New Delhi, August 2024.

The Fourth International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence (ICETCI 2024) was hosted by Mahindra University, Hyderabad, and technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. The conference brought together leading minds in computational intelligence from around the globe, providing a platform for knowledge exchange, innovation, and collaboration.

The three-day event featured a robust schedule of tutorials, keynote lectures, a research colloquium, and technical paper presentations. Experts from various fields shared their insights on cutting-edge developments in computational intelligence, with a focus on emerging technologies and applications.

The Chief Guest, Dr. JVR Sagar, representing the Director of the Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), Hyderabad, highlighted various state-of-the-art topics in computational intelligence and its applications in defence, predictive maintenance, smart grids, and agriculture.

Christina Abraham, Head of Digital for Corporate and Analytics at Airbus India, served as the Guest of Honour. In her address, she highlighted the importance of data quality and scalability for artificial intelligence and the steps taken by Airbus in this regard.

Dr. Yajulu Medury, Vice Chancellor of Mahindra University said, “The three-day technical event had a power-packed schedule with speakers from several countries such as the United States, Japan, Singapore and China.”

According to Dr. Arya Kumar Bhattacharya, Dean of Research, Ecole Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University, “The conference in highly successful with 450+ paper submission out of which only around 100 papers were chosen for presentation.”

The conference commenced with tutorial sessions on topics ranging from 6G wireless communication systems to a fascinating topic "Bridging Language in Machines and Language in the Brain". The subsequent days featured keynote lectures by distinguished speakers, including Dr. John Ashley, Director, NVIDIA AI Technology Centers, Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb, Chair Professor in Michigan State University, USA, Prof. Akira Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan, Prof. Jun Wang, City University of Hong Kong, and Dr. Vig, Distinguished Chief Scientist, Tata Consultancy Services, India. These sessions provided attendees with deep insights into sovereign AI, large language models, quaternion neural networks, and evolutionary computation, among many other topics.

ICETCI 2024 also saw the presentation of numerous technical papers from around 105institutes, including premier institutes like IITs, NITs, IIITs, DRDL, ISRO, Bosch and various other industries. These papers showcased latest research in areas such as cybersecurity, healthcare, and smart computing. The event concluded with a valedictory lecture, which was delivered by Prof. Atul Negi, Dean of the School of CIS at the University of Hyderabad. One of the highlights of the conference was a captivating cultural performance by Padmashri Dr. Anand Shankar Jayant and her team, on the second evening.