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SUMMARY:Computer Science Online Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Fluorescence microscopy is limited by optics\, fluorophore chemistry\, and photon exposure\, forcing trade-offs in speed\, resolution\, and depth. In this talk\, I will discuss my PhD research that addresses these challenges. Several of my first-author deep-learning-based semantic unmixing techniques will be discussed\, which allow imaging of multiple cellular structures within a single fluorescent channel\, enabling faster imaging with less photon exposure. More concretely\, I focus on unmixing superimposed structures—such as Nucleus and Tubulin—into separate images. One approach\, published at ICCV’23\, employs a Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder (H-VAE) inspired architecture with the objective of utilizing surrounding context in a GPU-efficient way [1]. Another approach\, published at NeurIPS’25\, handles the case where one structure can have different relative dominance in the superimposed image [2]. For this\, we leverage the inductive bias of a popular iterative inference network InDI. These advances aim to push the boundaries of fluorescence microscopy through computational innovation. The talk will end by briefly discussing a few key areas in the general field of image translation in the biological and biomedical domains where I plan to focus my future research.  \nReferences\n[1] Ashesh Ashesh\, Alexander Krull\, Moises Di Sante\, Francesco Pasqualini\, and Florian Jug. usplit: Image decomposition for fluorescence microscopy. ICCV\, 2023. \n[2] Florian Jug Ashesh Ashesh. scsplit: Bringing severity cognizance to image decomposition in fluorescence microscopy. NeurIPS\, 2025. \nAbout the Speaker: Ashesh is a post-doctoral fellow at Human Technopole\, Milan\, Italy. He recently completed his PhD from the Faculty of Computer Science at TU Dresden\, Germany. His PhD research was conducted in Florian Jug’s lab at the Computational Biology Center\, Human Technopole (HT) in Milan\, Italy. His doctoral project focused on image decomposition\, specifically on separating superimposed fluorescence microscopy images into their constituent channels. With several publications in leading CV/ML conferences like ECCV\, ICCV and NeurIPS\, his research has provided a credible solution to the problem.  \nAs a result of these contributions\, Ashesh was conferred the PhD from TU Dresden with the distinction of ‘exceptional performance.’ Additionally\, his thesis has been nominated for the faculty’s best thesis award\, a decision that will be made at a later date. He also received an €8\,700 EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) grant to visit ENS de Lyon\, France\, to work on self-supervised finetuning and uncertainty quantification related to the PhD problem. His PhD work wasalso recognized with the Best Oral Presentation Award at the HT PhD-&-Postdoc Symposium 2024.  \nPreviously\, Ashesh earned a Dual (B.Tech+M.Tech) degree in Computer Science in 2015 from IIT Delhi\, India\, and has more than three years of industry experience\, primarily as a Data Scientist. Additionally\, he worked as a Research Assistant at National Taiwan University in Taipei\, Taiwan\, under the supervision of Prof. Hsuan-Tien Lin. There\, he initiated and led research on multiple computer vision problems\, resulting in published works. \nWe look forward to your active participation.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/computer-science-online-seminar/
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SUMMARY:HAPPENING TODAY | Economics Department | Weekly Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Department of Economics invites you to their weekly seminar on Wednesday\, November 12\, 2025. \nTime: 1:40 PM to 2:50 PM \nVenue: AC-04-301 \nSpeaker: Kaushalendra Kishore  \nTitle: Ignoring The Left Tail \nAbstract: This article studies a capital budgeting principal-agent problem with flexible information acquisition. The agent has to choose between investing in an innovative asset about which costly information can be acquired or in a conventional asset about which there is enough historical data and no information is acquired. In the first-best problem\, the principal acquires information about the entire distribution of cash flow from the innovative asset. Contrarily\, in the second-best problem with limited liability of the agent\, less information is acquired about the left tail of the distribution compared to the first-best. The optimal contract of the agent when the innovative asset is chosen pays zero wage below a cut-off value of cash flow and an increasing wage above the cut-off. As a consequence\, the information intensity is zero for these low cash flows where no wage is paid. This results in sub optimally high likelihood of investment in the innovative asset. Our paper explains why agents make investments without learning about the left tail of the distribution\, which in turn may lead to a financial crisis. It also explains why agents are rewarded without taking the tail risks into account. We further show that the level of capital in the financial institution has no impact on this sub-optimal behaviour because the key friction in the model is information asymmetry between the principal and the agent\, and not the moral hazard problem on the part of the shareholders. 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/happening-today-economics-department-weekly-seminars/
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SUMMARY:Fourteenth Book Discussion in Ashoka History Book Discussion Series
DESCRIPTION:Rudrangshu Mukherjee is Chancellor\, and Professor of History\, Ashoka University. He is internationally acclaimed as a historian of the revolt of 1857 in India. His first book\, Awadh in Revolt\, 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance (1984)  has become a standard reference on the subject. He has looked at the 1857 rebellion in four other books: Spectre of Violence: The 1857 Kanpur Massacres (1998)\, Mangal Pandey: Brave Martyr or Accidental Hero? (2005)\, Dateline 1857: Revolt against the Raj (2008) and The Year of Blood: Essays on 1857 (2014). He has also authored and edited several books on other themes\, including The Penguin Gandhi Reader (1993)\, Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta (1999)\, Remembered Childhood: Essays in Honour of Andre Beteille (2010)\, New Delhi: The Making of a Capital (2009)\, Great Speeches of Modern India (2011)\, Nehru & Bose: Parallel Lives (2014)\, Twilight Falls on Liberalism (2018)\, Oxford India Short Introduction: Jawaharlal Nehru (2018)\, Changing India\, Vol. V\, Part I : The Prime Minister Speaks (2019)\, Changing India\, Vol. V\, Part II : The Prime Minister Speaks (2019)\, Tagore and Gandhi : Walking Alone\, Walking Together (2021)\, A Begum and a Rani : Hazrat Mahal and Lakshmibai in 1857 (2021)\, The Best of Tagore (2023) and A New History of India : From its Origins to the Twenty-First Century (2023). Rudrangshu Mukherjee has taught History at the University of Calcutta and held visiting appointments at Princeton University\, University of Manchester and University of California\, Santa Cruz. He was the Editor of the Editorial Pages at The Telegraph\, Kolkata. \n  \nGopalkrishna Gandhi is Distinguished Professor of History and Politics\, Ashoka University. He has been in administrative positions in Tamil Nadu and in Delhi\, as a member of the Indian Administrative Service. He was Secretary to the President of India (1997-2000)\, Director of the Nehru Centre in the High Commission of India\, London\, High Commissioner for India in South Africa\, Lesotho\, Sri Lanka\, and Ambassador of India in Norway and Iceland. He was Governor of West Bengal from 2004 to 2009. The University of Natal\, South Africa\, conferred a Doctorate of Laws honoris causa on him in 1999\, and the University of Peradeniya\, Sri Lanka\, a Doctorate of Letters honoris causa in 2001. The University of Calcutta conferred on him a Doctorate of Literature\, honoris causa in 2019. He received the Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Award of the University of Mysore in 2016\, the Lal Bahadur Shastri Award in 2016 and the Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award in 2018. In the Spring of 2020\, he was a Fellow at the Center for Contemporary South Asia\, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs\, Brown University\, USA.  \n  \nGopalkrishna Gandhi has authored several books including a novel\, Saranam (Refuge) (2010)\, and a play Dara Shukoh (2010). Other acclaimed publications include Gandhi Is Gone\, Who Will Guide Us Now? (2007)\, Of a Certain Age: Twenty Life-Sketches (2011)\, My Dear Bapu – Correspondence between C. Rajagopalachari and Mohandas K. Gandhi (2012)\, Abolishing the Death Penalty: Why India Should Say No to Capital Punishment (2016)\, Gandhi: Essential Writings (2018)\, A Frank Friendship\, Gandhi and Bengal: A Descriptive Chronology (ed. 2019)\, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Restless as Mercury – My Life as a Young Man (ed. 2021)\, Scorching Love: Letters from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to his son Devadas (with Tridip Suhrud\, 2022)\, I Am an Ordinary Man: India’s Struggle for Freedom (1914–1948)(ed.2023)\, The Undying Light — A Personal History of Independent India (2025). He has also translated Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy into Hindi (Koi Achchha Sa Ladka).  \n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/fourteenth-book-discussion-in-ashoka-history-book-discussion-series/
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