Dr. Girish Keshav Palshikar, Principal Scientist, TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Pune gave a talk on HR Analytics: Applications of Data and Text Mining to Human Resources Management on 14 February. Human Resources Management (HR) is a crucial and complex function in all modern organizations. HR management processes are nowadays supported and automated by many IT systems, which collect a large amount of data about all work-related activities of the employees. These datasets and document repositories offer many opportunities to apply data mining, machine learning, text mining and NLP techniques to discover knowledge and insights that are useful to improve the quality and effectiveness of HR function. In his talk Dr. Palshikar gave a broad overview of our research work in HR analytics and gave details of 2 – 3 specific research problems that they have tacked. His research interests are in Machine Learning, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing and Text Mining as well as Theoretical Computer Science.