CSA, BITS Pilani

CSA, BITS Pilani This is the page for the CSA, an acronym for Computer Science Association,which is the disciplinary

Apart from repeatedly proving its worth at the recent technical fests of the college, CSA stands as a powerful learning platform with substantial inflow of senior guidance and mentor ship. The association has an open nature, thus allowing the convergence of Computer Science enthusiasts from all streams of study. CSA is noted for organizing series of lecture talks on various emerging technologies,

quizzing and coding events around the year, in addition to a brilliant display of innovative and highly appreciated projects during APOGEE, the technical festival of the college. A number of events, in and off campus are hosted by CSA during APOGEE which are some of the biggest crowd pullers during the fest.

Alumni Research Talks is an industry-student-research symposium where we bring back alumni of BITS Pilani who are actual...
13/02/2022

Alumni Research Talks is an industry-student-research symposium where we bring back alumni of BITS Pilani who are actually involved in doing what we hope to do someday. Some are pursuing MS and Ph.D. in grad schools from different parts of the world while some work for big-time firms in the industry. They hope to dispel all myths that one might harbor about academics or extracurriculars, and illuminate minds towards how things actually work in the real world. These are the people, to use a cliche, who have "been there, done that"

Topic: Towards Building Language Technologies for Everyone

Speaker: Aditi Chaudhary

Aditi Chaudhary is a PhD candidate in the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. She graduated from BITS Pilani in 2015 with MSc. Biological Sciences and Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science. She has been a research intern at the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore and Google, worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and has completed her Masters from Carnegie Mellon University.

Her research interests revolve around the development of methods/tools to extract language descriptions, such as grammar rules in ALL languages! She has also developed an interface to explore and visualize the extracted language description across many languages.

The Computer Science Association welcomes you to the 11th Edition of Alumni Research Talks.Alumni Research Talks is an i...
12/02/2022

The Computer Science Association welcomes you to the 11th Edition of Alumni Research Talks.
Alumni Research Talks is an industry-student-research symposium where we bring back alumni of BITS Pilani who are actually involved in doing what we hope to do someday. Some are pursuing MS and PhD in grad schools from different parts of the world while some work for big time firms in the industry. They hope to dispel all myths that one might harbor about acads or extracurriculars, and illuminate minds towards how things actually work in the real world. These are the people, to use a cliche, who have "been there, done that".

Our third speaker is Shikar Vashishth, Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research (BITS Pilani 2016).
Shikar completed his masters and PhD from IISc Bangalore with a Thesis on Neural Graph Embedding Methods for Natural Language Processing. He has interned at Microsoft and Google research and has received the prestigious ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award and Google PhD Fellowship during his PhD. He was a postdoc at Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, in Information Extraction in the biomedical domain.
In this talk “Improving Medical Entity Linking with Semantic Type Prediction”, he talks about alleviating the problem of overgeneration of candidate concepts in the candidate generation module, the most under-studied component of medical entity linking.

The Computer Science Association welcomes you to the 11th Edition of Alumni Research Talks.Alumni Research Talks is an i...
12/02/2022

The Computer Science Association welcomes you to the 11th Edition of Alumni Research Talks.
Alumni Research Talks is an industry-student-research symposium where we bring back alumni of BITS Pilani who are actually involved in doing what we hope to do someday. Some are pursuing MS and PhD in grad schools from different parts of the world while some work for big time firms in the industry. They hope to dispel all myths that one might harbor about acads or extracurriculars, and illuminate minds towards how things actually work in the real world. These are the people, to use a cliche, who have "been there, done that".
Our second speaker is Aakanksha Naik (BITS Pilani 2016).
Aakanksha is a PhD Candidate in the Language Technologies Institute at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Her current research tackles the task of developing event extractors for medical data, with no in-domain training data.
Transfer learning research has improved the generalization abilities of models trained on NLU benchmarks, but an important issue plaguing long tail domains, such as clinical text, is data scarcity .How far can transfer learning improve performance on long tail domains in low-data regimes?
You can catch the recording of the talk “Adapting Information Extractors to Long Tail Domains” where she unraveled the solution to this and many such topics on this page if you missed it.

The Computer Science Association welcomes you to the 11th Edition of Alumni Research Talks.Alumni Research Talks is an i...
11/02/2022

The Computer Science Association welcomes you to the 11th Edition of Alumni Research Talks.

Alumni Research Talks is an industry-student-research symposium where we bring back alumni of BITS Pilani who are actually involved in doing what we hope to do someday. Some are pursuing MS and PhD in grad schools from different parts of the world while some work for big time firms in the industry. They hope to dispel all myths that one might harbor about acads or extracurriculars, and illuminate minds towards how things actually work in the real world. These are the people, to use a cliche, who have "been there, done that".

Our first speaker is Mansi Gupta (BITS Pilani 2015).
Mansi engineers Machine Learning and NLP solutions to real-world problems and is particularly interested in exploring explainability, fairness and biases in ML models. She graduated from a Masters program at Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

There is a myriad of resources and advice available on the internet. Amongst all this noise, how to think about your own trajectory in the field? Whether the field itself is a good fit for you? Whether to go for a Master's or a PhD program?
Join us to find out answers to such questions and many more with Mansi on the topic:
"Sifting through the noise: finding a good fit for a career in Machine Learning”.

23/01/2021

We're super excited to see everyone at ART 10.0, hope you are too!

More information: bit.ly/csa-art

23/01/2021

In less than 24 hours left, Alumni Research Talks 10.0 by CSA, BITS Pilani kick starts.
Experience the greatness and plethora of knowledge through talks by distinguished alumni of BITS Pilani.
Mark the dates: January 24-31, 2021
Register yourself to not miss the show!!
Detailed schedule, links, history: bit.ly/csa-art

Speaker #9 for ART is Ganesh Ananthanarayanan(BITS Pilani 2005)Principal Researcher at Microsoft ResearchGanesh complet...
23/01/2021

Speaker #9 for ART is
Ganesh Ananthanarayanan
(BITS Pilani 2005)
Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research
Ganesh completed his PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2013 soon after which he joined Microsoft. His current research is devoted to systems for large-scale data analytics (aka "big data"), video processing, and Internet performance.
Date: January 31th, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM IST
Airmeet: https://bit.ly/art-airmeet9
Detailed schedule, links, history: bit.ly/csa-art
In case the above Airmeet links are full, talks will also be live streamed:
Youtube Live Stream -
On CSA’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYiBwzdsS8FImzKCDlnTqfw
Facebook Live Streams -
On ART’s page: https://www.facebook.com/Alumni.Research.Talks
On CSA’s page: https://www.facebook.com/csa.bits

Speaker #8 for ART is Divyakant Agarwal(BITS Pilani 1980)Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Calif...
23/01/2021

Speaker #8 for ART is
Divyakant Agarwal
(BITS Pilani 1980)
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Barbara.
A professor of CS in UCSB, Dr. Divyakant has published approximately 300 manuscripts in prestigious forums. His work is on topics related to database systems, distributed computing, data warehousing and large-scale information systems.
Date: January 30th, 2021
Time: 7:00 PM IST
Airmeet: https://bit.ly/art-airmeet8
Detailed schedule, links, history: bit.ly/csa-art
In case the above Airmeet links are full, talks will also be live streamed:
Youtube Live Stream -
On CSA’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYiBwzdsS8FImzKCDlnTqfw
Facebook Live Streams -
On ART’s page: https://www.facebook.com/Alumni.Research.Talks
On CSA’s page: https://www.facebook.com/csa.bits

Speaker #7 for ART is Vidhi Jain (BITS Pilani 2018)CMU RI Graduate Student, Ex-Research Fellow Microsoft ResearchVidhi,...
23/01/2021

Speaker #7 for ART is
Vidhi Jain
(BITS Pilani 2018)
CMU RI Graduate Student, Ex-Research Fellow Microsoft Research
Vidhi, an ex-MS Research fellow, is currently pursuing an MSR program at CMU, Pittsburgh. She is currently working at a confluence of the areas of NLP, Vision and Robotics.
Date: January 30th, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM IST
Airmeet: https://bit.ly/art-airmeet7
Detailed schedule, links, history: bit.ly/csa-art
In case the above Airmeet links are full, talks will also be live streamed:
Youtube Live Stream -
On CSA’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYiBwzdsS8FImzKCDlnTqfw
Facebook Live Streams -
On ART’s page: https://www.facebook.com/Alumni.Research.Talks
On CSA’s page: https://www.facebook.com/csa.bits

The Computer Science Association is back with the 10th Edition of Alumni Research Talks.ART will be held from 24th - 31s...
21/01/2021

The Computer Science Association is back with the 10th Edition of Alumni Research Talks.
ART will be held from 24th - 31st January, with a lineup of 9 speakers.
Speaker #6 for ART is
Mukesh Jain
(BITS Pilani 2018)
Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, VP @ Capgemini, Head of 890byCapgemini
Mukesh, currently the CTIO and Head of Data Technology for Insights and Data at Capgemini India, has worked with many prestigious companies. His research includes AI, ML and Product Management. Mukesh is also the recipient of 3 Microsoft Gold Star awards.
Date: January 29th, 2021
Time: 7:00 PM IST
Airmeet: http://bit.ly/art-airmeet6
Detailed schedule, links, history: bit.ly/csa-art
In case the above Airmeet links are full, talks will also be live streamed:
Youtube Live Stream -
On CSA’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYiBwzdsS8FImzKCDlnTqfw
Facebook Live Streams -
On ART’s page: https://www.facebook.com/Alumni.Research.Talks
On CSA’s page: https://www.facebook.com/csa.bits

The Computer Science Association is back with the 10th Edition of Alumni Research Talks.ART will be held from 24th - 31s...
21/01/2021

The Computer Science Association is back with the 10th Edition of Alumni Research Talks.
ART will be held from 24th - 31st January, with a lineup of 9 speakers.
Speaker #5 for ART is
Siddhartha Nath
(BITS Pilani 2003)
Senior Software Engineer at Synopsys
Currently a senior R&D engineer at Synopsys, Nath holds a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. His research areas include Integrated Circuit Design management using tools like combinatorial optimization, mathematical programming and machine learning.
Date: January 28th, 2021
Time: 8:30 PM IST
Airmeet: http://bit.ly/art-airmeet5
Detailed schedule, links, history: bit.ly/csa-art
In case the above Airmeet links are full, talks will also be live streamed:
Youtube Live Stream -
On CSA’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYiBwzdsS8FImzKCDlnTqfw
Facebook Live Streams -
On ART’s page: https://www.facebook.com/Alumni.Research.Talks
On CSA’s page: https://www.facebook.com/csa.bits

The Computer Science Association is back with the 10th Edition of Alumni Research Talks.ART will be held from 24th - 31s...
21/01/2021

The Computer Science Association is back with the 10th Edition of Alumni Research Talks.
ART will be held from 24th - 31st January, with a lineup of 9 speakers.
Speaker #4 for ART is
Aruna Balasubramanian
(BITS Pilani 2002)
Associate Professor at Stony Brook University
A PhD scholar from University Of Massachusetts and currently an Associate Professor at Stony Brook University, she works on topics in the intersection of networking and systems.
Date: January 27th, 2021
Time: 7:00 PM IST
Airmeet: http://bit.ly/art-airmeet4
Detailed schedule, links, history: bit.ly/csa-art
In case the above Airmeet links are full, talks will also be live streamed:
Youtube Live Stream -
On CSA’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYiBwzdsS8FImzKCDlnTqfw
Facebook Live Streams -
On ART’s page: https://www.facebook.com/Alumni.Research.Talks
On CSA’s page: https://www.facebook.com/csa.bits

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