Prof. Rahul Mangharam, Dept. of Electrical and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA delivered a lecture on “Balancing Performance and Safety in Autonomous Vehicles” at School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University on 16th July 2022. He discussed Balancing Performance and Safety in Autonomous Vehicles, ways to generate the most competitive agents, Multi-domain optimization of autonomous systems, using machine learning and reinforcement learning. His lecture immensely benefited the graduate students with an opportunity to get a head start in Machine Learning and robotics, which is an emerging technology in the field of Computer Science. This lecture was coordinated by Dr. Pradeep Kumar Mallick and Dr. Hrudaya Kumar Tripathy, Associate Professor, School of Computer Engineering and hosted by Prof. Banhi Sanyal, Assistant Professor, School of Computer Engineering.