ACM-W India Grad Cohort'22

** Grad Cohort Workshop is completely in online mode now. Registration is FREE but MANDATORY to attend the event **

Description

Since 2004, the CRA-WP has been organizing the Grad Cohort Workshop in the USA for women in computing, to help them through their graduate years and beyond.
Starting 2018, Grad Cohort Workshops for Indian women are being conducted by ACM-W India. These Workshops aim to reach out to Indian women graduate students in the field of computing; facilitating interactions between eminent female researchers in the field, from academia and industry, and current students. Here, through sharing some of their own experiences, women experts guide students towards a productive graduate tenure. Some questions that are likely to be discussed are how to choose a mentor, choice of research areas and questions, challenges and perseverance, honing one’s skills, scientific writing and presentation, work-life balance, spirit of collaboration, applying for postdocs/jobs, career options, and much more.

In 2022, the ACM-W India Grad Cohort Workshop is being organized in the online mode by IIT Jodhpur. Applicants can look forward to presentations on a host of research areas, mentoring & brainstorming sessions, networking opportunities, and lots more...

Important Dates

Registration Deadline: July 18, 2022
Workshop: July 21-22, 2022

Eligibility

Masters and Ph.D. women students at Indian Universities or Institutes.

Organizing Committee

From ACM

Chitra Babu

Heena Timani

Lipika Dey

Neeldhara Misra

From IITJ

Pallavi Jain

Richa Singh

Romi Banerjee

Organizers

Registration Deadline: July 18, 2022

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Confirmed Speakers

Abha Sur

MIT

Anisha Parikh

Hackberry

Arpita Patra

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Barna Saha

UCSD

Geetha Kannan

Wequity

Heena Rathore

University of Texas, SA

Hema A. Murthy

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Hemangee K. Kapoor

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Jayashree Mohan

MSR

Neeldhara Misra

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

Renuka Sindhgatta Rajan

IBM

Shipra Singh

PGIMS Rohtak

Shukla Bose

Parikrma Humanity Foundation

Sriparna Saha

Indian Institute of Technology Patna

Srujana Merugu

Amazon

Suchetana Chakraborty

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

Sushmita Gupta

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences

DAY 1 - July 21, 2022

Program	Time (IST)	Speaker & Talk Title	Time Slot (IST): QnA
Inaugural Session	8:15 - 8:30
Keynote 1: You can't spell success without you Chair: Jayashree Mohan (MSR)	8:30 - 9:30	Geetha Kannan (Wequity)	9:15 - 9:30
Coffee Break: 9:30 - 9:45
Career Options (India & Abroad) - Industry, Academia, Entrepreneurship Chair: Chitra Babu (SSN College of Engineering)	9:45 - 12:30	Heena Rathore (UT) -- Revamping Quality for Academic and Placement Abroad-- 9:45 - 10:15	10:15 - 10:25
		Anisha Parikh (Hackberry) -- My Journey as an Entrepreneur --10:25 - 10:55	10:55 - 11:05
		Neeldhara Misra (IIT Gandhinagar) -- A career in academia: why and why not? --11:05 - 11:35	11:35 - 11:45
		Srujana Merugu (Amazon) -- Anatomy of a Data Science Career in Industry --11:45 - 12:15	12:15 - 12:25
Lunch Break (12:25 - 3:00)
Social Hour@ Gather.Town (3:00-5:00)
Activity 1: Mentorship in Groups (5:45 - 6:30) Moderator: ACM Student Volunteers; Mentors in individual breakout rooms
IBM Interaction with Students Chair: Heena Timani (iAnanya Datalytix Pvt. Ltd.)	6:30 - 7:00	Renuka Sindhgatta Rajan
Keynote 2 Chair: Sushmita Gupta (IMSc)	7:00 - 8:00	Barna Saha (UCSD) -- Sublinear Time Algorithms for Edit Distance -- 7:00 - 7:45	7:45 - 8:00
Past, Present and Future of Women in Science & Engineering Chair: Pallavi Jain (IIT Jodhpur)	8:00 - 9:15	Abha Sur (MIT) -- 8:00 - 8:30 & Hema Murthy (IIT Madras) -- 8:30 - 9:00	9:00 - 9:15
End of Day 1 (9:15 - 9:20)

DAY 2 - July 22, 2022

Program	Time (IST)	Speaker & Talk Title	Time Slot (IST): QnA
Starting Day 2 (9:15 - 9:30)
Keynote 3: Emerging Memory Technologies Challenges and Research Directions Chair: Renuka Rajan (IBM)	9:30 - 10:30	Hemangee Kapoor (IIT Guwahati)	10:15 - 10:30
Study Abroad: Opportunities, Scholarships, etc. Chair: Neeldhara Misra (IIT Gandhinagar)	10:30 -11:10	Sushmita Gupta (IMSc)	11:00 - 11:10
Coffee Break (11:10 - 11:25)
Importance of Conversations in Academia & Industry Chair: Lawqueen Kanesh (IIT Jodhpur)	11:25 -12:45	Sriparna Saha (IIT Patna) -- Summarization Systems --11:25 - 11:55	11:55 - 12:05
	11:25 -12:45	Jayashree Mohan (Microsoft) --The power of conversations : Talk your way to opportunities --12:05 - 12:35	12:35 - 12:45
Lunch (12:45 - 2:00)
Activity on Mental Health: Dealing with Stress, Anxiety, etc. & General Wellbeing Chair: Pallavi Jain (IIT Jodhpur)	2:00 - 2:45	Shipra Singh --Mental Health Matters
Balancing Personal and Professional Lives Chair: Mitali Mukerjee (IIT Jodhpur)	2:45 - 3:15	Suchetana Chakraborty (IIT Jodhpur) -- Balancing work-life in Academics	3:15 - 3:25
Breaking Barriers: Inspiring Stories Chair: Romi Banerjee (IIT Jodhpur)	3:25 - 4:45	Arpita Patra (IISc) -- Miles to Go before I sleep... -- 3:25 - 3:55	3:55 - 4:05
	3:25 - 4:45	Shukla Bose (Parikrma Humanity Foundation) -- 4:05 - 4:35	4:35 - 4:45
Activity 3: Ask me anything! (4:45-5:30) Moderator: Richa Singh (IIT Jodhpur)
Closing of Event (5:30 - 5:45)