{"id":1524,"date":"2026-09-25T14:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iimv.ac.in\/IDeAL\/?page_id=1524"},"modified":"2026-09-26T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:52:19","slug":"leveraging-ai-for-research-and-teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iimv.ac.in\/IDeAL\/leveraging-ai-for-research-and-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Leveraging AI for Research and Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>\n  :root {\n    --navy: #102a43; --teal: #176b87; --aqua: #19a7a0; --amber: #f4b942;\n    --light: #f3f8fa; --ink: #102a43; --muted: #4a6072; --line: #d3e2ea;\n  }\n  #ai-seminar-wrapper { \n    margin: 0; \n    font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, \"Segoe UI\", sans-serif; \n    color: var(--ink); \n    background: #fff; \n  }\n  #ai-seminar-wrapper a { color: var(--teal); }\n  #ai-seminar-wrapper a:hover { color: var(--navy); }\n  #ai-seminar-wrapper .pill-link { text-decoration: none; }\n  #ai-seminar-wrapper ul { margin: 0; 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FDP Course &nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp; 20 Hours (2 Credits)<\/div>\n      <h1 style=\"margin: 14px 0 0 0; font-size: 44px; line-height: 1.15; font-weight: 800; color: #ffffff;\">Leveraging AI for<br><span style=\"color: var(--amber);\">Research and Teaching<\/span><\/h1>\n      \n      <div style=\"margin-top: 18px; display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 14px; flex-wrap: wrap;\">\n        <div style=\"font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; color: #ffffff;\">13\u201315 October 2026<\/div>\n        <div style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; gap: 7px; background: var(--amber); color: var(--navy); font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: .5px; text-transform: uppercase; padding: 7px 14px; border-radius: 20px;\">\n          <span style=\"width: 8px; height: 8px; border-radius: 50%; background: #d64545; display: inline-block;\"><\/span>\n          Live online via video link\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      \n      <div style=\"margin-top: 8px; font-size: 13.5px; color: #d7e6ee;\">Hosted by Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam<\/div>\n      \n      <div style=\"margin-top: 24px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 8px;\">\n        <span style=\"background: var(--teal); color: #fff; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: .4px; padding: 7px 13px; border-radius: 14px; text-transform: uppercase;\">NLP &amp; Text Analysis<\/span>\n        <span style=\"background: var(--teal); color: #fff; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: .4px; padding: 7px 13px; border-radius: 14px; text-transform: uppercase;\">Generative AI &amp; LLMs<\/span>\n        <span style=\"background: var(--teal); color: #fff; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: .4px; padding: 7px 13px; border-radius: 14px; text-transform: uppercase;\">Prompting &amp; RAG<\/span>\n        <span style=\"background: var(--teal); color: #fff; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: .4px; padding: 7px 13px; border-radius: 14px; text-transform: uppercase;\">AI Agents<\/span>\n        <span style=\"background: var(--teal); color: #fff; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: .4px; padding: 7px 13px; border-radius: 14px; text-transform: uppercase;\">Responsible AI<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      \n      <a href=\"#register\" class=\"pill-link\" style=\"margin-top: 30px; display: inline-block; background: var(--amber); color: var(--navy); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; padding: 13px 26px; border-radius: 10px;\">See fees &amp; how to register \u2193<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- ============ OVERVIEW ============ -->\n  <div style=\"max-width: 1100px; margin: -34px auto 0 auto; padding: 0 32px 0 32px; position: relative;\">\n    <div style=\"background: var(--light); border-radius: 20px; padding: 34px 34px 34px 34px; box-shadow: 0 18px 40px rgba(16,42,67,0.12);\">\n      <h2 style=\"margin: 0; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; color: var(--navy);\">An intensive three-day course for researchers and educators<\/h2>\n      <p style=\"margin-top: 14px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.65; color: #2b4257; max-width: 900px;\">This live online course focuses on Natural Language Processing, Generative AI, Large Language Models and emerging Agentic AI systems. It is delivered live via video link and blends theoretical concepts with practical exercises using Python, Jupyter Notebooks and modern GenAI tools. Participants trace the evolution from traditional NLP methods to transformer-based foundation models and explore prompting, embeddings, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), fine-tuning, AI agents and agentic workflows. The course highlights how Generative AI can be applied to academic research, data analysis and education, while addressing reliability, evaluation, ethics, academic integrity and responsible AI use.<\/p>\n      \n      <div style=\"margin-top: 26px; display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr; gap: 20px;\">\n        <div style=\"background: var(--teal); border-radius: 14px; padding: 22px 24px;\">\n          <h3 style=\"margin: 0 0 12px 0; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 800; letter-spacing: .4px; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--amber);\">Course highlights<\/h3>\n          <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding: 0; display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 9px;\">\n            <li style=\"position: relative; padding-left: 18px; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 1.4; color: #fff;\"><span style=\"position: absolute; left: 0; top: 6px; width: 6px; height: 6px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--amber);\"><\/span>NLP, text classification &amp; topic modelling<\/li>\n            <li style=\"position: relative; 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width: 6px; height: 6px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--amber);\"><\/span>GenAI for research workflows and teaching<\/li>\n            <li style=\"position: relative; padding-left: 18px; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 1.4; color: #fff;\"><span style=\"position: absolute; left: 0; top: 6px; width: 6px; height: 6px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--amber);\"><\/span>Responsible, ethical and reliable AI use<\/li>\n          <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n        <div style=\"background: #fff; border: 1px solid var(--line); border-radius: 14px; padding: 22px 24px;\">\n          <h3 style=\"margin: 0 0 12px 0; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 800; letter-spacing: .4px; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--navy);\">Designed for<\/h3>\n          <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding: 0; display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 9px;\">\n            <li style=\"position: relative; padding-left: 18px; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 1.4; color: #2b4257;\"><span style=\"position: absolute; left: 0; top: 6px; width: 6px; height: 6px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--aqua);\"><\/span>PhD scholars and research students<\/li>\n            <li style=\"position: relative; padding-left: 18px; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 1.4; color: #2b4257;\"><span style=\"position: absolute; left: 0; top: 6px; width: 6px; height: 6px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--aqua);\"><\/span>Faculty members and educators<\/li>\n            <li style=\"position: relative; padding-left: 18px; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 1.4; color: #2b4257;\"><span style=\"position: absolute; left: 0; top: 6px; width: 6px; height: 6px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--aqua);\"><\/span>Researchers using text or qualitative data<\/li>\n            <li style=\"position: relative; padding-left: 18px; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 1.4; color: #2b4257;\"><span style=\"position: absolute; left: 0; top: 6px; width: 6px; height: 6px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--aqua);\"><\/span>Participants with basic Python\/R familiarity<\/li>\n          <\/ul>\n          <div style=\"margin-top: 14px; padding-top: 12px; border-top: 1px solid var(--line); font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 1.5; color: var(--muted);\"><b style=\"color: var(--navy);\">Recommended background:<\/b> Basic Python or R and familiarity with Jupyter Notebooks.<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- ============ FEES + QR ============ -->\n  <div id=\"register\" style=\"max-width: 1100px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 30px 32px 0 32px;\">\n    <div style=\"background: #fff; border: 1px solid var(--line); border-left: 6px solid var(--amber); border-radius: 14px; padding: 26px 28px; display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr 200px; gap: 28px; align-items: center;\">\n      <div>\n        <h3 style=\"margin: 0; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 800; letter-spacing: .3px; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--navy);\">Course fee<\/h3>\n        <div style=\"margin-top: 3px; font-size: 12.5px; color: var(--muted);\">Per participant<\/div>\n        <div style=\"margin-top: 16px; display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr; gap: 16px; max-width: 460px;\">\n          <div style=\"background: var(--navy); border-radius: 10px; padding: 14px 18px;\">\n            <div style=\"font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; color: #fff; letter-spacing: .5px; text-transform: uppercase;\">Scholar<\/div>\n            <div style=\"font-size: 10.5px; color: #b9cfdc; margin-top: 3px;\">PhD scholars &amp; research students<\/div>\n            <div style=\"margin-top: 8px; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 800; color: var(--amber); line-height: 1;\">\u20b95,000<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n          <div style=\"background: var(--navy); border-radius: 10px; padding: 14px 18px;\">\n            <div style=\"font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; color: #fff; letter-spacing: .5px; text-transform: uppercase;\">Faculty<\/div>\n            <div style=\"font-size: 10.5px; color: #b9cfdc; margin-top: 3px;\">Faculty members &amp; educators<\/div>\n            <div style=\"margin-top: 8px; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 800; color: var(--amber); line-height: 1;\">\u20b97,500<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div style=\"margin-top: 14px; font-size: 12.5px; color: var(--muted);\"><b style=\"color: var(--navy);\">Fees exclude GST.<\/b> Applicable GST will be charged extra.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n        <div style=\"width: 150px; height: 150px; margin: 0 auto; border: 1px solid var(--line); border-radius: 10px; background: #fff; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; overflow: hidden;\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iimv.ac.in\/IDeAL\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gemini_Generated_Image_n9v4kfn9v4kfn9v4.png\" alt=\"Payment QR code\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; object-fit: contain;\">\n        <\/div>\n        <div style=\"margin-top: 8px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--navy); letter-spacing: .3px; text-transform: uppercase;\">Scan to register and pay<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div style=\"margin-top: 20px; background: var(--aqua); color: #fff; border-radius: 12px; text-align: center; padding: 13px 0; font-size: 13.5px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: .4px;\">\n      20 CONTACT HOURS &nbsp;\u2022&nbsp; 2 CREDITS &nbsp;\u2022&nbsp; LIVE ONLINE &nbsp;\u2022&nbsp; CERTIFICATE ON COMPLETION\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- ============ SCHEDULE ============ -->\n  <div style=\"max-width: 1100px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 44px 32px 0 32px;\">\n    <h2 style=\"margin: 0 0 18px 0; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 800; color: var(--navy);\">Detailed session schedule<\/h2>\n    \n    <!-- DAY 1 -->\n    <div style=\"background: #fff; border: 1px solid var(--line); border-radius: 12px; overflow: hidden; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n      <div style=\"display: flex; justify-content: space-between; align-items: center; padding: 13px 22px; background: var(--teal); color: #fff;\">\n        <span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-weight: 800; letter-spacing: .3px;\">DAY 1 \u2022 TUESDAY, 13 OCTOBER 2026<\/span>\n        <span style=\"font-size: 12.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--amber);\">09:30\u201317:15<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 34px 110px 1fr; column-gap: 14px; padding: 13px 22px; align-items: start;\">\n        <div style=\"width: 26px; height: 26px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--navy); color: #fff; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;\">1<\/div>\n        <div style=\"font-size: 12.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--teal); padding-top: 4px;\">09:30\u201311:00<\/div>\n        <div>\n          <div style=\"font-size: 14.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--navy);\">Foundations of Machine Learning and NLP<\/div>\n          <div style=\"margin-top: 3px; font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 1.5; color: var(--muted);\">ML vs. deep learning vs. GenAI; supervised\/unsupervised learning; NLP pipeline; tokenization; text preprocessing; features; train\/validation\/test; evaluation<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 34px 110px 1fr; column-gap: 14px; padding: 13px 22px; align-items: start; border-top: 1px solid #e3edf2;\">\n        <div style=\"width: 26px; height: 26px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--navy); color: #fff; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;\">2<\/div>\n        <div style=\"font-size: 12.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--teal); padding-top: 4px;\">11:15\u201312:45<\/div>\n        <div>\n          <div style=\"font-size: 14.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--navy);\">Supervised NLP: Text Classification and Sentiment Analysis<\/div>\n          <div style=\"margin-top: 3px; font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 1.5; color: var(--muted);\">TF-IDF and traditional ML; classification; sentiment analysis; evaluation metrics; class imbalance; research applications<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div style=\"text-align: center; padding: 9px 22px; background: #fff8e6; border-top: 1px solid #f5e2b0; border-bottom: 1px solid #f5e2b0; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; color: #8a6410; letter-spacing: .3px; text-transform: uppercase;\">Lunch break &nbsp;12:45\u201313:30<\/div>\n      <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 34px 110px 1fr; column-gap: 14px; padding: 13px 22px; align-items: start;\">\n        <div style=\"width: 26px; height: 26px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--navy); color: #fff; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;\">3<\/div>\n        <div style=\"font-size: 12.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--teal); padding-top: 4px;\">13:30\u201315:00<\/div>\n        <div>\n          <div style=\"font-size: 14.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--navy);\">Hands-on 1: Text Classification and Sentiment Analysis<\/div>\n          <div style=\"margin-top: 3px; font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 1.5; color: var(--muted);\">Python\/Jupyter; preprocessing; TF-IDF; classifiers; evaluation; interpreting results<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 34px 110px 1fr; column-gap: 14px; padding: 13px 22px; align-items: start; border-top: 1px solid #e3edf2;\">\n        <div style=\"width: 26px; height: 26px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--navy); color: #fff; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;\">4<\/div>\n        <div style=\"font-size: 12.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--teal); padding-top: 4px;\">15:15\u201316:45<\/div>\n        <div>\n          <div style=\"font-size: 14.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--navy);\">From Topic Models to Embeddings and Transformers<\/div>\n          <div style=\"margin-top: 3px; font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 1.5; color: var(--muted);\">Topic modelling; Word2Vec\/GloVe conceptually; contextual embeddings; sentence embeddings; semantic similarity; introduction to transformer intuition<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 34px 110px 1fr; column-gap: 14px; padding: 13px 22px; align-items: start; border-top: 1px solid #e3edf2; background: #f6fafc;\">\n        <div style=\"width: 26px; height: 26px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--amber); color: var(--navy); font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;\">\u2726<\/div>\n        <div style=\"font-size: 12.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--teal); padding-top: 4px;\">16:45\u201317:15<\/div>\n        <div>\n          <div style=\"font-size: 14.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--navy);\">Reflection: From Classical NLP to Generative AI<\/div>\n          <div style=\"margin-top: 3px; font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 1.5; color: var(--muted);\">What problems traditional NLP solves well; limitations; why transformers and LLMs changed NLP<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <!-- DAY 2 -->\n    <div style=\"background: #fff; border: 1px solid var(--line); border-radius: 12px; overflow: hidden; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n      <div style=\"display: flex; justify-content: space-between; align-items: center; padding: 13px 22px; background: var(--aqua); color: #fff;\">\n        <span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-weight: 800; letter-spacing: .3px;\">DAY 2 \u2022 WEDNESDAY, 14 OCTOBER 2026<\/span>\n        <span style=\"font-size: 12.5px; font-weight: 700; color: #fff;\">09:00\u201317:45<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 34px 110px 1fr; column-gap: 14px; padding: 13px 22px; align-items: start;\">\n        <div style=\"width: 26px; height: 26px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--navy); color: #fff; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;\">5<\/div>\n        <div style=\"font-size: 12.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--teal); padding-top: 4px;\">09:00\u201310:30<\/div>\n        <div>\n          <div style=\"font-size: 14.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--navy);\">Generative AI and Large Language Models<\/div>\n          <div style=\"margin-top: 3px; font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 1.5; color: var(--muted);\">Generative vs. discriminative AI; transformer architecture; attention; pretraining; next-token prediction; instruction tuning; reasoning models; multimodal models<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 34px 110px 1fr; column-gap: 14px; padding: 13px 22px; align-items: start; border-top: 1px solid #e3edf2;\">\n        <div style=\"width: 26px; height: 26px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--navy); color: #fff; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;\">6<\/div>\n        <div style=\"font-size: 12.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--teal); padding-top: 4px;\">10:45\u201312:15<\/div>\n        <div>\n          <div style=\"font-size: 14.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--navy);\">Prompt Engineering and LLM Application Design<\/div>\n          <div style=\"margin-top: 3px; font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 1.5; color: var(--muted);\">Zero\/few-shot prompting; role\/context\/task structure; structured outputs; prompt templates; reasoning strategies; tool\/function calling; prompt limitations<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 34px 110px 1fr; column-gap: 14px; padding: 13px 22px; align-items: start; border-top: 1px solid #e3edf2;\">\n        <div style=\"width: 26px; height: 26px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--navy); color: #fff; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;\">7<\/div>\n        <div style=\"font-size: 12.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--teal); padding-top: 4px;\">12:30\u201314:00<\/div>\n        <div>\n          <div style=\"font-size: 14.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--navy);\">Hands-on 2: Working with LLMs<\/div>\n          <div style=\"margin-top: 3px; font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 1.5; color: var(--muted);\">Prompt experiments; classification; extraction; summarisation; structured data generation; comparing prompts\/models; basic API or notebook workflow<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div style=\"text-align: center; padding: 9px 22px; background: #fff8e6; border-top: 1px solid #f5e2b0; border-bottom: 1px solid #f5e2b0; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; color: #8a6410; letter-spacing: .3px; text-transform: uppercase;\">Lunch break &nbsp;14:00\u201314:30<\/div>\n      <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 34px 110px 1fr; column-gap: 14px; padding: 13px 22px; align-items: start;\">\n        <div style=\"width: 26px; height: 26px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--navy); color: #fff; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;\">8<\/div>\n        <div style=\"font-size: 12.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--teal); padding-top: 4px;\">14:30\u201316:00<\/div>\n        <div>\n          <div style=\"font-size: 14.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--navy);\">RAG, Embeddings and Fine-tuning<\/div>\n          <div style=\"margin-top: 3px; font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 1.5; color: var(--muted);\">Embedding models; Retrieval-Augmented Generation; RAG pipeline; fine-tuning; when to use prompting vs. RAG vs. fine-tuning<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 34px 110px 1fr; column-gap: 14px; padding: 13px 22px; align-items: start; border-top: 1px solid #e3edf2;\">\n        <div style=\"width: 26px; height: 26px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--navy); color: #fff; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;\">9<\/div>\n        <div style=\"font-size: 12.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--teal); padding-top: 4px;\">16:15\u201317:45<\/div>\n        <div>\n          <div style=\"font-size: 14.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--navy);\">AI Agents and Agentic Workflows<\/div>\n          <div style=\"margin-top: 3px; font-size: 12.5px; line-height: 1.5; color: var(--muted);\">LLM applications vs. agents; planning; reasoning; memory; tools; retrieval; multi-step workflows; single-agent vs. multi-agent systems; human-in-the-loop; agent evaluation<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <!-- DAY 3 -->\n    <div style=\"background: #fff; border: 1px solid var(--line); border-radius: 12px; overflow: hidden; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n      <div style=\"display: flex; justify-content: space-between; align-items: center; padding: 13px 22px; background: var(--navy); color: #fff;\">\n        <span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-weight: 800; letter-spacing: .3px;\">DAY 3 \u2022 THURSDAY, 15 OCTOBER 2026<\/span>\n        <span style=\"font-size: 12.5px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--amber);\">09:00\u201316:00<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 34px 110px 1fr; column-gap: 14px; padding: 13px 22px; align-items: start;\">\n        <div style=\"width: 26px; height: 26px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--navy); color: #fff; font-size: 12px; 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flex-direction: column; gap: 16px;\">\n      \n      <div style=\"background: #fff; border: 1px solid var(--line); border-radius: 12px; padding: 20px; display: flex; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start;\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iimv.ac.in\/icge2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Raghavan-rao.png\" alt=\"Prof. Raghava Rao Mukkamala\" style=\"width: 92px; height: 92px; object-fit: cover; border-radius: 10px; flex: none;\">\n        <div>\n          <div style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 800; color: var(--navy);\">Prof. Raghava Rao Mukkamala<\/div>\n          <div style=\"margin-top: 3px; font-size: 12.5px; color: var(--muted);\">Professor of Data Science and Cybersecurity \u2022 Copenhagen Business School, Denmark<\/div>\n          <p style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.55; color: #2b4257;\">Research spans data science, cybersecurity and AI, with a focus on computational methods to analyse social discourse, misinformation, hate speech and online bias. His current work applies fine-tuning and domain adaptation to open-source and small language models, including a pro bono collaboration with UNHCR on identifying hate speech and bias targeting refugees. He has published widely in leading IEEE and ACM venues and in FT-50, AJG 4* and ABDC A* journals. PhD in Theoretical Computer Science and M.Sc. in Information Technology, IT University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      \n      <div style=\"background: #fff; border: 1px solid var(--line); border-radius: 12px; padding: 20px; display: flex; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start;\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iimv.ac.in\/icge2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/shiv.png\" alt=\"Dr. Shivshanker Singh Patel\" style=\"width: 92px; height: 92px; object-fit: cover; object-position: 50% 10%; border-radius: 10px; flex: none;\">\n        <div>\n          <div style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 800; color: var(--navy);\">Dr. Shivshanker Singh Patel<\/div>\n          <div style=\"margin-top: 3px; font-size: 12.5px; color: var(--muted);\">Associate Professor, Decision Sciences, IIM Visakhapatnam \u2022 Chair\/Head, IDeAL<\/div>\n          <p style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.55; color: #2b4257;\">Holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, an M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Government Engineering College (now NIT), Raipur. 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