1:00 – 1:30 p.m. – Ballroom Part 1

• Speaker: Prakash Raghavendra
• Title: Pushing the Frontiers of the Heterogeneous Computing
• Abstract: With the growing needs of AI infrastructure’s power and compute needs, AMD has innovated several technologies. In this talk, we will focus on these technologies and innovations that AMD has brought to the industry to optimize power-performance for AI computing.
• Speaker Bio: Prakash Raghavendra has completed his PhD from IISc in 1998. Since then, he has been working in the areas of kernels, compilers. As a Senior Fellow in AMD, his focus is optimizing Deep Learning stack for AMD servers. He also leads an AMD research team in India.

1:30 – 2:00 p.m. – Ballroom Part 1

• Speaker: Pradeeep Ramachandran
• Title: AI and HPC in Semiconductor Manufacturing
• Abstract: Process control during semiconductor manufacturing is critical to ensure that the manufacturing process achieves and maintains high yield. Today’s process control systems leverage algorithms based on computer vision, image processing, and physics to detect defects and measure critical dimensions of transistors which are now in tens of Angstroms! This talk will give you a bird’s eye-view of the complexities involved in the fascinating world of semiconductor manufacturing, why process control is essential for this complex flow, and how KLA’s process control tools leverage AI and HPC to solve problems at atomic scales.
• Speaker Bio: Pradeep Ramachandran is the Director and Head of Research at KLA’s Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Lab (ACL) based out of IIT Madras Research Park. He holds a Btech from IIT Madras, and an MS and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Pradeep’s research interests are in developing optimal system level solutions by co-optimising across algorithms, hardware, and software; his work under this theme spans the fields of fault tolerance, chip design, video compression software, and HPC systems design. Pradeep enjoys cooking, traveling, running outdoors, and rolling on the ground with his 6 year old son!

2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Ballroom Part 1

• Speaker: Professor Maninder Singh
• Title: The New Compute Paradigm: From High-Performance Computing to High-Performance Intelligence
• Abstract:
  The past decade has been defined by unprecedented advances in high-performance computing, enabling large-scale simulation, numerical modeling, and data-intensive scientific workloads. Today, however, we stand at the threshold of a new computational epoch—one in which intelligence, not raw FLOPs, becomes the central driver of performance. This talk explores the emerging paradigm of High-Performance Intelligence, where AI-native architectures, surrogate models, and foundation models are reshaping the capabilities, workflows, and purpose of traditional HPC systems.

  Talk focuses on a case study illustrating this transformation: cybersecurity workflows that once relied on HPC-driven batch analytics now require AI-driven, streaming, intent-aware intelligence. Through this lens, talk highlights how polymorphic attacks and zero-day threats overwhelm classical HPC-era security analytics but are effectively handled by modern AI pipelines combining LLM reasoning, deep embeddings, autoencoders, and GNN-based lateral movement detection—delivering sub-second detection and autonomous containment at scale.

• Speaker Bio:
  Maninder Singh received his bachelor’s degree from Pune University in 1994, and holds a master’s degree, with honours in Software Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, as well as a Doctoral Degree specialization in Network Security from Thapar University.

  
  He joined Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, in January 1996 as Lecturer. His strong hold is practical know-how of computer networks and security. He is on the Roll-of-honour @ EC-Council USA, being certified as Ethical Hacker (C|EH), Security Analyst (ECSA) and Licensed Penetration Tester (LPT).

  Dr. Singh has successfully completed many consultancy projects (network auditing and penetration testing) for renowned national bank(s) and corporations. Dr. Singh has 70+ research publications in reputed SCI high impact factor journals. His research interests include Network Security, Secure coding and is a strong torchbearer for the Open-Source Community.

  Dr. Singh guided fifteen Ph.D. and 51 master’s theses. He is currently supervising four Ph.D. candidates in Network Security and secure coding. Having practical orientation and research inclination he architected Thapar University’s network presence, which is successfully implemented in a heterogeneous environment of wired as well wireless connectivity.

  Dr. Singh, being a captive orator, has a long list of expert lectures delivered at renowned Institutes and Corporate. His vision for developing an Open Source Based network security toolkit was published by a leading national newspaper. Linux for You (LFY) magazine from India declared him a ‘Tux Hero’.

  Dr. Singh is Senior Member of IEEE, Senior Member of ACM, and Life Member of Computer Society of India. He has been volunteering his services for the Network Security community as a reviewer and project judge for IEEE design contests. Recently Dr. Singh was aired on “Centre Stage” @ Headlines Today, national channel.

  Apart from teaching responsibilities Dr. Singh held many strategic positions in TU campus, currently he is Full Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) responsible for university wide Network, ERP, IT Strategy: planning, deployment and management.

   

2:30 – 3:00 p.m. – Ballroom Part 1

• Speaker: Arvind Ratnam
• Title: Q-CTRL’s critical infrastructure software unlocks useful performance in Quantum Computers
• Abstract: Infrastructure software is key to unlocking useful performance from any true quantum technology. Q-CTRL addresses the problem of error and delivers higher Quantum computing performance for a broad range of users, from R&D teams to industry end users. Promising results have been demonstrated across a range of problems from logistics and scheduling to quantum machine learning, quantum chemistry and automotive design with customers like Airbus, UK Network Rail, Mitsubishi and Mazda. Q-CTRL was the first ISV on IBM Quantum and the first to power a hybrid quantum supercomputer at RIKEN in Japan. Key trends in the quantum computing market include integrating quantum computing into data centers and the rise of smaller, cheaper QPUs that can still perform useful computations when paired with infrastructure software that is prevalidated and pre-integrated with trusted subsystems. In this talk, I present an overview of Q-CTRL’s role in pushing the state of the art in quantum computing and what lies ahead.
• Speaker Bio: Aravind is a seasoned deep tech leader across aerospace & defense, semiconductors, software, consulting, autonomous driving and quantum technology. He is currently the Chief Strategy Officer at Q-CTRL. In his role, Aravind oversees strategy, revenue, product, and partnerships, working across Q-CTRL and overseeing some of the industry’s fastest growth. Aravind has advised several deep tech companies, is a limited partner and advisor to venture funds, and has worked on some of the world’s most cutting edge technology at NASA (where he worked on a space instrument for Shuttle Endeavor), ASML (where he worked on the world’s first EUV light source) Intel and leading intelligent sensor  companies. Aravind holds two Master’s degrees- in Space Science from Florida Tech, and in Engineering & Management from MIT.