PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ Dehradun
UPES inaugurated the fourth edition of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Engineering (ICMLDE 2025. Organised by the School of Computer Science (SoCS), the three-day conference, being held from November 6 to 8, has drawn unprecedented international participation, cementing ICMLDE’s position among the world’s leading academic gatherings in the AI domain.
This year, the conference received 1,690 research paper submissions from over 6,000 contributors across 100+ countries. Of these, 525 high-quality papers have been accepted for presentation and publication in Elsevier’s Procedia Computer Science Journal.
Sponsored by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, and the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) under the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), India, ICMLDE 2025 brings together an exceptional line-up of experts from academia, industry and government.
Among the dignitaries present during the inauguration werethe director general (Technology Management), DRDO, B K Das; director, Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and director general (Technology Management), DRDO, L C Mangal.
Global thought leaders headlining ICMLDE 2025 include Ujjwal Maulik (Jadavpur University), Mohit Kumar Goel (Bold Technologies, USA), Björn W. Schuller (audEERING GmbH, Germany), Vijayan K. Asari (University of Dayton, USA), Peter Han Joo Chong (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand), Robertas Damaševičius (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania) and Sarbast Moslem (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland).
Addressing the conference, Das said that India is the world leader in data sovereignty, quantum computing, space innovation and cultural research. “India will become a superpower and it will happen in front of us and through us,” he added.
Speaking about the bigger picture for educational institutions, the vice chancellor, UPES, Ram Sharma said that educational institutions must help students reach higher levels of thinking and natural intelligence. “Over the last five years, our research output has grown by 500 per cent with citation levels comparable to some of the best institutions globally – surpassing even several institutions of national eminence in this regard,” he declared.
