Srikanta Bedathur

Professor, IIT Delhi

[Greg Egan @gregeganSF]

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

[Sidu Ponnappa @ponnappa]

https://t.co/bFvNS3L4cn

[CSE Department @ IIT Delhi @cseiitd]

From walking the corridors of IIT Delhi as a student to shaping them as a faculty member—Prof. Huzur Saran (@HuzurSaran) shares his journey through time.

In this engaging conversation with Prof. Amitabha Bagchi(@amitabhabagchi), he reflects on how the CSE ecosystem has evolved, what has changed (and what hasn’t), and offers meaningful advice to young academics and a message for CSE IITD alumni.

A compelling watch: https://t.co/HmA0EPq0xl

[Moshe Vardi @vardi]

The Centrality Fallacy and ACM

https://t.co/d2ZjQ4vg5D

[Subbarao Kambhampati (కంభంపాటి సుబ్బారావు) @rao2z]

My take on AI Kumbh Mela : They went out of their way to make it possible for people from many walks of life to attend.. #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026

So going by the media accounts, all that really happened at the summit were the long security lines, lost wearables, and other more pressing first world problems like some of us not getting our millet foam at @PMOIndia dinner.

Perhaps there is another way to look at it. This is the first of the AI Summits that seemed to have allowed basically free registration to anyone who wanted to come. As far I know, the other ones in UK, Paris and Seoul were limited to mostly invited "delegates".

Opening the summit up this way meant LOTS of people showed up (as they apparently do to the other Kumbh Mela..)--estimates of registrations at 250K and daily attendance of as much as 70K. It's in a different plane all together compared to the "invited delegates only meetings", and in a different league even compared to the mega AI conferences like #NeurIPS2025.

The bigger numbers also meant longer lines, more chaos and lower signal to noise ratio for the cognoscenti.

After my panel, I met one student who brought his mother (who didn't seem particularly tech savvy) to show and tell her about AI..

I talked to a neurologist from the capital region, who showed up just to get a sense of how and whether this technology might atrophy our own cognitive skills.

A lady working in Arts and Crafts, who was trying to get a sense of how AI will affect the artists and their livelihoods.

I saw lines of women--clad in their finery--waiting for their group buses after a trip to the summit.

And I of course saw tons and tons of UG students from Indian colleges attending sessions and trying to make sense of things (however primitive some of their understanding seemed after a minute of talking to them).

Maybe some of this was orchestrated. But I would think that if AI is supposed to be such a transformative technology that would impact everyone, perhaps it is quite justified to "let everyone in"..

For that inclusiveness, I believe the organizers of this AI Kumbh Mela deserve a huge amount of credit--and our benefit of doubt on the attendant inconveniences.

(No, I have no connection with the organizers. I own my opinions.)

[Anusandhan National Research Foundation @ANRFIndia]

𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱!

𝗔𝗡𝗥𝗙–𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 (𝗡𝗣𝗗𝗙) 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

Revised Application Deadline: 𝟮𝟬 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 (𝟱:𝟬𝟬 𝗣𝗠)

#ANRFIndia #NPDF2026 #ViksitBharat2047

[Chuang Gan @gan_chuang]

ICLR has placed OpenReview in a difficult position, so I want to offer a few words about the OpenReview team working behind the scenes.

OpenReview has long been operated at UMass Amherst as a non-profit organization founded by Andrew McCallum. Each year, Andrew must raise more than $2 million to support a 20-person team that provides essential infrastructure for most major conferences.

I once asked Andrew what might have been a naïve question: whether he had considered developing a business model for OpenReview, given its prominence and the seemingly obvious opportunities. He pushed back, explaining that everything he has done for OpenReview is driven by a commitment to serve and strengthen the academic community. He is willing to devote significant personal effort to ensure the platform remains freely accessible to all.

We should not blame such a brilliant and dedicated team for an accidental issue. Otherwise, fewer people would be willing to shoulder this kind of responsibility in the future.

Deep respect to the OpenReview team! I’m grateful for their work and happy to support in any way!

[CSE Department @ IIT Delhi @cseiitd]

Everyone wants constructive reviews for their papers, and only a few stand out for doing them exceptionally well. CSE @ IIT Delhi celebrates this excellence:

🌟 Our start Ph.D. student Burouj Armgaan (https://t.co/279u8QGilg) and faculty member Prof. Adarsh Barik (https://t.co/BLuaUZ9GHo) has been recognized as a Top 10% Reviewer at NeurIPS 2025.

🌟 Our faculty member Prof. Sayan Ranu (@SayanRanu) has been recognized as a Top 10% Area Chair at NeurIPS 2025.

[CSE Department @ IIT Delhi @cseiitd]

🎓 PhD Admissions — Winter Cycle
Interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at one of India’s top institutes @iitdelhi ?
📢 CSE, IIT Delhi invites passionate researchers to join our Ph.D. program!
Explore cutting-edge areas in AI, quantum computing, systems, security, theoretical CS, and trustworthy AI.

🗓️ Written test: Dec 3 | Interviews: Dec 4���5
🔗 Apply: https://t.co/CxEOKP841H
📘 Details: https://t.co/lybSNmhUlt

[WSDM Conference @WSDMSocial]

We’re excited to announce that WSDM 2026 will take place in Boise, Idaho, from February 22 to 26, 2026!
Stay tuned and visit 🔗https://t.co/vRdaZ9G7fV for updates!

#WSDM2026

[CODS @ikddcods]

📢Call for Papers: Research Track@ #CODS2025
From algorithms to applications, submit original work in #DataScience, ML, AI, data systems & theory-archival & non-archival welcome!

📍 Dec 17–20, IISER Pune

🔗Details: https://t.co/0e2JcpqIHZ
#AI #ML #CFP #Research

[CODS @ikddcods]

🚨Call for Papers Now Open for #CODS2025🚨
The tracks include:
1. Research & Applied Data Science
2. AI/Data Science Challenge
3. Demos
4. Tutorials
5. Early Career Highlights
6. Young Researchers’ Symposium
7. AI for Science track
#DataScience #AI #ML #CFP #Research #IISERPune

[Mausam (IITD) @mishumausam]

Overjoyed that @adityagrover_ , ex-ugrad @iitdelhi, won the prestigious once-in-2-yr Computers&Thought award. He has done ground-breaking work in AI4climate, diffusion LLMs, graph embeddings & more. Also beaming with pride as I co-mentored him in his early days. Congrats Aditya!!

[CSE Department @ IIT Delhi @cseiitd]

Thrilled to share that the paper "MINTT: Memory Inductive Transfer for Temporal Graph Neural Networks" by Tanishq Dubey, Sidharth Agarwal, Shubham Gupta, and Srikanta Bedathur (@srikanta) has been accepted at SIGIR (@SIGIRConf ) 2025! 🎉
Big shoutout to Tanishq and Sidharth—our recent CSE graduates from the BTech + MTech dual degree program.
Find out the details about the paper at https://t.co/LS3Ng2ZBSn

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“The young man knows the rules, the old man knows the exceptions.”

— Charlie Munger

[CODS @ikddcods]

(1/5) It gives us a great pleasure to announce conference awards for the recently concluded CODS-COMAD at IIT Jodhpur.
https://t.co/v133EkklRc

@RichaSingh26 @srikanta @nvchawla @SenjutiB @MayankVatsa3 @saurabhnagrecha @aasthanigam

[Ponnurangam Kumaraguru “PK” @ponguru]

😮 2,500+ mins 😮, 45+ 1x1 sessions, 30+ PhD students, 9 Mentors = @Indiaacm @codscomad PhD Clinic December 2024. Sessions were 1x1 between students & mentors (see pics 📸). Kudos @RichaSingh26 @MayankVatsa3 @srikanta @hemanklamba & #CODSCOMAD2024 team. #MorePowerToPhDStudents

[CODS @ikddcods]

And that's a wrap to CODS-COMAD Dec'24! Thank you so much to all our incredible speakers, OCs, reviewers, student volunteers, engaging presenters, generous partners, & enthusiastic attendees for making this conference a fantastic experience. We truly appreciate your contributions

[CODS @ikddcods]

We extend our sincere gratitude for the invaluable contributions of our reviewers in CODS-COMAD Dec'24 conference. We'd like to particularly recognize the outstanding reviewers based on the quality, quantity & timeliness of their reviews. https://t.co/He15KbeHoJ

[Chaitanya K. Joshi @chaitjo]

The LoG New Delhi meetup is under way at IT Delhi @YardiScAI - amazing venue and organisation!

#LoGNewDelhi @LogConference