Transforming Academic Institutions: My experiments with a human touch (Lecture cum Discussion)

Title of the Talk: Transforming Academic Institutions: My Experiments with a human touch (Lecture cum Discussion).
Speaker: Prof. Rajeev Sangal
Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE),
Professor Emeritus (Honorary), International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad. sangal@iiit.ac.in

Date: 20th February 2024
Day: Tuesday
Time: 5:00 pm to 6.15 pm (Please occupy seats by 4:55 pm)

Venue: Room#106 (previously F300), Common Learning Theatre (CLT), Permanent Campus, IIT dhArwAD, KarnATaka.

Abstract: If academic institutions desire to function with much greater effectiveness what should they do?   And if they wish to have an environment of cooperation and harmony, how would such an environment be created? These are the questions this talk tries to answer based on real-life experiences.

      The talk is about managing and leading academic institutions by connecting with people, being sensitive, gaining confidence in one's behavior and actions, and taking people along through dialogue and understanding. It would be of general interest because the situations occur in everyday life. [Please see the attached PDF file for the details regarding the talk.]

Biography: Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), is currently Professor Emeritus (Honorary) at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad. He is a former Director of IIT (BHU), Varanasi (2013 - 2018) and IIIT Hyderabad (2002 - 2013) and a former Professor at IIT Kanpur. His research interests include Natural language processing, artificial intelligence, machine translation, and speech processing. Prof. Sangal is a founder-head of the Language Technologies Research Centre, at IIIT, Hyderabad, India, the largest academic center for computational linguistics (CL) research in this region of the world. He has worked on the Computational Paninian Grammar framework which is linguistically elegant and computationally efficient. It is a dependency grammar-based framework, particularly well suited for morphologically rich and free word-order languages. Prof. Sangal holds a BTECH in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, M.S. & Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Book Reference: The book titled "Transforming Academic Institutions: My Experiments with a Human Touch" was published by Banyan Tree and released at IIIT Hyderabad recently. To view the release function with many insights about the book go to: this YouTube video.
Personal Website of the Speaker: Prof. Rajeev Sangal's Webpage (iiit.ac.in)

 For scripted question(s) to the Colloquium Speaker:  Please complete this Google form before 20th February, 2024, 2.30 pm. 
Live questions will be taken up after a few/all the questions are submitted via the Google form.

Further Reading:
Talk-Transforming Academic Institutions: Click Here
Personal Website of the Speaker: Prof. Rajeev Sangal