Friends of IIT Palakkad
The Director, IIT Palakkad and Friends of IIT Palakkad Present |
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The Friendly Fundas Videocast Series |
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| A Video Interview & Chat with Industry Leaders, Entrepreneurs and Research & Academia Leaders from the Global IIT Alumni Community |
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| When? | Quarterly (or More Frequent), Thursdays, 8 PM IST |
| Where? | Auditorium |
| Moderated By: |
Mani Iyer, IITM BTech EE, MSCS U of Wisconsin, and CEO, Kwanzoo Inc https://www.linkedin.com/in/iyermani/ |
| Inaugural Speaker: | Dr Joy Thomas, Senior Data Scientist, Google Cloud https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-thomas-9420216/ |
| Date: | 27th September, 2018 at 8 PM IST |
| About the Speaker: | |
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Dr. Joy Thomas is currently a Data Scientist at Google working on API Security. He joined Google when they acquired Apigee in 2016. He joined Apigee through its acquisition of InsightsOne, a company that he co-founded in 2011. He was the Chief Scientist at Stratify since its founding and led the development of advanced text mining, clustering and classification algorithms that formed the basis of the Stratify Legal Discovery Service. After Stratify was acquired by Iron Mountain, he became Chief Scientist of Iron Mountain Digital and led advanced technology development. Joy was previously a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center where he made contributions to data mining and data compression algorithms. He is the coauthor (with Prof. Thomas Cover) of a textbook “Elements of Information Theory” (Wiley, 1st edition 1991, 2nd edition 2006), two book chapters, more than two dozen technical papers, a dozen patents and is the recipient of two IBM patent awards. Dr. Thomas received the IEEE Charles LeGeyt Fortescue Fellowship for 1984-85, and the IBM Graduate Fellowship for 1987-1990. He has been adjunct professor at Columbia University and Stanford University. Dr. Thomas went to St. Joseph's Boys High School in Bangalore. He received his B.Tech. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. |
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| More About Friendly Fundas: | |
| Event Format: | Video Interview |
| Audience: | IIT Palakkad Students and Faculty |
| Duration: | 25 Minutes of Moderator Questions, and 25 Minutes of Audience Q&A |
| Speaker Profile: | Global IIT Alumnus or Expert Speaker on Specific Topics of Interest to IIT Palakkad Students - Technology, Industry, Research, Career Guidance |
| Frequency: | Once / Quarter (and more frequent based on audience reception / feedback) |
| Videocast Approach: | Moderator, Speaker(s) and IIT Palakkad all connected over Skype, GotoMeeting, Zoom or Google Hangouts |
| Youtube Link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl_uhLlPDLQ&feature=youtu.be |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/PalakkadIIT/status/1047522309026664448 |
| Our Upcoming Speakers: | |
| October 25, 2018 |
Srinivas Narayanan, Director of Applied AI and Machine Learning, Facebook Inc |
| November 15, 2018 |
Dr Ramesh Gopinath, VP of Blockchain Solutions, IBM Corporation |
