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

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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