Adelphi Panel to Discuss How AI, IoT Technology Can Improve Business

Garden City, NY (10/15/2021) — How can today's technology improve businesses? On Wednesday, October 27, Adelphi University will help answer that question during "Deploying AI and IoT Technologies for Business Success," a virtual panel event of experts discussing the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies.

Panelists for the event will include the managing director at Stesalit Systems Limited, Hemant Khemka, a 1995 Adelphi alumnus; an academic developer at International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Armen Pischdotchian; a data science and machine learning consultant V. T. Rajan, PhD; and the director of technologies at Stesalit Systems, Subrata Sengupta.

The speaker session will explore how AI and IoT technologies can make things easier for businesses. After the speaker session, there will be a question and answer session with the audience.

Khemka completed his Bachelor of Business Administration from Adelphi. After graduating, he worked at Credit Suisse, an investment bank on Wall Street. He's on the board of trustees at Pace University, and also is a founder and board member of the Entrepreneurs Organization, Kolkata chapter -- the only global network exclusively for entrepreneurs.

Pischdotchian drives the adoption of technologies with faculty and students worldwide with the IBM Academic Initiative and the IBM Skills Academy (which is now offered through Adelphi's Innovation Center). He aims to grow skills in key technology areas including artificial intelligence, data science, cognitive security, blockchain and more. He also is an adjunct professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.

Dr. Rajan earned his PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. After researching and teaching at Northwestern University, New York University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center as a research staff member. At IBM, he carried out research on robotics, computer-aided design, integrated-circuit manufacturing, programming languages, Java Virtual Machine, artificial intelligence and quantum computing. He retired from IBM in 2015 and started working as a data science/machine learning consultant for small companies in New York City.

Sengupta completed his bachelor's in engineering from the Bengal Engineering and Science University. He has extensive experience in utility, process control and automation, location intelligence, embedded systems and business intelligence tools implementation. Before joining Stesalit Group, he worked at CMC Limited, Lucent Technologies, GE Harris, SSA Global Inc. and Vertis Inc. He has worked extensively on the Linux operating system and embedded computing.

This panel will be held virtually via Zoom from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. The event is free, but registration is required.

To learn more and register, visit: adelphi.edu/events/deployingAI.

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n Wednesday, October 27, Adelphi University will help answer that question during “Deploying AI and IoT Technologies for Business Success,” a virtual panel event of experts discussing the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies.