Lipika Dey : Text-driven Reasoning and Multi-structured Data Analytics for Business Intelligence
Business decisions today depend not only on numerical data locked in the Enterprise database, but to a large extent on the data that is available in the form of unstructured text - be it in emails, social media, company web-sites, news or analyst reports. In this talk we shall be giving a broad overview of the research done in the area of Web Intelligence and Text Mining. This group works in designing Text Analytics mechanisms for extracting information from unstructured text and link them to structured Business data in intelligent ways to derive business insights. This talk will also focus on how these insights are integrated into decision making for better outcomes.
Arpan Pal : Signal Processing and Analytics of Sensor Data
It will touch upon how sensor signal processing and analytics will play a key role in deriving business insights and actionable outcomes for Internet-of-Things based deployments with examples from Healthcare, Manufacturing and Education. It will also introduce how the concept of Model-driven-development can help in automation of such analytics.
Sharmila Mande : Microbes within us: Drivers or Passengers?
Have you ever wondered whether we are really human? Our body hosts ten times more microbial cells than our own cells! Being our "host", these microbial communities, called "Microbiome", are expected to have huge influence on our health and well being.
The emerging field of metagenomics facilitates the direct extraction and sequencing of the entire genomic content present in a given environment. Efficient computational methodologies are needed for analyzing the enormous volume of metagenomic data. Given the importance of various microbes on human health, our R&D group at TCS has developed several algorithms and integrated them into an end-to-end computational analysis platform for analyzing metagenomic data.
Major challenges in analyzing metagenomics data as well as methodologies to address them will also be highlighted during my talk. The presentation will also include a successful case study of application of the platform in understanding nutritional status of individuals. Another study by our group has indicated that the type of gut bacteria we harbour determines our response to antibiotic treatment. I will present some of these exciting results during my talk.