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Co-located with ACM India Annual Event

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
February 27-28 2025, 2025

About

Academic Research and Careers for Students (ARCS) is an annual symposium hosted by ACM India, dedicated to providing a unique platform for research scholars in Computer Science and related fields across India. This prestigious event invites PhD students to showcase their latest (accepted) research, fostering collaboration and discussions with peers and experts in the field. The 2025 edition of ARCS will be held on February 27-28 in Coimbatore.

ARCS plays a crucial role in facilitating meaningful interactions between PhD scholars, faculty, and industry leaders, offering a much-needed space for intellectual exchange. The symposium features contributed talks, poster presentations, and special sessions, including presentations by the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award recipient, the Early Career Research Awardee, and two distinguished keynote speakers.

Attendees can also engage in dynamic panel discussions, interactive sessions with ARCS speakers, and PhD clinics. The audience, composed of students, academics, and industry professionals from across India, will have the opportunity to network and learn from notable invitees, including recognized award recipients.

Call for Poster Presentations at ARCS

Are you a PhD student in India working in any area of Computer Science with an accepted or published paper in a conference or journal? This is your chance to showcase your research! Submit your publication details for a potential poster presentation at ARCS, held alongside the ACM India Annual Event.

We are specifically seeking accepted or published work to facilitate meaningful networking among PhD students and research mentors from both academia and industry. If selected, you will receive limited travel and accommodation support to attend ARCS and the ACM India Annual Event.

The call is now closed since this event has concluded.

ACMI-W Annual Summit 2025

The ACMI-W Annual Summit is a beacon of inspiration for women in computing. This annual gathering celebrates the extraordinary achievements of women in the field, fostering a supportive community and driving positive change. Co-located with ACM India Annual Event and ARCS, the summit offers a unique platform for networking, knowledge sharing, and career advancement.

ACM India PhD Clinic at ARCS 2025

ACM India's PhD Clinic was launched in Sept 2020, facilitating CS PhD students from all over the country to obtain inputs and advice from diverse expert mentors located in premier academic institutions and industry. The PhD Clinic has been very successful in helping students, with some representative feedback from students:
  • "The way she answered the questions was so good! She shared personal experiences as well and that made me connect to her."
 
  • "He guided me in such a nice way about how to find a research topic, what areas can be there and how I should align my research in a proper manner."
In ARCS 2025, you will get to meet fantastic mentors, we will have 1-on-1 in-person Clinic sessions for PhD students. Selected students will get travel support to attend ARCS and interact with mentors. It is mandatory to attend all days of the conference and the Clinic sessions for students who are getting supported by the conference.  If you are interested in getting feedback, and having a discussion with any of them, please register to interact.

Speakers

Jaikumar Radhakrishnan
Jaikumar Radhakrishnan

Distinguished Professor,
ICTS-TIFR, (Bengaluru)

Lipika Dey
Lipika Dey

Professor of Computer Science, Ashoka University

Pallavi Jain
Pallavi Jain

Assistant Professor
(IIT-Jodhpur)

Priyanka Golia
Priyanka Golia

Assistant Professor
(IIT-Delhi)

Saptarshi Sarkar
Saptarshi Sarkar

Formal Verification Engineer
(SiFive)

Sruthi Sekar
Sruthi Sekar

Assistant Professor,
(IIT-Bombay)

Abhijeet Awasthi
Abhijeet Awasthi

Senior Researcher
(Microsoft Research India)

Arkaprava Basu
Arkaprava Basu

Associate Professor 
(IISc, Bengaluru)

Sayan Ranu
Sayan Ranu

Associate Professor 
(IIT Delhi)

Committees

Theory:

Algorithms

  1. Anup Bhattacharya (NISER, Bhubaneswar)
  2. Ravishankar Krishnamurthy (Microsoft Research)

Complexity

  1. Abhranil Chatterjee (ISI Kolkata),
  2. Ramya C (IMSC) 

Logic, automata

  1. Prakash Saivasan (IMSc)
  2. Vaishnavi Sundararajan (IIT Delhi)

Cryptography

  1. Bhavana Kanukurthi (IISc)
  2. Sikhar Patranabis (IBM)

Quantum computation

  1. Naqueeb (ISI Kolkata)
  2. Piyush Srivastava (TIFR)

Theory of ML

  1. Jatin Batra (TIFR)
  2. Soumyabrata Pal (Adobe Research)

Information theory

  1. Gowtham Kurri (IIIT Hyderabad)
  2. Lalitha Vadlamani (IIIT Hyderabad)

System:

Architecture

  1. Rajesh Kedia (IIT Hyderabad)
  2. Sarani Bhattacharya (IIT KGP)

Databases and Data Management

  1. Prajna Upadhyay (BITS Pilani)
  2. Venkatesh Emani (Microsoft Research)

Networking

  1. Ayon Chakraborty (IIT Madras)
  2. Mukulika Maity (IIIT Delhi)

Programming Languages, formal verification and Software Engineering

  1. Deepak D’Souza (IISc)
  2. Subhajit Roy (IIT Kanpur)

Operating Systems and Compilers

  1. Manas Thakur (IIT Bombay)
  2. Sorav Bansal (IIT Delhi)

ML/AI/HCI

  1. Nipun Batra (IIT Gandhinagar)
  2. Raghava (IIIT Delhi)
  3. Siddhartha Asthana (MasterCard)

Computer vision and graphics

  1. Ramya Hebbalguppe (TCS research)
  2. Soumyadeep Ghosh (Mastercard)

Applied research:

Security

  1. Mainack Mondal (IIT Kharagpur)

NLP, Information retrieval, Social network analysis

  1. Ashutosh Modi (IIT Kanpur)

Technology for society

  1. Dipanjan Chakraborty (BITS Pilani)

Niharika Sachdeva (InfoEdge)

Shibashis Guha (TIFR)

PSG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

 

Organizing Chair

Ranga Rajagopal (ACM India)
Shina Sheen

Organizing Secretary

 Senthil Kumaran V

PhD Clinic Coordinator

Poonthalir G
Senthil Kumar M

ARCS Coordinator

 Latha R
Thanalakshmi P

 

ACM Annual Event Coordinator

Mohanraj N
Periakaruppan RM

ACMI-W Coordinator

Dr. R. Latha

  1. Ayan Mondal (IIT Indore)
  2. Chitra Babu Co-chair (ACM), 
  3. Karthik  Ramachandra Co-chair (Microsoft), 
  4. Mainack Mondal (IIT  Kharagpur)
  5. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (IIIT Hyderabad)
  6. Ranga Rajagopal (ACM India)
  7. Rutvi Shah (Ganpat University)
  8. Venkatesh Raman (IMSc) 

Theory:

Algorithms

  1. Anup Bhattacharya (NISER, Bhubaneswar)
  2. Ravishankar Krishnamurthy (Microsoft Research)

Complexity

  1. Abhranil Chatterjee (ISI Kolkata),
  2. Ramya C (IMSC) 

Logic, automata

  1. Prakash Saivasan (IMSc)
  2. Vaishnavi Sundararajan (IIT Delhi)

Cryptography

  1. Bhavana Kanukurthi (IISc)
  2. Sikhar Patranabis (IBM)

Quantum computation

  1. Naqueeb (ISI Kolkata)
  2. Piyush Srivastava (TIFR)

Theory of ML

  1. Jatin Batra (TIFR)
  2. Soumyabrata Pal (Adobe Research)

Information theory

  1. Gowtham Kurri (IIIT Hyderabad)
  2. Lalitha Vadlamani (IIIT Hyderabad)

System:

Architecture

  1. Rajesh Kedia (IIT Hyderabad)
  2. Sarani Bhattacharya (IIT KGP)

Databases and Data Management

  1. Prajna Upadhyay (BITS Pilani)
  2. Venkatesh Emani (Microsoft Research)

Networking

  1. Ayon Chakraborty (IIT Madras)
  2. Mukulika Maity (IIIT Delhi)

Programming Languages, formal verification and Software Engineering

  1. Deepak D’Souza (IISc)
  2. Subhajit Roy (IIT Kanpur)

Operating Systems and Compilers

  1. Manas Thakur (IIT Bombay)
  2. Sorav Bansal (IIT Delhi)

ML/AI/HCI

  1. Nipun Batra (IIT Gandhinagar)
  2. Raghava (IIIT Delhi)
  3. Siddhartha Asthana (MasterCard)

Computer vision and graphics

  1. Ramya Hebbalguppe (TCS research)
  2. Soumyadeep Ghosh (Mastercard)

Applied research:

Security

  1. Mainack Mondal (IIT Kharagpur)

NLP, Information retrieval, Social network analysis

  1. Ashutosh Modi (IIT Kanpur)

Technology for society

  1. Dipanjan Chakraborty (BITS Pilani)

Niharika Sachdeva (InfoEdge)

Shibashis Guha (TIFR)

PSG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

 

Organizing Chair

Ranga Rajagopal (ACM India)
Shina Sheen

Organizing Secretary

 Senthil Kumaran V

PhD Clinic Coordinator

Poonthalir G
Senthil Kumar M

ARCS Coordinator

 Latha R
Thanalakshmi P

 

ACM Annual Event Coordinator

Mohanraj N
Periakaruppan RM

ACMI-W Coordinator

Dr. R. Latha

  1. Ayan Mondal (IIT Indore)
  2. Chitra Babu Co-chair (ACM), 
  3. Karthik  Ramachandra Co-chair (Microsoft), 
  4. Mainack Mondal (IIT  Kharagpur)
  5. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (IIIT Hyderabad)
  6. Ranga Rajagopal (ACM India)
  7. Rutvi Shah (Ganpat University)
  8. Venkatesh Raman (IMSc) 

ARCS 2025 Schedule

Time
Session
  • 9:30 – 9:35

    Welcome and opening remarks

  • 9:35 – 10:35

    Keynote 1

    Speaker: Jaikumar Radhakrishnan ( ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru)

    Title: The side benefits of knowing an algorithm

  • 10:35 – 11:00

    Break

  • 11:00 – 12:15

    Lightning Talks Part 1

  • 12:15 – 1:00

    ACMI-W OCCW Award Talk

    Speaker: Hemangee Kapoor
    Outstanding Contributions in Computing by a Woman(OCCW) Award winner

    Professor of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

  • 1:00 – 2:00

    Lunch

  • 2:00 – 3:30

    ACMI – W Panel Discussion

    Topic: AI for Social Good: Women Driving Impactful Solutions

    Moderator: Jayashree Mohan 

    Panelists: Niyati Chayya, Preeti Mudliar, Shalini Kapoor, Kalika Bali

  • 3:30 – 4:15

    ACMI – W Keynote
    Speaker: Arati Dixit
    Senior Scientist at Applied Research Associates Inc.(ARA), North Carolina, USA
    Chair, ACM-W Regional Activities Committee

  • 4:15 – 4:45

    Break

  • 4:45 – 6:00

    Panel Discussion-Industry Topic  Panel Discussion-Industry Topic

  • 6.00 – 6.40

    Institutional Partner Videos/Acad Sponsor Videos or talks

  • 6.40 – 7.10

    Posters

  • 7:10 onwards

    Cultural Program and Dinner

Time
Session
  • 9:30 – 10:30

    Keynote 2

    Speaker: Lipika Dey (Professor of Computer Science, Ashoka University

    Title: Multilingual and Multicultural Responsible AI

  • 10:30 – 11:00

    Lightning talks, second part

  • 11:00 – 12:00

    Poster Presentation

  • 12:00 – 1:00

    ECR Award Talk 

    Speakers: Arkaprava Basu  and Sayan Ranu

  • 1:00 – 2:00

    Lunch

  • 2:00 – 3:00

    Doctoral Dissertation Award Talks

    Speakers: Priyanka Golia & Abhijeet Awasthi

  • 3:00 – 4:15

    3 Early Career Researcher Talks

    Speakers: Pallavi Jain, Saptarshi Sarkar,  and Sruthi Sekar

  • 4:15 – 4:45

    Break

  • 4:45 – 5:15

    Banquet Sponsor session with PhD Students
    By Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  • 5:15 – 5:30

    Institutional Partner Videos/Acad Sponsor Talks

  • 5.30 – 6.00

    Snacks + Posters

  • 6:00 – 6:20

    RFC Activity Talk – ACM India Activities for PhD Students

  • 6:20 – 6:50

    Panel Discussion – Academia/AMA

  • 6:50 – 7:00

    Closing ceremony

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