Our vision is to create a distinctive research culture rooted in the Indian context while remaining globally competitive and collaborative. The lab provides a shared identity for researchers, enabling us to work collectively on cutting-edge challenges and to contribute meaningfully to the international AI research landscape.
Our key research areas include:
Reasoning in Modern AI Systems – Understanding how large language models reason, and mapping these processes to traditional reasoning algorithms and philosophies.
Neuro-Symbolic AI – Advancing hybrid approaches that combine neural learning with symbolic reasoning to design naturally explainable AI systems.
Big Data and Streaming Data – Developing scalable solutions to handle massive, high-velocity datasets in real time.
Scalable System Architectures – Designing architectures that can efficiently grow with the ever-increasing size and complexity of data.
AI Ethics and Policy – Exploring the politics of AI, advocating for non-biased, transparent, and responsible AI systems.
At ScaDS.ai, we believe that data means big data—sometimes humorously large by modern standards—and that scalable, explainable, and ethical AI is the way forward.
News
Mar 24th 2025: The 2nd Indo-French Workshop on "Scalable Technologies for Real-time Event Analysis and Management" (STREAM) will be held alongside Big Data and AI (BDA 2025) on July 17th at IIIT Bangalore.
Jan 14th 2024: Received the Collaborative Scientific Research Grant from Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (CEFIPRA)
Jan 3rd, 2024: Our paper: “TensAIR: Real-Time Training of Neural Networks from Data-streams” is a Best Paper Presentation Award at ICMLSC-24
Sep 5th, 2023: Vinu joined as member of LITD 31, Bureau of Indian Standards, Gov. of India, representing IIIT Bangalore
Aug 23rd, 2023: Hosted a technical talk on "Applications of Symbolic and Neuro-Symbolic AI " by Prof. Raghava Muthuraju, IIIT Delhi
Jul 29, 2023: Vinu takes on role of Area Chair for Systems Track at ACM India ARCS 2024
April 4, 2023: Vinu takes on role of Registration chair CODS-COMAD-24
Jan 2, 2023: Vadivelan B (PhD candidate) joined the group
Dec 16, 2022: Paper by Apurva accepted at ICSC-2023
Dec 2, 2022: Invited paper at the 10th International Conference on Big Data Analytics 2022
Nov 23, 2022: New course CS839 NoSQL Systems offering at IIITB. Sep 1, 2022 Aniket Mitra joined the group
Nov 21, 2022: Mr. Vishnu Venugopal, a UX/UI design expert from Samsung Research America has interected with the students of the lab working in the DataLake project to enhance the web interace of the Karnataka Datalake portal
