This is a link to activities in progress, and links to draft documents/plans etc relating to them.
My profile for talks, etc.
- Name : M Sasikumar, Director (Research and Development)
- Address : CDAC Corporate Office, Pune
- Qual : PhD (Computer Science) from BITS, Pilani; MS(Engg) from IISc Bangalore; BTech(CS) from IIT Chennai
- Experience: As director (R&D) corporate of CDAC, responsible for consolidating research and development across all CDAC centres, and evolving R&D directions. For over 20 years, he was with CDAC Mumbai (formerly known as NCST) with focus on research and development. He has been involved in design and implementation of a number of projects - internal and external - in areas such as resource scheduling, natural language processing, data mining, e-learning, accessibility, healthcare, etc. Currently heads the R&D groups on artificial intelligence, educational technology, open source software, and language computing at CDAC Mumbai. Was chief investigator for the DIT funded project on national resource centre for online learning, and coordinator of the IBM-IIT-CDAC initiative for open source software resource centre. He is co-author of two textbooks - on expert systems, and on parallel computing. Guided a number of Masters level projects, and currently guiding five PhD projects - in emotion recognition, language learning, distributed question bank management, learning disability and handwriting recognition.
- Net presence :Livejournal Blog; thelittlesasi.wikidot.com (Web-home under development), thelittlesasi on twitter
Stuff that I am actively involved in (old list — no longer being updated!!)
boss-workshop BOSS Workshop for Govt officials, September 15, 2009, Mumbai
goa-workshop 3-day content workshop in GOA, 18-20, June 2009.
foss-desktop BOSS Workshop, June 3-4, 2009, CDAC Navi Mumbai
NCOSS-09 conference National Conference on Open Source Software, Navi Mumbai, India. May 24-26, 2009.
boss-meet Boss stakeholder meeting
foss-desktop FOSS desktop and applications - training programme
ml-workshop Machine learning workshop at CDAC, Navi Mumbai
csi-session-on-foss Special session on FOSS during India IT2020 conference at Mumbai
es-workshop Expert system workshop at CDAC Navi Mumbai
machine-learning Talk on machine learning at Pillai's college, Panvel
aoss-meet AOSS meet in Cebu, Philippines
foss-template Template for collecting information on FOSS companies
advice Guidelines for staff joining my groups in CDAC
Stuffs that may be of interest, and my involvement is partial (member of PC, etc)
Technology for Education conference, Mumbai, July 2010
ERTAI-2010 workshop on AI, April 17, 2010, Mumbai
International Conference on Software Engineering Chennai, December 2009
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