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Iam Delighted to Present the Annual Report Of
From the Director’s Desk am delighted to present the Annual Report of the &Communications were planned. One may recall that Indian Statistical Institute for the year 2018-19. This on June 29, 2017, the then Hon’ble President of India, I Institute that started its journey in December 1931 in Shri Pranab Mukherjee, had inaugurated the 125th Birth Kolkata has today grown into a unique institution of higher Anniversary Celebrations of Mahalanobis. learning spread over several cities of India. The Institute, founded by the visionary PC Mahalanobis, continues It is always a delight to inform that once again the its glorious tradition of disseminating knowledge in Institute faculty members have been recognized both Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative nationally and internationally with a large number of Economics and related subjects. The year 2018-19 saw honors and awards. I mention some of these here. In the formation of the new Council of the Institute. I am 2018, Arunava Sen was conferred the TWAS-Siwei Cheng delighted to welcome Shri Bibek Debroy as the President Prize in Economics and Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay of the Institute. It is also a privilege that Professor was conferred the TWAS Prize Engineering Sciences in Goverdhan Mehta continues to guide the Institute as the Trieste, Italy. Arup Bose was selected as J.C. Bose Fellow Chairman of the Council. for 2019-2023 after having completed one term of this fellowship from 2014 to 2018. Nikhil Ranjan Pal was The Institute conducted its 53rd Convocation in January appointed President, IEEE Computational Intelligence 2019. The Institute was happy to have Lord Meghnad Society. -
Suggested Section Report Format
KOLKATA SECTION Geo code R0 01 37 2018 PART A - SECTION SUMMARY A.1 Executive Summary IEEE Kolkata section Social Meet was organized at Titagarh Jute Mill (NJMC Kinnison Unit) on Sunday 11th February 2018. Kolkata Section was honored to be a part of the IEEE India Council Mini-POCO- 2018, on 20th May 2018, at Hotel Palm Beach Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India and on 10th November 2018, at NIT Calicut, India. On 3rd April 2018 IEEE ComSoc Kolkata Chapter in association with Jadavpur University Science Club organized Circuit Design Model Contest. Kolkata Section had organized a technical lecture by Prof. Vincenzo Piuri, former member of the IEEE BoD, Vice President Technical Activities on Monday 24.09.2018 at SV Auditorium, Heritage Institute of Technology, 9:30am. Title: Ambient intelligence: convergence of artificial intelligence, machine learning, biometrics, cloud computing, internet-of-things. Kolkata Section had organized a technical lecture by Prof. Vincenzo Piuri, former member of the IEEE BoD, Vice President Technical Activities on Monday 24.09.2018 at University of Calcutta,12:15 pm. Title: Computational Intelligence models for Solar Energy Applications Kolkata Section had organized a technical lecture by Prof. Vincenzo Piuri, former member of the IEEE BoD, Vice President Technical Activities on Monday 24.09.2018 at Amitava Dey Memorial Hall, Dept. of Computer Science &Engg. (4th floor of the NEILIT wing), Jadavpur University, 4:00pm. Kolkata Section had organized a lecture meeting by Prof. Vincenzo Piuri, former member of the IEEE BoD, Vice President Technical Activities on Monday September 24, 2018 at The Calcutta Club at 6.30 p.m. -
Hidden Markov Models, Grammars, and Biology: a Tutorial 493
April 6, 2005 8:23 WSPC/185-JBCB 00107 Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Vol. 3, No. 2 (2005) 491–526 c Imperial College Press HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS, GRAMMARS, AND BIOLOGY: ATUTORIAL SHIBAJI MUKHERJEE Association for Studies in Computational Biology Kolkata 700 018, India [email protected] SUSHMITA MITRA∗ Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata 700 108, India [email protected] Received 23 April 2004 1st Revision 2 September 2004 2nd Revision 20 December 2004 3rd Revision 5 January 2004 Accepted 6 January 2005 Biological sequences and structures have been modelled using various machine learn- ing techniques and abstract mathematical concepts. This article surveys methods using Hidden Markov Model and functional grammars for this purpose. We provide a for- mal introduction to Hidden Markov Model and grammars, stressing on a comprehensive mathematical description of the methods and their natural continuity. The basic algo- rithms and their application to analyzing biological sequences and modelling structures of bio-molecules like proteins and nucleic acids are discussed. A comparison of the dif- ferent approaches is discussed, and possible areas of work and problems are highlighted. Related databases and softwares, available on the internet, are also mentioned. Keywords: Computational biology; machine learning; Hidden Markov Model; stochastic grammars; biological structures. 1. Introduction Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is a very important methodology for modelling pro- tein structures and sequence analysis.28 It mostly involves local interaction mod- elling. Functional grammars provide another important technique typically used for modelling non-local interactions, as in nucleic acids.71 Higher order grammars, like Graph grammars, have also been applied to biological problems mostly to model cellular and filamentous structures.25 Other mathematical structures like ∗Corresponding author. -
March 2015Reminisces from the Past by Dr Sushmita Mitra
Reminisces from the Past Sushmita Mitra Indian Statistical Institute I was born into a highly educated family in Kolkata on a cold December afternoon, the only child of Dr. Maya Mitra and Dr. Girindra Nath Mitra.The doctor had wrongly pronounced me dead, even before I could seethe light of the day. But, luckily for me, I survived. My father was a scientist with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). My mother was a professor of Botany at Bethune College in Kolkata – a leading women’s college from where the first women graduates of the British Empire came out. Whatever I am today, be it in daily life or in the professional world, I owe it completely to my mother’s untiring sincere efforts, relentless sacrifice and careful grooming. She had been my “supermom”, adeptly managing both home and work with equal dexterity. From her childhood my mother rebelled against the concept of preference for a male child that was prevalent in those days. She revolted against getting married at an early age and be burdened with loads of children, and desperately wanted to study. In spite of being forced to come to India as a refugee from Burma, during the Japanese bombing in 1942, she built her life from scratch. She had theambition to finish college, and eventually obtained a Ph.D. in 1960 –also receiving the Agarkar gold medal of the Calcutta University in 1962, for her pioneering contribution to research in Botany. Bothmy parents also had the rare privilege of independently publishing inthe reputed journal Nature ! This was amazing and awe-inspiring, particularly for a woman of those times.Setting aside such a promising researchcareer, she decided to marry and raise a family. -
Annual Report 2018-19 the Institute
From the Director’s Desk am delighted to present the Annual Report of the Communications were planned. One may recall that on Indian Statistical Institute for the year 2018-19. This June 29, 2017, the then Hon’ble President of India, Shri I Institute that started its journey in December 1931 in Pranab Mukherjee, had inaugurated the 125th Birth Kolkata has today grown into a unique institution of higher Anniversary Celebrations of Mahalanobis. learning spread over several cities of India. The Institute, founded by the visionary PC Mahalanobis, continues It is always a delight to inform that once again the its glorious tradition of disseminating knowledge in Institute faculty members have been recognized both Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative nationally and internationally with a large number of Economics and related subjects. The year 2018-19 saw honors and awards. I mention some of these here. In the formation of the new Council of the Institute. I am 2018, Arunava Sen was conferred the TWAS-Siwei Cheng delighted to welcome Shri Bibek Debroy as the President Prize in Economics and Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay of the Institute. It is also a privilege that Professor was conferred the TWAS Prize Engineering Sciences in Goverdhan Mehta continues to guide the Institute as the Trieste, Italy. Arup Bose was selected as J.C. Bose Fellow Chairman of the Council. for 2019-2023 after having completed one term of this fellowship from 2014 to 2018. Nikhil Ranjan Pal was The Institute conducted its 53rd Convocation in January appointed President, IEEE Computational Intelligence 2019. The Institute was happy to have Lord Meghnad Society.