecom, finance, and neuroscience domains.
Vice President and Head of AI Garage, Mastercard; ACM Distinguished Scientist and Speaker; 18 years at IBM Research prior to industry roles in AI and analytics.
Associate Professor, University of Teramo, Italy; associate editor for multiple IEEE Transactions journals, researching fuzzy logic and evolutionary algorithms.
IBM Resource Persons, IBM Research Lab, India
Advisory Research Engineer, IBM India Research Lab; works on machine learning, NLP, and question-answering, with a PhD from IISc Bangalore.
Advisory Research Engineer and IBM Quantum Ambassador; researches quantum computing and machine learning, with a master's from IIT Delhi.
Research Engineer, IBM Research India, leading projects in AI-driven business process optimization and AI for social good.
Advisory Research Scientist, IBM Research India; IBM Quantum Ambassador and Qiskit Advocate, working in NLP and Quantum ML.
Senior Researcher, IBM Research Lab, Bangalore; specializes in blockchain interoperability and co-authored a guidebook on Hyperledger Fabric.
Director General, Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), MeitY, Government of India; previously an advisor at TRAI on broadband and data policy.
Endowed Chair in Wide Area Surveillance, University of Dayton, USA; returning ICMLDE keynote speaker and Fellow of SPIE.
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Khalifa University, UAE; over 350 publications in machine learning, pattern recognition, and biomedical imaging.
Outstanding Scientist and Director, DEAL, DRDO; leads development of satellite communication systems and software-defined radios for defence applications.
Distinguished Research Professor of Statistics, Florida State University; elected 2022 IMS Fellow for contributions to geometrical statistics and shape analysis.
Ex-Professor, IIT Delhi; author of widely used textbooks on control systems and machine learning; founding Director, School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar University.
GM (Projects), NIXI-CSC Data Services; 35 years at MeitY, Government of India; led India's National Strategy on Blockchain Technology.
Director of Research, CCPS, St. John's University, New York; postdoctoral work at Yale and Stanford on biomedical data standards and FAIRness.
Workshop 01 · Advancing AI for Medical Image Analysis · University of South Australia
Associate Professor, University of South Australia; 2022/2023 REDI Fellow, researching intelligent sensors and multimedia data analytics.
Workshop 02 · Artificial Intelligence and Quantum for Sustainability · IBM Research Lab, India
AI Leader and IBM Quantum Ambassador; Open Group certified Distinguished Data Scientist with 23 years of industry experience.
Builds scalable AI solutions in computer vision and NLP at IBM; recipient of IBM's Major Outstanding Technical Achievement Award.
Workshop 03 · Computing with EEG: Affective Multimedia and Motor Rehabilitation
MS/PhD from University of Maryland; researches biological computation and EEG/ECG processing for early cancer and mental health detection.
Assistant Director, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience group, Oxford Brookes University, UK; specializes in EEG/ERP and TMS research.
Workshop 04 · Augmented Reality Development: Marker-Based AR with Vuforia and Unity 3D
Founder and Director, Creative Interfaces Lab, IIIT Delhi; PhD from IIT Guwahati's HCI lab, researching AR/VR and the Metaverse.
Director General, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), MeitY; former Global CSO, Tata Consultancy Services and Microsoft India.
Endowed Chair in Wide Area Surveillance, University of Dayton, USA; returning ICMLDE keynote speaker for a third consecutive edition.
Director, Instruments Research & Development Establishment (IRDE), DRDO, Dehradun; expert in electro-optical systems and signal/image processing.
Associate Head of School (Research), Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand; Fellow of IET; listed among the World's Top 2% Scientists (2022).
Associate Professor, College of Computing and Informatics, Providence University; managing editor, IEEE Smart Cities Newsletter; author of books on 6G-enabled healthcare and telemedicine.
Vice President and Head of AI for Media, Jio, India; PhD from Nanyang Technological University; previously led Machine Learning at Disney+ Hotstar.
Director, Centre of Real-Time Computer Systems, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania; Editor-in-Chief, Information Technology and Control journal.
ACM Distinguished Speaker (2023–2025) and Professor, IIT Delhi; researches NLP, graph neural networks, and resource-efficient language models.
Director (IT), National Informatics Centre, MeitY; 21 years of experience in AI research including masked facial recognition for government applications.
Principal IT, AtriCure, Ohio, USA; oversees IT infrastructure for a medical device company specializing in atrial fibrillation treatment technology.
Workshop 01 · Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing · IBM Research Lab, India
IBM Quantum India Leader, leading Neuro Symbolic AI and Quantum AI research; IBM Master Inventor with a PhD from IIT Delhi.
Quantum Software Support Engineer, IBM Research Lab, Gurugram; IBM Certified Quantum Developer and Qiskit Advocate.
Workshop 02 · Leveraging AI and Machine Learning for Safe Driving in Autonomous Vehicles
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, NIT Rourkela; PhD from Nanyang Technological University, researching IoT and wireless networks.
Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems, Bradley University, USA; researches connected and autonomous vehicles and V2X communication.
Director General and Distinguished Scientist, ECS, DRDO; 33 years in India's missile programme; over 200 publications and 12 patents.
Director and Professor, Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata; Padma Shri and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient; Fellow of INSA, NASI, INAE, and IEEE.
Director General, Technology Management, DRDO; returning ICMLDE speaker leading India's software-defined radio and military communications programmes.
Endowed Chair in Wide Area Surveillance, University of Dayton, USA; ICMLDE's most frequent keynote speaker across all four editions.
Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Jadavpur University; visiting scientist at Stanford, Maryland, and several European institutions.
Full Professor and Chair of Health Informatics, TUM, Munich; Professor of AI and Head of GLAM, Imperial College London; Fellow of ACM, IEEE, BCS, and ELLIS.
SVP and Head of AI Garage, Mastercard; ACM Distinguished Scientist; recognized among H2O.ai's Top 100 AI Thought Leaders (2024).
Associate Head of School (Research), Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand; recipient of AUT's 2023 Research Excellence Award.
Professor and Director, Center for ML, University of Texas, Dallas; AAAI Fellow; program co-chair, AAAI 2024.
Senior Director of Data Science, Bold Technologies, USA; PhD from EPFL, Switzerland; returning ICMLDE speaker since the inaugural 2022 edition.
Director, Centre of Real-Time Computer Systems, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania; author of 500+ publications on sustainable software engineering.
Project Manager, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; PI of the SFI-funded VOTE-TRA project; named among the World's Top 2% Scientists (2024).
Director (IT), National Informatics Centre, MeitY; returning ICMLDE keynote speaker for a second consecutive edition.
Workshop 01 · Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing · IBM Research Lab, India
IBM Quantum India Leader, leading Neuro Symbolic AI and Quantum AI research; IBM Master Inventor with a PhD from IIT Delhi.
Workshop 02 · Reinforcement Learning and Its Application in Reasoning Models
Senior R&D Engineer, ABB Ability Innovation Center, Bangalore; PhD in Computational Biology from RIKEN, Japan; applies RL to industrial automation.
Workshop 03 · Agentic AI for Complex Reasoning in Remote Sensing Applications
Research Scientist, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE; PhD from IIT Ropar in computer vision and medical image analysis.
Assistant Professor, Centre for AI and Robotics (CAIR), IIT Mandi; PhD in Deep Learning, researching computer vision and generative AI.
Workshop 04 · Reimagining Software in the Era of Generative AI
Senior Research Scientist, IBM India Research Lab, Bangalore; works on AI for code, software testing, and automated code validation.
Workshop 05 · Micro and Nano Fabrication of Terahertz (THz) Communication Devices
Scientist G, Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Dehradun, India; M.Tech and Ph.D. from IIT Delhi, researching micro and nano machining of electromechanical components.