ISCTRI '20 – “International Symposium on Current Trends in Research and Innovation” was a technical gathering of academicians and industry experts to deliberate upon the latest research and developments that are gaining momentum in the ever-growing global infrastructure of Computer Science. The online symposium was a great success it took place on the 20th of June 2020, the first session of the symposium started at 10:00 AM and went on till 1 PM, there were near about 20 panellists and almost 300 participants which were great.

The first speaker for the session was Dr Dong Seog Han who spoke about the ability of AI to predict human intentions from behaviour. Then spoke Mr Kapil Tiwari, who gave us a detailed description of the ML algorithm and the different steps involved in the working of an ML model. The next speaker was Dr Nilanjan Dey who spoke about the implementation of Deep Learning in the Medical Field and also explained the different approaches of deep learning in Medical Data. Then the final speaker of the first session was Mr Bastin Robins J. who spoke about the Intuitive decision-making process using Deep Learning.

The second half of the symposium took place post the lunch break from 1:30 pm to 5 pm. It was a hands-on session on data visualization using python, conducted by Mr Devendra Singh, founder, and director at XaaSTek Consulting Private Limited. It was a very engaging session in which Mr Singh demonstrated the extensive visualization capabilities of various libraries in python. The participants were given time to simultaneously run the code, that was being demonstrated, enabling them to learn better. He also provided various insights such as “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”, which are fundamental to creating meaningful visualization using data, and communicating the results of the same for the benefit of organizations. Towards, the end of the session there was also a question-answer session, in which all the attendees could be able to post their queries, and got them clarified by the guest speaker. The overall conduction of the session was quite smooth. The event ended with an address by Dr Samiksha Shukla and a vote of thanks by Dr Preethi Namjundan and Mr Anshul Saxena.