Abstract

Artificial Intelligence is the technology that tries to emulate human performance by deploying typically more than one of the following human like problem solving techniques: sensing and understanding the situated environment, learning, inferencing, taking actions changing the situated space, appearing to understand complex scenarios or content, engaging in natural dialogs with people and in the process replacing people on execution of some non-routine tasks. Intelligent systems are applications built with AI as the core. The confluence of “Big Data” and the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), has made a perfect environment for new AI applications and services to grow. By using AI- driven automation in existing industries, alongside using AI technologies in new emerging areas, together with expansion of network connectivity, artificial intelligence could vastly boost productivity and economic growth globally as well as in the Indian context. CSIR is the first one to initiate an AI Mission in the country. In the present talk, the present National scenario in the AI research in the country will be brought out with a focus on CSIR AI research in the context of Technology development. We will highlight some of our achievements in the CSIR AI Mission on : 1. BCI Controlled Drone Navigation (CEERI, NAL), 2. AI Techniques for Automatic Detection of Power Line Components (CEERI, NAL), 3. AI Based Interstitial Lung Disease Detection, Classification & Quantification (CEERI, IGIB, AIIMS Delhi)

We will also present our significant contribution on COVID-19 research including development of Chest X-Ray Based COVID-19 Testing Tool Kit (CEERI, IGIB, Mahajan Imaging Delhi, TeleRad Solutions Bangalore) Next, we will discuss some of the emerging areas where AI intervention in technology development will greatly help the country’s progress. Out of the various important areas, the following use-cases will mainly be discussed considering their societal impacts in India: 1. AI Based Predictive & Prescriptive Maintenance of Machines (Industry 4.0) 2. AI Driven Smart Fishing 3. AI for Microbial Genomics.

Brief Biography:

Atanendu Sekhar Mandal has done his B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur and M.Tech. in
Integrated Electronics and Circuits (IEC) and PhD in Computational Neuro-Vision from the Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Delhi. Since 1989 he has been working in the VLSI Design Group, CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CEERI), Pilani, Rajasthan.