January 11, 2022

Delivered a 1.5 hr keynote attended by ~45 professors on the theme of the Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Machine Learning and Big Data sponsored by AICTE, Government of India and ISTE. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6886544165967032321/

January 1, 2022

Took charge as the chair of IEEE Computer Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter. https://www.indiawest.com/news/global_indian/ieee-computer-society-silicon-valley-chapter-elects-vishnu-s-pendyala-as-chair-for-2022/article_4491ac28-6237-11ec-bb7f-b781741cd2dd.html

December 19, 2021

Plenary speaker, Springer Nature Group's 11th IACC '21 at Malta, a Southern European island country. The conference is in the World's top 1% of the conferences with their H5-Index touching 412 and overall H-Index of 32 (cumulative). All Versions of the series are successfully indexed in ISI, Scopus, DBLP, Compendex, SJR, Google Scholar etc. https://computingconf.com/speakers.php

December 11, 2021

Invited speaker, International Conference on Soft Computing, icSoftComp. Its proceedings published by Springer CCIS are indexed by Scopus and others. It’s been a privilege to give invited talks all 3 years of the conference. https://www.charusat.ac.in/icSoftComp2021/speakers.php

December 5, 2021

Invited speaker, ISAIC '21, Jiaotong University, Beijing. Other speakers include Prof. Radu Grosu of the Liquid Neural Networks fame (the inventor, MIT’s Ramin Hasani was his student). Last year, I was featured at the same #conference along with my favorite author, Prof. Andrew S. Tanenbaum (https://www.isaic-conf.com/#/aboutIsaicPreviousKeynoteSpeakers) https://www.isaic-conf.com/#/aboutIsaicInvitedSpeakers

November 9, 2021

Interviewed Prof. Pedro Domingos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Domingos in a 2.5 hour Ask Me Anything (AMA) session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x72De1pdkFY