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IEEE SPS Seasonal School on
Generative AI and Applications in Visual Biomedical and Biometric Signal Processing
Computer Vision and Biometrics Lab (CVBL),
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad
Program Schedule: 06-10 July 2026, Venue: CC3-5322 (Hybrid Mode), CV Raman Bhavan, IIIT Allahabad
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Date and DayTimeTopicResource PersonTheory/Practical
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06-July-2026 (Monday)01:00 PM - 01:30 PMInauguration and Fundamentals of Visual Signal ProcessingProf. Mukul S. Sutaone, Director, IIIT Allahabad
Prof. Pavan Chakraborty, Dean(Academics), IIIT Allahabad		Theory
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01:30 PM - 02:30 PMDeep Learning Foundations and Generative AI Historical EvolutionProf. Shekhar Verma, IIIT AllahabadTheory
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03:30 PM - 04:30 PMGenAI Models for Industrial Use CasesDr. Sourabh Shrivastava, Jio Platforms Ltd.Theory
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04:30 PM - 05:30 PMGenAI Models for Industrial Use CasesDr. Sourabh Shrivastava, Jio Platforms Ltd.Practical
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05:30 PM - 06:30 PMHands-on: Python, PyTorch and Hugging Face EcosystemDr. Nayaneesh Mishra, NCode Sutram for AIPractical
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07-July-2026 (Tuesday)10:30 AM - 11:30 AMGenerative Adversarial Networks (GANs)Dr. Prashant Bartakke, COEP Tech PuneTheory
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12:00 PM - 01:00 PMHands-on: Applications of GAN ModelsDr. Prashant Bartakke, COEP Tech PunePractical
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03:00 PM - 04:00 PMVariational Autoencoders (VAEs): Principles and ApplicationsProf. Krishna Pratap Singh, IIIT AllahabadTheory
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04:30 PM - 05:30 PMUnsupervised Unified Generative Model for All-Weather Image RestorationDr. Snehasis Mukherjee, SNU Greater NoidaTheory
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08-July-2026 (Wednesday)10:30 AM - 11:30 AMTransformer ArchitecturesDr. Soumendu Chakraborty, IIIT LucknowTheory
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12:00 PM - 01:00 PMVision Transformer and ApplicationsDr. Shiv Ram Dubey, IIIT AllahabadTheory
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03:00 PM - 04:00 PMDiffusion ModelsDr. Navjot Singh, IIIT AllahabadTheory
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04:30 PM - 05:30 PMHands-on: Diffusion, Fine-Tuning Stable Diffusion & ApplicationsDr. Nand Kumar Yadav, Univ. of South Dakota, USAPractical
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09-July-2026 (Thursday)10:30 AM - 11:30 AMGenerative AI in Data Science and AnalyticsProf. Manish Kumar, IIIT AllahabadTheory
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12:00 PM - 01:00 PMVision Foundation ModelsDr. Randheer Bagi, IIIT AllahabadTheory
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03:00 PM - 04:00 PMMultimodal Generative Models and Prompt EngineeringMr. Avinash Rai, OracleTheory
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04:30 PM - 05:30 PMHands-on: Prompt Engineering and Image Captioning using VLMsMr. Avinash Rai, OraclePractical
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10-July-2026 (Friday)10:30 AM - 11:30 AMJoint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) World ModelDr. Suvidha Tripathi, SprinklrTheory
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12:00 PM - 01:00 PMHands-on: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) ModelDr. Chandra Shekhar V, SamsungPractical
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03:00 PM - 04:00 PMEvaluation Metrics, Benchmarking, Ethics and Responsible AIProf. Satish Kumar Singh, IIIT AllahabadTheory
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PMPanel Discussion, Valedictory Session and Certificate DistributionProf. Mukul S. Sutaone, Director, IIIT Allahabad
Prof. Pavan Chakraborty, Dean(Academics), IIIT Allahabad
Prof. Manish Kumar, HoD-IT, IIIT Allahabad		Theory
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