Ticketing: This event is free and open to all. Registration is required. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis – Register here.
Venue: Lecture Theatre 308, Huxley Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ (building no. 13 on the map of South Kensington Campus).
Analytics for the Digital Enterprise
The Data Science Institute and Imperial Business School are delighted to invite Dr. Gautam Shroff, Chief Scientist at TCS Research to speak as part of DSIs Distinguished Speaker series.
The confluence of multiple technology trends: Social, Big Data, Internet of Things and Mobility, is being viewed as a renewed opportunity for driving ‘Digital’ business strategies across a wide spectrum of industry verticals. A few examples from the retail and manufacturing domains will be shared. Data analytics forms the underlying enabler for all such strategic digital programs. Further, digital strategies require integrating predictive solutions into a broader prescriptive analytics framework, both in a technical as well as organizational sense. Three examples of such frameworks will be described, along with examples of specific solutions: Stream Prognostics, Prescriptive Information Fusion, and Enterprise Contextual Intelligence.
Gautam Shroff heads TCS’ Innovation Lab in Delhi that conducts applied research in data analytics, information fusion, multimedia, robotics, and virtual reality. Prior to joining TCS in 1998, Dr. Shroff had been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA (1990-91) and thereafter of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India (1991 – 1997). He has also held visiting positions at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA, and at Argonne National Labs in Chicago. In 1994 he was conferred the ‘Young Scientist Award’ from the Department of Atomic Energy.
Dr. Shroff has published over 30 research papers in the areas of computational mathematics, parallel computation, distributed systems, software architecture and software engineering. He has written a book “Enterprise Cloud Computing” published by Cambridge University Press, UK, in October 2010. Oxford University Press published his second book, “The Intelligent We b”, in 2013. In 2012 Dr. Shroff taught a massive online open course (MOOC), via Coursera, on “Web Intelligence and Big Data”, in his capacity as an adjunct professor at IIT Delhi and IIIT Delhi. The course was attended by tens of thousands of students all over the world, especially from India and the US.
Dr. Shroff graduated with a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1985 and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA, in 1990. He is an active member of ACM and ACM-India, and serves as the founding chair of the ACM-India SIG on Knowledge Discovery from Data (IKDD), which is also the India chapter of ACM SIGKDD.
Refreshments will be served from 18.00, with Dr. Shroff speaking from 18.30.