Over the years, ACM SIGKDD India Chapter (IKDD) has been organizing various community building events and programs such as the annual Data Science in India workshop co-organized with KDD, ML Summer School and the Uplink program. Continuing the journey, this year we are starting a Data Science Meetup series aimed at bringing together data science researchers and practitioners that share common interests.
The very first meetup on "Large Language Models: Where are we now and what lies ahead?" is scheduled to happen on June 15th, 2023, 6:30 - 8:30 PM.
Agenda
The meetup comprises two sessions: talks by distinguished speakers followed by Q&A and focused round table discussions
Session 1: 6:30 - 7:45 PM
This session features mini talks by two distinguished speakers, Dr. Partha Talukdar (Google Research) and Dr. Monojit Choudhury (Microsoft) followed by Q & A moderated by Prof. Mitesh Khapra (IIT Madras).
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Dr. Partha Talukdar
[Google Research]
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Dr. Monojit Choudhury
[Microsoft]
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Prof. Mitesh Khapra
[IIT Madras]
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Session 2: 7:45 - 8:30 PM
This session will feature focused round table discussions (approximately 6-8 attendees) hosted by experienced researchers and data science professionals. Discussion topics would include (but not limited to):
- LLMs in search and knowledge-intensive tasks
- LLMs for Indic and low-resource languages
- LLMs for enterprise/private-LLMs
- LLMs for Code-generation
- LLM deployment, testing, and ops
- LLM platforms
- Multi-modal LLMs
- Open research problems on LLMs
- LLMs- responsible use and socio-economic implications
- Other LLM applications (e.g., gene sequencing, protein synthesis)
Below are the moderators for the round tables.
- Nikesh Garera, [Flipkart]
- Shreyas Shetty, [Flipkart]
- Gaurav Arora, [Amazon]
- Anoop Kunchukuttan, [Microsoft]
- Priyanka Agrawal, [Google]
- Rajesh Kumar, [Meesho]
- Tejas Dhamecha, [Microsoft]
- Prathosh AP, [IISc]
- Hima Patel, [IBM]
- Goda Ramkumar, [Swiggy]
- Debdoot Mukherjee, [Meesho]
- Somya Gupta, [LinkedIn]
- Sourab Mangrulkar, [Hugging Face]
- Sumod Mohan, [AutoInfer]
Note: Participation is free but invite-only due to the limited capacity. To ensure mutually beneficial and fruitful discussions, we will be sending joining instructions to researchers and practitioners (including those with engineering and product backgrounds) who have prior experience conducting research or building systems in NLP or related areas.
Who is the right audience for this meetup?
- AI/ML researchers from Academic and Industry actively working in NLP/LLMs
- Entrepreneurs/Industry practitioners (i.e. product, engineering) working to integrate LLMs into their product workflows
- Students who are interested or actively doing projects using NLP/LLMs
Registration Deadline: 13th June 5:00 PM.
Note: We have limited capacity and applications will be reviewed in the order in which they are received.