About Education Research Interests Major Works Dr. Ajit Nag Assistant Professor, School of Business Ph.D. in Economics, National Institute of Technology Rourkela Dr. Ajit Nag has over three years of teaching and research experience in Economics. His research expertise spans Health Economics, Development Economics, Poverty and Inequality, and Global Issues in Development. His teaching interests include Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Statistics, Financial Economics, Development Economics, and Health Economics. Dr. Nag completed his Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela, Odisha, under the supervision of Prof. Jalandhar Pradhan. His doctoral research, titled "Health Disparity in India: An Enquiry into Convergence and Divergence," focuses on regional disparities in health outcomes across Indian states. He also holds an M.A. in Applied Economics and a Postgraduate Diploma in Foreign Trade from Pondicherry University. He has qualified the UGC-NET (Assistant Professor) examination twice (2018 and 2019) and has recently completed the Personal Branding certification from Harvard Business School Online (2026). Dr. Nag has published several research papers in leading international journals, including Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature Portfolio), BMC Public Health (Springer Nature), Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies (SAGE), and the Indian Journal of Economics. His research has been published in SSCI, SCIE, Scopus-indexed, and ABDC-listed journals, and he also serves as a reviewer for the International Journal for Equity in Health (BMC, Springer Nature). Dr. Nag began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at Galgotias University, Greater Noida. Before joining Sai University, he served as Assistant Professor in the University School of Business at Chandigarh University Mohali, while actively engaging in teaching, research, curriculum development, and academic administration.

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A Fellow of The Academy of Sciences and the Society for Applied Biotechnology, Advancement of Electrochemical Science and Technology, Subba Rao teaches Biological Sciences at SaiU. He brings with him 34 years of experience at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Kalpakkam, in basic, applied, and molecular microbiology. Prof. T. Subba Rao Dean - School of Technology and Chairman, Board of Studies

SAI UNIVERSITY DONATES ₹1CR. TO CM FUND TOWARDS COVID-19 RELIEF COVID-19 is currently wreaking havoc in India and is impacting all walks of life. At this juncture, K. V. Ramani, Founder and Chancellor of Sai University, donated ₹1 crore towards CM Relief Fund towards pandemic relief efforts. The donation was made from Sai Education Trust, mentioning Sai University. Mr. Ramani met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin in the presence of Higher Education Minister and Higher Education Secretary to present the donation.

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About Education Research Interests Major Works Dr. Jemima Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Sciences Ph.D. from Regent University, Virginia Dr. Jemima is an Assistant Professor in the School of Arts and Science with 16 years of experience in psychology. Her expertise spans counselling, teaching, curriculum development, and organisational psychology. She began her career as a Counsellor at SSN Engineering College and subsequently joined Madras Christian College. She has established and led an undergraduate Psychology department at an autonomous institution, overseeing curriculum development, Board of Studies processes, and the implementation of accreditation-aligned academic frameworks. She also founded Limitless: Organisational Development & Psychological Services, an initiative connecting academic scholarship with professional practice, training, industry engagement, and counselling services.

Dr. Shailendra Singh is a highly experienced data science professional with over 28 years of experience in the field of software R & D, data science, product management, patent portfolio, and technology planning and management. He is currently working as the Divisional Head – Data Science at the D&AI Group in TVS Motor, where he leads a team of analytics professionals and is focused on building AI/ML solutions to improve customer lifetime value using techniques such as predictive analytics, NLP, recommender systems, social media analytics, and computer vision. Before his current role, Dr. Singh held several senior positions in the industry, including Data Science Product Head at the Cloud & Cognitive Services Division of Nokia Networks, Vice President – Data Analytics at DIMTS, Senior System Architect at Huawei Technologies, and Chief Engineer at Samsung Electronics. Dr. Singh holds a Ph.D. from IIT Delhi, MSc from IIT Roorkee, and EGMP from IIM Bangalore, and has a wealth of experience working in various industries such as E-commerce, telecom, transportation, banking, and healthcare. With his rich background in software R&D, product management, and technology planning, Dr. Singh is well-equipped to lead his team in delivering cutting-edge AI solutions for his clients. Dr. Shailendra Singh TVS Motors, India

Prof. Seán McLoone is Director of the Centre for Intelligent Autonomous Manufacturing Systems at QUB. He has expertise spanning 30 years in AI and computational intelligence techniques, with a particular interest in Industry 4.0/5.0 applications, including AI enhanced collaborative robotics, condition monitoring, process optimisation, energy efficiency and sustainability. He has graduated over 30 PhD students, published more than 270 international peer reviewed journal and conference papers on his research, and secured funding in excess of £25M (£6M as PI). At QUB, he is a member of the AMIC Academic Board and Digital Factory Technology Strategy Group. Externally he serves on the Editorial Board of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, the IFAC Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence and Control (TC 3.2) and the AI and Data Grand Challenges Research Committee of the UK Advanced Control Engineering (ACE) network. He has previously served as a Member of the Board of Directors of Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) (2014-2021), as Chairman of the UK & Ireland Section of the IEEE (2006-2009), as Head of the Department of Electronic Engineering at Maynooth University (2009-2012), and as Director of the Energy Power and Intelligent Control Research Centre at QUB (2012-2024). Prof. (Dr.) Seán McLoone Queens University of Belfast UK

Prof. Tom Gedeon received the B.Sc. (Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.,He holds the Optus Chair in AI and the Director of the Optus Centre for AI, Curtin University, Perth. Before this, he was a Professor of computer science and the former Deputy Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. He remains an Honorary Professor at ANU. He has over 400 publications. His main research interests include responsive and responsible AI and underpinned by edge computing efficient AI. His focus is on the development of automated systems for information extraction, from eye gaze and physiological data, as well as textual and other data, and for the synthesis of the extracted information into humanly useful information resources, primarily using neural/deep networks and fuzzy logic methods.,Prof. Gedeon has run a number of international conferences. He is the former President of the Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly and the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia. He is currently a member of the Australian Research Council’s Medical Research Advisory Group. He has been nominated for VC’s awards for postgraduate supervision at three universities. He has been the General Chair of the International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) three times. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and the Neural Networks (INNS/Elsevier). Prof. Dr. Tom Gedeon Director of the Optus Centre for AI, Curtin University, Australia

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UNDERSTANDING INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS WITH SHERMAN TEICHMAN Sai University recently organised a webinar on international relations and conflicts as part of its Synaptic Forum which explores ideas of visionary thought leaders around the world. Sai University aims to be the focal point for higher education in India with an active and inter-disciplinary model that will combine traditional education with dynamic methods. The webinar led by Founding Vice Chancellor Dr. Jamshed Bharucha hosted Sherman Teichman as the guest speaker who is a renowned educator with decades of experience in international conflict resolution around the world. At the forum, Mr. Teichman, also a Professor of Practice, International Relations, in the university, spoke about his role in bringing about peaceful resolutions in Iraq in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship. He spoke in detail about the Helsinki principle in 2008 that brought together various sections of Iraqi society in an effort to create a non-sectarian basis for election in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s rule. He also explained about his interactions with Mac Maharaj, a retired South African politician with affiliations with the African National Congress. Mr. Teichman’s model of international education is one that puts students in the midst of international issues and conflicts to get them to learn first-hand the nuances of negotiations and peace talks. Mr. Teichman’s storied work in experiential education has changed the way students look at international conflict and resolution today. Sai University’s Dean, School of Law, Ananth Padmanabhan who was also present at the webinar spoke about the power of narrative in the context of international conflict resolution. He spoke about how the dispute resolution system in India is depersonalized and almost dispassionate in the way cases are judged. Mr. Teichman is the Founding Director of the Institute of Global Leadership at Tufts, a Senior Fellow at the Carr Center with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is also a part of various important boards – Wallenberg Center for Human Rights Foundation, RefugePoint, Combatants of Peace among others. Mr. Teichman has been instrumental in helping tackle international conflicts and its aftermath and how to reconcile in a manner that respects people’s dignity.

IS IT TIME TO RADICALLY CHANGE HOW WE EVALUATE STUDENTS AND EXAMS? With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing schools all over the country to turn to online classes and blended examination methods, there have been criticism about the whole idea. “Critics point out that an online exam leaves students with patchy internet connections at a huge disadvantage — earlier this year, there were reports about a group of students from Mizoram trekking 10 kilometres through the forests to find an internet connection stable enough to write their exams online,” write Prof Mahesh Menon and Prof Abhishek Chakravarty from Sai University, for The Print. In the article, the professors talk about India’s obsession with online proctoring of exams and how the need for it stems from how we evaluate students. The professors also stress on the need for a new model of evaluation give examples of successful online evaluation models from around the world. Read the originally published article in The Print here.