Athenaeum

A Week of Talks Across the Societies

6th - 11th October, 2026

What is Athenaeum?

The Athenaeum talks are conducted every year as part of the IEEE week, from 6th to 11th October. Speakers from various fields talk about interesting topics, emerging technologies and amazing research. Each society invites speakers of more or less their own domain.

Speakers

Pranav Durai

What Should a Robot Learn?

By Pranav Durai Co-Founder & CTO, FRNTL | Research Fellow, Stanford University School of Medicine | Ex-Senior Computer Vision Engineer, OpenCV Hosted by Piston / InterSIG · RAS Tuesday, 6th October, 2026 · 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM IST On Google Meet
Achinthya Krishna Bheemaguli

Accelerating Materials Discovery with Foundational Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials

By Achinthya Krishna Bheemaguli PhD Scholar, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) | BTech Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, NITK '25 | Ex-MITACS GRI Hosted by Piston 7th October, 2026 · 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM IST On Google Meet
Mohammad Aadil Shabier

Navigating Open Source: Insights from My GSoC Journey at Inkscape and Waycrate

By Mohammad Aadil Shabier SDE-2, Cohesity | Ex-Intern, Sprinklr | BTech CSE, NITK '25 | GSoC '25, Waycrate | GSoC '22, Inkscape Hosted by CompSoc 8th October, 2026 · 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM IST On Google Meet
Vignesh Karthik

Technology That Powers You - Analog Electronics

By Vignesh Karthik Analog Designer, Texas Instruments | GSoC '24, ASIC Design | BTech ECE, NITK '25 Hosted by Diode Saturday, 10th October, 2026 · 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM IST On Google Meet
Rishabh Mishra

Beyond Placements: Navigating Careers in VLSI & Embedded Systems

By Rishabh Mishra Senior R&D Engineer, Barco | Ex-NVIDIA, AMD, Xilinx & Synopsys | BITS Pilani & BHU Alumnus | VLSI & Embedded Career Mentor Hosted by Diode · CASS Saturday, 10th October, 2026 · 5:00 PM IST At LHC-C CR12
Nishant Shetty

Score-Based Generative Models & Monte Carlo SURE

By Nishant Shetty PhD, Spectrum Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc, Bengaluru Hosted by Diode · SPS 11th October, 2026 · 6:00 PM IST

Timeline

  • Tuesday, 6th October, 2026 · 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM IST
    What Should a Robot Learn?
    Pranav Durai


  • 7th October, 2026 · 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM IST
    Accelerating Materials Discovery with Foundational Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials
    Achinthya Krishna Bheemaguli


  • 8th October, 2026 · 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM IST
    Navigating Open Source: Insights from My GSoC Journey at Inkscape and Waycrate
    Mohammad Aadil Shabier


  • Saturday, 10th October, 2026 · 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM IST
    Technology That Powers You - Analog Electronics
    Vignesh Karthik


  • Saturday, 10th October, 2026 · 5:00 PM IST
    Beyond Placements: Navigating Careers in VLSI & Embedded Systems
    Rishabh Mishra


  • 11th October, 2026 · 6:00 PM IST
    Score-Based Generative Models & Monte Carlo SURE
    Nishant Shetty

Contact

For any queries, you can reach out with your enquiries at ieee@nitk.edu.in.