Keynote Speakers
32nd IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, & Analytics
Keynote Talks
Title: Training A Large Language Model from Scratch – What does it take?
Speaker: Pratyush Kumar, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Co-Founder Sarvam AI.
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Speaker Bio: Dr. Pratyush Kumar is the Co-founder of Sarvam and a leading voice in India’s AI ecosystem. A
two-time founder, he previously built AI4Bharat and OneFourth Labs, both instrumental in
advancing open-source AI for Indian languages. AI conferences and journals. Prior to founding
Sarvam, Dr. Kumar was a researcher at Microsoft Research and IBM, where he worked on
cutting-edge problems in machine learning and natural language processing. He has published
over 89 research papers at top-tier conferences and journals, contributing to both academic and
applied advances in the field. Dr. Kumar holds degrees from IIT Bombay and ETH Zurich and
continues to build AI that reaches every corner of the country.
HiPC 2025 is the 32nd edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. It will be an in-person event in Hyderabad, India, from December 17 to December 20, 2025.
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