Faculty and students of IIIT Hyderabad presented the following papers and gave invited talks at ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data – 7th ACM IKDD CoDS and 25th COMAD, Hyderabad from 5 – 7 January:

• Dr. K S Rajan gave an Invited talk on MiSTIC – a Spatio-temporal data mining approach, based Knowledge Discovery from Observed phenomena at a workshop on Geospatial Data Science 
• Prof. P Krishna Reddy’s student, Vyshnavi Gutta presented a paper on An improved human-in-the-loop model for fine-grained object recognition with batch-based question answering. The authors of this paper are Vyshnavi Gutta, Narendra Babu Unnam and Prof. Krishna Reddy P.

• Prof. P Krishna Reddy’s student, Akhil Ralla presented a paper on Coverage Pattern Mining Based on MapReduce. The authors of this paper are Akhil Ralla, Shadaab Siddiqie and Prof. Krishna Reddy P.

For over two decades, the International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), modelled along the lines of ACM SIGMOD, has been the premier international database conference hosted in India by Division II of Computer Society of India. The first COMAD was held in 1989 and being held almost every year,  except for a few years when VLDB and ICDE were held in India. COMAD has always had a significant international participation, with about 30% of the papers being from outside India, including Europe, USA and East/South-East Asia. These two conferences came together for the first time in 2018. This year again, the two conferences were held together under a common umbrella.

Conference on Data Sciences (CoDS) encompasses the areas of data analytics, machine learning and managing big data. IKDD shall work with ACM to ensure co-sponsorship and publication of the proceedings of CoDS in the ACM digital library.

More details at https://cods-comad.in/