Ranchi, Jharkhand | September | 16, 2019 ::
A guest lecture session was organized on “Emerging Trends on Information Management” for the students of XISS on 16th September, 2019 by the Post Graduate Programme in Information Technology.
The keynote speaker was Mr. Mrityunjoy Panday. He is an MS in Software Engineering from BITS Pilani and an Adaptive Foundation and Machine Learning Researcher at Cognizant with 13+ years of experience in Software Testing.
The session focused on the use and importance of Data Analytics and provided insights on Machine Learning to develop Predictive and Probabilistic Models. Mr. Panday emphasized on the use of What-If Analysis in making Economic, Banking, Retail and IT decisions. Emphasizing the vigilant use of computers, Mr. Panday said that ‘computer is a brain outside our body’.
We are extremely thankful to Mr. Mrityunjoy for taking out time from his busy schedule and for sharing his vast galore of knowledge. We would also like to extend our thanks to Calcutta University Data Science Group, for providing a platform for this Industry-Academia relationship.
The lecture concluded with an engaging question-answer session with tons of learnings to take home.
XISS looks forward for interactive sessions like these in the near future.
