PLENARY/KEYNOTE/PANEL TALKS
Keynote Talk- IEEE INDISCON organized by IEEE Rourkela Subsection, NIT Rourkela, August 23, 2025.
Keynote Talk- International Conference on Statistical Learning, IIT Ropar, March 7, 2025.
Plenary Talk- Indian Control Conference, IISER Bhopal, December 11, 2024.
Keynote Speaker, International and National Conference on Multidisciplinary Design, Analysis,
and Optimization (iNCMDAO), IISc-Bengaluru, Dec. 16, 2024.
Prof. D. M. Bose Memorial Lecture, Bose Institute, Nov. 26, 2024.
Keynote Talk, 3rd International Conference on Paradigm Shifts in Communication, Embedded
Systems, Machine Learning, and Signal Processing (PCEMS-2024), Department of Electronics
and Communication Engineering, VNIT Nagpur, November 11, 2024.
Keynote Talk, National Conference on Computer Visions, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing
and Graphics (NCVPRIPG 2024), Indian Institute of Space Technology (IIST), Trivandrum, July
18, 2024.
Keynote Talk, AI-ML Systems 2023, 25-28 October 2023, Bengaluru, India.
Keynote Lecture - “Machine Learning Approaches for Improving the Quality of Healthcare”, IEEE
SMC Conference, IEEE SMC Society, Hawaii, USA, September 30-October6, 2023.
Keynote Lecture, FUZZ-IEEE, IEEE Fuzzy Systems Society, Incheon, S. Korea, 2023.
"Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Solutions”, IEEE JC Bose Milestone Lecture,
IEEE Kolkata Chapter, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, May 02, 2022.
Women’s Day Lecture - “Journey to Harness Artificial Intelligence for Human Benefit: A celebration of International Womens Day 2022”, National Geophysical Research Laboratory (CSIRNGRI), March 9, 2022.
Keynote Talk - “Multimodal, Multiobjective Optimization Problems: Decomposition in Decision
and Objective Spaces”, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), December
6, 2021.
Special Lecture - “Building Institutions for Research Excellence: Gender Diversity and Beyond”,
MHRD-LEAP Initiative, Organized by IIT Kanpur at New Delhi, Feb 24, 2021.
Address as Sectional President (Physical Sciences), “Interface between Computer Science and
Biology: A Symbiotic Relationship”, National Academy of Sciences India (NASI), Feb 26, 2021.
Plenary Talk - Machine Learning in Computational Biology - Three Problems from Three Perspectives, UK-India Royal Society Yusuf Hamied Workshop, March 4, 2021.
Fireside Chat with Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference
2020, Intuit, Bengaluru, July 17, 2020 (Virtual Event).
Keynote Talk -”Computer Science Methods to Solve Problems in Biology: Basics and Advancements”, CALCON, Kolkata, February 28, 2020.
Plenary Talk - “Clustering, Optimization and Applications”, International Conference on Applied
Statistics, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 27-29, 2019.
Keynote Lecture - “Clustering in a Multiobjective Framework”, IIT Roorkee, SPARC Workshop,
November 15, 2019.
Special Talk in Face-to-Face Session with more than 1000 students - ”Artificial Intelligence: The
Era of the Fourth Paradigm”, India International Science Festival, Kolkata, November 6 & 7,
2019.
CEFIPRA Annual Lecture - “Optimizing Multiple Objectives for Clustering”, LIP6 Laboratory
of Computer Science at Sorbonne University, Paris, October 15, 2019.
CEFIPRA Annual Lecture - “Advances in Multiobjective Optimization and Applications in Clustering and Computational Biology”, LiSSi, University Paris-Est Creteil, France, October 15, 2019.
CEFIPRA Annual Lecture - “Computational Challenges in Biology”, LIGlab, Grenoble Institute
of Technology, October 16, 2019.
Special Lecture - “LEAP-Excellence in Research and Innovation”, MHRD-LEAP Initiative, Organized by IIT Kharagpur, May 17, 2019.
Special Lecture - “Foundations of Genetic Algorithms and Applications”, Indian Association for
the Cultivation of Science, March 17, 2019.
Plenary - Computational Biology: Foundations, Advances and Challenges, Second International
Conference on Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms (ICACCP), Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, February 25, 2019.
Keynote Lecture - ”Multiobjective Optimization for Clustering and Applications”, ACM India
Annual Event, Kochi, India, February 8, 2019.
Infosys Lecture - “Algorithms for Biological Data Analysis”, Anna University, Chennai, February
7, 2019.
Infosys Lecture - “Computational Insights into the Role of MicroRNAs in Cancer”, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, December 3, 2018.
TWAS Prize Lecture - “On the Regulatory Network of Transcription Factors, microRNAs and
Genes and Discovery of Markers”, Trieste, Italy, November 29, 2018.
Keynote Lecture - “Harnessing the Power of the Fourth Paradigm”, Foundation Day of CSIR-4PI,
Bangalore, October 31, 2018.
Keynote and Infosys Lecture - “On the Interface between Computer Science and Biology”,3rd
Himachal Pradesh Science Congress, IIT Mandi, October 22, 2018.
Plenary - “Bioinformatics Research at the Indian Statistical Institute: Computational Insights
on Genome Biology, Regulatory Networks and Drug Design”, CNRS-IFCPAR Women in Science
Seminar, CNRS Headquarters, Paris, September 24, 2018.
Plenary - “Data Clustering with Applications in Remote Sensing Image Analysis and Biology,
The 2017 IISA International Conference on Statistics, Hyderabad, December 29, 2017.
Panelist - “Panel discussion on Women in Statistics and Data Science”, The 2017 IISA International Conference on Statistics, Hyderabad, December 29, 2017.
Keynote - “Data Analytics: Interface between Academia and Industry”, Sangam, TCS Kolkata,
November 24, 2017.
Keynote - “Multiobjective Optimization for Clustering: A Case Study in Gene Expression Data
Analysis”, Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), San Sebastian, Spain, June 6, 2017.
Keynote - "Gender Aspects in Science Policy", National Seminar on Women Leadership in S &
T: Opportunities & Challenges, March 9, 2017.
Plenary - "Soft Computing and its Applications in Computational Biology", Soft Computing:
Theories and Applications, Amity University, Rajasthan, December 28, 2016.
Keynote - "Recent Advances in Computational Biology", 15th International Conference on Information
Technology (ICIT 2016), IIIT Bhubaneshwar, December 22, 2016.
Keynote - "Computational Intelligence Techniques for Solving Multi-objective Optimization Problems",
International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Networks, KIIT University,
Bhubaneshwar, January 12, 2015.
Panelist - "Role of University in Present Day West Bengal", Presidency College, Department of
Physics, December 22, 2014
Keynote - "Soft Computing Approaches for Data Mining", National Conference on Research
Trends in Computer Science and Applications, Siliguri Institute of Technology, February 8, 2014.
Keynote - "Advances in Computational Biology", First International Conference on Computational
Intelligence: Modeling, Techniques and Applications (CIMTA- 2013), Kalyani University,
India, September 27, 2013.
Keynote - A Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Annotated HIV-1-Human PPIs", Genoa
Bioinformatics Workshop, Genoa, Italy, June 14, 2013.
Panelist - IEEE Women in Computational Intelligence, Panel Discussion during IEEE Symposium
Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Singapore, April 17, 2013.
Keynote - "MOEAs: Applications in Bioinformatics and Data Mining", IEEE Multi Criteria Decision
Making (MCDM), IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Singapore,
April 16, 2013.
Panelist - "Women empowerment for the development of the country", Panel Discussion in the
Women's Science Congress, 100th Indian Science Congress, Kolkata, Jan 5, 2013.
Plenary - "Emerging Trends in Evolutionary Computation", National Conference on Emerging
Trends in Soft Computing (NCETSC 11), Nowrosji Wadia College, Pune, February 2-3, 2011.