Shermatov Sherzod Khotamovich
Minister for Development of Information Technologies and Communications of Uzbekistan
<div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">Sherzod Shermatov was born in Tashkent. 1977.</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">Nationality - Uzbek.</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">Higher education: 1998 graduated from the Tashkent State Technical University, 2000 Yale University (USA).</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">2000-2001: Leading, chief economist of the Main Monetary and Economic Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan.</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">2001-2002: Leading specialist industry sector and microeconomic development programs department, programs of territorial and sectoral development of the information-analytical department of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">2002-2004: The main expert on the development of systems of information and communication technologies in Complex of the Secretariat of Communications and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">2004-2005: The head of the joint program "Digital Development Initiative" of the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">2005-2005: Head of the "ICT Policy" joint project of the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and UNDP.</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">2005-2008: Advisor on knowledge management and ICT solutions and ICT Manager, Head of effective management of the UNDP Office in Uzbekistan.</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">2008-2010: Head of The development of ICT and information security Information-Analytical Department of Information Systems and Telecommunications of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">2010-2011: Senior inspector of sector training and education Organizational Control Service in the President's Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan.</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">2011-2011: Leading accounting sector inspector in the President's Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan.</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">2011-2012: Chief Inspector accounting sector in the President's Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan.</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">2012 -2014: Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Communication, Information and Telecommunication Technologies of the Republic of Uzbekistan.</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">2014-2016: Rector of Tashkent Inha University.</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">2016-2017: First Deputy of Minister for Development of Information Technologies and Communications of the Republic of Uzbekistan.</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">Since February, 2017: Acting minister for Development of Information Technologies and Communications of the Republic of Uzbekistan.</div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">Sh.Kh. Shermatov is married and has got 4 children.</div>
Ibrokhim Yulchievich Abdurakhmonov
Minister of innovative Development of the Republic of Uzbekistan
<p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">Prof. Ibrokhim Yulchievich Abdurakhmonov was born on February 19, 1975 in Govasoy village of Chust region, Namangan district, Uzbekistan in the family of a biology teacher. In 1981, he attended one of the high schools in his village and graduated it after 11th grade education in 1992 with honorary ?Gold medal?. His interest in biology comes primarily from his high school time and because of family environment that he brought-up. His father, being a graduate of biology department of current National University of Uzbekistan, become a distinguished biology teacher of the region and was directing his son, Ibrokhim, to this interesting field of biology. A small home library of biology books, popular and scientific journals, and education materials, collected by his farther, caught Ibrokhim?s attention and interest to be a biologist.</p>
Prof. Bakhtiyor Makhkamov
Rector, TUIT named after Muhammad al-Khwarizmi, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
<p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black; ">Born – in 1985.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">Nationality – Uzbek.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">Education – higher education.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">2006 – Bachelor graduate of Tashkent Technical University. Specialty – Financial Management.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">2008 – Master's degree from Tashkent University of Information Technologies. Specialist in management in the field of ICT.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">2007 – In military service.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">2016 – Doctor of Economics (DSc 04 №005186).</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">2019 – Lecturer (03 №008928).</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">2020 – Professor (05 №003458).</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">2007-2013 - Marketing Research Specialist, Lead Specialist of Marketing Department of “Uzdunrobita” JV.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">2013 - Teacher at the Department of Labor Economics and Management of the Tashkent branch of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">2014 - Main Specialist, later Head of the Department of “Marketing, Investments and Economics of Education” of the Center for “Development of Higher and Secondary Special Vocational Education” of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">2014-2015 – Employee of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Uzbekistan.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">2015-2020 – Engineer of the 1st category, Head of the Department for "Coordination of Radio Frequency Presentations" of the Center for "Electromagnetic Compatibility".</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">2020 – (from January to December) Head of the Department for “Regulation of the Use of Radio Frequency Spectrum”, Secretary of the Republican Council on Radio Frequencies of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications Development of the Republic of Uzbekistan.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">Member of the Academic Council DSc.28.12.2017.I.16.02 of Tashkent State University of Economics on specialty 08.00.10 - "Labor Economics, Demography".</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">Member of the Scientific Advisory Board 29.06.2019.I.84.01 of the Institute for Forecasting and Macroeconomic Research on the subject 08.00.03 - "Industrial Economics" at the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation of the Republic of Uzbekistan.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">Author of more than 50 scientific papers, including 1 monograph, 5 textbooks, more than 40 scientific articles. His scientific articles have been published in USA, South Korea, Russia, Indonesia, India, Kazakhstan and other countries.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">2021 – (from January to June) First Deputy Director of the Electromagnetic Compatibility Center.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">Since 2021 – Rector of Tashkent University of Information Technologies named Mukhammad Al-Kwarizmi</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">B. Makhkamov is married and has 3 children.</p>
Prof. Jan Treur
Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
<p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt; color: black;">Jan Treur has been a full professor of AI since 1990 and is a well-recognized expert in the area of multidisciplinary human-like AI modeling. He has published over 700 well-cited papers about cognitive, affective, and social modeling and AI systems making use of such models. He has also supervised more than 40 Ph.D. students in these areas and from 2016 on written and edited three books on (adaptive) network-oriented AI modeling and its application in various other disciplines. Current research addresses the modeling of higher-order adaptive processes by self-modeling network models with a specific focus on mental processes based on internal mental models and their use by internal simulation, their learning or formation (including organizational learning), and the control over them. An application focus is on the development and use of shared mental models supporting the road toward a just safety culture in organizations such as hospitals. A joint Springer Nature book about computational modeling of multilevel organizational learning is in preparation and will come out by the end of 2022 or the beginning of 2023.</p>
Prof. Venkatasubramanian Ganesan
Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences [NIMHANS], Bangalore, India
<p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt; color: black;">Prof. Ganesan Venkatasubramanian,National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore gave an online invited lecture on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Application in Psychiatry on 6 July via Microsoft Teams. The talk was organized by the Healthcare and AI team (HAI). Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, born in Tamil Nadu, graduated in medicine in 1998 from Stanley Medical College, completed his MD in Psychiatry in 2001 and Ph.D in Psychiatry (Schizophrenia) in 2013 from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS). He worked in University of Sheffield at the SCANLab as a clinical research fellow for training in advanced brain imaging techniques under Sean Spence, who pioneered the brain scan lie detector. On his return to India in 2004, he joined NIMHANS as Assistant Professor of psychiatry and holds the position of Professor of Psychiatry since 2016. At NIMHANS, he heads the Translational Psychiatry Laboratory (TransPsych Lab) as its principal investigator and hosts a number of researchers. He also serves as a consultant at the Schizophrenia Clinic and the Metabolic Clinic in Psychiatry of the institution. He coordinates the WISER Neuromodulation Program at NIMHANS. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to medical sciences in 2018.</p>
Prof. Musaev Mukhamadjan Makhmudovich
Department of Artificial Intelligence, TUIT named after Muhammad al Khwarizmi, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
<p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt; color: black;">Musaev Mukhamadjan Makhmudovich, was born in Uzbekistan. After graduating from the Tashkent State Technical University, he worked at the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan. He has the degree of Doctor of Science (Doctor of Science), works as a professor at the Tashkent University of Information Technologies. He conducts courses in signal and image processing, is the author of several books and textbooks. The area of scientific interests of Professor Musaev M.M is the processing of speech and medical signals, the development of parallel algorithms for spectral analysis, recognition algorithms and intelligent analysis of speech signals using multi-core and graphics processors.</p>
Prof. Ingmar Weber
Research director of the Social Computing Group, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar
<p style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 17.3333px;">Dr. Ingmar Weber is an incoming Alexander von Humboldt Professor in AI at Saarland University. His interdisciplinary research looks at what online user-generated data can tell us about the offline world and society at large. Working closely with sociologists and demographers he has pioneered the use of online advertising data for complementing official statistics on international migration, digital gender gaps, and poverty. His work is regularly featured in UN reports, and analyses performed by his team have been used to improve operations by UN agencies and NGOs ranging from Colombia to the Philippines. Prior to joining Saarland University, Dr. Weber held positions at the Qatar Computing Research Institute, Yahoo Research Barcelona, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. As an undergraduate, he studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge before pursuing a Ph.D. at the Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science. He is an ACM Distinguished Member, and his work has been cited more than 10k times.</span></font><br></p>
Prof. Shiho Kim
School of Integrated Technology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
<p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt !important ; color: black;">SHIHO KIM is a professor in the school of integrated technology at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. His main research interest includes developing software and hardware technologies for intelligent & autonomous vehicles and reinforcement learning for Cyber-physical systems. He has directed Seamless Trans-X Lab since 2011, and he founded I4FT(Interuniversity alliance for Future vehicular Technology) supported by the KIAT (Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology) grant funded by the Korean Government(MOTIE) in 2022. He is a member of the editorial board and reviewer for various Journals and International conferences. So far, he has organized two International conferences as Technical Chair/General Chair. He is a member of IEIE (Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers of Korea), KSAE (Korean Society of Automotive Engineers), vice president of KINGC (Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing), and a senior member of IEEE. He is the co-author of over 100 papers and more than 50 patents, writing five books in his research area. </p>
Sophie C. F. Hendrikse
Researcher, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Clinical Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
<p style="text-align: justify; font-size:12pt;">Sophie Hendrikse holds a position as researcher at the Clinical Psychology department at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and as a guest researcher at the Methodology and Statistics unit within the Psychology institute at Leiden University. She was educated through a research master in Social and Behavioral Sciences and a master in Computer Science with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Her research focuses on multimodal interactions of humans and/or artificial agents. She has developed multi-adaptive agent models to capture intrapersonal synchrony, interpersonal synchrony and adaptive social behaviors based on human-human interactions research. These agent models can be used both in agent-agent interactions and human-agent interactions. She has also been involved in the development of a brain-computer interface and studies algorithms to analyze interpersonal synchrony.</p>
Dr. Rodrigo da Rosa Righi
Dept. of Applied Computing, University of Rio dos Sinos Valley - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), Brazil
<p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt; color: black;">Prof. Dr. Rodrigo da Rosa Righi is professor and researcher at University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil. Rodrigo is a member of the Applied Computing Graduate Program at the same university, where he advises graduate and undergraduate students. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, in 2009. During his doctorate, Rodrigo performed a sandwich stage at Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany. In 2013, Rodrigo was visiting professor for six months at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), South Korea. Currently, his research interests include performance analysis, process scheduling and migration, load balancing, and resource provisioning on Cluster, Cloud, and Fog environments. He is also a senior member at IEEE and ACM. More details about Rodrigo's research can be found on his homepage: professor.unisinos.br/rrrighi</p>
Dr. Jan-Willem van ’t Klooster
Director of the BMS Lab, the innovation lab of the faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences at the University of Twente, The Netherlands
<p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt; color: black;">Dr. Jan‐Willem van ’t Klooster is director of the BMS Lab, the innovation lab of the faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. This lab consists of over a dozen of experts, 16 lab rooms, a mobile lab, various large scale research software products and > 15 assistants. He has coordinated multiple national and European projects and work packages, including EFRO, ZonMw and EIP AHA research projects. Grants won as (co)applicant include EFRO, euregional, and work for the Dutch Ministry of Health. Jan-Willem obtained his PhD in health informatics from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, in 2013. After that he worked as a product owner at Nedap, a large electronic healthcare corporation, and as project manager for developing health‐related self management services at Roessingh Research and Development, the largest telemedicine and rehabilitation institute in The Netherlands. He has taught computer science topics and was section chair computer science at the Bonhoeffer College for 11 years, was involved in nationwide ICT curriculum design for SLO, and peer reviews for various ehealth related journals and conferences, including JMIR and Plos One. Since 2019, he is director of the faculty innovation lab BMS Lab.</p>
Dr. Chintan Amrit
Department of Operations Management, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
<p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt; color: black;">Chintan Amrit is Associate Professor at the Department of Operations Management, at the University of Amsterdam. He has completed his PhD from the University of Twente in the area of Coordination in Software Development, having started it at RSM Erasmus University. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. In the past, he has worked for a period of three years as a software engineer. His research interests are in the area of business intelligence (using machine learning), open-source development and mining software repositories. His work has been accepted in venues such as Journal of Information Technology, Information and Software Technology, International Journal of Production Research, Social Science Computer Review, Information Systems Management, Journal of Systems and Software, IT Professional, Journal of Software Evolution and Process, Environmental Modelling & Software among others. He serves as a coordinating editor of Information Systems Frontiers journal, an associate editor of IEEE Access, and is a regular track chair at ECIS.</p>
Dr. Irish Singh
Department of Computer Engineering Ajou University, South Korea
<p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt; color: black;">Irish Singh is a researcher at Knowledge Intensive Software Engineering (NiSE) Lab and before that She did her Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Engineering, from Ajou University, South Korea. Before that, she did a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, from the Birla Institute of Technology, India, and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Uttar Pradesh State Technical University, India. Her research interests are Connected Minds, Adaptive Security, Cloud Networks, Blockchain Technology, Software Engineering, Requirement Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction.</p>
Dr. Koumudi Patil
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Kanpur, Kanpur, India
<p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt; color: black;"> Dr. Koumudi Patil is an Associate Professor in the Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. She works in the area of interactive and inclusive design of pedagogies for school curriculum and the creative industry in the Indian developmental context.</p>
Dr. Mukesh Saini
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Ropar, India
<p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt; color: black;"> Dr. Mukesh Saini has 12 years of experience in video processing and data fusion. He obtained Master of Technology (M. Tech) in Electronics Design and Technology from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, in 2006 and PhD in Computer Science from School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore in 2012. He worked as post-doctoral researcher at National University of Singapore, University of Ottawa, and New York University. In recent years, he has focused more in information systems that exploit multimodal data, particularly video audio and text in application areas of smart classrooms, social network analysis, multimedia surveillance, and automatic video mashups.</p>
Dr. Antonio J. Jara
GM Smart Cities at Libelium, Spain
<p style="text-align: justify; font-size:12pt;">Antonio J. Jara (General Manager Smart Cities at Libelium), chair of Data Quality and IoT in IEEE. He did his PhD (Cum Laude) at the University of Murcia (UMU), Spain. These PhD results present a novel way to connect objects to Internet-enabled platforms in an easy, secure and scalable way. He also carried out a MBA and entrepreneurship formation in the ENAE business school and UCAM (2012). He received entrepreneurship awards from ENAE (sponsored by SabadellCAM financial services), emprendeGo (sponsored by Spanish government), IPSO Alliance Award (Sponsored by Google) for its disruptive innovation in the IoT, selected and mentored by the acceleration program FIWARE. Antonio Jara as part of HOPU is focused on the Smart Cities market with solutions for citizens engagements and environmental monitoring (air quality sensors). Antonio Jara has also participated in over 100 international events about Internet of Things as Speaker, over 100 international publications / papers (~5000 citations and impact factor h=37), he holds several patents in the IoT domain and finally he has advised in the IoT domain to companies such as Microsoft and Fujitsu.<br></p>
Dr. Nagarajan Prabakar
School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University Miami, Florida, USA
<p style="font-size:13pt; text-align:justify;">Nagarajan Prabakar is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Queensland in Database Systems. He developed a scheme to access a vast amount of spatial data from a semantic database and fly over the data in real-time – this emerged as TerraFly software from the High Performance Database Research Center, FIU. He has also designed dynamic mosaicking algorithms for spatial images and integrated vector GIS data with spatial data sets. Currently, he is working on quantum algorithms, security models for cloud storage, and advanced machine learning for cyber physical systems.</p>
Dr. Muhammad Taqi Raza
Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, USA
<p style="text-align: justify; font-size: 13pt; color: black;">Bio: Muhammad Taqi Raza joined the University of Arizona's information systems department in 2019, soon after earning his PhD in computer science from UCLA. His research interests broadly lie in the area of networked systems and security. His research contributes to better understanding of the state-of-the-art networked systems by challenging their operational efficacy and identifying unexplored aspects at their heterogeneity—providing simple and innovative solutions from system designs to their operations through verification.</p>
Abhishek Shrivastava
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati & Chair, HCI Professional Association of India (HCIPAI) Steering Committee, Indian
<p style="font-size: 13pt; text-align: justify;">Abhishek Shrivastava, Ph.D., is a faculty of Human Computer Interaction at the Department of Design, IIT Guwahati. In addition, he is chairing the steering committee of HCI Professional Association of India (HCIPAI) since February 2022. For over a decade now, his research focuses on user interaction issues across diverse technology deployments and end-user applications involving Voice Agents and Voice User Interfaces. During his Ph.D. dissertation, he conducted studies aimed at evaluating the role of spoken language in improving user performance and subjective satisfaction. He has lead research, design and development of (speech-based) assistive tools for specially-abled children. These tools, in close-to-real-deployment scenarios, have been tested at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH Mysuru) by trained Speech Language Pathologists. He is the recipient of prestigious research grants from Ministry of Education, Department of Biotechnology along with other organisations. He has experience working in consortium mode projects in three projects under Imprint India scheme. He has been recognised as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) - Interaction Design by the National Program of Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). <br> <br> In recent years, his research group has actively looked at aspects of turn-taking involving temporal behaviours in human-machine conversations. The group is currently studying half-duplex conversations with Voice-agents. Further, in collaboration with industry partners, the group has contributed to the design and development of TaskSpeech studio – a suite of applications aimed at making the learning of Spoken Dialog Systems easier for novice learners. Lately in 2020, he was invited for the prestigious Dagstuhl Seminar in Dagstuhl Germany. In this seminar, invited experts from academia, scientists and industry members discussed different research issues with respect to Spoken Language Interactions with Voice Agents and Robots (SLIVAR). <br> <br> Abhishek has contributed to a total of 17 different courses besides collaborating with peers across two different Centre(s)- Centre for Linguistics Science and Technology (CLST) and Centre for Intelligently Cyber-physical Systems for Underwater Explorations (CICPS) at IIT Guwahati. In his past life, he has a series of professional experiences including working in industry and as visiting faculty and being a publishing Cartoonist in different Newspapers. </p>
