Amey is a Professor of CSE and Dean of Resources and Alumni at IIT Kanpur. His focus is Computer-aided Education. The software “Prutor“ he developed has been used at several premier institutes in India like IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IISc Bangalore, IIT Goa, IISER Bhopal, to name a few. He has also received several awards in recognition of his excellence in the use of innovation and technology to improve the quality of undergraduate teaching.

Dr Anupama Ray is a Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research India. She is also an Adjunct Professor at IIT Jodhpur. Prior to joining IBM Research, she completed her doctoral studies from IIT Delhi in 2016. Her current research focuses on developing Quantum Machine Learning algorithms and in the intersection of AI for Quantum. She has been the recipient of the IEEE Best Woman Professional (Early Career) 2021, WoC Technology Rising Star 2022 and several awards at IBM Research.

Aruna has been building her own yet-another-ai-startup that aims to improve how large software engineering projects are executed. She’s a co founder and investor in Magasool, an organization that focuses on 10Xing farmer incomes through scientific interventions and direct to consumer offerings. Before that, she led AI product development and India business for android as director at Google for ~3 years, preceded by her time at Amazon building and launching new content generation products, as well as hyperlocal businesses during the pandemic. She’s been working on machine learning based products, building large teams, and trying to build businesses for the last twenty years. She got her Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and developed permanent peculiarities that have stood the test of time since.

Dr. Jayashree Mohan is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Bangalore working primarily on building efficient AI infrastructure, with a current focus on GenAI and multimodal model serving. She received her PhD and MS in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin in 2021 and a BTech in Computer Engineering from NITK Surathkal in 2016.

Maya Ramanath is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engg. at IIT Delhi. She completed her PhD from the Indian Institute of Science and has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics and as a visiting researcher at Flipkart, Bengaluru. She was a visiting professor at Ashoka University in the Dept. of Computer Science and additionally held the position of Project Director at Ashoka’s Centre for Data Science and Analytics. Her research interests are in the areas of semantic web data management, multi-modal and multi-lingual data management and applications.

Bio: Mukulika Maity is an associate professor at the computer science department of Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIITD), New Delhi, India. She received her M.Tech+ Ph.D. dual degree from the computer science department of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in 2017. She received B.E. in 2010 in the computer science department of Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur. During her PhD, she worked on health diagnosis and congestion mitigation of wireless networks. Her research interests broadly lie in the areas of wireless networks, computer networks, mobile systems, and WiFi sensing. Her research has focused on addressing some of the networking challenges faced in developing countries like India, such as dense WiFi deployment, intermittent connectivity, poor network bandwidth. She is currently working on multiple projects funded by both the government (DST, NSCS, TiH) and private organizations (Arista Networks). She is awarded an early career research award by DST, best paper awards at multiple conferences, WiFi thinkfest award, and research & teaching excellence awards at IIITD. She is serving as a TPC member of multiple conferences and journals such as COMSNETS, ANTS, COMPASS, ICTD, Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal, Adhoc Networks journal.

Priyanka Bagade is an assistant professor in the department of the Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur. Before that, she worked as a software architect at Intel Corporation, USA for 5 years. She worked with Intel’s customers to architect and deploy their IoT and computer vision applications. She has completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Arizona State University. Her current research focuses on the internet of things, deep learning, computer vision, and cyber-physical systems.

Rajat Mittal is an associate professor at IIT Kanpur. He finished his Phd from Rutgers University and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing (Waterloo, Canada) for three years. He is interested in exploring the advantages as well as limits of quantum computing over classical computers (specifically, quantum query complexity and other complexity measures for Boolean functions).

Prof. Manindra Agrawal received his B.Tech. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1986 and 1991, respectively. He later worked as a fellow at the School of Mathematics, SPIC Science Foundation, Chennai from 1993 to 1995, and a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Ulm, Germany, from 1995 to 1996. In 1996, he joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur. In 2003, he was appointed as the N. Rama Rao Chair Professor. From 2003-2004, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study. Prof. Agrawal has made significant contributions to the theory of efficient reactions between computational problems, which are a part of the program studying the well-known “P vs NP” question in mathematics/ computer science. He co-created the AKS primality test with Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena for which he and his co-authors won the 2006 Fulkerson Prize and the 2006 Godel Prize. He was also awarded the Clay Research Award for this work in 2002. The test is the first unconditional deterministic algorithm to test an n-digit number for primality in a time that has been proven to be polynomial in n. He designed private-key encryption algorithms for Indian Navy and Air Force. These algorithms are being used by the armed forces to secure their communications. In September 2008, he was chosen for the first Infosys Mathematics Prize for outstanding contributions in the broad field of mathematics. In 2013, he was honored with Padma Shri.

Renuka Sindhgatta is a researcher at IBM Research, India, where she leads research focused on building conversational assistants for business process automation. She has over 25 years of experience spanning the software industry, applied research, and academia. Her work has addressed domains such as education technology, IT operations, and software engineering. Renuka’s research interests include machine learning, natural language processing, process mining, and monitoring. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of University of Wollongong, Australia. Over 18 years of research have resulted in 60+ publications in top-tier venues.

Dr. Shashwati Banerjea is Assistant Professor at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad. She obtained her B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Feroze Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology Raebareli, in 2009, and received her master’s degree in Computer Applications from Indian School of Mines Dhanbad (IIT-ISM) in 2011. She graduated with a PhD in the Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad in 2017. Her research areas are in computer networks, peer to peer computing and adversarial machine learning.

Urbi Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. She received her MTech degree from IIT(ISM) Dhanbad in 2013 and PhD from IIT Kharagpur in 2020. She has also worked in industry for one and half years. Her broad area of research is Hardware Security. She currently works on Physically Unclonable Functions, Security Analysis of Approximate Computing Hardware, Timing Side Channel attacks on Network-on-Chip Architecture, Acoustic Side Channel attacks etc.

Research Scientist at IBM Research India, specializing in Cloud Computing and the modernization of legacy applications using program analysis and AI. Recognized at IBM with the title “Mrs. Mainframe APIfication” for her impactful contributions in transforming monolithic mainframe systems into modern APIs. Earned a PhD in Computer Science from IIT Bombay in 2018, with a focus on static program analysis of dynamically allocated data. Has 7 years of post-PhD industry experience and is the mother of a 5-year-old, actively balancing research, innovation, and parenting. Inventor on several international patents and author of research published in venues such as ISMM, ICSE, ICWS, ISEC, and ACM Computing Surveys. Teaches ancient yogic techniques to children to foster intuition, concentration, and mental wellness.

Dr. Sruti Ragavan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and an Adjunct professor of Cognitive Science at IIT Kanpur. Her research is in Human-Computer Interaction, with a special focus on building technology that is accessible to non-expert users. Before joining IIT Kanpur, Sruti was a HCI researcher at Microsoft Research in their Cambridge, UK lab. Her research has contributed to several best paper awards and patents, and has impacted products, most recently Copilot for Excel. She has an Undergraduate, Masters and PhD degree in Computer Science and had a short stint as a Senior Application Developer at ThoughtWorks India. Outside of computer science, arts, crafts, history and Sanskrit fascinate her.