Dr. Raj Kothapalli is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Penn State Cancer Institute, at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2009 and received postdoc training in the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford University in 2014. He served as an instructor in the Department of Radiology at Stanford University from 2014 to 2016, before joining Penn State in 2017. His BioPhotonics and Ultrasound Imaging lab at Penn State is focused on developing novel multimodal biodevices combining optical, ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging technologies. In 2014, Dr. Kothapalli received K99-R00 Pathway to Independence award from National Institutes of Health.
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Reza Malekian is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Malmö University, Sweden and an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, where he previously led the Advanced Sensor Networks research group and received the Vice-Chancellor and Principal’s Exceptional Young Researcher’s award.
He is a Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council of UK, a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS). His research focuses on the Internet of Things, connectivity and sensor systems in intelligent transportation systems.
Prof. Malekian is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2016-2020), and IEEE Sensors Journal.
Yun-Wei Lin received Ph.D. degrees in computer science and information engineering from National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, in 2011, respectively. He has been an Associate Professor in the College of Artificial Intelligence, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan since 2021. His current research interests include mobile ad hoc network, wireless sensor network, vehicular ad hoc networks, IoT/M2M communications, and artificial intelligence.
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.
