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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.

Sudip Misra is a Professor and INAE Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. His current research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things. Professor Misra has published over 460 scholarly research papers and 12 books. He has won nine research paper awards in different conferences and four best paper awards in IEEE journals. He was awarded the IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award at IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, California, USA. He was also the recipient of several academic awards and fellowships such as the Faculty Excellence Award (IIT Kharagpur), Young Scientist Award (National Academy of Sciences, India), Young Systems Scientist Award (Systems Society of India), Young Engineers Award (Institution of Engineers, India), (Canadian) Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal at Carleton University, the University Outstanding Graduate Student Award in the Doctoral level at Carleton University and the National Academy of Sciences, India – Swarna Jayanti Puraskar (Golden Jubilee Award), Samsung Innovation Awards-2014 at IIT Kharagpur, IETE-Biman Behari Sen Memorial Award-2014, and the Careers360 Outstanding Faculty Award in Computer Science for the year 2018 from the Honourable Minister for Human Resource Development (MHRD) of India. Thrice consecutively he was the recipient of the IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award in 2018, 2019, and 2020. He was awarded the Canadian Government’s prestigious NSERC Post Doctoral Fellowship and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in Germany. His team received the GYTI Award 2018 in the hands of the President of India for socially relevant innovations. Dr. Misra has been serving as the Associate Editor of different journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE Network, and IEEE Systems Journal. He is the Fellow of the IEEE, National Academy of Sciences India (NASI), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, British Computer Society (BCS), UK, Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH), UK, and the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering (IETE), India. Professor Misra is the distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He has been serving the Executive Committee of IEEE Kharagpur Section since 2008 in different capacities. He was the Chair of the IEEE Kharagpur Section. Dr. Misra is the ACM Distinguished Member. He is also the Director and Co-Founder of the IoT startup, SensorDrops Networks Private Limited (http://www.sensordropsnetworks.com). Further details about him are available at http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~smisra/.

Dr B K Panigrahi is presently working as a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department and head of Centre for Automotive Research and Tribology (CART), IIT Delhi, India. Prior to joining IIT Delhi in 2005, he has served as a faculty in Electrical Engineering Department, UCE Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha, India from 1992 to 2005. His research interest includes application of AI and ML tools and techniques to power system planning, operation, control, protection and management. His research also focuses on various domain of Smart Grid and Micro grid. Professor Panigrahi is presently also looking into the issues of EV charging infrastructures and the impact of fast charging infrastructure on the grid, Battery management system, Battery pack design and Battery swapping stations is another focus research domain. He has served as the editorial board member / associate editor/ special issue guest editor of different international journals published by IEEE, IET, Elsevier, Springer etc. He is also associated with various international conferences in various capacity. Dr Panigrahi has published more than 600 research papers in various international and national journals and conference proceedings. He is a fellow of INAE, NASI and Senior member of IEEE.

G. K. Ananthasuresh is currently a professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Dean of Mechanical Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, master’s from the University of Toledo, and PhD from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, all in mechanical engineering. His research interests are compliant mechanisms and topology optimization with applications in microelectromechanical systems, mechanics of biological cells, biomedical devices, and microrobotics. In addition to research output of more than 300 journal and conference publications and 16 patents, his research group has spun off four startups. His work is recognized with 15 best paper awards, 10 design prizes, and National Science Foundation (USA) Early Career Award, Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph R. Teeter Educational Award as well as Swarnajayanthi Fellowship, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, and Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship in India. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineers, India.