PAST SEMINARS

Abizer Lokhandwala is currently a software development engineer at CodeNation and has been an active member of the PISB family, having been the programming head of the IEEE branch. He represented PICT at the ACM ICPC in Kharagpur in 2018 and was ranked 32nd.

Toshal Agrawal is a PISB member who's currently pursuing his bachelor's in Computer Engineering in PICT. He's a Google Summer of Code participant with MLpack. He has also done the advanced level Codechef certified Data Structures and Algorithms programme.

An introductory seminar on Competitive Coding was held by PISB on 11th February.
The seminar was conducted by a PISB alumnus Mr. Abizer Lokhandwala who’s currently a software development engineer at CodeNation and also a 6-star rated coder on CodeChef. The second speaker for the seminar was Mr. Toshal Agrawal who is currently pursuing his bachelor’s in PICT and is placed in Deutsche Bank.
During the course of the seminar, the following were covered:
1. The basics of Competitive Coding and how to get started with it.
2. How to prepare for interview questions.
3. The benefits of Competitive Coding in placements
4. Internships and projects while in college.
5. General doubts about Coding in college.
The response was wonderful. We are grateful to Mr. Abizer, Mr. Toshal, the organizing team and the audience for making this a huge success.

Priyanka Kasture is founder of Machine Learning India which is a community of over 1,00,000 machine learning and artificial intelligence enthusiasts across India and the globe. She believes that India has the potential to position itself among leaders, on the global technology map; and that - the truly transformative nature of AI technology, yet the nascent stage of its adoption worldwide, provides India with an opportunity to define its own brand of AI leadership. Her goal is to reduce the skill-gap in India, by creating a vibrant AI ecosystem and talent pool; thereby leading our country to have a significant take in the global AI revolution. To pursue the same, she has been putting efforts in democratizing quality technical education and making it available to all.

An introductory seminar on Getting started with Machine Learning was held by PISB on 17th February.
The seminar was conducted by the founder and director of ML India, Miss Priyanka Kasture.
During the course of the seminar, the following were covered:
1. The basics of Machine Learning and how to get started with it.
2. Different Domains and subdomains of AI and ML.
3. Machine Learning as a booming Technology
4. Internships and projects while in college.
5. General doubts about Coding in college.
The response was amazing. We are grateful to Miss Priyanka Kasture, the organizing team and the audience for making this a huge success.