UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE Cordially invites you to the PROF. S. PARTHASARATHY MEMORIAL LECTURE Instituted by Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science Topic Foundational Models: A New Approach to Organizing and Consuming Information Using AI Speaker Dr. Balaraman Ravindran Professor & Head Wadhwani School of Data Science & AI IIT Madras, Chennai Presidential Address Prof. S. Elumalai Registrar, University of Madras Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Dr. V. Chandrakumar for Library Science & Faculty, Research Scholars and Students ----------------------------------- About the Speaker Professor B. Ravindran heads the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI), the Wadhwani School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (WSAI), the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) and the Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI) at IIT Madras. Currently, his research interests are centered on learning from and through interactions and span the areas of geometric deep learning and reinforcement learning. About the Endowment & Lecture The Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science was founded in 1961 by Padmashri Late Dr. S. R. Ranganathan, National Research Professor in Library Science and a renowned library and information scientist, to promote research in Library & Information Science. The Endowment is pleased to honour a close associate of Dr. Ranganathan and a longtime trustee of the Endowment, Prof. S. Parthasarathy (1917-2021), by instituting a Memorial Lecture to commemorate his stellar contributions to the field of Library and Information Science. K. S. Raghavan Former Dean (Academic), University of Madras Professor (Retd.), DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute Visiting Scientist (Retd.), Centre for Knowledge Analytics & Ontological Engineering (KAnOE), PES University Member-Secretary, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science