Sudhir Jain is making a mark as one of the most innovative leaders of an IIT. He is the first IIT Director ever to be re-appointed for a third term. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2020 for his pioneering leadership in setting up IIT-Gandhinagar. Prior to that, he was at IIT-Kanpur, where he served in several leadership roles, including Dean of Resource Planning & Generation and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering. His research and development work has been in the fields of seismic design codes, dynamic of buildings, and post earthquake studies. Beside these, Sudhir has actively participated in teaching, research activities and development in Earthquake Engineering focused on developing countries He is an elected fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering and a member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering He has served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize. He has also served as the president of International Association of Earthquake engineering (IAEE). He earned Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Roorkee (now known as Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee), and Masters and Doctoral degrees from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Sudhir Jain Vice Chancellor, Banaras Hindu University - Varanasi

Sherman Teichman is Professor of the Practice of International Relations and Global Affairs at SaiU. A pioneer in education to promote global engagement, he is the founding director emeritus of the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) at Tufts University in Massachusetts (1985-2016). Among the innovative IGL programs he created are the academic colloquium/symposium program, Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) , the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) , immersive education program with the U.S. Military Academies, the interdisciplinary Synaptic Scholars program, and the photojournalism Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice . He developed the academic exchange program, Tufts Initiative for Leadership and International Perspective, (TILIP) , into a world-wide program, initially with BEIDA University in Beijing and Hong Kong University). He also created the social and economic entrepreneurial initiatives, Building Understanding Through International Learning and Development (BUILD) and Empower , and a global immersive student research program. Several thousand students were engaged over the three decades, researching and interning in over 120 regions and countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. In 2014, the Institute was lauded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as “the proven breeding ground for future generations of international security and international relations.” As Emeritus, Teichman has also served as a Senior Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, at Harvard University’s Kennedy School; as a non-resident Research Associate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the Centre for International Studies at Oxford University; as a Senior Fellow of the Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development; as a Senior Fellow at The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights in Montreal; and as the inaugural Fellows Mentor for the Albright Institute at Wellesley College. He is a strategic adviser for the Human Rights Foundation, where he created the Oslo Scholars Program and he serves on the Advisory Boards of Beyond Conflict; Combatants for Peace; the Council of European Studies; International Student/Youth Pugwash; The Mind/Brain Center on War and Humanity; Mistral; Music for Life International; RefugePoint; and the VII Foundation. He is a member of the New America “Engaging Democracy Disinformation Working Group.” Prior to becoming a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Tufts, Teichman was a Fellow and lecturer at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, the Kennedy School of Government; and a faculty member at Emerson College and Boston University. Teichman served as foreign policy analyst for WBUR (a National Public Radio affiliate); and a social science editor of the Boston Review . A former adviser to governments on counter terrorism and long-range strategic planning, he was also active with Amnesty International in the former Soviet Union and Central America. He has engaged in Track-Two diplomatic initiatives in the MENA region, and upon retiring, received the Elbe Group Award from the Belfer Center for Science and Technology at Harvard University , for “thirty years to have the courage to reach across dangerous divides.” School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Sherman Teichman Founder and President of The Trebuchet

Professor Sandeep Sancheti is an Institution Builder, Policy Planner, Regular Columnist on various academic policies. He holds a Ph.D from Queens University of Belfast UK, M.Sc. (Engg.) from DTU Delhi and B.Tech from NIT Warangal. He is currently the Vice President – Research Relations & Academic Ambassador, Elsevier India. He is also serving/served many professional bodies like FICCI, CII, EPSI, IUCEE, NAAC, DST, CSIR, DRDO, TEQIP, AIM, ACU, ANZIBC, IISF, CIPU, SPIC MACAY etc. in different capacities. He was a member of the Court & Council of IISc Bangalore as well as a member of Board/Senate of many other academic institutions. In addition, he is/was on various national level committees of MHRD/MOE, UGC, AICTE and AIU for education related matters and had been a part of several Indian delegations abroad. He was also invited to address the Members of Parliament, Govt. of India on educational matters. Formerly Dr. Sancheti headed Seven NITs like NITK Surathkal, NIT Trichy, NIT Calicut, NIT Delhi and SPA Delhi (all institutions of national importance) as Director. He has also led self-financed institutions like Manipal University Jaipur as President, SRMIST Chennai as Vice Chancellor and Marwadi University Rajkot as Provost. He is a recipient of the Commonwealth Scholarship & Fellowship under Colombo Plan and was a Visiting Faculty at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Bangkok. He is the Past President of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) New Delhi and the Executive Council Member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) London. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Sandeep Sancheti Vice President - Research Relations & Academic Ambassador, Elsevier India

Professor Sadagopan is presently a member of the International advisory board of Sai University. He was formerly the Director (President) of IIIT-Bangalore (a Ph.D. granting University). IIIT’s represent a set of new generation universities started in India in the late 90’s with a special focus on IT; IIIT-Bangalore is one of the first such Institutes; as the first Director of IIIT-Bangalore, he is involved in the visioning, planning, and executing the growth of this Institute that is counted as one of the premier Institutes in India. He obtained his MS & Ph.D. Degree from Purdue University, USA in 1979 and BE (Hon) Degree from Madras University, India in 1973. He had taught at IIT Kanpur (1979 to 95) and IIM Bangalore (1995-99) His research interests include OR, Multi-criteria optimization, Simulation, and Enterprise computing. Sadagopan is a Fellow of the UK’s IET (formerly IEE), Computer Society of India, and Institution of Engineers (India). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM. Sadagopan’s research work has appeared in several international journals including IEEE Transactions, European J of Operational Research, J of Optimization Theory & Applications, Naval Research Logistics, Simulation, and Decision Support Systems. He has won numerous awards that include Fulbright Fellowship (1995), “Champion of humanity” Award of Hindustan Chamber of Commerce (2009), “Rotary Honor of Vocational Excellence” by Rotary Northwest Bangalore District 3190 (2013), Engineering Watch “Campus Preparedness” Award (2015), and Cisco NDTV “Digital Pioneer” Award (2016), BITES Lifetime Achievement Award (2018) and Distinguished Alumnus Award (2019) from the College of Engineering, Guindy, to name a few. Sadagopan consults extensively with some of the largest private & public sector corporations in India, in Computing, Communications, Software, Automotive, Oil, and Power industries as well as the social sector. He is a member of the Board of Directors of several private and public sector corporations; he is also a member of the Board of Studies of several Universities / Trusts. He is a Featured Columnist for Times of India (the world’s largest English Newspaper) and several magazines. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Sadagopan S Former Director, IIIT-Bangalore

Dr. Saraswathi Krithivasan was the project manager of the prestigious e-Yantra project at IIT Bombay, one of the flagship projects of the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT). As part of the project, she was responsible for various e-Yantra initiatives: creating a network of several hundred Robotics labs in colleges across India, bringing hands-on practical education to these colleges, and the much admired e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC), through which thousands of student teams learn concepts and implement a solution to a gamified version of a real-world problem over a 4-5 month period. She has managed the SMARS project that recommended the smart card standards to Reserve Bank of India based on a trial implementation in IIT Bombay campus and the neighborhood. She has managed the Distance Education Program – connecting various universities and colleges to participate in courses offered by expert faculty at IIT Bombay. Saraswathi is also an artist who works with oil pastels, plays the veena, and explores Bharatanatyam in her free time. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Saraswathi Krithivasan Former Project Manager, e-Yantra Robotics, IIT Bombay

Professor Rajeeva L Karandikar is an expert on Statistics and Probability. After his Ph. D. at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in 1981, Dr Karandikar spent some years as visiting professor in USA and returned to Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi in 1984 as an Associate Professor. He became a full professor in 1989 and served as Head of department of Mathematics and statistics at the Institute and also as Head of Delhi Centre. He has been a visiting professor at several universities in USA and Europe. In 2006, he moved to Cranes Software International Limited as Executive Vice President – Analytics. He moved to Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), Chennai, India in 2010 and was its Director from Jan 2011 till April 2021. He is now Professor Emeritus at CMI. Dr Karandikar has made significant contributions to various areas including Stochastic Calculus, Filtering theory, Markov processes and martingale problems, limit theorems, Monte Carlo techniques, Queuing theory, Game theory, Theory of option pricing. He has authored two books with Professor G Kallianpur, one on filtering theory and one on option pricing and one with Prof B V Rao on Stochastic Calculus. He is a fellow of Indian National Science Academy and Indian Academy of sciences and has been awarded the young scientist medal by Indian National Science Academy (1985), S S Bhatnagar prize by Council of Industrial and scientific research (1999) and C R Rao National award in statistics by Government of India (2000). Dr Karandikar has been involved in numerous consultancy projects over the years. He has worked on development of proprietary Blockcipher algorithms for Indian defence services. He had developed a module on MCMC – Markov chain Monte Carlo – for SYSTAT – a general purpose statistical software. He has done statistical consultancy work for government agencies such as Election commission of India, Food Corporation of India, Gujarat State electricity board, Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI), Central Board for secondary education (CBSE), and several companies including ICICI Bank, Tata Consultancy Services, Tech Mahindra. He was a member of the technical committee setup by the Election Commission of India to advice it on sampling of the booths matching votes recorded in EVM and in paper ballot (VVPAT) in 2018-19. Dr Karandikar has been involved with opinion polls and exit polls in India for over 2 decades (1998-2019). He has worked with India Today, Doordarshan, T V Today (Aaj Tak) and CNBC, CNN-IBN, ABP News along with The Hindu, Times of India, Indian Express,… for opinion polls. Dr Karandikar has been an Editor of Sankhya and on the editorial board of Annals of Probability. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Professor Rajeeva L Karandikar Professor Emeritus at Chennai Mathematical Institute

Ruyinton Mehta is a serial entrepreneur. He started several plastic technology companies across the USA and Canada, ranging in size from 5 million to 34 million USD in sales. He served as General Manager at Combustion Engineering Environmental (now ABB) and was President of Andersen Engineering Services in Flemington, NJ. Ruyinton received a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering from IIT, Bombay, MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut, and in Engineering Administration from the University of Utah. He has served in several public leadership roles, including: Co-Chair of the Water initiative of WHEELS Global Foundation, a US non-profit started by IIT alumni residing in the US; Mentor of SCORE Central Jersey, a non-profit resource arm of the US Small Business Administration; President of IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation; President of IIT Bombay Alumni Association Greater New York; and President of IIT Gandhinagar Foundation. He has led several initiatives, including: Clean Drinking water projects in rural and remote villages of India; Chair Professorship, Student exchange program, Student Scholarship scheme at IIT Bombay; and Student Innovation program at IIT Gandhinagar. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Ruyinton Mehta President of IIT-Gandhinagar Foundation

Niranjan Bose is the Managing Director of Health & Life Sciences Strategy at Gates Ventures LLC, where he serves as the science advisor to Mr. Bill Gates. Prior to joining Gates Ventures in August 2014, he was the chief of staff to the president of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He received a BTech degree at BITS Pilani and then a PhD in Molecular Biology from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He joined the Gates Foundation, where he rose to the position of Chief of Staff to the President of the Global Health Program, and then joined Bill Gates at his private philanthropic foundation, Gates Ventures. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Niranjan Bose Managing Director, Health & Life Sciences, Gates Ventures

Rajini Srikanth is Professor of English and Dean of Faculty at UMass Boston. She is the author of the award-winning book The World Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America and Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in U.S. Literature and Law . Her publications have appeared in journals such as Pedagogy, The Comparatist, International Journal of Feminist Studies, and the Journal of Asian American Studies. Her research and teaching interests revolve around human rights and literature, American literature (including Asian American literature), diaspora studies, and comparative race and ethnic studies.She completed her PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Rajini Srikanth Dean of Faculty and Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Molly E. Smith was born in Chennai (formerly Madras) in India and received her BA (English, 1978) from Ethiraj College for Women and her MA (English, 1980) from Madras Christian College. She received her Ph.D. in Renaissance English drama from Auburn University in 1988. Dr. Smith has held tenure track and tenured faculty and leadership positions in universities in the USA and UK. She served as Director of University Honors at Saint Louis University, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Seton Hall University, Provost at Wheaton College (MA), and Saint Martin’s University. Dr. Smith also served as a permanent lecturer at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland for five years and as the eleventh President of Manhattanville College. She currently serves as Provost at Thomas More University. For over a decade, Dr. Smith was a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairleigh Dickinson University. She also served on the Educational Policy and Finance Committees of the Board of Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her other memberships include the board of the Keio Academy of Japan in New York; local business councils in Westchester(NY) and Lacey (WA); and the Foundation Board of W. V. S. Tubman University in Liberia (for a decade). As an Executive Committee member of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) between 2008 and 2011, Dr. Smith served as the organization’s representative to the United Nations; she continues as a member of IAUP. Upon invitation, Dr. Smith delivered the annual Cardinal Henry Newman Lecture at Manhattan College in 2011. Selected to participate in a Fulbright-Nehru Administrators Seminar in 2016, Dr. Smith visited several colleges and universities in India, including her alma mater, MCC. She has lectured on higher education, the liberal arts, women’s leadership, and Renaissance drama in several venues, including the University of Regensburg in Germany, the University of the West Indies in Trinidad, and Mastercard Worldwide in New York City. Dr. Smith has published two books on Shakespeare and his contemporaries and articles on Renaissance literature and drama. We are proud to have Dr. Smith as a member of our International Advisory Board. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Molly Smith Provost at Thomas More University, USA

Michael Gazzaniga widely regarded as having founded the interdisciplinary field of cognitive neuroscience. Early in his career he made a mark by being the first neuroscientist to comprehensively investigate differences between the left and right hemispheres of the human brain. Michael is the Director of the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1964 he received a PhD from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked under the guidance of Roger Sperry, with primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research. In his subsequent work he has made important advances in our understanding of functional lateralization in the brain and how the cerebral hemispheres communicate with one another. Michael’s teaching and mentoring career has included beginning and developing Centers for Cognitive Neuroscience at Cornell University Medical Center, University of California-Davis, and Dartmouth College. He founded the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute and the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, of which he is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus. Michael is also prominent as an advisor to various institutes involved in brain research, and was a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001-2009. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. He has published many books accessible to a lay audience, including: The Social Brain; Mind Matters ; Nature’s Mind ; The Ethical Brains ; Human and Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain ; and Tales from Both Sides of the Brain . School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Michael Gazzaniga Director of the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara

Manish Raghavan will be a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) from Fall 2021. He will also take over the position of assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science starting Fall 2022. His research interests are the societal impacts of algorithmic decision-making, incorporating legal, economic, and normative considerations into the study of algorithms and machine learning. In the past, he has studied algorithms used in the criminal justice system, credit scoring, and employment. He has also spent time working at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. He is supported by fellowships from Cornell University, the National Science Foundation, and Microsoft Research. He holds a BS in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Manish Raghavan Cornell University