Neha Sharma - Data Management, Analytics and Innovation: Proceedings of ICDMAI 2021

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These two volumes constitute the proceedings of the International Conference on Data Management, Analytics and Innovation (ICDMAI 2021) held from 1517 January 2021 on a virtual platform due to pandemic. ICDMAI is a signature conference of Society for Data Science (S4DS) which is a not-for-profit professional association established to create a collaborative platform for bringing together technical experts across industry, academia, government laboratories and professional bodies to promote innovation around data science. ICDMAI is committed to create a forum which brings data science enthusiasts on the same page and envisions its role towards its enhancement through collaboration, innovative methodologies and connections throughout the globe.

This year is special, as we have completed 5 years, and it gives us immense satisfaction to put on record that we could successfully create a strong data science ecosystem. In these 5 years, we could bring 50 doyens of data science as keynote speakers and another set of 50 technical experts contributed towards workshops and tutorials. Besides, we could engage around 200 experts as reviewers and session chairs. Till date, we have received around 2093 papers from 42 countries, out of which 361 papers have been presented and published, which is just (17%) of submitted paper. Now, coming to the specifics of this year, we witnessed participants from 13 countries, 15 industries, 121 international and Indian universities. Total 63 papers were selected after rigorous review process for oral presentation, and the Best Paper Awards were given for each track.

We tried our best to bring a bouquet data science through various workshops, tutorials, keynote sessions, plenary talks, panel discussion and paper presentations by the experts at ICDMAI 2021. The chief guest of the conference was Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary DST, Govt. of India, and guest of honours were Prof. Anupam Basu, Director, NIT Durgapur, and Mr. Ravinder Pal Singh, CEO, MerkhadoRHA & GoKaddal, Honour. Keynote speakers were the top-level experts like Phillip G. Bradford, Director, Computer Science program, University of Connecticut, Stamford; Sushmita Mitra, IEEE Fellow and Professor, Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata; Sandeep Shukla, IEEE Fellow and Professor, Department of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh; Regiane Relva Romano, Special Adviser to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil; Yogesh Kulkarni, Principal Architect (CTO Office), Icertis-Pune; Dr. Aloknath De, Corporate Vice President of Samsung Electronics, S. Korea, and Chief Technology Officer of Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore; Sourabh Mukherjee, Vice President, Data and Artificial Intelligence Group, Accenture; Pallab Dasgupta, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur; Alfred M. Bruckstein, TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science, Israel. Pre-conference was conducted by Dipanjan (DJ) Sarkar, Data Science Lead at Applied Materials; Usha Rengaraju, Polymath and Indias first women Kaggle Grandmaster; Avni Gupta, Senior Data AnalystIoT, Netradyne; Kranti Athalye, Sr. Manager University Relations, IBM; Sonali Dey, Business Operations Manager, IBM; Amol Dhondse, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM; Vandana Verma Sehgal, Security Solutions Architect, IBM. All the experts took the participants through various perspectives of data and analytics.

The force behind organizing ICDMAI 2021 was of the General Chair Dr. P. K. Sinha, Vice Canceller and Director, IIIT New Raipur; Prof. Amol Goje, President-S4DS; Prof. Amlan Charabarti, Vice President-S4DS; Dr. Neha Sharma, Secretary-S4DS, Executive Body Members of S4DSDr. Inderjit Barara, Dr. Saptarsi Goswami, Mr. Atul Benegiri and all the super-active volunteers. There was a strong support from our Technical PartnerIBM; Knowledge PartnerWizer; Academic PartnersIIT Guwahati and NIT Durgapur; and publication partner Springer. Through this conference, we could build the strong data science ecosystem.