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Dr. Keshab Panda is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Larson & Toubro Technology Services (LTTS) Limited and Senior Advisor PE & Startup and Principal Mentor – Tech Services for Global Companies. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from IIT Bombay in Aero Servo Elasticity – (Control system fly by wire aircraft), in 1994. He also obtained an advanced management degree ‘Executive Management’ from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania in 2011.

Prof. Harmit Singh Malik is Professor and co-Associate Director in the Division of Basic Sciences and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He earned his B. Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1993 and Ph.D. degree in Biology from the University of Rochester in 1999. Prof. Mallik then moved to Seattle to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (the “Hutch”), to do his postdoc.

Dr. Premnath Venugopalan is currently the Head of National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) Innovations and Chief Scientist at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Pune. He is also the Founder Director of Venture Center, Pune. He obtained his B. Tech. degree in Chemistry from IIT Bombay in 1999, Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in 1997. He has also been a Chevening Technology Enterprise Scholar with the Centre for Scientific Enterprises, London Business School and Cambridge University, UK during 2004-05.

Prof. Navakanta Bhat is the Dean of the Division of Interdisciplinary Science and Professor in the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He obtained his M. Tech. And Ph.d. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay and the Stanford University in 1992 and 1996 respectively. Prof. Bhat worked as a Senior Device Engineer at Motorola’s Networking and Computing Systems Group under Advanced Products R&D Lab (APRDL) in Austin, TX until 1999. At Motorola, he worked on logic technology development and was responsible for developing high performance transistor design and dual gate oxide technology for PowerPC microprocessors. Prof. Bhat joined the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore in 1999, as an Assistant Professor in the ECE department.  rough highly interdisciplinary collaboration with other colleagues, he was responsible for a major initiative at IISc in Nanoelectronics, which eventually led to the creation of Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) at IISc. Prof. Bhat was instrumental in creating the National Nanofabrication Centre (NNfC), benchmarked against the best university facilities in the world. In 2010, he moved from ECE to CeNSE as one of the founding faculty and became the Chair of the department in 2016. From 2020 Prof. Bhat has been the Dean of Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences at IISc. During 2015-16, Prof. Bhat was on sabbatical leave from IISc, to co-found a start-up, PathShodh Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., and served as the CEO of the company. At PathShodh, Prof Bhat continues as Prof. Navakanta Bhat M. Tech., 1992, Electrical Engineering 29 non-executive Chair of Board of Governors.

Dr. Rajeev Rastogi the Vice President of Machine Learning at Amazon India. He obtained his B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1988 and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin, USA in 1993.

Professor Sharada Srinivasan is a Professor in the National Institute of Advanced Studies, IISc Campus, Bengaluru. She obtained B. Tech. degree in Engineering Physics from IIT Bombay in 1987, Masters from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London with Distinction in 1989 and Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in 1996 in the Department of Conservation and Materials Science in Archaeometallurgy on a ODA and British Council Chevening Scholarship with laboratory work also at Oxford Research Laboratory for Art and Archaeology.

Dr. Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami is a Distinguished Research Start at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. Dr. Narayanaswami earned his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1986. He then obtained his Mastes of Science (MS) and Ph.D. degrees in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY in 1987 and 1991, respectively.

Mr. Suhas Narayan Mehta is currently associated with seven companies and is the Director of SMC Infrastructures Private Limited and the Founder Director for Hindustan Waste Treatment, Efficient Illumination, Metalmeccanica Fracasso, Vasudha Waste Treatment, Chafal Road Developers, IPMKVD HAM road, Kefi Holdings Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Rammohan Varadarajan is the Co-founder and CEO at Acalvio Technologies. He obtained his B.Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1982 and Master of Science in Chemical Engineering and Computer Science from Louisiana State University in 1984 and 1986 respectively. Mr. Varadarajan started his career as a researcher on projects funded by US government on security and distributed systems at Odyssey Research in Ithaca, NY. Then he moved to the Silicon Valley and joined Informix to combine security and databases – building best-in-class database systems, which were military grade secure. This led to founding of his  first startup Arcot.

Mr. Vasant Vasant Limaye is Founder of High Places Management Pvt. Limited – a pioneering and leading organization in the field of Outdoor Management Development. He is also Chairman, Founder and President of Maha Adventure Council (MAC). In addition, he is also a writer, blogger, mountaineer and an entrepreneur. He earned his B.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1978 and Diploma in Outdoor Education from Scotland.