On 25th February 2014, Prof. Ravi Kannan delivered the inaugural lecture on the "Foundations of Data Science".

Speaker Bio:
Ravi Kannan is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India, where he leads the algorithms research group, and is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science. Before joining Microsoft, Prof. Kannan was the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Yale University. He has also taught at MIT and CMU. He was awarded the Knuth Prize in 2011 for developing influential algorithmic techniques aimed at solving long-standing computational problems, the Fulkerson Prize in 1991 for his work on estimating the volume of convex sets, and the Distinguished Alumnus award of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1999.