December 18-20, 2025
IISc Bangalore

Program at a Glance

Conference Schedule
Time
AV Rama Rao Auditorium
RBM Hall
08:00 - 08:45
Registration
08:45 - 09:00
Day 0 Inauguration
09:00 - 09:45
Keynote

Dr. Prith Banerjee

SVP, Simulation and Analysis Incubation, Synopsys, "AI/ML in Engineering Simulation and Electronic Design Automation"

09:45 - 10:30
Keynote

Dr. Subhasish Mitra

Stanford University, "The Future of AI Computing Chips"

10:30 - 11:00
Tea Break and Industry Exhibit
11:00 - 12:30
AV Rama Rao

Tutorial: Dr. Soumya Bose

UC Santa Cruz, "Batteries not Included: ULV and ULP Circuits for Energy-Autonomous Edge Devices"

RBM Hall

Tutorial: Dr. Utsav Banerjee

IISc Bangalore, "Efficient Circuits and Systems for Security and Privacy in Edge Computing"

12:30 - 13:30
Lunch Break and Posters: R&D Showcase + Research Forum
13:30 - 14:15
Keynote

Dr. Gouri Sankar Kar

Vice President R&D - IMEC, "Memory for Edge-AI"

14:15 - 15:00
Plenary

Dr. Kevin Cao

University of Minnesota, "AI Computing Beyond Moore’s Law: Heterogenous Integration and Chiplet Design Exploration"

15:00 - 16:00
AV Rama Rao

Panel Discussion:

AI4aillion -- IoT Meets GenAI for Possibilities Ahead.

Panelists: Reliance, Altera, FSSAI, AI Clinic. Moderator: Amrit Kumar (Deloitte)

RBM Hall

Neuromorphic Computing Workshop

Innatera Nanosystems

16:00 - 16:15
Tea Break and Industry Exhibit
16:15 - 17:45
AV Rama Rao

Tutorial: Dr. Ashwin Sundar

Intel Labs, "From Concept to Silicon: Chip Design and Testing in Academia"

RBM Hall

Neuromorphic Computing Workshop

Innatera Nanosystems

17:45 - 18:30
Conference Inauguration
18:30 - 20:30
Welcome Reception
08:00 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:45
Keynote

Dr. Kaushik Roy

Purdue University, "Smarter, Safer, Greener AI: Brain-Inspired Paths to Cognitive Computing"

09:45 - 10:30
Keynote

Dr. Tulika Mitra

National University of Singapore, "Reconfigurable Intelligence: Architecting Tomorrow’s Edge AI Accelerators"

10:30 - 11:00
Tea Break and Industry Exhibit
11:00 - 11:45
Keynote

Hitesh Garg

Vice President and India Country Manager - NXP, "AI at the Edge creating an Autonomous Future"

11:45 - 13:00
AV Rama Rao

Session 6A: Special Session

Efficient and Secure Acceleration. Invited Talk (30 min): Dr. Riddhi Nandi, Mixx Technologies - "Scaling Intelligence: Silicon Photonics and the energy equation for AI", followed by paper presentations (45 min)

RBM Hall

Session 6B:

Advanced Systems at the Edge - Paper Presentations

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break and Posters (Session 7)
14:00 - 14:30
AV Rama Rao

Invited Visionary Talk

Dr. Satya Gupta - President, VLSI Society of India (VSI)

RBM Hall

Invited Visionary Talk

Dr. Shailesh Chansarkar - DRDO, "Future Requirements/Trends for AIoT"

14:30 - 15:00
AV Rama Rao

Lightning Talks,

IoT Innovator Award 2025

RBM Hall

Silicon Photonics Workshop

Global Foundries

15:00 - 16:00
AV Rama Rao

Session 9A

AIoT Security 1 - Paper Presentations

RBM Hall

Silicon Photonics Workshop

Global Foundries

16:00 - 16:30
Tea Break and Industry Exhibit
16:30 - 17:15
Plenary

Murty Dasaka

Head of PDK Development - Tata Electronics, "Semiconductor Eco-System in INDIA"

17:15 - 18:15
Panel

Panel Discussion:

Future Needs and Policy-making for AI at the Edge

Panelists: IISc, Qualcomm, Cadence, CDAC, EmbedUR. Moderator: Preet Yadav (NXP)

18:15 - 19:00
Industry Reception, Conference Awards
19:30 - 21:30
Banquet Dinner
08:00 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:45
Plenary

Dr. Shreyas Sen

CTO, Ixana / Purdue University, "Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication"

09:45 - 10:30
Plenary

Dr. Sumeet Kumar

CEO, Innatera Nanosystems, "Architectures for a Neuromorphic Everything"

10:30 - 10:45
Tea Break and Industry Exhibit
10:45 - 11:45
Panel

Panel Discussion:

Accelerating Pervasive AIoT; Role of Academia-Industry-Government Partnerships.

Panelists: IISc, DRDO, Intel, Innatera, Keysight, ANRF. Moderator: Akhilesh Jaiswal (U. Wisconsion Madison)

11:45 - 13:00
AV Rama Rao

Session 12A: Special Session

From Device to Circuits to Systems at the Edge

RBM Hall

Session 12B: Special Session

Efficient and Secure Edge. Invited Talk (30 min): Dr. Chetan Singh Thakur, IISc Bangalore, followed by paper presentations (45 min)

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break and Posters (Session 13)
14:00 - 15:30
AV Rama Rao

Session 14A: Special Session

Emerging Computing Technologies

RBM Hall

Session 14B

AIoT Circuits, EDA and Applications. Invited Talk (30 min): Channakeshav Ananth, Cadence Design Systems - "Design for AI and AI for Design, a new Era of Design Excellence", followed by paper presentations (60 min)

15:30 - 16:00
Visionary Talk

Dr. Aloknath De

CEO, TechCrafter.cps, "AIoT at the Edge: When EdgeAI Turns Data into Decisions"

16:00 - 16:15
Tea Break and Industry Exhibit
16:15 - 17:15
AV Rama Rao

Session 15A

Advanced Algorithms - Paper Presentations

RBM Hall

Session 15B

AIoT Security 2 - Paper Presentations

17:15 - 18:00
Conference Conclusions