Session onIndian Mujahideen: Computational Analysis and Public Policy
EVENT DETAILS
DATE		Friday, January 24, 2014
TIME		5:30 PM  - 6:30 PM (Registration: 5:00 pm)
LOCATION		WWF Auditorium, 172-B, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi - 110003
SPEAKER		Prof V. S. Subrahmanian, Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland, USA
MODERATOR		Ambassador G Parthasarathy, Visiting Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
ABOUT THE EVENT In his talk entitled Indian Mujahideen: Computational Analysis and Public Policy, Prof Subrahmanian will provide a glimpse of the Indian Mujahideen (IM) from its inception to the present day. Using a data set on 770 variables describing both IM’s environment and their attacks over the years, he will describe how data mining has helped discover conditions that can predict future IM attacks. He will indicate how the data also naturally leads to a possible policy to help rein in future attacks by IM. Though many challenges remain, he will suggest some ways in which this policy may be implemented on the ground.
SPEAKER   Prof V. S. Subrahmanian - Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland, USA V. S. Subrahmanian is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland and heads the Center for Digital International Government, having previously served as Director of the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). Prof. Subrahmanian is a world renowned expert on big data analytics.   His work has been used extensively by both Industry and Government to shape opinion in social media, influence terrorist group behaviors, and analyze educational outcomes. His OASYS system which works on 8 languages and won the 2007 Computerworld Horizon Award, has been used by several organizations including the World Bank, DARPA, Forbes, US Army, and others for real-time social media opinion analysis.  He is the principal inventor of the CARA Cultural Reasoning Architecture and the SOMA stochastic logical model for building models of group behaviors. He has applied this to modeling over 45 terror groups worldwide. His SCARE system for identifying locations of IED weapons caches in Baghdad and in the provinces of Helmand and Kandahar in Afghanistan was the first system to accurately and efficiently identify locations of weapons caches. He has co-authored Computational Analysis of Terrorist Groups: Lashkar-e-Taiba (Springer), the first book to do a 360-degree analysis of a terrorist group using computational methods.  Prof. Subrahmanian has published over 200 articles in leading international conferences and journals. He was named in ISIHighlyCited.com which lists the top 320 most cited computer scientists of all time. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Development Gateway Foundation (set up by the World Bank in 1999 to use IT to achieve global development goals), on the Research Advisory Board of Tata Consultancy Services and on the Advisory Board of CosmosID (a firm specializing in bioinformatics).      MODERATOR   Ambassador G Parthasarathy - Visiting Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi  Born on May 13, 1940, Ambassador Gopalaswami Parthasarathy is a career Foreign Service Officer who retired from Service on May 31, 2000. After having graduated with a B.E. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy. He has served as Ambassador of India to Myanmar, 1992-95, High Commissioner of India to Australia 1995-98, High Commissioner of India to Pakistan 1998-2000 and High Commissioner of India, Cyprus (1990-92). He also served in Indian Missions abroad as Second/First Secretary, Embassy of India, Moscow (1970-1973), Deputy High Commissioner to Tanzania (1974-1976), Counsellor, (Political and Press), Embassy of India, Washington D.C., (1978- 1981); and Consul General of India, Karachi (1982-1985). In New Delhi, Ambassador Parthasarathy was Deputy Secretary in the Foreign Secretary’s Office (1976-1978). He has served as Spokesman, Ministry of External Affairs and Information Adviser and Spokesman in the Prime Minister’s Office with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi (1985-90). He has been a member of Indian Delegations in several international conferences including summits at United Nations, Non-Aligned Movement and SAARC. Ambassador Parthasarathy is presently Visiting Professor in the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. He is also Visiting Professor for International Relations in the University of Punjab, Chandigarh, a Senior Fellow and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a Member of the Mentor Group of the Sanchi University of Buddhist-Indic Studies, Member of the Advisory Committee to the Symbiosis University in Pune and a member of the Executive Committee of the Centre for Air Power Studies in New Delhi. He is on the Panel of Experts from India for Track 2 Dialogue with ASEAN. He is also a member of the Indian Delegation to the high level Indo-U.S. Strategic Dialogue organized by the Aspen Institute (India) and the Aspen Institute in the USA. He was a Member of the Task Force to Review India’s National Security Structures, which submitted its Report to the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in July 2012.
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