Organizer Type: Track Chair

P J Narayanan is the Director of IIIT, Hyderabad and a researcher in the areas of 3D vision, computational cameras, and parallel computing. He built the Virtualized Reality system in mid 1990s at the Carnegie Mellon University to capture 3D geometry and appearance of dynamic events. He also was an early adopter of GPUs for several Computer Vision and general computing tasks. He got his Bachelors (in 1984) from IIT Kharagpur, Masters and PhD (in 1992) from the University of Maryland, all in Computer Science. He was a research faculty member at the Robotics Institute of CMU from 1992 to 1996 and headed the Vision and Virtual Reality groups of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Bangalore from 1996 to 2000. He has been with IIIT Hyderabad from 2000 and has been its PG Coordinator, Dean of Research, and, from 2013, the Director. He was the President of ACM India from 2009 to 2014 and is a member of ACM’s Technology Policy Council.

Dr. K. SRINIVAS REDDY obtained his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in Energy Studies in 1999. He then joined National Institute of Technology Warangal in June 1999, after a brief service of about 4 years at NITW, he joined IIT Madras in April 2003 as an Assistant Professor. Presently, Dr. Reddy is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras and he is also an honorary professor at University of Exeter, UK. He also served as an Adjunct Professor at CEERI-CSIR, Chennai during 2014-17

Prof. Reddy is a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering (FNAE) and Fellow of the World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies (FWSSET). He is specialist in renewable energy with special research interests on concentrating solar power, energy efficiency and environment. He has 9 patent applications and about 300 publications with more than 7200 citations and h-index of 47, of which, 170 papers in reputed international journals. His co-authored book on “Sustainable energy and the environment: a clean technology approach” Published by Springer and book chapters on solar energy systems are popular among energy and environment community.

Prof. Reddy is actively involved in the implementation of solar thermal technologies for power generation and process heat applications through “Design-Development-Demonstration-Deployment (4-D)” approach. He has secured research funding (about USD15m) as Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI of more than 30 research projects related to solar energy, energy & environment and heat transfer areas supported by various Indian and foreign funding agencies such as DST, CSIR, MNRE, AICTE, RCUK, EPSRC, IGCS, UKIERI and ICIMPACT. His work on estimation of thermal conductivity & thermo-physical properties and characterization of engineering materials significantly benefited the industrial associates for development of energy efficient thermal insulation materials. In recognition of his research work, Dr. Reddy received awards such as WSSET Innovation award, the Mid-Career Level Institute Research and Development Award (IRDA) Shri J.C.Bose Patent award and twice, the Bhagyalakshmi and Krishna Ayengar Awards. He also won career award for young teachers from AICTE in 2003. He surved as member in Board of Governors, IIT Tirupati during 2018-22. He is an expert committee member in various selection/ review committees and the Visitor’s nominee for IITs and NITs. As a part of human resource developmental activities, he supervised over 200 UG, PG and Ph.D. students, most of them are well placed and working now in prestigious organizations. He organized several national & international workshops on advanced renewable energy technologies.

Vinay Jammu is the VP-Physical-Digital Technologies at GE Digital based at the John F Welch Technology Organization, Bangalore. He is responsible for strategy and execution of domain-based analytics and software to differentiate GE’s Industrial Internet Solutions. Before this role, Vinay was Technology Director for Software and Analytics in GE Research where he spent 23 years driving physical-digital technologies.

Vinay obtained his doctoral degree from University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1996 in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for machine prognosis. After a brief stint at Mechanical Technology Inc, NY, he joined GE Global Research, Schenectady, NY in 1997 as Diagnostics Engineer where he focused on developing predictive analytics for failure and life prediction of industrial assets. Vinay relocated to Bangalore in 2002 and held multiple roles as Lab Manager, Technology Leader and Technology Director for Aero-Thermal and Mechanical Systems as well as Software and Analytics organizations in GE Global Research. Vinay is a certified master black belt, has 40 patents applications, and 60+ internal and external publications. Vinay is recipient of Zinnov Technology Role Model Award and has been named in the Top 150 AI Makers in India by 3AI organization.

Prof. Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya is presently Professor and Head of Advanced Technology Development Centre. Also, Professor in E&ECE Department along with Professor-in-charge Microelectronics and MEMS lab, IIT Kharagpur. He has rich academic and industrial experience of 30+ years. He has published more than 200 publications in refereed international journals and 100 in conferences, along with around 9 patents (granted and filed).

His work area extensively focuses on developing sustainable technologies and technology transfer in the field of MEMS and Microsystems, RF and Analog VLSI, Nanoelectronics, Thin films, Nano-scale Biosystems Engineering, Nano-Bio Sensors and energy storage and harvesting system.

He is heading four groups under the multidisciplinary aegis. The VLSI group is hosted at a world-class laboratory with state-of-the-art facilities and an advanced VLSI lab. This also includes state an art VLSI test laboratory developed in collaboration with Keysight Technologies. The nano-bio group focuses on nano biosensors, chemical sensing, disease detection at an early level and drug delivery devices along with energy storage and harvesting. The third one is the high-performance device lab which has state of the art multicluster MBE systems. The fourth group focuses on the development of MEMS-based sensors and actuators for aerospace applications.
Prof. Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya has been awarded many prestigious awards like as:

IBM Faculty Award 2012;
DST, Lockheed Martin, Indo-US S&T forum for Design of Microfluidic system for controlled drug delivery;

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Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Awards – 2014;
INAE innovative students project award at Doctoral Level 2013;
Institute of Smart Structures, ISSS PG Award 2013.

He is a member of INDO-US Centre for advanced and futuristic manufacturing, Indo-Japan team on Advanced Micro Nano and Nano Manufacturing Science sponsored by JSPS and DST, Indo-US Frontiers of Engineers (Indo-US FoE), along with PRSG, TPC member of many reputed institutes.

Prof. Bhattacharyya has authored and published around 10 book chapters in MEMS, Drug delivery, nanoelectronics, sensor system and nanoscale energy storage platform. He has supervised Dissertations around 20+ P.hD.; 32 MS and 60 Mtech students.

Moreover, Prof. Bhattacharyya has collaborated with many respected professors of the different prestigious universities around the globe like as University of Washington, Seattle; University of California, and Irvine; University of Trento Italy; University of Tokyo; and the University of Twente, The Netherlands in the field of Bio-MEMS, Electrical engineering, Micro/Nanofabrication and the lead role of Principal Investigator and Co-PI of many prestigious funding projects.

Dr. Dipti Gupta is working as a Professor at Metallurgical Engineering and Material science (MEMS) department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India. She received her B-Tech from IIT Kanpur and continued her M-Tech and Ph.D. degree in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering in the same institute. Later she worked as a BK-21 Postdoctoral Fellow at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea and as an EPSRC Research Associate at Imperial College, London, U.K.. She also spent two years with Department of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea as BK Assistant Professor. She is also recipient of prestigious SERB Power Fellowship.

Currently, she is associated with Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) on IOT/IOE where she would be contributing towards Health-IOT, Sensors and Data Analysis. She is also associated with Center of Excellence in Nano electronics (CEN), IITB-Monash Research Academy (an initiative of IITB and Monash University), Wadhwani Research Center for Bioengineering (WRCB), National Center for Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE), located at IIT Bombay, India. Her research activities are funded by competitive programs of Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, The Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF), Scientific and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Wadhwani foundation, Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), Tata Center for Technology and Design (TCTD) etc. Her research interests are in the area of Flexible and Stretchable electronics, Wearable sensors for application in healthcare and energy applications.

Dr. Dipankar Bandyopadhyay is a B.Sc in Chemistry and B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Calcutta University. After completion of M.Tech from the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Kanpur, he served ANSYS – Fluent India Private Limited for more than 3 years as a CFD Engineer before completing PhD from IIT Kanpur. Presently, he is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and served as Head at the Centre for Nanotechnology & School of Health Sciences and Technology at IIT Guwahati. He has also served as visiting faculty at Yeungnam Univerisity at South Korea under the WCU Program, and KTH Sweden under the Erasmus Mundus program.

His research areas encompass Thin film Dynamics, Soft-matter Physics, Liquid Crystals and Smart Materials, Droplet and Digital Microfluidics, Health Care Point-of-Cater-Testing Devices, MEMS Theranostics, Microrheology, Clean energy, Harvesting, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Stability and Instability of Fluidic systems, Complex Fluids, Microrheology, among others.

He has authored ~130 research publications in the international journals and has filed 21 Indian and 9 international patents so far. He is also one of the PIs of “Centre for Excellence on the Research and Development of Nanoelectronic Theranostic Devices”, “Centre for Excellence in Disruptive Innovations & Product Development for Affordable Rural Healthcare”, and BioNEST at IIT Guwahati. He delivered Prof. C. V. Seshadri Memorial Distinguished Lecture 2020, IIT Kanpur. He is the recipient of NCL’s Prof. K Venkataraman CHEMCON Award in CHEMCON 2016. He and his group at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati is the recipients of Gandhian Young Technology award 2016 and 2019, BIRAC-SRISTI Appreciation Award 2017 and 2021. He is a nominated member of American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, and Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Anuj Dhawan received a B. Tech. degree from IIT Delhi and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC, USA. He worked as a National Research Council (NRC) Research Associate with the Electronics Division, U.S. Army Research Office (ARO), Durham, NC, USA, from 2007 to 2009, and a Research Scientist of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Duke University, NC, USA, from 2009 to 2011. Since 2011, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, where he was an Assistant Professor from 2011 to 2016 and an Associate Professor from 2016 to 2021. Since 2021, he has been a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi. He is currently also the Head of the Center for Sensors, Instrumentation, and Cyber Physical Systems (SeNSE) at IIT Delhi. He has authored more than 135 publications (including more than 75 publications in journals of repute), filed several U.S. and Indian patents, and has led several sponsored research projects as a Principal Investigator at IIT Delhi. His research interests include flexible electronic and photonic devices,
applications of flexible electronics such as flexible antennas, flexible optical sensors, plasmonic and optoelectronic devices, chemical and biological sensors, integrated photonic devices, integrated nano-scale
systems, nanofabrication, and computational electromagnetics.