Prof. Debnath Pal

Debnath Pal is a professor at the Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He received a Bachelor's degree in 1993 from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata and a Master's degree in 1995 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in Chemistry. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in the year 2000 for his research in the area of structural bioinformatics under a fellowship from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi. He served two years as a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow in IMB-Jena, Germany and another two years as a postgraduate researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. His group at the Indian Institute of Science focuses on the development of methods and algorithms in multi-scale biology using multi-modal approaches under the scope of systems biology. He is interested in understanding biological function, disease, and drug discovery with an aim to contribute to systems medicine. More details: http://cds.iisc.ac.in/faculty/dpal/

Dr. Harpreet Singh

Dr. Singh is a technical professional with 20+ years of experience in data management and analysis. He is leading a team providing data analysis services to ICMR programs like ICMR Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network, implementation research in Mental Health etc. Further Dr. Singh has extensive experience in handling and analysing next generation sequence data, genotyping by sequencing and epitope prediction. More details: https://genomics.icmr.org.in/index.php/dr-harpreet-singh

Prof. Rajesh Sundaresan

Rajesh Sundaresan received the BTech Degree in Electronics and Communication from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and the MA and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. He then worked at Qualcomm Inc. on the design and development of wireless modems. He joined IISc in 2005, where he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering and an associate faculty in the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems. He has held visiting positions at Qualcomm Inc., the Coordinated Sciences Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Toulouse Mathematical Institute, Strand Life Sciences, and the Indian Statistical Institute's Bengaluru Centre. His research interests include decision theory, communication, computation, and control over networks, cyber-social systems, and, more recently, data-driven decision frameworks for public health responses. More details:https://iisc.ac.in/about/administration/deans-of-divisions/

Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyaa

Chiranjib Bhattacharyya is currently Professor and the chair of the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science. His research interests are in foundations of Machine Learning, Optimisation and their applications to Industrial problems. He has authored numerous papers in leading journals and conferences in Machine Learning. Some of his results have won best paper awards. He joined the Department of CSA, IISc, in 2002 as an Assistant Professor. Prior to joining the Department he was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. He holds BE and ME degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, from Jadavpur University and the Indian Institute of Science, respectively, and completed his PhD from the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science. He is also a fellow of Indian Academy of Engineering. For more information about his work please see https://www.csa.iisc.ac.in/~chiru/

Dr. Vijay Chandru

Dr. Vijay Chandru is an academic and an entrepreneur. A technology pioneer of the World Economic Forum since 2006, Chandru was recognized among the 50 pioneers of change by the India Today magazine in 2008. Additionally, Chandru has mentored numerous entrepreneurs and early stage ventures in the realms of education, technology and life sciences. His academic career in decision sciences spanned over four decades at MIT, Purdue University and at the Indian Institute of Science. His training in electrical engineering at BITS (Pilani) and operational research at UCLA and MIT led him to explore academic research at the interface of computational mathematics with geometry, logic, machine learning, biology and heritage art. A fellow of both academies of science and engineering in India, he was a national distinguished technologist of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, an adjunct professor in BioSystems Science and Engineering and Executive Advisor to the new ART Park (AI and Robotics Tech Park) at the Indian Institute of Science. Dr. Chandru serves on the councils of Karnataka State Council of science and technology (KSCST) and RGUKT in Andhra Pradesh. He chairs the governing council of the Digital University of Kerala. He is a member of the vision groups for biotechnology (VGBT) as well as science and technology (VGST) in Karnataka. As an author of the Atal Innovation Mission report in August 2015, and served briefly on the mission high level committee of AIM as convened by the Prime Minister's Office at NITI Aayog. At Strand Life Sciences, India's first example of academic entrepreneurship, Professor Chandru served as founder executive chairman from inception in 2000 till 2018. The evolution of Strand from data science to precision medicine reflected the progress in the field of molecular biology in the two decades following the human genome project. Biospectrum Magazine named Professor Chandru the Biotech Entrepreneur of 2007 in India. The Association of Biotech led Enterprises (ABLE), the apex body of the biotech industry in India, elected Chandru as Honorary President for a three year term 2009-2012. Chandru also co-founded the Simputer Trust which designed and manufactured India's first indigenous handheld computers at the start of the millennium. Professor Chandru has also been actively engaged in digital humanities since 2009 and is a founder trustee of the boutique International Institute for Art, Culture and Democracy. His work at IIACD on digital capture and archiving of tangible and intangible heritage artifacts has been largely funded by the Department at Science and Technology, Government of India under the research program in Indian Digital Heritage. Professor Chandru is deeply engaged with the idea of technology levers for bringing universal health care to India. This manifests in his work as a Commissioner with the Lancet Citizens Commission for reimagining India's health systems. Universal Health Care when extended to the seriously underserved population of citizens afflicted with orphan and rare diseases has been a focus of his attention for close to a decade now. The mission for "NO DISEASE ORPHAN" by 2030 has been actioned through his founder engagements with the Centre for Health and Education Technologies (CHET) at IIACD as well as in haemotological disorders with the open platform for orphan diseases at OPFORD Foundation.