Tavpritesh Sethi

IIIT Delhi

Raghu Dharmaraju

ARTPARK

Raghu Dharmaraju is an entrepreneurial leader with two decades of experience bridging innovations and impact. Conceived, developed, launched, and scaled new products, initiatives, and organisations. He has built portfolio of 7 AI innovations (4 deployed/scaling soon), 1 major national initiative, and 40 partnerships as the founding VP - Products & Programs at Wadhwani AI. Google AI Impact Challenge winner. AI XPRIZE semifinalist. He has raised $18M from Gates Foundation, USAID and established Wadhwani AI as a unique, globally reputed organization developing AI for social good. He launched and scaled med-tech innovations (Embrace infant warmers), reaching ($150 million in 2009) at Corning Environmental Technologies. Mr Dharamraju holds a B.Tech. from IIT Madras, M.S. from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and M.B.A. from Cornell University.

Tavpritesh Sethi

IIIT Delhi

Tavpritesh Sethi is a physician-scientist and Associate Professor of Computational Biology at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India and a fellow of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Over the past two years, he has been a visiting faculty member at Stanford University, School of Medicine from February 2017 to January 2019. He received his M.B.B.S from Government Medical College, Amritsar and PhD from CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India. Dr. Sethi specializes in improving outcomes in neonatal, child and maternal health by bridging medicine and artificial intelligence. His research is focused on development and deployment of machine-learning based solutions to enable decisions and policy in pressing healthcare questions such as antimicrobial resistance, sepsis and health inequalities in intensive care and public health settings. He has authored over 20 research articles and has been a recipient of MIT-TR35 India Innovators under 35, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Early Career Award. He is an editorial board member of PLOS One, Systems Medicine and Journal of Genetics. Dr. Sethi is a member of the European Association of Systems Medicine and leads the Australasia region for International Association of Systems and Networks Medicine (IASyM).

Raghu Dharmaraju

ARTPARK

Raghu Dharmaraju is an entrepreneurial leader with two decades of experience bridging innovations and impact. Conceived, developed, launched, and scaled new products, initiatives, and organisations. He has built portfolio of 7 AI innovations (4 deployed/scaling soon), 1 major national initiative, and 40 partnerships as the founding VP - Products & Programs at Wadhwani AI. Google AI Impact Challenge winner. AI XPRIZE semifinalist. He has raised $18M from Gates Foundation, USAID and established Wadhwani AI as a unique, globally reputed organization developing AI for social good. He launched and scaled med-tech innovations (Embrace infant warmers), reaching ($150 million in 2009) at Corning Environmental Technologies. Mr Dharamraju holds a B.Tech. from IIT Madras, M.S. from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and M.B.A. from Cornell University.

Anurag Mairal

Director, Global Outreach Programs, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University

Dr. Anurag Mairal is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Director of Global Outreach Programs at Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University. He is also a Faculty Fellow and Lead for Technology Innovation and Impact at Center for Innovation in Global Health. He serves as the Founding Chair of BME IDEA APAC, a community of medtech innovation programs in Asia Pacific. Concurrently, he is a co-founder and Executive Vice President of Orbees Medical, a SF Bay Area-based strategy consulting firm serving global healthcare industry, with a focus on medtech, pharmaceutical, and digital health industry. Recently, he took a sabbatical for two years to take a senior leadership role at PATH, a major global health nonprofit based in Seattle. Previously, he held several positions at Johnson & Johnson, including Business Development Director and Product Director for structural heart, cardiology, and peripheral vascular products at Cordis. An active mentor to entrepreneurs and industry professionals, he serves as the chair of PATH’s Bay Area Leadership Council, board member at EPPIC Global Network and IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation and advisory board member at D-Rev and Sewa International. He recently took over as the President Sewa International Bay Area. 

Dr. Mairal earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He also holds an MS in chemical engineering from the Indian Institution of Technology in Mumbai and a BS in chemical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Raipur. Dr. Mairal was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Twente, Netherlands and at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His work has been published in more than 30 publications, and he has seven issued patents.

Abhiroop Gandhi

Trust and Compliance Officer Verily Life Sciences, CA

Abhiroop Gandhi is the Trust & Compliance Officer and leads Strategic Risk Management at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet/Google company at the intersection of technology, data science and healthcare. He has over 15 years of experience in biopharmaceuticals, medical devices and digital health. He has played roles in corporate compliance, risk management and commercial strategy & lifecycle management.

He was previously Vice President of Corporate Compliance at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, where he managed the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and international healthcare compliance programs. Prior to the acquisition by Mallinckrodt, he established Questcor’s healthcare compliance program. He was recognized with a President’s Club award for outstanding contribution to the corporation. Before Questcor, Abhiroop was a member of Genentech’s commercial launch teams for oncology and immunology products. He also held positions at Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Razorfish and General Electric.

He is active in digital health industry forums and advocates for a consistent set of global standards to regulate and commercialize innovative products including the responsible use of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science. 
Mr. Gandhi holds a Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA from FMS, Delhi University and a Bachelor of Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology.

Anurag Mairal

Director, Global Outreach Programs, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University

Dr. Anurag Mairal is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Director of Global Outreach Programs at Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University. He is also a Faculty Fellow and Lead for Technology Innovation and Impact at Center for Innovation in Global Health. He serves as the Founding Chair of BME IDEA APAC, a community of medtech innovation programs in Asia Pacific. Concurrently, he is a co-founder and Executive Vice President of Orbees Medical, a SF Bay Area-based strategy consulting firm serving global healthcare industry, with a focus on medtech, pharmaceutical, and digital health industry. Recently, he took a sabbatical for two years to take a senior leadership role at PATH, a major global health nonprofit based in Seattle. Previously, he held several positions at Johnson & Johnson, including Business Development Director and Product Director for structural heart, cardiology, and peripheral vascular products at Cordis. An active mentor to entrepreneurs and industry professionals, he serves as the chair of PATH’s Bay Area Leadership Council, board member at EPPIC Global Network and IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation and advisory board member at D-Rev and Sewa International. He recently took over as the President Sewa International Bay Area. 

Dr. Mairal earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He also holds an MS in chemical engineering from the Indian Institution of Technology in Mumbai and a BS in chemical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Raipur. Dr. Mairal was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Twente, Netherlands and at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His work has been published in more than 30 publications, and he has seven issued patents.

Abhiroop Gandhi

Trust and Compliance Officer Verily Life Sciences, CA

Abhiroop Gandhi is the Trust & Compliance Officer and leads Strategic Risk Management at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet/Google company at the intersection of technology, data science and healthcare. He has over 15 years of experience in biopharmaceuticals, medical devices and digital health. He has played roles in corporate compliance, risk management and commercial strategy & lifecycle management.

He was previously Vice President of Corporate Compliance at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, where he managed the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and international healthcare compliance programs. Prior to the acquisition by Mallinckrodt, he established Questcor’s healthcare compliance program. He was recognized with a President’s Club award for outstanding contribution to the corporation. Before Questcor, Abhiroop was a member of Genentech’s commercial launch teams for oncology and immunology products. He also held positions at Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Razorfish and General Electric.

He is active in digital health industry forums and advocates for a consistent set of global standards to regulate and commercialize innovative products including the responsible use of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science. 
Mr. Gandhi holds a Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA from FMS, Delhi University and a Bachelor of Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology.

Manindra Agrawal

Aditya Prakash

Georgia Tech

B. Aditya Prakash is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech”). He received a Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2012, and a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) -- Bombay in 2007. His research interests include Data Science, Machine Learning and AI, with emphasis on big-data problems in large real-world networks and time-series, and applications to computational epidemiology/public health, urban computing, security and the Web. He has published one book and more than 85 papers in major venues, where his work has been recognized with multiple best-of-conference, best paper and travel awards. He also holds two U.S. patents and has given several tutorials at leading conferences. Tools developed by his group have been in use in companies and national agencies like ORNL, CDC and Walmart. He is a recipient of the Facebook Faculty Award (2015 and 2021), the NSF CAREER award and was named as one of ‘AI Ten to Watch’ by IEEE. His work has also won top awards in multiple international data science challenges (e.g., the C3AI COVID19 Grand Challenge) and has been highlighted by numerous media outlets/popular press e.g. FiveThirtyEight.com.

Ajitesh Srivastava

University of Southern California (USC)

Ajitesh Srivastava is a Research Assistant Professor at the Ming Hsieh Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Southern California in 2018. His research interests include network science, modeling, and machine learning applied to epidemics, social good, social networks, and computer systems. He collaborates with teams around the world and the CDC for infectious disease forecasting and scenario projections. He is a DARPA Grand Challenge winner (2014) for predicting the spread of the Chikungunya virus and the Target Data Science Challenge winner (2016) for predicting shoppers' behavior. He is also an Indian National Math Olympiad Awardee 2008 (awarded to 30 students in India).

Syra Madad

NYC Health + Hospitals

Syra Madad is an internationally recognized public health leader and epidemiologist in infectious disease and special pathogens preparedness and response. She serves as the Senior Director of the System-wide Special Pathogens Program at NYC Health + Hospitals and Health and Safety Lead of the Enhanced Investigations Unit of NYC Test and Trace Corp. She’s also the workgroup lead of NYC Health + Hospitals COVID-19 Vaccination Communications and Outreach Workgroup. Her work focuses on the preparedness for, response to and recovery from infectious disease outbreaks with an emphasis on healthcare and public health biopreparedness. She’s responded to multiple infectious disease outbreaks as an infectious disease epidemiologist including Ebola, measles and Zika. In addition, Dr. Madad is a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs where she regularly publishes on the latest public health guidance, epidemiological concepts and scientific literature to help the public understand complex topics using infographics and simplified science communication. She’s Core Faculty in the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC) and affiliate faculty at the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy & Research at Boston University. Dr. Madad is prominently featured in the Emmy-nominated Netflix docuseries, Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak, and the Discovery Channel documentary, The Vaccine: Conquering COVID. 

Anurag Agrawal

CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology.

Anurag Agrawal is Director of the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology. After completing graduate medical education at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi (1994), he further trained in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA (2003), followed by a PhD in Physiology from Delhi University. His primary research is in respiratory biology and broader interests are in smart deployment of emerging technologies towards healthcare, where he serves on national thinktanks, co-chairs the Lancet and Financial Times commission on Governing Health Futures, and serves on related expert groups at the World Health Organisation and Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence. He received the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Prize, the highest govt scientific award of India, in 2014, and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences

Gagandeep Kang

CMC Vellore

Gagandeep Kang is the first woman from India to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. She is also the first Indian woman to be elected to Fellowship of the American Academy of Microbiology and the only physician-scientist to receive the Infosys Award in Life Sciences. Gagandeep Kang received her training in medicine and microbiology at the Christian Medical College, Vellore in southern India and is Professor of Microbiology at the Christian Medical College (CMC) in Vellore, India. She works on enteric infections in children, particularly on transmission and immune responses, in order to design effective interventions. Current studies include active hospital and community based surveillance and clinical trials of new and existing vaccines, with use of molecular based assays to study the diversity of pathogens and the immune response of children with viral and parasitic enteric infections.

Cecile Viboud

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Cecile Viboud is a senior research scientist in the Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies of the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA. Her research focuses on the epidemiology and transmission dynamics of acute viral infections, at the interface of public health and computational modeling. Her work has concentrated on modeling the epidemiology, excess mortality, and transmission dynamics of respiratory viruses, including seasonal and pandemic influenza, and COVID-19. She has recently become interested in the potential of Big Data to strengthen infectious disease surveillance, disease forecasts, and the population-level impact of vaccination programs.

Giridhara R Babu

Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)

Giridhara R Babu (MBBS, MPH, Ph.D.) is Professor and Head – Life Course Epidemiology at Public Health Foundation of India. He has a medical degree (MBBS) from Kasturba medical college Manipal and has completed MPH and PhD from UCLA (University of California Los Angeles). He has two decades of experience in public health research, practice and academics.  He began his career at the Center for Community Medicine of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi as a Junior Resident. Next, he worked with World Health Organization where he led the efforts in stopping polio transmission in the state of Karnataka. He initiated advocacy for Measles surveillance in Karnataka leading to constitution of Multi Year Plan (MYP) for Measles elimination in India. He is awarded the prestigious intermediate and now the senior fellowship of Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance to start and expand cohort study. The cohort is named as MAASTHI (Maternal Antecedents of Adiposity Studying the Transgenerational role of Hyperglycemia and Insulin). 

He was also recently awarded the prestigious Team Science Grant by the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance where he will be leading a consortium of 18 investigators across 6 premiere public health institutions in India. This research program titled Nutritional, psychosocial and environmental determinants of neurodevelopment and child mental health (COINCIDE) aims to evaluate how multiple factors in a child’s immediate environment impact their development in the first decade of their life starting from pregnancy. 

Giridhara has over 100 papers published in national and international high impact journals. He has served on several national and international committees. Some of them include Lancet Commission Task force on COVID19, ICMR National Task Force for COVID-I9 and the Technical Analysis Committee of the Government of Karnataka. He is the regional representative for LMICs on the DoHaD international society.

He is actively involved in writing articles for general public, providing his expert opinion to media houses and consultation to several states. His work on COVID-19 can be accessed here https://giridhar.org/covid-19/

Mahesh Bhalgat

Syngene International Ltd.

Mahesh Bhalgat, Ph.D is the Chief Operating Officer at Syngene International LTD. Mahesh holds a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Utah, the USA, and a bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from the University of Mumbai. He has 30 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical, vaccine and pharma industries. Mahesh has worked and led different facets of R&D, analytical development, manufacturing and operations, technology transfer, regulatory sciences, quality and capital projects. During a 20-year US stint, he worked with Amgen, Monsanto, Celera Genomics and Molecular Probes (now Thermo Fisher). After moving to India, Mahesh was part of the team that brought WHO prequalification approvals for four vaccines in Biological E. Just before joining Syngene, he was the Chief Operating Officer at Shantha Biotechnics, a Sanofi company, where his responsibilities included operations, quality, supply chain, long-term strategic planning, manufacturing science and technology and human resources. Mahesh is a member of the CII National Committee on Technology, R&D and Innovation. At Syngene, Mahesh is the Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Executive Committee.

Monica Gandhi

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH is an Infectious Diseases doctor, Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is also the Director of the UCSF Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and the Medical Director of the HIV Clinic ("Ward 86") at San Francisco General Hospital. Her research focuses on HIV and women and adherence measurement in HIV treatment and prevention and most recently, on how to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic.

Randeep Guleria

AIIMS New Delhi

Randeep Guleria is an Indian pulmonologist and the Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. He is regarded as one of India's leading medical expert and is credited with the establishment of India's first centre for pulmonary medicines and sleep disorders at AIIMS. He is the director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He is also part of India's COVID-19 response effort.

Dr. Guleria started his medical studies at IGMC, Shimla, from where he received an undergraduate degree in Medicine, afterwards he attended the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh, from where he secured his MD in general medicine and DM in pulmonary medicine. He joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and rose in ranks to become a professor and the head of the Department of Pulmonology and Sleep Disorders. He was honoured by the Government of India in 2015 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.

Dr. Guleria is a recipient of Raj Nanda Pulmonary Disease Fellowship from Raj Nanda Trust and the Royal College of Physicians, UK and is an elected fellow (2011) of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS). He sits on the editorial boards of a number of medical journals such as the Indian Journal of Chest Diseases, Lung India, Journal of American Medical Association and Chest India. He is associated with the World Health Organization (WHO) as a member of its Scientific Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on immunization and influenza vaccination. He is a life member of the Association of Physicians of India, Indian Chest Society and the National College of Chest Physicians of India. He also serves as a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna on issues related to radiation protection.

Shoibal Datta

Data Sciences Institute at Takeda

Shoibal Datta is the Head of the Digital Strategy Group within the Data Sciences Institute at Takeda. In support of Takeda's commitment to digital and data he is responsible for working with colleagues across the enterprise to develop patient-centric digital strategies for the development of novel endpoints, make studies more resilient through decentralized approaches and help bring innovations in digital health from R&D through to commercial.

Prior to this Shoibal was Vice President of PPD Digital where he was responsible for setting the strategy and working with external platform partners and device manufacturers to devise compliant, globally scalable approaches to conduct decentralized trials and to oversee the integration of the technologies into conventional clinical research and data management processes. He also spent 13 years at Biogen in a range of roles in translational informatics, data sciences and as part of an innovation hub that launched MS PATHS, a learning healthcare system that utilises technology to capture high quality data as standard of care for over 10,000 MS patients globally supporting RWE and value-based medicine initiatives.

Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

IIT Madras

Dr. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam is a Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering and heads IITM's Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC). After his PhD and postdoc stint in US, he returned to India in late 2008 with the goal of developing indigenous medical technologies and set up HTIC in 2011. Since then, HTIC has grown into a unique and leading med-tech innovation ecosystem in the country bringing together around 40 medical institutions, industries, government agencies in developing and deploying affordable healthcare technologies. Six of these technologies have resulted in commercially successful products. HTIC’s 80+ member team of engineers and researchers is currently developing technologies in areas of cardiovascular ultrasound, endoscopy, ophthalmology, in-vitro diagnostics, surgical robotics, in collaboration with leading organizations. Since 2017, HTIC houses a medical technology incubator nurturing over 30 startups in this field. He received the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Young Engineer Award and IITM’s Early Career R&D Award. He has over 200 research publications in leading journals and conferences.

K. Chandrasekhar

Founder and CEO, Forus Health

K Chandrasekhar - Founder & CEO of Forus Health is the brain behind the development of a technology platform that increases access to eye care and prevents avoidable blindness. K Chandrasekhar established a unique strategy to introduce the revolutionary product '3nethra', which resulted in an unprecedented expansion of the retinal imaging market in India. Before starting Forus Health, K Chandrasekhar was the Director of Strategy at NXP Semiconductors and served over 20 years in major multinational and Indian tech companies. K Chandrasekhar is an alumnus of BITS, Pilani and IIM Kolkata

Sherri Douville

CEO, Medigram, Inc.

Sherri Douville is CEO and board member at Medigram, the Mobile Medicine company. She is also an editor, best selling author and sought-after speaker. Ms. Douville is the co-chair of the IEEE/UL International Joint Venture for the technical trust standard project for Clinical IoT in medicine. She is the co-author of multiple books and several technical papers. She served as the editor and lead author for the book, Mobile Medicine: Overcoming People, Culture, and Governance, which was the #1 hottest new release on Amazon for medical technology and medical informatics. Mobile Medicine is internationally acclaimed and was voted by business and technical leaders as the #1 book in all of healthcare for 2021 by BookAuthority. Ms. Douville previously won several awards while working at Johnson & Johnson in over a dozen disease states over the course of a decade. She has a Bachelor of Combined Sciences degree from Santa Clara University and has completed certificates in electrical engineering, computer science, AI and ML through MIT.

Santosh Kumar

Director, NIH Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K)

Santosh Kumar is the Lillian & Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence Professor in Computer Science at the University of Memphis. He is also Director of two NIH-funded multidisciplinary and multi-university national research centers in mHealth called mDOT Biomedical Technology Resource Center and MD2K Center of Excellence. Supported by over $50 million in federal research grants, his research in wearable AI seeks to revolutionize health and wellness via delivering timely interventions triggered by automated monitoring of human health and daily behaviors from wearables. Open-source software developed by his team has been used to conduct scientific studies nationwide, producing hundreds of terabytes of wearable sensor data to investigate stress management, smoking cessation, congestive heart failure, impulsive overeating, obesity, oral health, chronic pain, cocaine use, opioid use, and workplace performance. He also serves as the CEO & co-founder of a high-tech startup in wearable AI called CuesHub, PBC

Prashant Warier

Chief Executive Officer, qure.ai

Prashant Warier is the Co-Founder & CEO at Qure.ai. Prashant is an expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Deep learning. He has architected and commercialized several data science solutions in his 19 year career. He is also a prolific researcher, author, and speaker on topics related to data science and machine learning. He is passionate about using deep learning to make healthcare affordable and accessible. 

Mohammad Ameel

Head, Primary Healthcare, Technology, and Innovations, PATH

Mohammad Ameel currently Heads the Primary Healthcare, Technology & Innovations portfolio at PATH. Earlier he served as the Senior Consultant & Incharge, Healthcare Technology Division and Head - WHO collaborating center for priority medical devices & health technology policy at National Health Systems Resource Centre, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India.

As a fellow of India’s first international fellowship on Health technology Assessment (HTA) he has authored several health technology assessment reports including the one presented at Global Medical Device forum at WHO Headquarters, Geneva. He also got the privilege to represent India in the 3rd WHO Global Forum on Medical Device, Geneva and proposed the next forum in India in December 2018. He was recently conferred with prestigious award ‘100 most impactful healthcare leaders’ (Global listing, 2018). He was also recognized for his outstanding contribution to Medical Devices & Healthcare Technology field at the 8th MT India Healthcare Awards, 2018. He got the opportunity to accompany the Hon’ble President of India on business delegation to Prague, Czech Republic in September 2018. Recently he was nominated to represent the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to talk about Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Program at the Lok Sabha TV.

Renu Swarup

Former Secretary to Government of India
Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology

Dr Renu Swarup, is the Former Secretary, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India. Having served in Department of Biotechnology for over 30 years, she  was also the  Chairperson of Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC),  She  also held the Additional Charge of  Secretary Department of Science &Technology for a short period .

A PhD in Genetics and Plant Breeding, She  did her Post Doctoral Research at The John Innes Centre, Norwich UK, Dr. Renu Swarup has been instrumental in the planning and implementation of some major National programmes. As a Science Manager issues related to policy planning and implementation were a part of her assignment. She was actively engaged in the formulation of National Biotechnology Vision and Strategy in 2001, 2007 and 2015and 2021.She  was also a member of the Task Force on Women in Science constituted by the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Prime Minister.

As the Secretary of Government of India, Department of Biotechnology, she led  a Network of 16 Autonomous Research Institutes, 2 Public Sector Undertaking and a R&D Network of more than 5000 projects across more than 100 research institutes, Universities and Laboratories. In the recent COVID Pandemic situation she  led the COVID Vaccine ,Diagnostic and Genome sequencing Mission. The Public Sector BIRAC, for which she was  the founding Managing Director and then  Chairperson, has supported more than 5000  Startups and over 60 Incubators

A Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (NASI) India, A Life Member of Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences (TAAS) and a Member of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD), she was awarded the “BioSpectrum Person of the Year Award” in 2012. “National Entrepreneurship Awards 2017”, TiE Women Enabler Award 2018, “Dr. P. Sheel Memorial Award” 2018 by NASI and the TWAS Regional Office Prize on Science Diplomacy in 2018. She has been awarded the Agriculture Research Leadership Award 2019, Smt. Chandaben Mohanbhai Patel VASVIK Award for Women Scientific & Chemical science & Technology  2020-21,Life Time Achievement Award for Biotech Policy maker—2021 by Golden Jubilee Women Biotech Park .She was also recognised as Business world women 2019 & 2020

Mintu Turakhia

Founding Director, Center for Digital Health, Stanford; Chief Cardiac Electrophysiology

"Mintu Turakhia M.D. M.A.S. is a cardiac electrophysiologist, outcomes researcher, and clinical trialist. He is the Director of the Stanford Center for Digital Health (CDH) and the American Heart Association-funded Heart Health Technology Center. In his clinical role, he performs invasive procedures such as catheter ablation and device implantation to treat heart rhythm disorders.

Dr. Turakhia has an active multidisciplinary program in heart rhythm and digital health research, where uses biostatistical, health economic, artificial intelligence, and data science approaches to examine quality, outcomes, and risk of heart rhythm disorders such as atrial fibrillation in very large datasets. He is a principal investigator of several multi-center trials, such as the Apple Heart Study, to test digital health tools and wearables, and he collaborates closely on research with med device and tech companies. Dr. Turakhia has published over 200 manuscripts and works and is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Heart Rhythm Society. Dr. Turakhia has served as an advisor and investor to over two dozen medical device, drug, and health technology companies across the life cycle from early stage to IPO."

Wendy Taylor

Vice President, Technical Leadership and Innovation at Jhpiego

"Wendy Taylor, Vice President for Technical Leadership and Innovation, directs a multidisciplinary team of more than 70 staff focused on driving impact across a wide range of health areas. She is responsible for working across technical teams and nearly 40 country teams to prepare the organization for transformational innovations, from technologies and systems innovations to data science and actionable insights. She joined Jhpiego following a two-year fellowship with The Rockefeller Foundation, where she explored how to leverage advances in artificial intelligence, digital health and data technologies to transform global health, including how advanced outbreak analytics can be used to better prepare for and respond to a global pandemic.

Prior to the fellowship, Ms. Taylor worked for two decades within and outside of government, catalyzing innovations to tackle some of the world’s toughest global health challenges and scaling up market-based solutions for impact. At the US Agency for International Development, she founded and led the Center for Innovation and Impact, which applies innovative, business-minded approaches to accelerate the development, introduction and scale-up of priority global health innovations. There she spearheaded multiple strategic partnerships, including Saving Lives at Birth, a $100 million, multistakeholder Grand Challenge; created the agency’s first advance purchase commitments to stimulate investments in vaccines and diagnostics; and built multiple public-private partnerships with corporations to expand and strengthen health markets.

Previously, she held senior positions with several global health nonprofits—including Bio Ventures for Global Health, which she founded—and served in both the executive and legislative branches of the US Government, including the Office of Management and Budget and the US House Committee on Ways and Means."

Sandeep Dewan

Director & HOD, Critical Care, Fortis Memorial Research Institute

Dr. Sandeep Dewan did his graduation and Post Graduation in Anesthesia and Intensive care medicine from PGIMS Rohtak and Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine from Fortis Hospital, Vasant Kunj. He has worked in various hospitals like Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (2001-2005).He joined Fortis Group in 2005 and has been instrumental in starting Critical Care Medicine departments at Escorts Heart Institute.and Fortis Memorial, Gurgaon.He has more than 15 years of experience in Critical Care Medicine. He has several National and International publications to his name. He is currently Director of ECMO programme at FMRI and has been instrumental in establishing FMRI as Centre of Excellence for ECMO.

Sumit Kumar Nagpal

CEO and Founder, Cherish Health

Sumit is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on digital health innovation at scale. He has co-founded and grown five companies over the past two and a half decades that have tackled progressively bolder challenges facing our healthcare economies. All his work features common themes - big, bold ideas that help us imagine a better world; incredibly complex processes rethought into simple, approachable, and engaging user experiences; and implementation models that blend big innovations into the fabric of daily life - themes he has honed since the time Sumit worked with Steve Jobs and NeXT in the early 1990s.

Sumit is now the CEO and founder of Cherish Health. Cherish Health develops advanced sensors and artificial intelligence, combined with medical evidence and human touch, and uses these to provide solutions for people aging or living with health challenges – our grandparents, parents, children, many of us – that help improve their lives and support their self-care. Sumit also serves on the HIMSS Enterprise and Health eVillages boards and is sought after for his expertise and unstoppable energy as an entrepreneur, change agent, strategist, and technology architect.

Smisha Agarwal

Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Agarwal is the Research Director of Johns Hopkins Global mHealth Initiative (JHU-GmI) and Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She studies how to improve maternal and newborn health through strengthening community health systems and leveraging innovative technological solutions including digital devices.Over the last decade, she has supported the development of programs that employ digital tools such as mobile phones to improve health care services for women and children. This has included the development of point-of-care digital clinical decision support tools used by community health workers and other health care providers, and patient-focused SMS-based health behavior change interventions, and conversational agents (“chatbots”) that use natural language processing to communicate with users.

Tavpritesh Sethi

IIIT Delhi

Raghu Dharmaraju

ARTPARK

Raghu Dharmaraju is an entrepreneurial leader with two decades of experience bridging innovations and impact. Conceived, developed, launched, and scaled new products, initiatives, and organisations. He has built portfolio of 7 AI innovations (4 deployed/scaling soon), 1 major national initiative, and 40 partnerships as the founding VP - Products & Programs at Wadhwani AI. Google AI Impact Challenge winner. AI XPRIZE semifinalist. He has raised $18M from Gates Foundation, USAID and established Wadhwani AI as a unique, globally reputed organization developing AI for social good. He launched and scaled med-tech innovations (Embrace infant warmers), reaching ($150 million in 2009) at Corning Environmental Technologies. Mr Dharamraju holds a B.Tech. from IIT Madras, M.S. from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and M.B.A. from Cornell University.

Tavpritesh Sethi

IIIT Delhi

Tavpritesh Sethi is a physician-scientist and Associate Professor of Computational Biology at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India and a fellow of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Over the past two years, he has been a visiting faculty member at Stanford University, School of Medicine from February 2017 to January 2019. He received his M.B.B.S from Government Medical College, Amritsar and PhD from CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India. Dr. Sethi specializes in improving outcomes in neonatal, child and maternal health by bridging medicine and artificial intelligence. His research is focused on development and deployment of machine-learning based solutions to enable decisions and policy in pressing healthcare questions such as antimicrobial resistance, sepsis and health inequalities in intensive care and public health settings. He has authored over 20 research articles and has been a recipient of MIT-TR35 India Innovators under 35, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Early Career Award. He is an editorial board member of PLOS One, Systems Medicine and Journal of Genetics. Dr. Sethi is a member of the European Association of Systems Medicine and leads the Australasia region for International Association of Systems and Networks Medicine (IASyM).

Raghu Dharmaraju

ARTPARK

Raghu Dharmaraju is an entrepreneurial leader with two decades of experience bridging innovations and impact. Conceived, developed, launched, and scaled new products, initiatives, and organisations. He has built portfolio of 7 AI innovations (4 deployed/scaling soon), 1 major national initiative, and 40 partnerships as the founding VP - Products & Programs at Wadhwani AI. Google AI Impact Challenge winner. AI XPRIZE semifinalist. He has raised $18M from Gates Foundation, USAID and established Wadhwani AI as a unique, globally reputed organization developing AI for social good. He launched and scaled med-tech innovations (Embrace infant warmers), reaching ($150 million in 2009) at Corning Environmental Technologies. Mr Dharamraju holds a B.Tech. from IIT Madras, M.S. from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and M.B.A. from Cornell University.

Anurag Mairal

Director, Global Outreach Programs, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University

Dr. Anurag Mairal is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Director of Global Outreach Programs at Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University. He is also a Faculty Fellow and Lead for Technology Innovation and Impact at Center for Innovation in Global Health. He serves as the Founding Chair of BME IDEA APAC, a community of medtech innovation programs in Asia Pacific. Concurrently, he is a co-founder and Executive Vice President of Orbees Medical, a SF Bay Area-based strategy consulting firm serving global healthcare industry, with a focus on medtech, pharmaceutical, and digital health industry. Recently, he took a sabbatical for two years to take a senior leadership role at PATH, a major global health nonprofit based in Seattle. Previously, he held several positions at Johnson & Johnson, including Business Development Director and Product Director for structural heart, cardiology, and peripheral vascular products at Cordis. An active mentor to entrepreneurs and industry professionals, he serves as the chair of PATH’s Bay Area Leadership Council, board member at EPPIC Global Network and IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation and advisory board member at D-Rev and Sewa International. He recently took over as the President Sewa International Bay Area. 

Dr. Mairal earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He also holds an MS in chemical engineering from the Indian Institution of Technology in Mumbai and a BS in chemical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Raipur. Dr. Mairal was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Twente, Netherlands and at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His work has been published in more than 30 publications, and he has seven issued patents.

Abhiroop Gandhi

Trust and Compliance Officer Verily Life Sciences, CA

Abhiroop Gandhi is the Trust & Compliance Officer and leads Strategic Risk Management at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet/Google company at the intersection of technology, data science and healthcare. He has over 15 years of experience in biopharmaceuticals, medical devices and digital health. He has played roles in corporate compliance, risk management and commercial strategy & lifecycle management.

He was previously Vice President of Corporate Compliance at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, where he managed the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and international healthcare compliance programs. Prior to the acquisition by Mallinckrodt, he established Questcor’s healthcare compliance program. He was recognized with a President’s Club award for outstanding contribution to the corporation. Before Questcor, Abhiroop was a member of Genentech’s commercial launch teams for oncology and immunology products. He also held positions at Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Razorfish and General Electric.

He is active in digital health industry forums and advocates for a consistent set of global standards to regulate and commercialize innovative products including the responsible use of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science. 
Mr. Gandhi holds a Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA from FMS, Delhi University and a Bachelor of Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology.

Anurag Mairal

Director, Global Outreach Programs, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University

Dr. Anurag Mairal is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Director of Global Outreach Programs at Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University. He is also a Faculty Fellow and Lead for Technology Innovation and Impact at Center for Innovation in Global Health. He serves as the Founding Chair of BME IDEA APAC, a community of medtech innovation programs in Asia Pacific. Concurrently, he is a co-founder and Executive Vice President of Orbees Medical, a SF Bay Area-based strategy consulting firm serving global healthcare industry, with a focus on medtech, pharmaceutical, and digital health industry. Recently, he took a sabbatical for two years to take a senior leadership role at PATH, a major global health nonprofit based in Seattle. Previously, he held several positions at Johnson & Johnson, including Business Development Director and Product Director for structural heart, cardiology, and peripheral vascular products at Cordis. An active mentor to entrepreneurs and industry professionals, he serves as the chair of PATH’s Bay Area Leadership Council, board member at EPPIC Global Network and IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation and advisory board member at D-Rev and Sewa International. He recently took over as the President Sewa International Bay Area. 

Dr. Mairal earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He also holds an MS in chemical engineering from the Indian Institution of Technology in Mumbai and a BS in chemical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Raipur. Dr. Mairal was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Twente, Netherlands and at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His work has been published in more than 30 publications, and he has seven issued patents.

Abhiroop Gandhi

Trust and Compliance Officer Verily Life Sciences, CA

Abhiroop Gandhi is the Trust & Compliance Officer and leads Strategic Risk Management at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet/Google company at the intersection of technology, data science and healthcare. He has over 15 years of experience in biopharmaceuticals, medical devices and digital health. He has played roles in corporate compliance, risk management and commercial strategy & lifecycle management.

He was previously Vice President of Corporate Compliance at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, where he managed the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and international healthcare compliance programs. Prior to the acquisition by Mallinckrodt, he established Questcor’s healthcare compliance program. He was recognized with a President’s Club award for outstanding contribution to the corporation. Before Questcor, Abhiroop was a member of Genentech’s commercial launch teams for oncology and immunology products. He also held positions at Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Razorfish and General Electric.

He is active in digital health industry forums and advocates for a consistent set of global standards to regulate and commercialize innovative products including the responsible use of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science. 
Mr. Gandhi holds a Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA from FMS, Delhi University and a Bachelor of Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology.

Manindra Agrawal

Aditya Prakash

Georgia Tech

B. Aditya Prakash is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech”). He received a Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2012, and a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) -- Bombay in 2007. His research interests include Data Science, Machine Learning and AI, with emphasis on big-data problems in large real-world networks and time-series, and applications to computational epidemiology/public health, urban computing, security and the Web. He has published one book and more than 85 papers in major venues, where his work has been recognized with multiple best-of-conference, best paper and travel awards. He also holds two U.S. patents and has given several tutorials at leading conferences. Tools developed by his group have been in use in companies and national agencies like ORNL, CDC and Walmart. He is a recipient of the Facebook Faculty Award (2015 and 2021), the NSF CAREER award and was named as one of ‘AI Ten to Watch’ by IEEE. His work has also won top awards in multiple international data science challenges (e.g., the C3AI COVID19 Grand Challenge) and has been highlighted by numerous media outlets/popular press e.g. FiveThirtyEight.com.

Ajitesh Srivastava

University of Southern California (USC)

Ajitesh Srivastava is a Research Assistant Professor at the Ming Hsieh Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Southern California in 2018. His research interests include network science, modeling, and machine learning applied to epidemics, social good, social networks, and computer systems. He collaborates with teams around the world and the CDC for infectious disease forecasting and scenario projections. He is a DARPA Grand Challenge winner (2014) for predicting the spread of the Chikungunya virus and the Target Data Science Challenge winner (2016) for predicting shoppers' behavior. He is also an Indian National Math Olympiad Awardee 2008 (awarded to 30 students in India).

Syra Madad

NYC Health + Hospitals

Syra Madad is an internationally recognized public health leader and epidemiologist in infectious disease and special pathogens preparedness and response. She serves as the Senior Director of the System-wide Special Pathogens Program at NYC Health + Hospitals and Health and Safety Lead of the Enhanced Investigations Unit of NYC Test and Trace Corp. She’s also the workgroup lead of NYC Health + Hospitals COVID-19 Vaccination Communications and Outreach Workgroup. Her work focuses on the preparedness for, response to and recovery from infectious disease outbreaks with an emphasis on healthcare and public health biopreparedness. She’s responded to multiple infectious disease outbreaks as an infectious disease epidemiologist including Ebola, measles and Zika. In addition, Dr. Madad is a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs where she regularly publishes on the latest public health guidance, epidemiological concepts and scientific literature to help the public understand complex topics using infographics and simplified science communication. She’s Core Faculty in the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC) and affiliate faculty at the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy & Research at Boston University. Dr. Madad is prominently featured in the Emmy-nominated Netflix docuseries, Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak, and the Discovery Channel documentary, The Vaccine: Conquering COVID. 

Anurag Agrawal

CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology.

Anurag Agrawal is Director of the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology. After completing graduate medical education at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi (1994), he further trained in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA (2003), followed by a PhD in Physiology from Delhi University. His primary research is in respiratory biology and broader interests are in smart deployment of emerging technologies towards healthcare, where he serves on national thinktanks, co-chairs the Lancet and Financial Times commission on Governing Health Futures, and serves on related expert groups at the World Health Organisation and Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence. He received the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Prize, the highest govt scientific award of India, in 2014, and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences

Gagandeep Kang

CMC Vellore

Gagandeep Kang is the first woman from India to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. She is also the first Indian woman to be elected to Fellowship of the American Academy of Microbiology and the only physician-scientist to receive the Infosys Award in Life Sciences. Gagandeep Kang received her training in medicine and microbiology at the Christian Medical College, Vellore in southern India and is Professor of Microbiology at the Christian Medical College (CMC) in Vellore, India. She works on enteric infections in children, particularly on transmission and immune responses, in order to design effective interventions. Current studies include active hospital and community based surveillance and clinical trials of new and existing vaccines, with use of molecular based assays to study the diversity of pathogens and the immune response of children with viral and parasitic enteric infections.

Cecile Viboud

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Cecile Viboud is a senior research scientist in the Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies of the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA. Her research focuses on the epidemiology and transmission dynamics of acute viral infections, at the interface of public health and computational modeling. Her work has concentrated on modeling the epidemiology, excess mortality, and transmission dynamics of respiratory viruses, including seasonal and pandemic influenza, and COVID-19. She has recently become interested in the potential of Big Data to strengthen infectious disease surveillance, disease forecasts, and the population-level impact of vaccination programs.

Giridhara R Babu

Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)

Giridhara R Babu (MBBS, MPH, Ph.D.) is Professor and Head – Life Course Epidemiology at Public Health Foundation of India. He has a medical degree (MBBS) from Kasturba medical college Manipal and has completed MPH and PhD from UCLA (University of California Los Angeles). He has two decades of experience in public health research, practice and academics.  He began his career at the Center for Community Medicine of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi as a Junior Resident. Next, he worked with World Health Organization where he led the efforts in stopping polio transmission in the state of Karnataka. He initiated advocacy for Measles surveillance in Karnataka leading to constitution of Multi Year Plan (MYP) for Measles elimination in India. He is awarded the prestigious intermediate and now the senior fellowship of Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance to start and expand cohort study. The cohort is named as MAASTHI (Maternal Antecedents of Adiposity Studying the Transgenerational role of Hyperglycemia and Insulin). 

He was also recently awarded the prestigious Team Science Grant by the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance where he will be leading a consortium of 18 investigators across 6 premiere public health institutions in India. This research program titled Nutritional, psychosocial and environmental determinants of neurodevelopment and child mental health (COINCIDE) aims to evaluate how multiple factors in a child’s immediate environment impact their development in the first decade of their life starting from pregnancy. 

Giridhara has over 100 papers published in national and international high impact journals. He has served on several national and international committees. Some of them include Lancet Commission Task force on COVID19, ICMR National Task Force for COVID-I9 and the Technical Analysis Committee of the Government of Karnataka. He is the regional representative for LMICs on the DoHaD international society.

He is actively involved in writing articles for general public, providing his expert opinion to media houses and consultation to several states. His work on COVID-19 can be accessed here https://giridhar.org/covid-19/

Mahesh Bhalgat

Syngene International Ltd.

Mahesh Bhalgat, Ph.D is the Chief Operating Officer at Syngene International LTD. Mahesh holds a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Utah, the USA, and a bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from the University of Mumbai. He has 30 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical, vaccine and pharma industries. Mahesh has worked and led different facets of R&D, analytical development, manufacturing and operations, technology transfer, regulatory sciences, quality and capital projects. During a 20-year US stint, he worked with Amgen, Monsanto, Celera Genomics and Molecular Probes (now Thermo Fisher). After moving to India, Mahesh was part of the team that brought WHO prequalification approvals for four vaccines in Biological E. Just before joining Syngene, he was the Chief Operating Officer at Shantha Biotechnics, a Sanofi company, where his responsibilities included operations, quality, supply chain, long-term strategic planning, manufacturing science and technology and human resources. Mahesh is a member of the CII National Committee on Technology, R&D and Innovation. At Syngene, Mahesh is the Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Executive Committee.

Monica Gandhi

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH is an Infectious Diseases doctor, Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is also the Director of the UCSF Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and the Medical Director of the HIV Clinic ("Ward 86") at San Francisco General Hospital. Her research focuses on HIV and women and adherence measurement in HIV treatment and prevention and most recently, on how to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic.

Randeep Guleria

AIIMS New Delhi

Randeep Guleria is an Indian pulmonologist and the Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. He is regarded as one of India's leading medical expert and is credited with the establishment of India's first centre for pulmonary medicines and sleep disorders at AIIMS. He is the director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He is also part of India's COVID-19 response effort.

Dr. Guleria started his medical studies at IGMC, Shimla, from where he received an undergraduate degree in Medicine, afterwards he attended the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh, from where he secured his MD in general medicine and DM in pulmonary medicine. He joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and rose in ranks to become a professor and the head of the Department of Pulmonology and Sleep Disorders. He was honoured by the Government of India in 2015 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.

Dr. Guleria is a recipient of Raj Nanda Pulmonary Disease Fellowship from Raj Nanda Trust and the Royal College of Physicians, UK and is an elected fellow (2011) of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS). He sits on the editorial boards of a number of medical journals such as the Indian Journal of Chest Diseases, Lung India, Journal of American Medical Association and Chest India. He is associated with the World Health Organization (WHO) as a member of its Scientific Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on immunization and influenza vaccination. He is a life member of the Association of Physicians of India, Indian Chest Society and the National College of Chest Physicians of India. He also serves as a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna on issues related to radiation protection.

Shoibal Datta

Data Sciences Institute at Takeda

Shoibal Datta is the Head of the Digital Strategy Group within the Data Sciences Institute at Takeda. In support of Takeda's commitment to digital and data he is responsible for working with colleagues across the enterprise to develop patient-centric digital strategies for the development of novel endpoints, make studies more resilient through decentralized approaches and help bring innovations in digital health from R&D through to commercial.

Prior to this Shoibal was Vice President of PPD Digital where he was responsible for setting the strategy and working with external platform partners and device manufacturers to devise compliant, globally scalable approaches to conduct decentralized trials and to oversee the integration of the technologies into conventional clinical research and data management processes. He also spent 13 years at Biogen in a range of roles in translational informatics, data sciences and as part of an innovation hub that launched MS PATHS, a learning healthcare system that utilises technology to capture high quality data as standard of care for over 10,000 MS patients globally supporting RWE and value-based medicine initiatives.

Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

IIT Madras

Dr. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam is a Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering and heads IITM's Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC). After his PhD and postdoc stint in US, he returned to India in late 2008 with the goal of developing indigenous medical technologies and set up HTIC in 2011. Since then, HTIC has grown into a unique and leading med-tech innovation ecosystem in the country bringing together around 40 medical institutions, industries, government agencies in developing and deploying affordable healthcare technologies. Six of these technologies have resulted in commercially successful products. HTIC’s 80+ member team of engineers and researchers is currently developing technologies in areas of cardiovascular ultrasound, endoscopy, ophthalmology, in-vitro diagnostics, surgical robotics, in collaboration with leading organizations. Since 2017, HTIC houses a medical technology incubator nurturing over 30 startups in this field. He received the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Young Engineer Award and IITM’s Early Career R&D Award. He has over 200 research publications in leading journals and conferences.

K. Chandrasekhar

Founder and CEO, Forus Health

K Chandrasekhar - Founder & CEO of Forus Health is the brain behind the development of a technology platform that increases access to eye care and prevents avoidable blindness. K Chandrasekhar established a unique strategy to introduce the revolutionary product '3nethra', which resulted in an unprecedented expansion of the retinal imaging market in India. Before starting Forus Health, K Chandrasekhar was the Director of Strategy at NXP Semiconductors and served over 20 years in major multinational and Indian tech companies. K Chandrasekhar is an alumnus of BITS, Pilani and IIM Kolkata

Sherri Douville

CEO, Medigram, Inc.

Sherri Douville is CEO and board member at Medigram, the Mobile Medicine company. She is also an editor, best selling author and sought-after speaker. Ms. Douville is the co-chair of the IEEE/UL International Joint Venture for the technical trust standard project for Clinical IoT in medicine. She is the co-author of multiple books and several technical papers. She served as the editor and lead author for the book, Mobile Medicine: Overcoming People, Culture, and Governance, which was the #1 hottest new release on Amazon for medical technology and medical informatics. Mobile Medicine is internationally acclaimed and was voted by business and technical leaders as the #1 book in all of healthcare for 2021 by BookAuthority. Ms. Douville previously won several awards while working at Johnson & Johnson in over a dozen disease states over the course of a decade. She has a Bachelor of Combined Sciences degree from Santa Clara University and has completed certificates in electrical engineering, computer science, AI and ML through MIT.

Santosh Kumar

Director, NIH Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K)

Santosh Kumar is the Lillian & Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence Professor in Computer Science at the University of Memphis. He is also Director of two NIH-funded multidisciplinary and multi-university national research centers in mHealth called mDOT Biomedical Technology Resource Center and MD2K Center of Excellence. Supported by over $50 million in federal research grants, his research in wearable AI seeks to revolutionize health and wellness via delivering timely interventions triggered by automated monitoring of human health and daily behaviors from wearables. Open-source software developed by his team has been used to conduct scientific studies nationwide, producing hundreds of terabytes of wearable sensor data to investigate stress management, smoking cessation, congestive heart failure, impulsive overeating, obesity, oral health, chronic pain, cocaine use, opioid use, and workplace performance. He also serves as the CEO & co-founder of a high-tech startup in wearable AI called CuesHub, PBC

Prashant Warier

Chief Executive Officer, qure.ai

Prashant Warier is the Co-Founder & CEO at Qure.ai. Prashant is an expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Deep learning. He has architected and commercialized several data science solutions in his 19 year career. He is also a prolific researcher, author, and speaker on topics related to data science and machine learning. He is passionate about using deep learning to make healthcare affordable and accessible. 

Mohammad Ameel

Head, Primary Healthcare, Technology, and Innovations, PATH

Mohammad Ameel currently Heads the Primary Healthcare, Technology & Innovations portfolio at PATH. Earlier he served as the Senior Consultant & Incharge, Healthcare Technology Division and Head - WHO collaborating center for priority medical devices & health technology policy at National Health Systems Resource Centre, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India.

As a fellow of India’s first international fellowship on Health technology Assessment (HTA) he has authored several health technology assessment reports including the one presented at Global Medical Device forum at WHO Headquarters, Geneva. He also got the privilege to represent India in the 3rd WHO Global Forum on Medical Device, Geneva and proposed the next forum in India in December 2018. He was recently conferred with prestigious award ‘100 most impactful healthcare leaders’ (Global listing, 2018). He was also recognized for his outstanding contribution to Medical Devices & Healthcare Technology field at the 8th MT India Healthcare Awards, 2018. He got the opportunity to accompany the Hon’ble President of India on business delegation to Prague, Czech Republic in September 2018. Recently he was nominated to represent the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to talk about Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Program at the Lok Sabha TV.

Renu Swarup

Former Secretary to Government of India
Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology

Dr Renu Swarup, is the Former Secretary, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India. Having served in Department of Biotechnology for over 30 years, she  was also the  Chairperson of Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC),  She  also held the Additional Charge of  Secretary Department of Science &Technology for a short period .

A PhD in Genetics and Plant Breeding, She  did her Post Doctoral Research at The John Innes Centre, Norwich UK, Dr. Renu Swarup has been instrumental in the planning and implementation of some major National programmes. As a Science Manager issues related to policy planning and implementation were a part of her assignment. She was actively engaged in the formulation of National Biotechnology Vision and Strategy in 2001, 2007 and 2015and 2021.She  was also a member of the Task Force on Women in Science constituted by the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Prime Minister.

As the Secretary of Government of India, Department of Biotechnology, she led  a Network of 16 Autonomous Research Institutes, 2 Public Sector Undertaking and a R&D Network of more than 5000 projects across more than 100 research institutes, Universities and Laboratories. In the recent COVID Pandemic situation she  led the COVID Vaccine ,Diagnostic and Genome sequencing Mission. The Public Sector BIRAC, for which she was  the founding Managing Director and then  Chairperson, has supported more than 5000  Startups and over 60 Incubators

A Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (NASI) India, A Life Member of Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences (TAAS) and a Member of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD), she was awarded the “BioSpectrum Person of the Year Award” in 2012. “National Entrepreneurship Awards 2017”, TiE Women Enabler Award 2018, “Dr. P. Sheel Memorial Award” 2018 by NASI and the TWAS Regional Office Prize on Science Diplomacy in 2018. She has been awarded the Agriculture Research Leadership Award 2019, Smt. Chandaben Mohanbhai Patel VASVIK Award for Women Scientific & Chemical science & Technology  2020-21,Life Time Achievement Award for Biotech Policy maker—2021 by Golden Jubilee Women Biotech Park .She was also recognised as Business world women 2019 & 2020

Mintu Turakhia

Founding Director, Center for Digital Health, Stanford; Chief Cardiac Electrophysiology

"Mintu Turakhia M.D. M.A.S. is a cardiac electrophysiologist, outcomes researcher, and clinical trialist. He is the Director of the Stanford Center for Digital Health (CDH) and the American Heart Association-funded Heart Health Technology Center. In his clinical role, he performs invasive procedures such as catheter ablation and device implantation to treat heart rhythm disorders.

Dr. Turakhia has an active multidisciplinary program in heart rhythm and digital health research, where uses biostatistical, health economic, artificial intelligence, and data science approaches to examine quality, outcomes, and risk of heart rhythm disorders such as atrial fibrillation in very large datasets. He is a principal investigator of several multi-center trials, such as the Apple Heart Study, to test digital health tools and wearables, and he collaborates closely on research with med device and tech companies. Dr. Turakhia has published over 200 manuscripts and works and is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Heart Rhythm Society. Dr. Turakhia has served as an advisor and investor to over two dozen medical device, drug, and health technology companies across the life cycle from early stage to IPO."

Wendy Taylor

Vice President, Technical Leadership and Innovation at Jhpiego

"Wendy Taylor, Vice President for Technical Leadership and Innovation, directs a multidisciplinary team of more than 70 staff focused on driving impact across a wide range of health areas. She is responsible for working across technical teams and nearly 40 country teams to prepare the organization for transformational innovations, from technologies and systems innovations to data science and actionable insights. She joined Jhpiego following a two-year fellowship with The Rockefeller Foundation, where she explored how to leverage advances in artificial intelligence, digital health and data technologies to transform global health, including how advanced outbreak analytics can be used to better prepare for and respond to a global pandemic.

Prior to the fellowship, Ms. Taylor worked for two decades within and outside of government, catalyzing innovations to tackle some of the world’s toughest global health challenges and scaling up market-based solutions for impact. At the US Agency for International Development, she founded and led the Center for Innovation and Impact, which applies innovative, business-minded approaches to accelerate the development, introduction and scale-up of priority global health innovations. There she spearheaded multiple strategic partnerships, including Saving Lives at Birth, a $100 million, multistakeholder Grand Challenge; created the agency’s first advance purchase commitments to stimulate investments in vaccines and diagnostics; and built multiple public-private partnerships with corporations to expand and strengthen health markets.

Previously, she held senior positions with several global health nonprofits—including Bio Ventures for Global Health, which she founded—and served in both the executive and legislative branches of the US Government, including the Office of Management and Budget and the US House Committee on Ways and Means."

Sandeep Dewan

Director & HOD, Critical Care, Fortis Memorial Research Institute

Dr. Sandeep Dewan did his graduation and Post Graduation in Anesthesia and Intensive care medicine from PGIMS Rohtak and Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine from Fortis Hospital, Vasant Kunj. He has worked in various hospitals like Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (2001-2005).He joined Fortis Group in 2005 and has been instrumental in starting Critical Care Medicine departments at Escorts Heart Institute.and Fortis Memorial, Gurgaon.He has more than 15 years of experience in Critical Care Medicine. He has several National and International publications to his name. He is currently Director of ECMO programme at FMRI and has been instrumental in establishing FMRI as Centre of Excellence for ECMO.

Sumit Kumar Nagpal

CEO and Founder, Cherish Health

Sumit is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on digital health innovation at scale. He has co-founded and grown five companies over the past two and a half decades that have tackled progressively bolder challenges facing our healthcare economies. All his work features common themes - big, bold ideas that help us imagine a better world; incredibly complex processes rethought into simple, approachable, and engaging user experiences; and implementation models that blend big innovations into the fabric of daily life - themes he has honed since the time Sumit worked with Steve Jobs and NeXT in the early 1990s.

Sumit is now the CEO and founder of Cherish Health. Cherish Health develops advanced sensors and artificial intelligence, combined with medical evidence and human touch, and uses these to provide solutions for people aging or living with health challenges – our grandparents, parents, children, many of us – that help improve their lives and support their self-care. Sumit also serves on the HIMSS Enterprise and Health eVillages boards and is sought after for his expertise and unstoppable energy as an entrepreneur, change agent, strategist, and technology architect.

Smisha Agarwal

Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Agarwal is the Research Director of Johns Hopkins Global mHealth Initiative (JHU-GmI) and Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She studies how to improve maternal and newborn health through strengthening community health systems and leveraging innovative technological solutions including digital devices.Over the last decade, she has supported the development of programs that employ digital tools such as mobile phones to improve health care services for women and children. This has included the development of point-of-care digital clinical decision support tools used by community health workers and other health care providers, and patient-focused SMS-based health behavior change interventions, and conversational agents (“chatbots”) that use natural language processing to communicate with users.

Tavpritesh Sethi

IIIT Delhi

Raghu Dharmaraju

ARTPARK

Raghu Dharmaraju is an entrepreneurial leader with two decades of experience bridging innovations and impact. Conceived, developed, launched, and scaled new products, initiatives, and organisations. He has built portfolio of 7 AI innovations (4 deployed/scaling soon), 1 major national initiative, and 40 partnerships as the founding VP - Products & Programs at Wadhwani AI. Google AI Impact Challenge winner. AI XPRIZE semifinalist. He has raised $18M from Gates Foundation, USAID and established Wadhwani AI as a unique, globally reputed organization developing AI for social good. He launched and scaled med-tech innovations (Embrace infant warmers), reaching ($150 million in 2009) at Corning Environmental Technologies. Mr Dharamraju holds a B.Tech. from IIT Madras, M.S. from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and M.B.A. from Cornell University.

Tavpritesh Sethi

IIIT Delhi

Tavpritesh Sethi is a physician-scientist and Associate Professor of Computational Biology at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India and a fellow of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Over the past two years, he has been a visiting faculty member at Stanford University, School of Medicine from February 2017 to January 2019. He received his M.B.B.S from Government Medical College, Amritsar and PhD from CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India. Dr. Sethi specializes in improving outcomes in neonatal, child and maternal health by bridging medicine and artificial intelligence. His research is focused on development and deployment of machine-learning based solutions to enable decisions and policy in pressing healthcare questions such as antimicrobial resistance, sepsis and health inequalities in intensive care and public health settings. He has authored over 20 research articles and has been a recipient of MIT-TR35 India Innovators under 35, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Early Career Award. He is an editorial board member of PLOS One, Systems Medicine and Journal of Genetics. Dr. Sethi is a member of the European Association of Systems Medicine and leads the Australasia region for International Association of Systems and Networks Medicine (IASyM).

Raghu Dharmaraju

ARTPARK

Raghu Dharmaraju is an entrepreneurial leader with two decades of experience bridging innovations and impact. Conceived, developed, launched, and scaled new products, initiatives, and organisations. He has built portfolio of 7 AI innovations (4 deployed/scaling soon), 1 major national initiative, and 40 partnerships as the founding VP - Products & Programs at Wadhwani AI. Google AI Impact Challenge winner. AI XPRIZE semifinalist. He has raised $18M from Gates Foundation, USAID and established Wadhwani AI as a unique, globally reputed organization developing AI for social good. He launched and scaled med-tech innovations (Embrace infant warmers), reaching ($150 million in 2009) at Corning Environmental Technologies. Mr Dharamraju holds a B.Tech. from IIT Madras, M.S. from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and M.B.A. from Cornell University.

Anurag Mairal

Director, Global Outreach Programs, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University

Dr. Anurag Mairal is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Director of Global Outreach Programs at Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University. He is also a Faculty Fellow and Lead for Technology Innovation and Impact at Center for Innovation in Global Health. He serves as the Founding Chair of BME IDEA APAC, a community of medtech innovation programs in Asia Pacific. Concurrently, he is a co-founder and Executive Vice President of Orbees Medical, a SF Bay Area-based strategy consulting firm serving global healthcare industry, with a focus on medtech, pharmaceutical, and digital health industry. Recently, he took a sabbatical for two years to take a senior leadership role at PATH, a major global health nonprofit based in Seattle. Previously, he held several positions at Johnson & Johnson, including Business Development Director and Product Director for structural heart, cardiology, and peripheral vascular products at Cordis. An active mentor to entrepreneurs and industry professionals, he serves as the chair of PATH’s Bay Area Leadership Council, board member at EPPIC Global Network and IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation and advisory board member at D-Rev and Sewa International. He recently took over as the President Sewa International Bay Area. 

Dr. Mairal earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He also holds an MS in chemical engineering from the Indian Institution of Technology in Mumbai and a BS in chemical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Raipur. Dr. Mairal was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Twente, Netherlands and at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His work has been published in more than 30 publications, and he has seven issued patents.

Abhiroop Gandhi

Trust and Compliance Officer Verily Life Sciences, CA

Abhiroop Gandhi is the Trust & Compliance Officer and leads Strategic Risk Management at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet/Google company at the intersection of technology, data science and healthcare. He has over 15 years of experience in biopharmaceuticals, medical devices and digital health. He has played roles in corporate compliance, risk management and commercial strategy & lifecycle management.

He was previously Vice President of Corporate Compliance at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, where he managed the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and international healthcare compliance programs. Prior to the acquisition by Mallinckrodt, he established Questcor’s healthcare compliance program. He was recognized with a President’s Club award for outstanding contribution to the corporation. Before Questcor, Abhiroop was a member of Genentech’s commercial launch teams for oncology and immunology products. He also held positions at Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Razorfish and General Electric.

He is active in digital health industry forums and advocates for a consistent set of global standards to regulate and commercialize innovative products including the responsible use of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science. 
Mr. Gandhi holds a Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA from FMS, Delhi University and a Bachelor of Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology.

Anurag Mairal

Director, Global Outreach Programs, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University

Dr. Anurag Mairal is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Director of Global Outreach Programs at Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University. He is also a Faculty Fellow and Lead for Technology Innovation and Impact at Center for Innovation in Global Health. He serves as the Founding Chair of BME IDEA APAC, a community of medtech innovation programs in Asia Pacific. Concurrently, he is a co-founder and Executive Vice President of Orbees Medical, a SF Bay Area-based strategy consulting firm serving global healthcare industry, with a focus on medtech, pharmaceutical, and digital health industry. Recently, he took a sabbatical for two years to take a senior leadership role at PATH, a major global health nonprofit based in Seattle. Previously, he held several positions at Johnson & Johnson, including Business Development Director and Product Director for structural heart, cardiology, and peripheral vascular products at Cordis. An active mentor to entrepreneurs and industry professionals, he serves as the chair of PATH’s Bay Area Leadership Council, board member at EPPIC Global Network and IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation and advisory board member at D-Rev and Sewa International. He recently took over as the President Sewa International Bay Area. 

Dr. Mairal earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He also holds an MS in chemical engineering from the Indian Institution of Technology in Mumbai and a BS in chemical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Raipur. Dr. Mairal was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Twente, Netherlands and at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His work has been published in more than 30 publications, and he has seven issued patents.

Abhiroop Gandhi

Trust and Compliance Officer Verily Life Sciences, CA

Abhiroop Gandhi is the Trust & Compliance Officer and leads Strategic Risk Management at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet/Google company at the intersection of technology, data science and healthcare. He has over 15 years of experience in biopharmaceuticals, medical devices and digital health. He has played roles in corporate compliance, risk management and commercial strategy & lifecycle management.

He was previously Vice President of Corporate Compliance at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, where he managed the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and international healthcare compliance programs. Prior to the acquisition by Mallinckrodt, he established Questcor’s healthcare compliance program. He was recognized with a President’s Club award for outstanding contribution to the corporation. Before Questcor, Abhiroop was a member of Genentech’s commercial launch teams for oncology and immunology products. He also held positions at Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Razorfish and General Electric.

He is active in digital health industry forums and advocates for a consistent set of global standards to regulate and commercialize innovative products including the responsible use of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science. 
Mr. Gandhi holds a Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA from FMS, Delhi University and a Bachelor of Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology.

Manindra Agrawal

Aditya Prakash

Georgia Tech

B. Aditya Prakash is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech”). He received a Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2012, and a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) -- Bombay in 2007. His research interests include Data Science, Machine Learning and AI, with emphasis on big-data problems in large real-world networks and time-series, and applications to computational epidemiology/public health, urban computing, security and the Web. He has published one book and more than 85 papers in major venues, where his work has been recognized with multiple best-of-conference, best paper and travel awards. He also holds two U.S. patents and has given several tutorials at leading conferences. Tools developed by his group have been in use in companies and national agencies like ORNL, CDC and Walmart. He is a recipient of the Facebook Faculty Award (2015 and 2021), the NSF CAREER award and was named as one of ‘AI Ten to Watch’ by IEEE. His work has also won top awards in multiple international data science challenges (e.g., the C3AI COVID19 Grand Challenge) and has been highlighted by numerous media outlets/popular press e.g. FiveThirtyEight.com.

Ajitesh Srivastava

University of Southern California (USC)

Ajitesh Srivastava is a Research Assistant Professor at the Ming Hsieh Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Southern California in 2018. His research interests include network science, modeling, and machine learning applied to epidemics, social good, social networks, and computer systems. He collaborates with teams around the world and the CDC for infectious disease forecasting and scenario projections. He is a DARPA Grand Challenge winner (2014) for predicting the spread of the Chikungunya virus and the Target Data Science Challenge winner (2016) for predicting shoppers' behavior. He is also an Indian National Math Olympiad Awardee 2008 (awarded to 30 students in India).

Syra Madad

NYC Health + Hospitals

Syra Madad is an internationally recognized public health leader and epidemiologist in infectious disease and special pathogens preparedness and response. She serves as the Senior Director of the System-wide Special Pathogens Program at NYC Health + Hospitals and Health and Safety Lead of the Enhanced Investigations Unit of NYC Test and Trace Corp. She’s also the workgroup lead of NYC Health + Hospitals COVID-19 Vaccination Communications and Outreach Workgroup. Her work focuses on the preparedness for, response to and recovery from infectious disease outbreaks with an emphasis on healthcare and public health biopreparedness. She’s responded to multiple infectious disease outbreaks as an infectious disease epidemiologist including Ebola, measles and Zika. In addition, Dr. Madad is a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs where she regularly publishes on the latest public health guidance, epidemiological concepts and scientific literature to help the public understand complex topics using infographics and simplified science communication. She’s Core Faculty in the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC) and affiliate faculty at the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy & Research at Boston University. Dr. Madad is prominently featured in the Emmy-nominated Netflix docuseries, Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak, and the Discovery Channel documentary, The Vaccine: Conquering COVID. 

Anurag Agrawal

CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology.

Anurag Agrawal is Director of the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology. After completing graduate medical education at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi (1994), he further trained in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA (2003), followed by a PhD in Physiology from Delhi University. His primary research is in respiratory biology and broader interests are in smart deployment of emerging technologies towards healthcare, where he serves on national thinktanks, co-chairs the Lancet and Financial Times commission on Governing Health Futures, and serves on related expert groups at the World Health Organisation and Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence. He received the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Prize, the highest govt scientific award of India, in 2014, and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences

Gagandeep Kang

CMC Vellore

Gagandeep Kang is the first woman from India to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. She is also the first Indian woman to be elected to Fellowship of the American Academy of Microbiology and the only physician-scientist to receive the Infosys Award in Life Sciences. Gagandeep Kang received her training in medicine and microbiology at the Christian Medical College, Vellore in southern India and is Professor of Microbiology at the Christian Medical College (CMC) in Vellore, India. She works on enteric infections in children, particularly on transmission and immune responses, in order to design effective interventions. Current studies include active hospital and community based surveillance and clinical trials of new and existing vaccines, with use of molecular based assays to study the diversity of pathogens and the immune response of children with viral and parasitic enteric infections.

Cecile Viboud

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Cecile Viboud is a senior research scientist in the Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies of the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA. Her research focuses on the epidemiology and transmission dynamics of acute viral infections, at the interface of public health and computational modeling. Her work has concentrated on modeling the epidemiology, excess mortality, and transmission dynamics of respiratory viruses, including seasonal and pandemic influenza, and COVID-19. She has recently become interested in the potential of Big Data to strengthen infectious disease surveillance, disease forecasts, and the population-level impact of vaccination programs.

Giridhara R Babu

Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)

Giridhara R Babu (MBBS, MPH, Ph.D.) is Professor and Head – Life Course Epidemiology at Public Health Foundation of India. He has a medical degree (MBBS) from Kasturba medical college Manipal and has completed MPH and PhD from UCLA (University of California Los Angeles). He has two decades of experience in public health research, practice and academics.  He began his career at the Center for Community Medicine of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi as a Junior Resident. Next, he worked with World Health Organization where he led the efforts in stopping polio transmission in the state of Karnataka. He initiated advocacy for Measles surveillance in Karnataka leading to constitution of Multi Year Plan (MYP) for Measles elimination in India. He is awarded the prestigious intermediate and now the senior fellowship of Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance to start and expand cohort study. The cohort is named as MAASTHI (Maternal Antecedents of Adiposity Studying the Transgenerational role of Hyperglycemia and Insulin). 

He was also recently awarded the prestigious Team Science Grant by the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance where he will be leading a consortium of 18 investigators across 6 premiere public health institutions in India. This research program titled Nutritional, psychosocial and environmental determinants of neurodevelopment and child mental health (COINCIDE) aims to evaluate how multiple factors in a child’s immediate environment impact their development in the first decade of their life starting from pregnancy. 

Giridhara has over 100 papers published in national and international high impact journals. He has served on several national and international committees. Some of them include Lancet Commission Task force on COVID19, ICMR National Task Force for COVID-I9 and the Technical Analysis Committee of the Government of Karnataka. He is the regional representative for LMICs on the DoHaD international society.

He is actively involved in writing articles for general public, providing his expert opinion to media houses and consultation to several states. His work on COVID-19 can be accessed here https://giridhar.org/covid-19/

Mahesh Bhalgat

Syngene International Ltd.

Mahesh Bhalgat, Ph.D is the Chief Operating Officer at Syngene International LTD. Mahesh holds a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Utah, the USA, and a bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from the University of Mumbai. He has 30 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical, vaccine and pharma industries. Mahesh has worked and led different facets of R&D, analytical development, manufacturing and operations, technology transfer, regulatory sciences, quality and capital projects. During a 20-year US stint, he worked with Amgen, Monsanto, Celera Genomics and Molecular Probes (now Thermo Fisher). After moving to India, Mahesh was part of the team that brought WHO prequalification approvals for four vaccines in Biological E. Just before joining Syngene, he was the Chief Operating Officer at Shantha Biotechnics, a Sanofi company, where his responsibilities included operations, quality, supply chain, long-term strategic planning, manufacturing science and technology and human resources. Mahesh is a member of the CII National Committee on Technology, R&D and Innovation. At Syngene, Mahesh is the Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Executive Committee.

Monica Gandhi

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH is an Infectious Diseases doctor, Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is also the Director of the UCSF Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and the Medical Director of the HIV Clinic ("Ward 86") at San Francisco General Hospital. Her research focuses on HIV and women and adherence measurement in HIV treatment and prevention and most recently, on how to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic.

Randeep Guleria

AIIMS New Delhi

Randeep Guleria is an Indian pulmonologist and the Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. He is regarded as one of India's leading medical expert and is credited with the establishment of India's first centre for pulmonary medicines and sleep disorders at AIIMS. He is the director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He is also part of India's COVID-19 response effort.

Dr. Guleria started his medical studies at IGMC, Shimla, from where he received an undergraduate degree in Medicine, afterwards he attended the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh, from where he secured his MD in general medicine and DM in pulmonary medicine. He joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and rose in ranks to become a professor and the head of the Department of Pulmonology and Sleep Disorders. He was honoured by the Government of India in 2015 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.

Dr. Guleria is a recipient of Raj Nanda Pulmonary Disease Fellowship from Raj Nanda Trust and the Royal College of Physicians, UK and is an elected fellow (2011) of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS). He sits on the editorial boards of a number of medical journals such as the Indian Journal of Chest Diseases, Lung India, Journal of American Medical Association and Chest India. He is associated with the World Health Organization (WHO) as a member of its Scientific Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on immunization and influenza vaccination. He is a life member of the Association of Physicians of India, Indian Chest Society and the National College of Chest Physicians of India. He also serves as a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna on issues related to radiation protection.

Shoibal Datta

Data Sciences Institute at Takeda

Shoibal Datta is the Head of the Digital Strategy Group within the Data Sciences Institute at Takeda. In support of Takeda's commitment to digital and data he is responsible for working with colleagues across the enterprise to develop patient-centric digital strategies for the development of novel endpoints, make studies more resilient through decentralized approaches and help bring innovations in digital health from R&D through to commercial.

Prior to this Shoibal was Vice President of PPD Digital where he was responsible for setting the strategy and working with external platform partners and device manufacturers to devise compliant, globally scalable approaches to conduct decentralized trials and to oversee the integration of the technologies into conventional clinical research and data management processes. He also spent 13 years at Biogen in a range of roles in translational informatics, data sciences and as part of an innovation hub that launched MS PATHS, a learning healthcare system that utilises technology to capture high quality data as standard of care for over 10,000 MS patients globally supporting RWE and value-based medicine initiatives.

Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

IIT Madras

Dr. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam is a Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering and heads IITM's Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC). After his PhD and postdoc stint in US, he returned to India in late 2008 with the goal of developing indigenous medical technologies and set up HTIC in 2011. Since then, HTIC has grown into a unique and leading med-tech innovation ecosystem in the country bringing together around 40 medical institutions, industries, government agencies in developing and deploying affordable healthcare technologies. Six of these technologies have resulted in commercially successful products. HTIC’s 80+ member team of engineers and researchers is currently developing technologies in areas of cardiovascular ultrasound, endoscopy, ophthalmology, in-vitro diagnostics, surgical robotics, in collaboration with leading organizations. Since 2017, HTIC houses a medical technology incubator nurturing over 30 startups in this field. He received the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Young Engineer Award and IITM’s Early Career R&D Award. He has over 200 research publications in leading journals and conferences.

K. Chandrasekhar

Founder and CEO, Forus Health

K Chandrasekhar - Founder & CEO of Forus Health is the brain behind the development of a technology platform that increases access to eye care and prevents avoidable blindness. K Chandrasekhar established a unique strategy to introduce the revolutionary product '3nethra', which resulted in an unprecedented expansion of the retinal imaging market in India. Before starting Forus Health, K Chandrasekhar was the Director of Strategy at NXP Semiconductors and served over 20 years in major multinational and Indian tech companies. K Chandrasekhar is an alumnus of BITS, Pilani and IIM Kolkata

Sherri Douville

CEO, Medigram, Inc.

Sherri Douville is CEO and board member at Medigram, the Mobile Medicine company. She is also an editor, best selling author and sought-after speaker. Ms. Douville is the co-chair of the IEEE/UL International Joint Venture for the technical trust standard project for Clinical IoT in medicine. She is the co-author of multiple books and several technical papers. She served as the editor and lead author for the book, Mobile Medicine: Overcoming People, Culture, and Governance, which was the #1 hottest new release on Amazon for medical technology and medical informatics. Mobile Medicine is internationally acclaimed and was voted by business and technical leaders as the #1 book in all of healthcare for 2021 by BookAuthority. Ms. Douville previously won several awards while working at Johnson & Johnson in over a dozen disease states over the course of a decade. She has a Bachelor of Combined Sciences degree from Santa Clara University and has completed certificates in electrical engineering, computer science, AI and ML through MIT.

Santosh Kumar

Director, NIH Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K)

Santosh Kumar is the Lillian & Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence Professor in Computer Science at the University of Memphis. He is also Director of two NIH-funded multidisciplinary and multi-university national research centers in mHealth called mDOT Biomedical Technology Resource Center and MD2K Center of Excellence. Supported by over $50 million in federal research grants, his research in wearable AI seeks to revolutionize health and wellness via delivering timely interventions triggered by automated monitoring of human health and daily behaviors from wearables. Open-source software developed by his team has been used to conduct scientific studies nationwide, producing hundreds of terabytes of wearable sensor data to investigate stress management, smoking cessation, congestive heart failure, impulsive overeating, obesity, oral health, chronic pain, cocaine use, opioid use, and workplace performance. He also serves as the CEO & co-founder of a high-tech startup in wearable AI called CuesHub, PBC

Prashant Warier

Chief Executive Officer, qure.ai

Prashant Warier is the Co-Founder & CEO at Qure.ai. Prashant is an expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Deep learning. He has architected and commercialized several data science solutions in his 19 year career. He is also a prolific researcher, author, and speaker on topics related to data science and machine learning. He is passionate about using deep learning to make healthcare affordable and accessible. 

Mohammad Ameel

Head, Primary Healthcare, Technology, and Innovations, PATH

Mohammad Ameel currently Heads the Primary Healthcare, Technology & Innovations portfolio at PATH. Earlier he served as the Senior Consultant & Incharge, Healthcare Technology Division and Head - WHO collaborating center for priority medical devices & health technology policy at National Health Systems Resource Centre, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India.

As a fellow of India’s first international fellowship on Health technology Assessment (HTA) he has authored several health technology assessment reports including the one presented at Global Medical Device forum at WHO Headquarters, Geneva. He also got the privilege to represent India in the 3rd WHO Global Forum on Medical Device, Geneva and proposed the next forum in India in December 2018. He was recently conferred with prestigious award ‘100 most impactful healthcare leaders’ (Global listing, 2018). He was also recognized for his outstanding contribution to Medical Devices & Healthcare Technology field at the 8th MT India Healthcare Awards, 2018. He got the opportunity to accompany the Hon’ble President of India on business delegation to Prague, Czech Republic in September 2018. Recently he was nominated to represent the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to talk about Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Program at the Lok Sabha TV.

Renu Swarup

Former Secretary to Government of India
Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology

Dr Renu Swarup, is the Former Secretary, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India. Having served in Department of Biotechnology for over 30 years, she  was also the  Chairperson of Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC),  She  also held the Additional Charge of  Secretary Department of Science &Technology for a short period .

A PhD in Genetics and Plant Breeding, She  did her Post Doctoral Research at The John Innes Centre, Norwich UK, Dr. Renu Swarup has been instrumental in the planning and implementation of some major National programmes. As a Science Manager issues related to policy planning and implementation were a part of her assignment. She was actively engaged in the formulation of National Biotechnology Vision and Strategy in 2001, 2007 and 2015and 2021.She  was also a member of the Task Force on Women in Science constituted by the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Prime Minister.

As the Secretary of Government of India, Department of Biotechnology, she led  a Network of 16 Autonomous Research Institutes, 2 Public Sector Undertaking and a R&D Network of more than 5000 projects across more than 100 research institutes, Universities and Laboratories. In the recent COVID Pandemic situation she  led the COVID Vaccine ,Diagnostic and Genome sequencing Mission. The Public Sector BIRAC, for which she was  the founding Managing Director and then  Chairperson, has supported more than 5000  Startups and over 60 Incubators

A Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (NASI) India, A Life Member of Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences (TAAS) and a Member of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD), she was awarded the “BioSpectrum Person of the Year Award” in 2012. “National Entrepreneurship Awards 2017”, TiE Women Enabler Award 2018, “Dr. P. Sheel Memorial Award” 2018 by NASI and the TWAS Regional Office Prize on Science Diplomacy in 2018. She has been awarded the Agriculture Research Leadership Award 2019, Smt. Chandaben Mohanbhai Patel VASVIK Award for Women Scientific & Chemical science & Technology  2020-21,Life Time Achievement Award for Biotech Policy maker—2021 by Golden Jubilee Women Biotech Park .She was also recognised as Business world women 2019 & 2020

Mintu Turakhia

Founding Director, Center for Digital Health, Stanford; Chief Cardiac Electrophysiology

"Mintu Turakhia M.D. M.A.S. is a cardiac electrophysiologist, outcomes researcher, and clinical trialist. He is the Director of the Stanford Center for Digital Health (CDH) and the American Heart Association-funded Heart Health Technology Center. In his clinical role, he performs invasive procedures such as catheter ablation and device implantation to treat heart rhythm disorders.

Dr. Turakhia has an active multidisciplinary program in heart rhythm and digital health research, where uses biostatistical, health economic, artificial intelligence, and data science approaches to examine quality, outcomes, and risk of heart rhythm disorders such as atrial fibrillation in very large datasets. He is a principal investigator of several multi-center trials, such as the Apple Heart Study, to test digital health tools and wearables, and he collaborates closely on research with med device and tech companies. Dr. Turakhia has published over 200 manuscripts and works and is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Heart Rhythm Society. Dr. Turakhia has served as an advisor and investor to over two dozen medical device, drug, and health technology companies across the life cycle from early stage to IPO."

Wendy Taylor

Vice President, Technical Leadership and Innovation at Jhpiego

"Wendy Taylor, Vice President for Technical Leadership and Innovation, directs a multidisciplinary team of more than 70 staff focused on driving impact across a wide range of health areas. She is responsible for working across technical teams and nearly 40 country teams to prepare the organization for transformational innovations, from technologies and systems innovations to data science and actionable insights. She joined Jhpiego following a two-year fellowship with The Rockefeller Foundation, where she explored how to leverage advances in artificial intelligence, digital health and data technologies to transform global health, including how advanced outbreak analytics can be used to better prepare for and respond to a global pandemic.

Prior to the fellowship, Ms. Taylor worked for two decades within and outside of government, catalyzing innovations to tackle some of the world’s toughest global health challenges and scaling up market-based solutions for impact. At the US Agency for International Development, she founded and led the Center for Innovation and Impact, which applies innovative, business-minded approaches to accelerate the development, introduction and scale-up of priority global health innovations. There she spearheaded multiple strategic partnerships, including Saving Lives at Birth, a $100 million, multistakeholder Grand Challenge; created the agency’s first advance purchase commitments to stimulate investments in vaccines and diagnostics; and built multiple public-private partnerships with corporations to expand and strengthen health markets.

Previously, she held senior positions with several global health nonprofits—including Bio Ventures for Global Health, which she founded—and served in both the executive and legislative branches of the US Government, including the Office of Management and Budget and the US House Committee on Ways and Means."

Sandeep Dewan

Director & HOD, Critical Care, Fortis Memorial Research Institute

Dr. Sandeep Dewan did his graduation and Post Graduation in Anesthesia and Intensive care medicine from PGIMS Rohtak and Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine from Fortis Hospital, Vasant Kunj. He has worked in various hospitals like Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (2001-2005).He joined Fortis Group in 2005 and has been instrumental in starting Critical Care Medicine departments at Escorts Heart Institute.and Fortis Memorial, Gurgaon.He has more than 15 years of experience in Critical Care Medicine. He has several National and International publications to his name. He is currently Director of ECMO programme at FMRI and has been instrumental in establishing FMRI as Centre of Excellence for ECMO.

Sumit Kumar Nagpal

CEO and Founder, Cherish Health

Sumit is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on digital health innovation at scale. He has co-founded and grown five companies over the past two and a half decades that have tackled progressively bolder challenges facing our healthcare economies. All his work features common themes - big, bold ideas that help us imagine a better world; incredibly complex processes rethought into simple, approachable, and engaging user experiences; and implementation models that blend big innovations into the fabric of daily life - themes he has honed since the time Sumit worked with Steve Jobs and NeXT in the early 1990s.

Sumit is now the CEO and founder of Cherish Health. Cherish Health develops advanced sensors and artificial intelligence, combined with medical evidence and human touch, and uses these to provide solutions for people aging or living with health challenges – our grandparents, parents, children, many of us – that help improve their lives and support their self-care. Sumit also serves on the HIMSS Enterprise and Health eVillages boards and is sought after for his expertise and unstoppable energy as an entrepreneur, change agent, strategist, and technology architect.

Smisha Agarwal

Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Agarwal is the Research Director of Johns Hopkins Global mHealth Initiative (JHU-GmI) and Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She studies how to improve maternal and newborn health through strengthening community health systems and leveraging innovative technological solutions including digital devices.Over the last decade, she has supported the development of programs that employ digital tools such as mobile phones to improve health care services for women and children. This has included the development of point-of-care digital clinical decision support tools used by community health workers and other health care providers, and patient-focused SMS-based health behavior change interventions, and conversational agents (“chatbots”) that use natural language processing to communicate with users.

Tavpritesh Sethi

IIIT Delhi

Raghu Dharmaraju

ARTPARK

Raghu Dharmaraju is an entrepreneurial leader with two decades of experience bridging innovations and impact. Conceived, developed, launched, and scaled new products, initiatives, and organisations. He has built portfolio of 7 AI innovations (4 deployed/scaling soon), 1 major national initiative, and 40 partnerships as the founding VP - Products & Programs at Wadhwani AI. Google AI Impact Challenge winner. AI XPRIZE semifinalist. He has raised $18M from Gates Foundation, USAID and established Wadhwani AI as a unique, globally reputed organization developing AI for social good. He launched and scaled med-tech innovations (Embrace infant warmers), reaching ($150 million in 2009) at Corning Environmental Technologies. Mr Dharamraju holds a B.Tech. from IIT Madras, M.S. from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and M.B.A. from Cornell University.

Tavpritesh Sethi

IIIT Delhi

Tavpritesh Sethi is a physician-scientist and Associate Professor of Computational Biology at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India and a fellow of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Over the past two years, he has been a visiting faculty member at Stanford University, School of Medicine from February 2017 to January 2019. He received his M.B.B.S from Government Medical College, Amritsar and PhD from CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India. Dr. Sethi specializes in improving outcomes in neonatal, child and maternal health by bridging medicine and artificial intelligence. His research is focused on development and deployment of machine-learning based solutions to enable decisions and policy in pressing healthcare questions such as antimicrobial resistance, sepsis and health inequalities in intensive care and public health settings. He has authored over 20 research articles and has been a recipient of MIT-TR35 India Innovators under 35, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Early Career Award. He is an editorial board member of PLOS One, Systems Medicine and Journal of Genetics. Dr. Sethi is a member of the European Association of Systems Medicine and leads the Australasia region for International Association of Systems and Networks Medicine (IASyM).

Raghu Dharmaraju

ARTPARK

Raghu Dharmaraju is an entrepreneurial leader with two decades of experience bridging innovations and impact. Conceived, developed, launched, and scaled new products, initiatives, and organisations. He has built portfolio of 7 AI innovations (4 deployed/scaling soon), 1 major national initiative, and 40 partnerships as the founding VP - Products & Programs at Wadhwani AI. Google AI Impact Challenge winner. AI XPRIZE semifinalist. He has raised $18M from Gates Foundation, USAID and established Wadhwani AI as a unique, globally reputed organization developing AI for social good. He launched and scaled med-tech innovations (Embrace infant warmers), reaching ($150 million in 2009) at Corning Environmental Technologies. Mr Dharamraju holds a B.Tech. from IIT Madras, M.S. from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and M.B.A. from Cornell University.

Anurag Mairal

Director, Global Outreach Programs, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University

Dr. Anurag Mairal is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Director of Global Outreach Programs at Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University. He is also a Faculty Fellow and Lead for Technology Innovation and Impact at Center for Innovation in Global Health. He serves as the Founding Chair of BME IDEA APAC, a community of medtech innovation programs in Asia Pacific. Concurrently, he is a co-founder and Executive Vice President of Orbees Medical, a SF Bay Area-based strategy consulting firm serving global healthcare industry, with a focus on medtech, pharmaceutical, and digital health industry. Recently, he took a sabbatical for two years to take a senior leadership role at PATH, a major global health nonprofit based in Seattle. Previously, he held several positions at Johnson & Johnson, including Business Development Director and Product Director for structural heart, cardiology, and peripheral vascular products at Cordis. An active mentor to entrepreneurs and industry professionals, he serves as the chair of PATH’s Bay Area Leadership Council, board member at EPPIC Global Network and IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation and advisory board member at D-Rev and Sewa International. He recently took over as the President Sewa International Bay Area. 

Dr. Mairal earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He also holds an MS in chemical engineering from the Indian Institution of Technology in Mumbai and a BS in chemical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Raipur. Dr. Mairal was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Twente, Netherlands and at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His work has been published in more than 30 publications, and he has seven issued patents.

Abhiroop Gandhi

Trust and Compliance Officer Verily Life Sciences, CA

Abhiroop Gandhi is the Trust & Compliance Officer and leads Strategic Risk Management at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet/Google company at the intersection of technology, data science and healthcare. He has over 15 years of experience in biopharmaceuticals, medical devices and digital health. He has played roles in corporate compliance, risk management and commercial strategy & lifecycle management.

He was previously Vice President of Corporate Compliance at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, where he managed the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and international healthcare compliance programs. Prior to the acquisition by Mallinckrodt, he established Questcor’s healthcare compliance program. He was recognized with a President’s Club award for outstanding contribution to the corporation. Before Questcor, Abhiroop was a member of Genentech’s commercial launch teams for oncology and immunology products. He also held positions at Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Razorfish and General Electric.

He is active in digital health industry forums and advocates for a consistent set of global standards to regulate and commercialize innovative products including the responsible use of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science. 
Mr. Gandhi holds a Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA from FMS, Delhi University and a Bachelor of Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology.

Anurag Mairal

Director, Global Outreach Programs, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University

Dr. Anurag Mairal is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Director of Global Outreach Programs at Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University. He is also a Faculty Fellow and Lead for Technology Innovation and Impact at Center for Innovation in Global Health. He serves as the Founding Chair of BME IDEA APAC, a community of medtech innovation programs in Asia Pacific. Concurrently, he is a co-founder and Executive Vice President of Orbees Medical, a SF Bay Area-based strategy consulting firm serving global healthcare industry, with a focus on medtech, pharmaceutical, and digital health industry. Recently, he took a sabbatical for two years to take a senior leadership role at PATH, a major global health nonprofit based in Seattle. Previously, he held several positions at Johnson & Johnson, including Business Development Director and Product Director for structural heart, cardiology, and peripheral vascular products at Cordis. An active mentor to entrepreneurs and industry professionals, he serves as the chair of PATH’s Bay Area Leadership Council, board member at EPPIC Global Network and IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation and advisory board member at D-Rev and Sewa International. He recently took over as the President Sewa International Bay Area. 

Dr. Mairal earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He also holds an MS in chemical engineering from the Indian Institution of Technology in Mumbai and a BS in chemical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Raipur. Dr. Mairal was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Twente, Netherlands and at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His work has been published in more than 30 publications, and he has seven issued patents.

Abhiroop Gandhi

Trust and Compliance Officer Verily Life Sciences, CA

Abhiroop Gandhi is the Trust & Compliance Officer and leads Strategic Risk Management at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet/Google company at the intersection of technology, data science and healthcare. He has over 15 years of experience in biopharmaceuticals, medical devices and digital health. He has played roles in corporate compliance, risk management and commercial strategy & lifecycle management.

He was previously Vice President of Corporate Compliance at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, where he managed the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and international healthcare compliance programs. Prior to the acquisition by Mallinckrodt, he established Questcor’s healthcare compliance program. He was recognized with a President’s Club award for outstanding contribution to the corporation. Before Questcor, Abhiroop was a member of Genentech’s commercial launch teams for oncology and immunology products. He also held positions at Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Razorfish and General Electric.

He is active in digital health industry forums and advocates for a consistent set of global standards to regulate and commercialize innovative products including the responsible use of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science. 
Mr. Gandhi holds a Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA from FMS, Delhi University and a Bachelor of Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology.

Manindra Agrawal

Aditya Prakash

Georgia Tech

B. Aditya Prakash is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech”). He received a Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2012, and a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) -- Bombay in 2007. His research interests include Data Science, Machine Learning and AI, with emphasis on big-data problems in large real-world networks and time-series, and applications to computational epidemiology/public health, urban computing, security and the Web. He has published one book and more than 85 papers in major venues, where his work has been recognized with multiple best-of-conference, best paper and travel awards. He also holds two U.S. patents and has given several tutorials at leading conferences. Tools developed by his group have been in use in companies and national agencies like ORNL, CDC and Walmart. He is a recipient of the Facebook Faculty Award (2015 and 2021), the NSF CAREER award and was named as one of ‘AI Ten to Watch’ by IEEE. His work has also won top awards in multiple international data science challenges (e.g., the C3AI COVID19 Grand Challenge) and has been highlighted by numerous media outlets/popular press e.g. FiveThirtyEight.com.

Ajitesh Srivastava

University of Southern California (USC)

Ajitesh Srivastava is a Research Assistant Professor at the Ming Hsieh Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Southern California in 2018. His research interests include network science, modeling, and machine learning applied to epidemics, social good, social networks, and computer systems. He collaborates with teams around the world and the CDC for infectious disease forecasting and scenario projections. He is a DARPA Grand Challenge winner (2014) for predicting the spread of the Chikungunya virus and the Target Data Science Challenge winner (2016) for predicting shoppers' behavior. He is also an Indian National Math Olympiad Awardee 2008 (awarded to 30 students in India).

Syra Madad

NYC Health + Hospitals

Syra Madad is an internationally recognized public health leader and epidemiologist in infectious disease and special pathogens preparedness and response. She serves as the Senior Director of the System-wide Special Pathogens Program at NYC Health + Hospitals and Health and Safety Lead of the Enhanced Investigations Unit of NYC Test and Trace Corp. She’s also the workgroup lead of NYC Health + Hospitals COVID-19 Vaccination Communications and Outreach Workgroup. Her work focuses on the preparedness for, response to and recovery from infectious disease outbreaks with an emphasis on healthcare and public health biopreparedness. She’s responded to multiple infectious disease outbreaks as an infectious disease epidemiologist including Ebola, measles and Zika. In addition, Dr. Madad is a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs where she regularly publishes on the latest public health guidance, epidemiological concepts and scientific literature to help the public understand complex topics using infographics and simplified science communication. She’s Core Faculty in the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC) and affiliate faculty at the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy & Research at Boston University. Dr. Madad is prominently featured in the Emmy-nominated Netflix docuseries, Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak, and the Discovery Channel documentary, The Vaccine: Conquering COVID. 

Anurag Agrawal

CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology.

Anurag Agrawal is Director of the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology. After completing graduate medical education at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi (1994), he further trained in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA (2003), followed by a PhD in Physiology from Delhi University. His primary research is in respiratory biology and broader interests are in smart deployment of emerging technologies towards healthcare, where he serves on national thinktanks, co-chairs the Lancet and Financial Times commission on Governing Health Futures, and serves on related expert groups at the World Health Organisation and Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence. He received the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Prize, the highest govt scientific award of India, in 2014, and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences

Gagandeep Kang

CMC Vellore

Gagandeep Kang is the first woman from India to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. She is also the first Indian woman to be elected to Fellowship of the American Academy of Microbiology and the only physician-scientist to receive the Infosys Award in Life Sciences. Gagandeep Kang received her training in medicine and microbiology at the Christian Medical College, Vellore in southern India and is Professor of Microbiology at the Christian Medical College (CMC) in Vellore, India. She works on enteric infections in children, particularly on transmission and immune responses, in order to design effective interventions. Current studies include active hospital and community based surveillance and clinical trials of new and existing vaccines, with use of molecular based assays to study the diversity of pathogens and the immune response of children with viral and parasitic enteric infections.

Cecile Viboud

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Cecile Viboud is a senior research scientist in the Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies of the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA. Her research focuses on the epidemiology and transmission dynamics of acute viral infections, at the interface of public health and computational modeling. Her work has concentrated on modeling the epidemiology, excess mortality, and transmission dynamics of respiratory viruses, including seasonal and pandemic influenza, and COVID-19. She has recently become interested in the potential of Big Data to strengthen infectious disease surveillance, disease forecasts, and the population-level impact of vaccination programs.

Giridhara R Babu

Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)

Giridhara R Babu (MBBS, MPH, Ph.D.) is Professor and Head – Life Course Epidemiology at Public Health Foundation of India. He has a medical degree (MBBS) from Kasturba medical college Manipal and has completed MPH and PhD from UCLA (University of California Los Angeles). He has two decades of experience in public health research, practice and academics.  He began his career at the Center for Community Medicine of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi as a Junior Resident. Next, he worked with World Health Organization where he led the efforts in stopping polio transmission in the state of Karnataka. He initiated advocacy for Measles surveillance in Karnataka leading to constitution of Multi Year Plan (MYP) for Measles elimination in India. He is awarded the prestigious intermediate and now the senior fellowship of Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance to start and expand cohort study. The cohort is named as MAASTHI (Maternal Antecedents of Adiposity Studying the Transgenerational role of Hyperglycemia and Insulin). 

He was also recently awarded the prestigious Team Science Grant by the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance where he will be leading a consortium of 18 investigators across 6 premiere public health institutions in India. This research program titled Nutritional, psychosocial and environmental determinants of neurodevelopment and child mental health (COINCIDE) aims to evaluate how multiple factors in a child’s immediate environment impact their development in the first decade of their life starting from pregnancy. 

Giridhara has over 100 papers published in national and international high impact journals. He has served on several national and international committees. Some of them include Lancet Commission Task force on COVID19, ICMR National Task Force for COVID-I9 and the Technical Analysis Committee of the Government of Karnataka. He is the regional representative for LMICs on the DoHaD international society.

He is actively involved in writing articles for general public, providing his expert opinion to media houses and consultation to several states. His work on COVID-19 can be accessed here https://giridhar.org/covid-19/

Mahesh Bhalgat

Syngene International Ltd.

Mahesh Bhalgat, Ph.D is the Chief Operating Officer at Syngene International LTD. Mahesh holds a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Utah, the USA, and a bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from the University of Mumbai. He has 30 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical, vaccine and pharma industries. Mahesh has worked and led different facets of R&D, analytical development, manufacturing and operations, technology transfer, regulatory sciences, quality and capital projects. During a 20-year US stint, he worked with Amgen, Monsanto, Celera Genomics and Molecular Probes (now Thermo Fisher). After moving to India, Mahesh was part of the team that brought WHO prequalification approvals for four vaccines in Biological E. Just before joining Syngene, he was the Chief Operating Officer at Shantha Biotechnics, a Sanofi company, where his responsibilities included operations, quality, supply chain, long-term strategic planning, manufacturing science and technology and human resources. Mahesh is a member of the CII National Committee on Technology, R&D and Innovation. At Syngene, Mahesh is the Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Executive Committee.

Monica Gandhi

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH is an Infectious Diseases doctor, Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is also the Director of the UCSF Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and the Medical Director of the HIV Clinic ("Ward 86") at San Francisco General Hospital. Her research focuses on HIV and women and adherence measurement in HIV treatment and prevention and most recently, on how to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic.

Randeep Guleria

AIIMS New Delhi

Randeep Guleria is an Indian pulmonologist and the Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. He is regarded as one of India's leading medical expert and is credited with the establishment of India's first centre for pulmonary medicines and sleep disorders at AIIMS. He is the director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He is also part of India's COVID-19 response effort.

Dr. Guleria started his medical studies at IGMC, Shimla, from where he received an undergraduate degree in Medicine, afterwards he attended the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh, from where he secured his MD in general medicine and DM in pulmonary medicine. He joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and rose in ranks to become a professor and the head of the Department of Pulmonology and Sleep Disorders. He was honoured by the Government of India in 2015 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.

Dr. Guleria is a recipient of Raj Nanda Pulmonary Disease Fellowship from Raj Nanda Trust and the Royal College of Physicians, UK and is an elected fellow (2011) of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS). He sits on the editorial boards of a number of medical journals such as the Indian Journal of Chest Diseases, Lung India, Journal of American Medical Association and Chest India. He is associated with the World Health Organization (WHO) as a member of its Scientific Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on immunization and influenza vaccination. He is a life member of the Association of Physicians of India, Indian Chest Society and the National College of Chest Physicians of India. He also serves as a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna on issues related to radiation protection.

Shoibal Datta

Data Sciences Institute at Takeda

Shoibal Datta is the Head of the Digital Strategy Group within the Data Sciences Institute at Takeda. In support of Takeda's commitment to digital and data he is responsible for working with colleagues across the enterprise to develop patient-centric digital strategies for the development of novel endpoints, make studies more resilient through decentralized approaches and help bring innovations in digital health from R&D through to commercial.

Prior to this Shoibal was Vice President of PPD Digital where he was responsible for setting the strategy and working with external platform partners and device manufacturers to devise compliant, globally scalable approaches to conduct decentralized trials and to oversee the integration of the technologies into conventional clinical research and data management processes. He also spent 13 years at Biogen in a range of roles in translational informatics, data sciences and as part of an innovation hub that launched MS PATHS, a learning healthcare system that utilises technology to capture high quality data as standard of care for over 10,000 MS patients globally supporting RWE and value-based medicine initiatives.

Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

IIT Madras

Dr. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam is a Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering and heads IITM's Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC). After his PhD and postdoc stint in US, he returned to India in late 2008 with the goal of developing indigenous medical technologies and set up HTIC in 2011. Since then, HTIC has grown into a unique and leading med-tech innovation ecosystem in the country bringing together around 40 medical institutions, industries, government agencies in developing and deploying affordable healthcare technologies. Six of these technologies have resulted in commercially successful products. HTIC’s 80+ member team of engineers and researchers is currently developing technologies in areas of cardiovascular ultrasound, endoscopy, ophthalmology, in-vitro diagnostics, surgical robotics, in collaboration with leading organizations. Since 2017, HTIC houses a medical technology incubator nurturing over 30 startups in this field. He received the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Young Engineer Award and IITM’s Early Career R&D Award. He has over 200 research publications in leading journals and conferences.

K. Chandrasekhar

Founder and CEO, Forus Health

K Chandrasekhar - Founder & CEO of Forus Health is the brain behind the development of a technology platform that increases access to eye care and prevents avoidable blindness. K Chandrasekhar established a unique strategy to introduce the revolutionary product '3nethra', which resulted in an unprecedented expansion of the retinal imaging market in India. Before starting Forus Health, K Chandrasekhar was the Director of Strategy at NXP Semiconductors and served over 20 years in major multinational and Indian tech companies. K Chandrasekhar is an alumnus of BITS, Pilani and IIM Kolkata

Sherri Douville

CEO, Medigram, Inc.

Sherri Douville is CEO and board member at Medigram, the Mobile Medicine company. She is also an editor, best selling author and sought-after speaker. Ms. Douville is the co-chair of the IEEE/UL International Joint Venture for the technical trust standard project for Clinical IoT in medicine. She is the co-author of multiple books and several technical papers. She served as the editor and lead author for the book, Mobile Medicine: Overcoming People, Culture, and Governance, which was the #1 hottest new release on Amazon for medical technology and medical informatics. Mobile Medicine is internationally acclaimed and was voted by business and technical leaders as the #1 book in all of healthcare for 2021 by BookAuthority. Ms. Douville previously won several awards while working at Johnson & Johnson in over a dozen disease states over the course of a decade. She has a Bachelor of Combined Sciences degree from Santa Clara University and has completed certificates in electrical engineering, computer science, AI and ML through MIT.

Santosh Kumar

Director, NIH Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K)

Santosh Kumar is the Lillian & Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence Professor in Computer Science at the University of Memphis. He is also Director of two NIH-funded multidisciplinary and multi-university national research centers in mHealth called mDOT Biomedical Technology Resource Center and MD2K Center of Excellence. Supported by over $50 million in federal research grants, his research in wearable AI seeks to revolutionize health and wellness via delivering timely interventions triggered by automated monitoring of human health and daily behaviors from wearables. Open-source software developed by his team has been used to conduct scientific studies nationwide, producing hundreds of terabytes of wearable sensor data to investigate stress management, smoking cessation, congestive heart failure, impulsive overeating, obesity, oral health, chronic pain, cocaine use, opioid use, and workplace performance. He also serves as the CEO & co-founder of a high-tech startup in wearable AI called CuesHub, PBC

Prashant Warier

Chief Executive Officer, qure.ai

Prashant Warier is the Co-Founder & CEO at Qure.ai. Prashant is an expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Deep learning. He has architected and commercialized several data science solutions in his 19 year career. He is also a prolific researcher, author, and speaker on topics related to data science and machine learning. He is passionate about using deep learning to make healthcare affordable and accessible. 

Mohammad Ameel

Head, Primary Healthcare, Technology, and Innovations, PATH

Mohammad Ameel currently Heads the Primary Healthcare, Technology & Innovations portfolio at PATH. Earlier he served as the Senior Consultant & Incharge, Healthcare Technology Division and Head - WHO collaborating center for priority medical devices & health technology policy at National Health Systems Resource Centre, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India.

As a fellow of India’s first international fellowship on Health technology Assessment (HTA) he has authored several health technology assessment reports including the one presented at Global Medical Device forum at WHO Headquarters, Geneva. He also got the privilege to represent India in the 3rd WHO Global Forum on Medical Device, Geneva and proposed the next forum in India in December 2018. He was recently conferred with prestigious award ‘100 most impactful healthcare leaders’ (Global listing, 2018). He was also recognized for his outstanding contribution to Medical Devices & Healthcare Technology field at the 8th MT India Healthcare Awards, 2018. He got the opportunity to accompany the Hon’ble President of India on business delegation to Prague, Czech Republic in September 2018. Recently he was nominated to represent the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to talk about Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Program at the Lok Sabha TV.

Renu Swarup

Former Secretary to Government of India
Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology

Dr Renu Swarup, is the Former Secretary, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India. Having served in Department of Biotechnology for over 30 years, she  was also the  Chairperson of Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC),  She  also held the Additional Charge of  Secretary Department of Science &Technology for a short period .

A PhD in Genetics and Plant Breeding, She  did her Post Doctoral Research at The John Innes Centre, Norwich UK, Dr. Renu Swarup has been instrumental in the planning and implementation of some major National programmes. As a Science Manager issues related to policy planning and implementation were a part of her assignment. She was actively engaged in the formulation of National Biotechnology Vision and Strategy in 2001, 2007 and 2015and 2021.She  was also a member of the Task Force on Women in Science constituted by the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Prime Minister.

As the Secretary of Government of India, Department of Biotechnology, she led  a Network of 16 Autonomous Research Institutes, 2 Public Sector Undertaking and a R&D Network of more than 5000 projects across more than 100 research institutes, Universities and Laboratories. In the recent COVID Pandemic situation she  led the COVID Vaccine ,Diagnostic and Genome sequencing Mission. The Public Sector BIRAC, for which she was  the founding Managing Director and then  Chairperson, has supported more than 5000  Startups and over 60 Incubators

A Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (NASI) India, A Life Member of Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences (TAAS) and a Member of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD), she was awarded the “BioSpectrum Person of the Year Award” in 2012. “National Entrepreneurship Awards 2017”, TiE Women Enabler Award 2018, “Dr. P. Sheel Memorial Award” 2018 by NASI and the TWAS Regional Office Prize on Science Diplomacy in 2018. She has been awarded the Agriculture Research Leadership Award 2019, Smt. Chandaben Mohanbhai Patel VASVIK Award for Women Scientific & Chemical science & Technology  2020-21,Life Time Achievement Award for Biotech Policy maker—2021 by Golden Jubilee Women Biotech Park .She was also recognised as Business world women 2019 & 2020

Mintu Turakhia

Founding Director, Center for Digital Health, Stanford; Chief Cardiac Electrophysiology

"Mintu Turakhia M.D. M.A.S. is a cardiac electrophysiologist, outcomes researcher, and clinical trialist. He is the Director of the Stanford Center for Digital Health (CDH) and the American Heart Association-funded Heart Health Technology Center. In his clinical role, he performs invasive procedures such as catheter ablation and device implantation to treat heart rhythm disorders.

Dr. Turakhia has an active multidisciplinary program in heart rhythm and digital health research, where uses biostatistical, health economic, artificial intelligence, and data science approaches to examine quality, outcomes, and risk of heart rhythm disorders such as atrial fibrillation in very large datasets. He is a principal investigator of several multi-center trials, such as the Apple Heart Study, to test digital health tools and wearables, and he collaborates closely on research with med device and tech companies. Dr. Turakhia has published over 200 manuscripts and works and is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Heart Rhythm Society. Dr. Turakhia has served as an advisor and investor to over two dozen medical device, drug, and health technology companies across the life cycle from early stage to IPO."

Wendy Taylor

Vice President, Technical Leadership and Innovation at Jhpiego

"Wendy Taylor, Vice President for Technical Leadership and Innovation, directs a multidisciplinary team of more than 70 staff focused on driving impact across a wide range of health areas. She is responsible for working across technical teams and nearly 40 country teams to prepare the organization for transformational innovations, from technologies and systems innovations to data science and actionable insights. She joined Jhpiego following a two-year fellowship with The Rockefeller Foundation, where she explored how to leverage advances in artificial intelligence, digital health and data technologies to transform global health, including how advanced outbreak analytics can be used to better prepare for and respond to a global pandemic.

Prior to the fellowship, Ms. Taylor worked for two decades within and outside of government, catalyzing innovations to tackle some of the world’s toughest global health challenges and scaling up market-based solutions for impact. At the US Agency for International Development, she founded and led the Center for Innovation and Impact, which applies innovative, business-minded approaches to accelerate the development, introduction and scale-up of priority global health innovations. There she spearheaded multiple strategic partnerships, including Saving Lives at Birth, a $100 million, multistakeholder Grand Challenge; created the agency’s first advance purchase commitments to stimulate investments in vaccines and diagnostics; and built multiple public-private partnerships with corporations to expand and strengthen health markets.

Previously, she held senior positions with several global health nonprofits—including Bio Ventures for Global Health, which she founded—and served in both the executive and legislative branches of the US Government, including the Office of Management and Budget and the US House Committee on Ways and Means."

Sandeep Dewan

Director & HOD, Critical Care, Fortis Memorial Research Institute

Dr. Sandeep Dewan did his graduation and Post Graduation in Anesthesia and Intensive care medicine from PGIMS Rohtak and Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine from Fortis Hospital, Vasant Kunj. He has worked in various hospitals like Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (2001-2005).He joined Fortis Group in 2005 and has been instrumental in starting Critical Care Medicine departments at Escorts Heart Institute.and Fortis Memorial, Gurgaon.He has more than 15 years of experience in Critical Care Medicine. He has several National and International publications to his name. He is currently Director of ECMO programme at FMRI and has been instrumental in establishing FMRI as Centre of Excellence for ECMO.

Sumit Kumar Nagpal

CEO and Founder, Cherish Health

Sumit is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on digital health innovation at scale. He has co-founded and grown five companies over the past two and a half decades that have tackled progressively bolder challenges facing our healthcare economies. All his work features common themes - big, bold ideas that help us imagine a better world; incredibly complex processes rethought into simple, approachable, and engaging user experiences; and implementation models that blend big innovations into the fabric of daily life - themes he has honed since the time Sumit worked with Steve Jobs and NeXT in the early 1990s.

Sumit is now the CEO and founder of Cherish Health. Cherish Health develops advanced sensors and artificial intelligence, combined with medical evidence and human touch, and uses these to provide solutions for people aging or living with health challenges – our grandparents, parents, children, many of us – that help improve their lives and support their self-care. Sumit also serves on the HIMSS Enterprise and Health eVillages boards and is sought after for his expertise and unstoppable energy as an entrepreneur, change agent, strategist, and technology architect.

Smisha Agarwal

Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Agarwal is the Research Director of Johns Hopkins Global mHealth Initiative (JHU-GmI) and Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She studies how to improve maternal and newborn health through strengthening community health systems and leveraging innovative technological solutions including digital devices.Over the last decade, she has supported the development of programs that employ digital tools such as mobile phones to improve health care services for women and children. This has included the development of point-of-care digital clinical decision support tools used by community health workers and other health care providers, and patient-focused SMS-based health behavior change interventions, and conversational agents (“chatbots”) that use natural language processing to communicate with users.

Mayank Vatsa

Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur

Mayank is a Professor of Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur, India. Earlier, he was a Professor at IIIT-Delhi. He has received his Masters and PhD in Computer Science from the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University.

He was a member of the Indian Biometrics Standards Committee for e-gov applications. He has also served as a member of the UIDAI's Biometrics Standard Subcommittee member (face, fingerprint, and iris standards). He has also served as the Vice President (Publications) for IEEE Biometrics Council where he started IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior and Identity Science.

His current areas of interest are biometrics, image processing, machine learning, deep learning, image forensics, and information fusion.

Kush Varshney

IBM Research, USA

Kush R. Varshney was born in Syracuse, NY in 1982. He received the B.S. degree (magna cum laude) in electrical and computer engineering with honors from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 2004. He received the S.M. degree in 2006 and the Ph.D. degree in 2010, both in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge. While at MIT, he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

Dr. Varshney is a distinguished research staff member and manager with IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, where he leads the machine learning group in the Foundations of Trustworthy AI department. He was a visiting scientist at IBM Research - Africa, Nairobi, Kenya in 2019. He is the founding co-director of the IBM Science for Social Good initiative. He applies data science and predictive analytics to human capital management, healthcare, olfaction, computational creativity, public affairs, international development, and algorithmic fairness, which has led to recognitions such as the 2013 Gerstner Award for Client Excellence for contributions to the WellPoint team and the Extraordinary IBM Research Technical Accomplishment for contributions to workforce innovation and enterprise transformation, and Harvard Belfer Center Tech Spotlight runner-up for AI Fairness 360. He conducts academic research on the theory and methods of trustworthy machine learning. His work has been recognized through best paper awards at the Fusion 2009, SOLI 2013, KDD 2014, and SDM 2015 conferences and the 2019 Computing Community Consortium / Schmidt Futures Computer Science for Social Good White Paper Competition. He is currently writing a book entitled 'Trust in Machine Learning' with Manning Publications. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Amit Deshpande

Microsoft Research, India

Amit Deshpande completed his BSc (Math) from Chennai Mathematical Institute in 2002 and PhD (Math) from MIT in 2007. Since then he has been working at Microsoft Research India in Bangalore. His research interests span theoretical computer science and machine learning. His recent publications on fairness in machine learning have appeared at ICML, AAAI, AIES, FORC etc., and last year he co-organized the LinkedIn-MSR-IISc workshop on Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in Machine Learning at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

Mayank Vatsa

Indian Institute of Technology, jodhpur

Mayank is a Professor of Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur, India. Earlier, he was a Professor at IIIT-Delhi. He has received his Masters and PhD in Computer Science from the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University.

He was a member of the Indian Biometrics Standards Committee for e-gov applications. He has also served as a member of the UIDAI's Biometrics Standard Subcommittee member (face, fingerprint, and iris standards). He has also served as the Vice President (Publications) for IEEE Biometrics Council where he started IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior and Identity Science.

His current areas of interest are biometrics, image processing, machine learning, deep learning, image forensics, and information fusion.

Kush Varshney

IBM Research, USA

Kush R. Varshney was born in Syracuse, NY in 1982. He received the B.S. degree (magna cum laude) in electrical and computer engineering with honors from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 2004. He received the S.M. degree in 2006 and the Ph.D. degree in 2010, both in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge. While at MIT, he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

Dr. Varshney is a distinguished research staff member and manager with IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, where he leads the machine learning group in the Foundations of Trustworthy AI department. He was a visiting scientist at IBM Research - Africa, Nairobi, Kenya in 2019. He is the founding co-director of the IBM Science for Social Good initiative. He applies data science and predictive analytics to human capital management, healthcare, olfaction, computational creativity, public affairs, international development, and algorithmic fairness, which has led to recognitions such as the 2013 Gerstner Award for Client Excellence for contributions to the WellPoint team and the Extraordinary IBM Research Technical Accomplishment for contributions to workforce innovation and enterprise transformation, and Harvard Belfer Center Tech Spotlight runner-up for AI Fairness 360. He conducts academic research on the theory and methods of trustworthy machine learning. His work has been recognized through best paper awards at the Fusion 2009, SOLI 2013, KDD 2014, and SDM 2015 conferences and the 2019 Computing Community Consortium / Schmidt Futures Computer Science for Social Good White Paper Competition. He is currently writing a book entitled 'Trust in Machine Learning' with Manning Publications. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Salman Avestimehr

University of Southern California

Salman Avestimehr is a Dean's Professor, the inaugural director of the USC-Amazon Center on Secure and Trusted Machine Learning (Trusted AI), and the director of the Information Theory and Machine Learning (vITAL) research lab at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of University of Southern California. He is also an Amazon Scholar at Alexa AI. He received his Ph.D. in 2008 in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include information theory, large-scale distributed computing and machine learning, and secure/private computing/learning.

Dr. Avestimehr has received a number of awards for his research, including the James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award from IEEE Information Theory Society, an Information Theory Society and Communication Society Joint Paper Award, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House (President Obama), a Young Investigator Program (YIP) award from the U. S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize, and several Best Paper Awards at Conferences. He has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and a general Co-Chair of the 2020 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). He is a fellow of IEEE.

Partha Pratim Chakrabarti

IIT Kgp

Partha Pratim Chakrabarti has been a Faculty Member with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur since 1988, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering with a joint appointment with the Centre for Excellence in AI. He received a B Tech and PhD degree in computer science and engineering from the IIT Kharagpur, India in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He was Director of IIT Kharagpur from 2013 to 2019. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Cognitive Science and Cyber-Physical Systems. He has worked closely with Government and Industry, both national and international, in several large and strategic projects of high impact and has mentored several new age entrepreneurs. He has published more than 200 research papers and supervised around 30 PhDs. He was the recipient of several honours, including the President of India Gold Medal, the Swarnajayanti Fellowship and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize from the Government of India for his contributions.

Vineeth Balasubramanian

IIT Hyderabad

Vineeth N Balasubramanian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H), India, and currently serves as the Head of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at IIT-H. His research interests include deep learning, machine learning, computer vision and explainable AI. His research has been published regularly at various top-tier venues in the field including ICML, CVPR, NeurIPS, ICCV, KDD, AAAI, etc. His PhD dissertation at Arizona State University on the Conformal Predictions framework was nominated for the Outstanding PhD Dissertation at the Department of Computer Science. He serves as a Senior PC/Area Chair for conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, IJCAI, and is an Associate Editor for the Pattern Recognition journal with recent awards as Outstanding Reviewer at ICLR 2021, CVPR 2019, ECCV 2020, etc. He is also a recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award at IIT-H in 2017 and 2021, and a Google Research Scholar Award (earlier known as Google Research Faculty award) in 2020. He currently serves as the Secretary of the AAAI India Chapter

Srujana Merugu

Google Research India

Srujana is a machine learning researcher (currently consulting with Google research) with a keen interest in platform dynamics, data governance, human behavior, education, healthcare, and financial inclusion. Prior to 2017, she was employed with the machine learning groups at Yahoo Research, IBM Research, Amazon, and Flipkart. Post-2017, she has mostly been involved in consulting engagements with startups in education, healthcare, CRM, SaaS, and Fintech domains along with volunteering on social causes with non-profit organizations (EkStep, Wadhwani AI). Since March of 2020, she has been assisting with the COVID response of a few highly impacted cities and states as part of the COVID-19 Data Science Consortium.

Srujana has published her research in several top-tier conferences and journals on machine learning and is the recipient of multiple best paper awards. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006 and her B. Tech. degree from IIT Madras in 1999.

Gaurav Aggarwal

Staff Research Scientist, Google Research

I am a research scientist at Google India. My interest lies in machine learning and computer vision. Before Google, I worked at Ola Cabs, a ride-hailing company in India, as the head of data science. Earlier, I founded a technology start-up Fashiate that was acquired by Snapdeal, an e-commerce marketplace. I have also worked as a senior research scientist at Yahoo Labs and as an assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame. I did my Btech in Computer Science from IIT Madras and PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Mausam

Professor, IIT Delhi

Mausam is the founding head of School of Artificial Intelligence, along with being a Professor of Computer Science at IIT Delhi. He is also an affiliate professor at University of Washington, Seattle. With a twenty year research experience in artificial intelligence, his research over time has explored many research areas such as large scale information extraction over the Web, AI approaches for optimizing crowdsourced workflows, and probabilistic planning algorithms. More recently, his research is exploring neuro-symbolic machine learning, computer vision for radiology, and several threads in intelligent information systems that include information extraction, knowledge base completion, question answering, summarization and dialogue systems. He has over 100 archival papers to his credit, along with a book, and two best paper awards.

Mausam was awarded the AAAI Senior Member status in 2015 for his long-term participation in AAAI and distinction in the field of artificial intelligence. He has had the priviledge of being a program chair for two top conferences, AAAI 2021, and ICAPS 2017. He was ranked the 65th most influential AI scholar and 71st most influential NLP scholar for the last decade by ArnetMiner. He received his PhD from University of Washington in 2007 and a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi in 2001.

Ramesh Raskar

Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab

Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab and directs the Camera Culture research group. His focus is on AI and Imaging for health and sustainability. They span research in physical (e.g., sensors, health-tech), digital (e.g., automated and privacy-aware machine learning) and global (e.g., geomaps, autonomous mobility) domains. He received the Lemelson Award (2016), ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award (2017), DARPA Young Faculty Award (2009), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2009), TR100 Award from MIT Technology Review (2004) and Global Indus Technovator Award (2003). He has worked on special research projects at Google [X] and Facebook and co-founded/advised several companies.

Balaram Ravindran

IIT Madras

Professor B. Ravindran heads the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) at IIT Madras, the leading interdisciplinary AI research centre in India. He is the Mindtree Faculty Fellow and Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras. He has held visiting positions at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia and Google Research. Currently, his research interests are centred on learning from and through interactions and span the areas of geometric deep learning and reinforcement learning. He is one of the founding executive committee members of the India chapter of ACM SIGKDD. He is currently serving on the editorial boards of Machine Learning Journal, Journal of AI Research, PLOS One, and Frontiers in Big Data and AI. He has published nearly 100 papers in premier journals and conferences. His work with students have won multiple best paper awards, the most recent being the best application paper at PAKDD 2021. He received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and his Master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is a senior member of the Association for Advancement of AI (AAAI).

Amit Sethi

IIT Bombay

Amit Sethi is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay, and a Visiting Instructor of Pathology at UIC. His research group works on computer vision, deep learning, and medical image analysis. His current research is focused on extracting valuable information, such as for prognosis, using deep learning on inexpensive medical modalities, such as whole slide pathology images of cancer tissues stained using hematoxylin and eosin. Technical challenges to solve these real-world problems include working with images that are very large in size but few in number, variable image quality and characteristics between hospitals, and the lack of reliable annotations. Before joining IIT Bombay, he worked as a faculty member of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at IIT Guwahati, and as a management consultant at ZS Associates' Chicago where he worked producing business insights using data analysis. He obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a focus on computer vision and machine learning, and a bachelors in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi.

Milind Tambe

Director, Center for Research in Computation and Society, Harvard University
Director, AI for Social Good at Google Research India.

Milind Tambe is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research in Computation and Society at Harvard University; concurrently, he is also Director "AI for Social Good" at Google Research India. Prof. Tambe's work focuses on advancing AI and multiagent systems for public health, conservation & public safety, with a track record of building pioneering AI systems for social impact. He is recipient of the IJCAI (International Joint Conference on AI) John McCarthy Award, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Autonomous Agents Research Award, AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, and he is a fellow of AAAI and ACM. He is also a recipient of the Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland security award, INFORMS Wagner prize for excellence in Operations Research practice, Rist Prize of the Military Operations Research Society, IBM Faculty Award and several others. Prof. Tambe has contributed several foundational papers in AI, in particular in multiagent systems, for which he has received or been nominated for best paper awards over 25 times at top AI conferences such as AAAI, AAMAS, IJCAI, and others.

Bill Thies

Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

Bill Thies is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. His work focuses on building appropriate information and communication technologies for use in low-income communities. Bill was based in India from 2008 to 2017, where he co-founded an organization (Everwell) that designs and deploys innovative technologies for national tuberculosis programs. Bill received his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied programming languages and computer architecture. His work has been recognized with various awards, including a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship.

Abhijnan Chakraborty

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi

Abhijnan Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. His research interests fall under the broad theme of Computing and Society, covering the research areas of Social Computing, Information Retrieval and Fairness in Machine Learning. Prior to joining IIT Delhi, he spent two and half years at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany as a post-doctoral researcher. He obtained his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, where he was awarded the Google India PhD Fellowship and the Prime Minister's Fellowship for Doctoral Research. Prior to joining PhD, he spent two years at Microsoft Research, working in the area of mobile systems. He has authored several papers in top-tier computer science conferences including WWW, KDD, AAAI, AAMAS, CSCW, ICWSM and MobiCom. His research works have won the best paper award at ASONAM'16 and best poster award at ECIR'19. He is one of the recipients of an internationally competitive research grant from the Data Transparency Lab to advance his research on fairness and transparency in algorithmic systems. More details about him can be found at https://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~abhijnan/

Malavika Jayaraman

Digital Asia Hub

Malavika is the inaugural Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub, an independent research think-tank incubated by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society (BKC). Prior to her relocation to Hong Kong, she was a resident Fellow at BKC, and continues her engagement as a Faculty Associate.

A technology lawyer for over 15 years, she practised law at Allen & Overy, London, and was Vice President and Technology Counsel at Citigroup. A graduate of the National Law School of India, Bangalore, Malavika has an LL.M. from Northwestern University, Chicago. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and has had fellowships at the University of Sydney and the Institute for Technology & Society, Rio de Janeiro. She taught India’s first course on information technology and law in 1997.

She serves on the Extended Programming Committee of the annual Computer, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels, and on the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). She was previously a member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, and an Associate Fellow with Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs), as part of its Asia-Pacific Programme. She was also a member of the High-level Expert Advisory Group to the OECD project, “Going Digital: Making the Transformation Work for Growth and Well-being”. She has been based in Singapore since she joined the faculty of the Yong Pung How School of Law at SMU.

Sampath Kannan

Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

Sampath Kannan is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor's Degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, his Master's at Princeton University and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. His research interests are broadly in algorithms and complexity. He is also interested in the applications of these theoretical fields to program reliability, computational biology, computer systems, computational game theory, fairness and privacy. He is the author of nearly 200 journal and conference papers several of which have won best paper awards or been invited to special journal issues.

Sampath Kannan served as the Associate Dean for Academics for the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Penn and as Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Science. He also served as the Division Director for the Computer and Communications Foundations Division at NSF and as the Associate Director for Theoretical Computer Science activities at the Simons Foundation. He is a recipient of the NSF Research Initiation Award, the Ford Motor Company best advisor award in the School of Engineering and the ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Award and is a Fellow of the ACM and AAAS."

Krishnaram Kenthapadi

Principal Scientist at Amazon AWS AI

Krishnaram Kenthapadi is a Principal Scientist at Amazon AWS AI, where he leads the fairness, explainability, and privacy initiatives in Amazon AI platform. Until recently, he led similar efforts at the LinkedIn AI team, and served as LinkedIn’s representative in Microsoft’s AI and Ethics in Engineering and Research Advisory Board. Previously, he was a Researcher at Microsoft Research, where his work resulted in product impact (and Gold Star / Technology Transfer awards), and several publications/patents. Krishnaram received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2006. He serves regularly on the program committees of KDD, WWW, WSDM, and related conferences, and co-chaired the 2014 ACM Symposium on Computing for Development. His work has been recognized through awards at NAACL, WWW, SODA, CIKM, ICML AutoML workshop, and Microsoft’s AI/ML conference. He has published 50+ papers, with 4500+ citations and filed 145+ patents (65 granted). He has presented tutorials on privacy, fairness, explainable AI, and responsible AI at forums such as KDD ’18 ’19, WSDM ’19, WWW ’19 ’20 '21, FAccT ’20 '21, AAAI ’20 '21, and ICML '21.

Shweta Mohandas

Centre for Internet and Society, India

Shweta is a Policy Officer at the Centre for Internet and Society, India. Her areas of work and interest include Artificial Intelligence, Privacy, and Intellectual Property Rights and India’s policies surrounding them. She is currently researching on the development and use of voice based technologies in India, with a focus on languages, accessibility and privacy.

Hridesh Rajan

Iowa State

Hridesh Rajan is the Kingland Professor and Chair in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University. Prof. Rajan's research interests are in programming languages, software engineering, and data science where he is most known for his design of the Ptolemy programming language that showed how to modularly reason about crosscutting concerns and the Boa programming language and its infrastructure that decreases the barriers to data-driven software engineering. He has been recognized by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) with a CAREER award, an Early Achievement in Research Award, a Big-12 Fellowship, the Kingland Professorship, and an exemplary mentor for Junior Faculty award. Prof. Rajan is a AAAS Fellow, US-UK Fulbright scholar, distinguished member of the ACM, and serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Amit Sharma

Microsoft

Amit Sharma is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research India. His work bridges causal inference techniques with data mining and machine learning, with the goal of making machine learning models generalize better, be explainable and avoid hidden biases. To this end, Amit has co-led the development of the open-source Microsoft DoWhy library for causal inference and DiCE library for counterfactual explanations. His work has received many awards including a Best Paper at CHI 2021, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems; Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at CSCW 2016, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW); the 2012 Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award; and the 2009 Honda Young Engineer and Scientist Award. Amit received his Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University and B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/amshar/

Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science, Yale University

Nisheeth Vishnoi is the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science and a co-founder of the Computation and Society Initiative at Yale University. He studies the foundations of computation and his research spans several areas of theoretical computer science, optimization, and machine learning. He is also interested in understanding nature and society from a computational viewpoint. Here, his current focus includes studying entropy, the emergence of intelligent behavior, and ethical problems at the interface of artificial intelligence and society. He was the recipient of the Best Paper Award at IEEE FOCS in 2005, the IBM Research Pat Goldberg Memorial Award in 2006, the Indian National Science Academy Young Scientist Award in 2011, the IIT Bombay Young Alumni Achievers Award in 2016, and the Best Technical Paper award at ACM FAT* in 2019. He was named an ACM Fellow in 2019. He holds a B. Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 1995-1999, Ph. D., Algorithms,Combinatorics and Optimization, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999-2004.

Narendra Ahuja

UIUC

Narendra Ahuja is a Research Professor in CSL and ECE at UIUC where he was Donald Biggar Willet Professor till 2012. During 2013-19, he was the Founding Director, Information Technology Research Academy (https://itra.dic.gov.in/ ), a Government of India initiative involving 76 research groups, 62 institutions, 143 Faculty and 167 PhD students, aimed at large scale digital transformation, resulting in 20 prototype IT solutions to societal problems. During 1999-2002, he was the Founding Director of the first IIIT, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (https://www.iiit.ac.in/). He has co-authored 3 books, over 400 papers and 4 patents. He has supervised over 50 PhD, 15 MS and 100 Undergrad students and over 10 Postdocs. His texture models were incorporated in GE’s flight simulators and CMC Ltd’s fingerprint system. His automated railway inspection methods were used in commercial products. His body-neck-eyes move-orient-verge-focus-zoom stereo camera prototype was a precursor to commercial products. His spatial occupancy algorithms were used by Honeywell. His awards include: IEEE Emanuel Piore award, SPIE Technology Achievement award, IME’s Stewart-Dyer/Frederick-Harvey-Trevithick Prize, University of Maryland’s Alumni Hall of Fame, several Best Paper Awards; Distinguished Alumnus Awards from University of Maryland, BITS Pilani and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; and an Honorary Doctorate from York University, England.

Rama Chellappa

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Prof. Rama Chellappa is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). At JHU, he is also affiliated with CIS, CLSP, Malone Center and MINDS. Before coming to JHU in August 2020, he was a Distinguished University Professor, a Minta Martin Professor of Engineering, and a Professor in the ECE department and the University of Maryland Institute Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland (UMD). He holds a non-tenure position as a College Park Professor in the ECE department at UMD. His current researcher interests are computer vision, pattern recognition, machine intelligence and artificial intelligence. He received the K. S. Fu Prize from the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). He is a recipient of the Society, Technical Achievement, and Meritorious Service Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society and four IBM Faculty Development Awards. He also received the Technical Achievement and Meritorious Service Awards from the IEEE Computer Society. He received the Inaugural Leadership Award from the IEEE Biometrics Council and recently the 2020 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Medal for Signal Processing. At UMD, he received college and university level recognitions for research, teaching, innovation, and mentoring of undergraduate students. He has been recognized as an Outstanding ECE by Purdue University and as a Distinguished Alumni by the Indian Institute of Science, India. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of PAMI. He is a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society, served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and as the President of the IEEE Biometrics Council. He is a Fellow of AAAI, AAAS, ACM, IAPR, IEEE and OSA and holds six patents.

B.M. Mehtre

Professor, IDRBT

He received his PhD (Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1991.

Mehtre has over 30 years of experience, in industrial and academic R&D. He has worked at CMC Limited R&D Center, Hyderabad, at National University of Singapore, and at Michigan State University. He has worked in various areas like Automated Fingerprint and Identification, Map Understanding system; Content based Image Retrieval and visual information systems, Digital Watermarking, Technologies for Intellectual Property management, and Technologies for e-Commerce. His seminal work on fingerprint led to the development of the 1st Automated Fingerprint Identification System in India. He also has expertise in the philosophy of Saankhya and Yoga, and has passion for Human Values, Scientific Spirituality and ancient Vedic literature.

Mehtre was General Chair for the international conferences, ISBA 2019, and ICISS 2014, held at IDRBT, Hyderabad in Jan 2019 and Dec 2014 respectively. He has conducted 8 International programs in Cyber Security for BFSI sector, in collaboration with University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA. He has guided a number of student projects/ theses and was examiner for Master’s and PhD theses. He is on the Editorial Board of Pattern Recognition Journal, an Elsevier Publication. He has 2 US Patents and over 100 articles in various journals, conferences, magazines and encyclopedia. He was invited as a Distinguished Alumni speaker by IIT Kharagpur at their Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2001.

Mehtre has received a number of awards – these include 2 best papers in cyber defense conferences (2013 and 2014), 4 Best Paper Awards from Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India (for his work on automatic fingerprint identification) during 1988-‘92, KS Krishnan Memorial Award 1986 from IETE (for his work on Automatic Cloud Classification), Outstanding Creativity Award 2004 and Outstanding Contribution Award 2007 from CMC Limited. He has been listed in the Who's Who in the World directory of 1995 Marquis, USA. He is a fellow of IETE, AP Academy of science and senior member of IEEE.

Jonathon Phillips

NIST

Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips is an Electronic Engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Information Technology Laboratory. Jonathon is a leading researcher in the fields of computer vision, face recognition, biometrics, and forensics. He pioneered the development of competitions in face recognition, biometrics and computer vision. Dr. Phillips was assigned to the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) as a program manager. His work has been reported in print media of record including the New York Times and the Economist. He has appeared on National Public Radio’s ScienceFriday. He received his Ph.D. in operations research from Rutgers University. He served as an Associate Editior of IEEE Trans. on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science; was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; and guest editor of an issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE. He won the inaugural IEEE Mark Everingham Prize, the 2018 IEEE Biometric Council Leadership Award, and two Dept. of Commerce Gold Medals (2003 and 2020). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the IAPR.

Nalini Ratha

Professor, University at Buffalo

Dr. Nalini K. Ratha is an Empire Innovation Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo – SUNY. Previously, he was a research staff member at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. He received his B. Tech. (EE) and M. Tech. (CSE) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and Ph. D. in computer science from Michigan State University, East Lansing. He has authored more than 100 research papers and patents in privacy and security of biometrics systems and has been co-chair of several leading biometrics conferences and served on the editorial boards of IEEE Trans. on PAMI, IEEE Trans. on SMC-B, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing and Pattern Recognition journal. He has co-authored a popular book on biometrics entitled Guide to Biometrics and co-edited two books entitled Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems and Advances in Biometrics: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems. He is Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IAPR and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. During 2011-2012 he was the president of the IEEE Biometrics Council. He received the 2019 IEEE Biometrics Council Leadership award. Recently, he was appointed as the Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior and Identity Science in 2021 for a period of three years.

Richa Singh

IIT Jodhpur (IEEE Fellow, CVPR22 Program Chair)

Richa Singh has received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA, in 2008. She is currently a Professor at IIT-Jodhpur, India, and an Adjunct Professor with IIIT-Delhi and West Virginia University, USA. She has co-edited book Deep Learning in Biometrics and has delivered tutorials on deep learning and domain adaptation in ICCV 2017, AFGR 2017, and IJCNN 2017. Her areas of interest are pattern recognition, machine learning, and biometrics. I am also a fellow of IAPR and a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM. She was a recipient of the Kusum and Mohandas Pai Faculty Research Fellowship at the IIIT-Delhi, the FAST Award by the Department of Science and Technology, India, and several best paper and best poster awards in international conferences. She has also served as the Program Co-Chair of AFGR2019 and BTAS 2016, and a General Co-Chair of ISBA 2017. Currently, she is serving as a Program Co-Chair of IJCB 2020. She is also the Vice President (Publications) of the IEEE Biometrics Council and an Associate Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition, and Area/Associate Editor of several journals.

Gretchen Greene

Senior Advisor, The Hastings Center

Gretchen Greene is an internationally recognized expert on face and emotion recognition and AI policy and ethics whose advice to governments has been read in 8,000 cities. Greene is a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; a senior advisor at The Hastings Center, a leading bioethics think tank; a partner at Baker Thomas Oakley Greene, a law firm serving AI and robotics start-ups; a founder of Greene Strategy, an AI policy, strategy, and risk consultancy; and a former U.S. national lab mathematician and autonomous vehicle engineer. Greene is editor and co-author of Government Briefing Book: Emerging Technologies and Human Rights, which includes 14 contributors from MIT, Harvard, and RightsCon Tunis and has been distributed to governments and NGOs on six continents, and author of The Ethics of AI and Emotional Intelligence: Data Sources, Applications, and Questions for Evaluating Ethics Risk, a report written while leading Partnership on AI’s work towards the international, multi-stakeholder development of emotion recognition and ethics best practices, and informed and inspired by conversations with more than 200 individuals from industry, academia, government, civil society and news media organizations.

Amba Kak

Director of Global Policy & Programs, AI Now Institute, NYU

Amba is currently Director of Global Policy & Programs at AI Now Institute at New York University where she develops and leads the Institute’s global policy engagement and partnerships, and is also a fellow at the NYU School of Law. Amba has over a decade of experience in the field of technology-related policy across multiple jurisdictions and has provided her expertise to government regulators, civil society organizations, and philanthropies. She is currently part of the Strategy Advisory Board of the Mozilla Foundation. Before AI Now, Amba was the Global Policy Advisor at Mozilla, where she led the organization’s work in India and contributed to global policy fora on issues such as data protection, online content regulation, and network neutrality. Amba has previously been the recipient of the Google Policy Fellowship and the Mozilla Tech Policy Fellowship which supported her research and advocacy in this field.

Trained as a lawyer, Amba received her BA LLB (Hons) from the National University of Juridical Sciences in India. She has a Masters in Law (BCL) and an MSc in the Social Science of the Internet at the University of Oxford which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar.

Vidushi Marda

Senior Programme Officer at ARTICLE 19

Vidushi is an Indian lawyer and researcher working on the societal implications of AI. She is a senior programme officer at ARTICLE 19 where she leads global engagement and research on the human rights implications of machine learning. She is also a member of the Expert Group on Governance of Data and AI at United Nations Global Pulse.

Rahul Matthan

Attorney, TMT

Rahul Matthan is a technology lawyer and heads the TMT practice of Trilegal. In addition to advising clients on issues as diverse as cryptocurrency, satellite regulations, fintech and social media, he has played an active role in tech policy in the country including in relation to the country's privacy law, its spatial data infrastructure and the Unique ID law. His book - ' Privacy 3.0: Unlocking Our Data-Driven Future' - describes the evolution of privacy in India and the world and the impact that technology has had on the evolution of this fundamental human right.

He is a published author and a regular speaker across the world on matter relating to emerging technologies and the law and he writes a weekly column on the interface of law and technology entitled Ex Machina in mint, a leading national business daily. He also hosts a podcast series with the same name which picks up on many of the themes discussed in his articles and dives into them in much more detail.

Rahul now serves on the Board of Trilegal after having served for many years on the Firm’s Management Committe.

Rahul Panicker

Advisor to the CTO at Vicarious AI

Rahul Panicker is Principal Technologist and Advisor to the CTO at Vicarious AI. Vicarious develops AI for robotics, to enable next-generation manufacturing, and is backed by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Vinod Khosla. Rahul was previously Chief Research and Innovation Officer at the Wadhwani Institute for AI. Wadhwani AI is a non-profit research institute based in Mumbai developing AI solutions in health and agriculture for underserved populations in developing countries, and is backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID. Before that, he was the Co-founder and President of Embrace, a venture-backed startup out of Stanford that has helped over a million premature babies in over 25 developing countries, and whose infant incubator the WHO recognized as a top innovation in global health. Rahul is also a member of the steering committee of the AI-and-Shared-Prosperity Initiative by the Partnership on AI. He is an MIT Technology Review 35-innovators-under-35 awardee, World Economic Forum Social Entrepreneur of the Year, Industrial Design Society of America Gold winner, and The Economist Innovation Award winner. Rahul holds an MS/PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University, is an alumnus of the Stanford d.school, and has a B.Tech in electrical engineering from IIT Madras, India.

John Richards

Research Scientist, T. J. Watson Research Center,

John Richards is a Distinguished Research Staff Member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He has created award-winning systems in support of interpersonal communication, ubiquitous computing, and web accessibility, and is now exploring new tooling to support the creation and testing of trustworthy AI systems. He received the Alexander C. Williams Jr. Award from the Human Factors Society in 1984, was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1997, elected a member of the IBM Academy of Technology in 2006, named a Fellow of the British Computer Society in 2011, and received the Lifetime Practice Award from ACM SIGCHI in 2021.

Michelle Shevin

Senior Program Manager, Technology and Society, Ford Foundation

Michelle Shevin is Senior Program Manager of the Public Interest Technology Catalyst Fund at the Ford Foundation. In the spirit of public interest law, the fund aims to build and sustain public-centered institutions, diverse career pathways, and robust networks of aligned organizations expanding the space for justice and accountability. This infrastructure will continue to undergird an ecosystem of technologists working in the public interest. She is also teaches critical futures thinking methodologies at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Amber Sinha

Executive Director of the Centre for Internet and Society, India

Nika Haghtalab

Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley

Nika Haghtalab is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. She works broadly on the theoretical aspects of machine learning and algorithmic economics. Prof. Haghtalab's work builds theoretical foundations for ensuring both the performance of learning algorithms in presence of everyday societal and economic forces and the integrity of social and economic forces that are born out of the use of machine learning systems. Her work addresses emerging fields such as learning in economic and societal settings, collaborative federated learning, robustness of ML, fairness and privacy. Previously, Prof. Haghtalab was an Assistant Professor in the CS department of Cornell University, in 2019-2020. She received her Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University. She is a co-founder of Learning Theory Alliance (LeT-All). Among her honors are the CMU School of Computer Science Dissertation Award, SIGecom Dissertation Honorable Mention, and other industry research awards.

Peter Kairouz

Research Scientist, Google

Peter Kairouz is a research scientist at Google, where he leads research efforts on federated learning and privacy-preserving technologies. Before joining Google, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is the recipient of the 2012 Roberto Padovani Scholarship from Qualcomm's Research Center, the 2015 ACM SIGMETRICS Best Paper Award, the 2015 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist Award, and the 2016 Harold L. Olesen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from UIUC.

Sameep Mehta

IBM India

Sameep Mehta is Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research AI. His research interests are broadly in the area of AI, Trusted AI, Data Quality, Data Preparation, Meta Data Management and Data Modernization. He is responsible for setting and executing Data strategy at IBM Research and works closely with products, services and customers. His innovations has been part of multiple IBM offerings.He serves as Adjunct Faculty at IIIT-Delhi in the area of AI and Data Management. He received his Ph.D, from The Ohio State University in 2006. He regularly publishes at top AI conferences and his work has received multiple Best Paper and Runner-up best paper award.

Shrikanth Narayanan

USC

Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan is University Professor and Niki & C. L. Max Nikias Chair in Engineering at the University of Southern California, and holds appointments as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and Pediatrics, Research Director of the Information Science Institute, and director of the Ming Hsieh Institute. Prior to USC he was with AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T Research. Shri Narayanan and his Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) at USC focus on developing engineering approaches to understand the human condition and in creating machine intelligence technologies that can support and enhance human experiences. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, IEEE, ISCA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association for Psychological Science, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the National Academy of Inventors. He has published over 900 papers and has been granted eighteen U.S. patents, and has won many awards for his work. His research and inventions have led to technology commercialization including through startups he co-founded: Behavioral Signals Technologies focused on the telecommunication services and AI based conversational assistance industry and Lyssn focused on mental health care delivery, treatment and quality assurance.

Research page Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL).

Prem Natarajan

Vice President Alexa, Amazon

Prem Natarajan is a Vice President in Alexa and leads a multidisciplinary science, engineering, and product organization which improves customer experience worldwide through advances in dialog modeling, natural language understanding, entity linking and resolution, and related machine learning technologies. Before joining Amazon, he was senior vice dean of engineering at the University of Southern California where he led nationally influential DARPA and IARPA sponsored research efforts in biometrics/face recognition, OCR, natural language processing, media forensics, and forecasting. Prior to that, he served as executive vice president and principal scientist for speech, language, and multimedia at Raytheon BBN Technologies.

Sandy Pentland

Toshiba Professor, Media Arts & Science, MIT Media Lab

MIT Prof. Alex Pentland's research group has recently helped the 18 largest US banks, SwissPost and SwissPost, and EuroStat implement federated data systems. Pentland has been Advisory Board Member for AT&T, Google, Nissan, and is currently a member of US National Academies and the Board Member of UN Global Partnership for sustainable data.

Chandramani Singh

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Chandramani Singh is an assistant professor with the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He received his MTech and PhD degrees from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2005 and 2012, respectively. He was a research engineer with INRIA and École normale supérieure from February 2012 to February 2013. He was a postdoctoral research associate at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

Raghavendra Bhat

Intel India

Raghavendra Bhat (Raghu) is a Principal Engineer at Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd. He has a BTech in Computer Science from NIT Warangal and PGDBA (Finance) from Symbiosis Pune. He has over 22 years of industry experience spread across domains like Network Management, Embedded platform development for Mobile, IoT and Biometrics solutions. In his current role at Intel, he leads exploration in Healthcare space as part of Vertical Solutions and Services Group. In his role, the primary focus is on design, development, and ecosystem adoption of optimized AI solutions on Intel AI portfolio for Speech, Language, Image and Video analytics use cases. Currently, a significant focus is on AI Training at the Edge where training methodologies like Federated Learning, Incremental Learning etc. He is on the ISO and BIS standardization panels of Blockchain and AI. His interests extend to SW architecture methodologies, Blockchain and Aadhaar ecosystem where he has contributed towards Iris biometric device development and specifying device security requirements. As part of IEEE standards organization, he is leading the pre-standardization study for low resourced Indian languages. He has several patents and publications to his credit.

Vivek Raghavan

Vivek is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and out-of-the-box problem solver. Vivek Raghavan is Chief Product Manager and Biometric Architect at the Unique Identification Authority of India. He has been responsible (as a volunteer) for the design and rollout of the technology platform for Aadhaar, the world’s largest identity program. He joined the Aadhaar project before the first Aadhaar was issued, and was there when the billionth person was enrolled into Aadhaar. Vivek has also been the Chief Technologist for Team Indus, India's entry for the Google Lunar XPrize. Prior to that, he spent 20 years in the field of Electronic Design Automation, successfully founding, running and selling two EDA startups and being responsible for the design and development of multiple market-leading EDA products. He has held senior management positions at Magma, Synopsys and Avant! Corporation. Vivek has an M.S. and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi. Vivek has an eclectic portfolio of Angel investments, reflecting his contrarian viewpoint.

Mayank Vatsa

Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur

Mayank is a Professor of Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur, India. Earlier, he was a Professor at IIIT-Delhi. He has received his Masters and PhD in Computer Science from the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University.

He was a member of the Indian Biometrics Standards Committee for e-gov applications. He has also served as a member of the UIDAI's Biometrics Standard Subcommittee member (face, fingerprint, and iris standards). He has also served as the Vice President (Publications) for IEEE Biometrics Council where he started IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior and Identity Science.

His current areas of interest are biometrics, image processing, machine learning, deep learning, image forensics, and information fusion.

Kush Varshney

IBM Research, USA

Kush R. Varshney was born in Syracuse, NY in 1982. He received the B.S. degree (magna cum laude) in electrical and computer engineering with honors from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 2004. He received the S.M. degree in 2006 and the Ph.D. degree in 2010, both in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge. While at MIT, he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

Dr. Varshney is a distinguished research staff member and manager with IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, where he leads the machine learning group in the Foundations of Trustworthy AI department. He was a visiting scientist at IBM Research - Africa, Nairobi, Kenya in 2019. He is the founding co-director of the IBM Science for Social Good initiative. He applies data science and predictive analytics to human capital management, healthcare, olfaction, computational creativity, public affairs, international development, and algorithmic fairness, which has led to recognitions such as the 2013 Gerstner Award for Client Excellence for contributions to the WellPoint team and the Extraordinary IBM Research Technical Accomplishment for contributions to workforce innovation and enterprise transformation, and Harvard Belfer Center Tech Spotlight runner-up for AI Fairness 360. He conducts academic research on the theory and methods of trustworthy machine learning. His work has been recognized through best paper awards at the Fusion 2009, SOLI 2013, KDD 2014, and SDM 2015 conferences and the 2019 Computing Community Consortium / Schmidt Futures Computer Science for Social Good White Paper Competition. He is currently writing a book entitled 'Trust in Machine Learning' with Manning Publications. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Amit Deshpande

Microsoft Research, India

Amit Deshpande completed his BSc (Math) from Chennai Mathematical Institute in 2002 and PhD (Math) from MIT in 2007. Since then he has been working at Microsoft Research India in Bangalore. His research interests span theoretical computer science and machine learning. His recent publications on fairness in machine learning have appeared at ICML, AAAI, AIES, FORC etc., and last year he co-organized the LinkedIn-MSR-IISc workshop on Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in Machine Learning at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

Mayank Vatsa

Indian Institute of Technology, jodhpur

Mayank is a Professor of Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur, India. Earlier, he was a Professor at IIIT-Delhi. He has received his Masters and PhD in Computer Science from the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University.

He was a member of the Indian Biometrics Standards Committee for e-gov applications. He has also served as a member of the UIDAI's Biometrics Standard Subcommittee member (face, fingerprint, and iris standards). He has also served as the Vice President (Publications) for IEEE Biometrics Council where he started IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior and Identity Science.

His current areas of interest are biometrics, image processing, machine learning, deep learning, image forensics, and information fusion.

Kush Varshney

IBM Research, USA

Kush R. Varshney was born in Syracuse, NY in 1982. He received the B.S. degree (magna cum laude) in electrical and computer engineering with honors from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 2004. He received the S.M. degree in 2006 and the Ph.D. degree in 2010, both in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge. While at MIT, he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

Dr. Varshney is a distinguished research staff member and manager with IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, where he leads the machine learning group in the Foundations of Trustworthy AI department. He was a visiting scientist at IBM Research - Africa, Nairobi, Kenya in 2019. He is the founding co-director of the IBM Science for Social Good initiative. He applies data science and predictive analytics to human capital management, healthcare, olfaction, computational creativity, public affairs, international development, and algorithmic fairness, which has led to recognitions such as the 2013 Gerstner Award for Client Excellence for contributions to the WellPoint team and the Extraordinary IBM Research Technical Accomplishment for contributions to workforce innovation and enterprise transformation, and Harvard Belfer Center Tech Spotlight runner-up for AI Fairness 360. He conducts academic research on the theory and methods of trustworthy machine learning. His work has been recognized through best paper awards at the Fusion 2009, SOLI 2013, KDD 2014, and SDM 2015 conferences and the 2019 Computing Community Consortium / Schmidt Futures Computer Science for Social Good White Paper Competition. He is currently writing a book entitled 'Trust in Machine Learning' with Manning Publications. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Salman Avestimehr

University of Southern California

Salman Avestimehr is a Dean's Professor, the inaugural director of the USC-Amazon Center on Secure and Trusted Machine Learning (Trusted AI), and the director of the Information Theory and Machine Learning (vITAL) research lab at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of University of Southern California. He is also an Amazon Scholar at Alexa AI. He received his Ph.D. in 2008 in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include information theory, large-scale distributed computing and machine learning, and secure/private computing/learning.

Dr. Avestimehr has received a number of awards for his research, including the James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award from IEEE Information Theory Society, an Information Theory Society and Communication Society Joint Paper Award, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House (President Obama), a Young Investigator Program (YIP) award from the U. S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize, and several Best Paper Awards at Conferences. He has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and a general Co-Chair of the 2020 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). He is a fellow of IEEE.

Partha Pratim Chakrabarti

IIT Kgp

Partha Pratim Chakrabarti has been a Faculty Member with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur since 1988, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering with a joint appointment with the Centre for Excellence in AI. He received a B Tech and PhD degree in computer science and engineering from the IIT Kharagpur, India in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He was Director of IIT Kharagpur from 2013 to 2019. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Cognitive Science and Cyber-Physical Systems. He has worked closely with Government and Industry, both national and international, in several large and strategic projects of high impact and has mentored several new age entrepreneurs. He has published more than 200 research papers and supervised around 30 PhDs. He was the recipient of several honours, including the President of India Gold Medal, the Swarnajayanti Fellowship and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize from the Government of India for his contributions.

Vineeth Balasubramanian

IIT Hyderabad

Vineeth N Balasubramanian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H), India, and currently serves as the Head of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at IIT-H. His research interests include deep learning, machine learning, computer vision and explainable AI. His research has been published regularly at various top-tier venues in the field including ICML, CVPR, NeurIPS, ICCV, KDD, AAAI, etc. His PhD dissertation at Arizona State University on the Conformal Predictions framework was nominated for the Outstanding PhD Dissertation at the Department of Computer Science. He serves as a Senior PC/Area Chair for conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, IJCAI, and is an Associate Editor for the Pattern Recognition journal with recent awards as Outstanding Reviewer at ICLR 2021, CVPR 2019, ECCV 2020, etc. He is also a recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award at IIT-H in 2017 and 2021, and a Google Research Scholar Award (earlier known as Google Research Faculty award) in 2020. He currently serves as the Secretary of the AAAI India Chapter

Srujana Merugu

Google Research India

Srujana is a machine learning researcher (currently consulting with Google research) with a keen interest in platform dynamics, data governance, human behavior, education, healthcare, and financial inclusion. Prior to 2017, she was employed with the machine learning groups at Yahoo Research, IBM Research, Amazon, and Flipkart. Post-2017, she has mostly been involved in consulting engagements with startups in education, healthcare, CRM, SaaS, and Fintech domains along with volunteering on social causes with non-profit organizations (EkStep, Wadhwani AI). Since March of 2020, she has been assisting with the COVID response of a few highly impacted cities and states as part of the COVID-19 Data Science Consortium.

Srujana has published her research in several top-tier conferences and journals on machine learning and is the recipient of multiple best paper awards. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006 and her B. Tech. degree from IIT Madras in 1999.

Gaurav Aggarwal

Staff Research Scientist, Google Research

I am a research scientist at Google India. My interest lies in machine learning and computer vision. Before Google, I worked at Ola Cabs, a ride-hailing company in India, as the head of data science. Earlier, I founded a technology start-up Fashiate that was acquired by Snapdeal, an e-commerce marketplace. I have also worked as a senior research scientist at Yahoo Labs and as an assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame. I did my Btech in Computer Science from IIT Madras and PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Mausam

Professor, IIT Delhi

Mausam is the founding head of School of Artificial Intelligence, along with being a Professor of Computer Science at IIT Delhi. He is also an affiliate professor at University of Washington, Seattle. With a twenty year research experience in artificial intelligence, his research over time has explored many research areas such as large scale information extraction over the Web, AI approaches for optimizing crowdsourced workflows, and probabilistic planning algorithms. More recently, his research is exploring neuro-symbolic machine learning, computer vision for radiology, and several threads in intelligent information systems that include information extraction, knowledge base completion, question answering, summarization and dialogue systems. He has over 100 archival papers to his credit, along with a book, and two best paper awards.

Mausam was awarded the AAAI Senior Member status in 2015 for his long-term participation in AAAI and distinction in the field of artificial intelligence. He has had the priviledge of being a program chair for two top conferences, AAAI 2021, and ICAPS 2017. He was ranked the 65th most influential AI scholar and 71st most influential NLP scholar for the last decade by ArnetMiner. He received his PhD from University of Washington in 2007 and a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi in 2001.

Ramesh Raskar

Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab

Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab and directs the Camera Culture research group. His focus is on AI and Imaging for health and sustainability. They span research in physical (e.g., sensors, health-tech), digital (e.g., automated and privacy-aware machine learning) and global (e.g., geomaps, autonomous mobility) domains. He received the Lemelson Award (2016), ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award (2017), DARPA Young Faculty Award (2009), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2009), TR100 Award from MIT Technology Review (2004) and Global Indus Technovator Award (2003). He has worked on special research projects at Google [X] and Facebook and co-founded/advised several companies.

Balaram Ravindran

IIT Madras

Professor B. Ravindran heads the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) at IIT Madras, the leading interdisciplinary AI research centre in India. He is the Mindtree Faculty Fellow and Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras. He has held visiting positions at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia and Google Research. Currently, his research interests are centred on learning from and through interactions and span the areas of geometric deep learning and reinforcement learning. He is one of the founding executive committee members of the India chapter of ACM SIGKDD. He is currently serving on the editorial boards of Machine Learning Journal, Journal of AI Research, PLOS One, and Frontiers in Big Data and AI. He has published nearly 100 papers in premier journals and conferences. His work with students have won multiple best paper awards, the most recent being the best application paper at PAKDD 2021. He received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and his Master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is a senior member of the Association for Advancement of AI (AAAI).

Amit Sethi

IIT Bombay

Amit Sethi is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay, and a Visiting Instructor of Pathology at UIC. His research group works on computer vision, deep learning, and medical image analysis. His current research is focused on extracting valuable information, such as for prognosis, using deep learning on inexpensive medical modalities, such as whole slide pathology images of cancer tissues stained using hematoxylin and eosin. Technical challenges to solve these real-world problems include working with images that are very large in size but few in number, variable image quality and characteristics between hospitals, and the lack of reliable annotations. Before joining IIT Bombay, he worked as a faculty member of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at IIT Guwahati, and as a management consultant at ZS Associates' Chicago where he worked producing business insights using data analysis. He obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a focus on computer vision and machine learning, and a bachelors in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi.

Milind Tambe

Director, Center for Research in Computation and Society, Harvard University
Director, AI for Social Good at Google Research India.

Milind Tambe is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research in Computation and Society at Harvard University; concurrently, he is also Director "AI for Social Good" at Google Research India. Prof. Tambe's work focuses on advancing AI and multiagent systems for public health, conservation & public safety, with a track record of building pioneering AI systems for social impact. He is recipient of the IJCAI (International Joint Conference on AI) John McCarthy Award, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Autonomous Agents Research Award, AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, and he is a fellow of AAAI and ACM. He is also a recipient of the Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland security award, INFORMS Wagner prize for excellence in Operations Research practice, Rist Prize of the Military Operations Research Society, IBM Faculty Award and several others. Prof. Tambe has contributed several foundational papers in AI, in particular in multiagent systems, for which he has received or been nominated for best paper awards over 25 times at top AI conferences such as AAAI, AAMAS, IJCAI, and others.

Bill Thies

Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

Bill Thies is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. His work focuses on building appropriate information and communication technologies for use in low-income communities. Bill was based in India from 2008 to 2017, where he co-founded an organization (Everwell) that designs and deploys innovative technologies for national tuberculosis programs. Bill received his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied programming languages and computer architecture. His work has been recognized with various awards, including a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship.

Abhijnan Chakraborty

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi

Abhijnan Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. His research interests fall under the broad theme of Computing and Society, covering the research areas of Social Computing, Information Retrieval and Fairness in Machine Learning. Prior to joining IIT Delhi, he spent two and half years at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany as a post-doctoral researcher. He obtained his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, where he was awarded the Google India PhD Fellowship and the Prime Minister's Fellowship for Doctoral Research. Prior to joining PhD, he spent two years at Microsoft Research, working in the area of mobile systems. He has authored several papers in top-tier computer science conferences including WWW, KDD, AAAI, AAMAS, CSCW, ICWSM and MobiCom. His research works have won the best paper award at ASONAM'16 and best poster award at ECIR'19. He is one of the recipients of an internationally competitive research grant from the Data Transparency Lab to advance his research on fairness and transparency in algorithmic systems. More details about him can be found at https://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~abhijnan/

Malavika Jayaraman

Digital Asia Hub

Malavika is the inaugural Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub, an independent research think-tank incubated by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society (BKC). Prior to her relocation to Hong Kong, she was a resident Fellow at BKC, and continues her engagement as a Faculty Associate.

A technology lawyer for over 15 years, she practised law at Allen & Overy, London, and was Vice President and Technology Counsel at Citigroup. A graduate of the National Law School of India, Bangalore, Malavika has an LL.M. from Northwestern University, Chicago. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and has had fellowships at the University of Sydney and the Institute for Technology & Society, Rio de Janeiro. She taught India’s first course on information technology and law in 1997.

She serves on the Extended Programming Committee of the annual Computer, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels, and on the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). She was previously a member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, and an Associate Fellow with Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs), as part of its Asia-Pacific Programme. She was also a member of the High-level Expert Advisory Group to the OECD project, “Going Digital: Making the Transformation Work for Growth and Well-being”. She has been based in Singapore since she joined the faculty of the Yong Pung How School of Law at SMU.

Sampath Kannan

Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

Sampath Kannan is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor's Degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, his Master's at Princeton University and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. His research interests are broadly in algorithms and complexity. He is also interested in the applications of these theoretical fields to program reliability, computational biology, computer systems, computational game theory, fairness and privacy. He is the author of nearly 200 journal and conference papers several of which have won best paper awards or been invited to special journal issues.

Sampath Kannan served as the Associate Dean for Academics for the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Penn and as Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Science. He also served as the Division Director for the Computer and Communications Foundations Division at NSF and as the Associate Director for Theoretical Computer Science activities at the Simons Foundation. He is a recipient of the NSF Research Initiation Award, the Ford Motor Company best advisor award in the School of Engineering and the ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Award and is a Fellow of the ACM and AAAS."

Krishnaram Kenthapadi

Principal Scientist at Amazon AWS AI

Krishnaram Kenthapadi is a Principal Scientist at Amazon AWS AI, where he leads the fairness, explainability, and privacy initiatives in Amazon AI platform. Until recently, he led similar efforts at the LinkedIn AI team, and served as LinkedIn’s representative in Microsoft’s AI and Ethics in Engineering and Research Advisory Board. Previously, he was a Researcher at Microsoft Research, where his work resulted in product impact (and Gold Star / Technology Transfer awards), and several publications/patents. Krishnaram received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2006. He serves regularly on the program committees of KDD, WWW, WSDM, and related conferences, and co-chaired the 2014 ACM Symposium on Computing for Development. His work has been recognized through awards at NAACL, WWW, SODA, CIKM, ICML AutoML workshop, and Microsoft’s AI/ML conference. He has published 50+ papers, with 4500+ citations and filed 145+ patents (65 granted). He has presented tutorials on privacy, fairness, explainable AI, and responsible AI at forums such as KDD ’18 ’19, WSDM ’19, WWW ’19 ’20 '21, FAccT ’20 '21, AAAI ’20 '21, and ICML '21.

Shweta Mohandas

Centre for Internet and Society, India

Shweta is a Policy Officer at the Centre for Internet and Society, India. Her areas of work and interest include Artificial Intelligence, Privacy, and Intellectual Property Rights and India’s policies surrounding them. She is currently researching on the development and use of voice based technologies in India, with a focus on languages, accessibility and privacy.

Hridesh Rajan

Iowa State

Hridesh Rajan is the Kingland Professor and Chair in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University. Prof. Rajan's research interests are in programming languages, software engineering, and data science where he is most known for his design of the Ptolemy programming language that showed how to modularly reason about crosscutting concerns and the Boa programming language and its infrastructure that decreases the barriers to data-driven software engineering. He has been recognized by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) with a CAREER award, an Early Achievement in Research Award, a Big-12 Fellowship, the Kingland Professorship, and an exemplary mentor for Junior Faculty award. Prof. Rajan is a AAAS Fellow, US-UK Fulbright scholar, distinguished member of the ACM, and serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Amit Sharma

Microsoft

Amit Sharma is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research India. His work bridges causal inference techniques with data mining and machine learning, with the goal of making machine learning models generalize better, be explainable and avoid hidden biases. To this end, Amit has co-led the development of the open-source Microsoft DoWhy library for causal inference and DiCE library for counterfactual explanations. His work has received many awards including a Best Paper at CHI 2021, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems; Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at CSCW 2016, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW); the 2012 Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award; and the 2009 Honda Young Engineer and Scientist Award. Amit received his Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University and B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/amshar/

Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science, Yale University

Nisheeth Vishnoi is the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science and a co-founder of the Computation and Society Initiative at Yale University. He studies the foundations of computation and his research spans several areas of theoretical computer science, optimization, and machine learning. He is also interested in understanding nature and society from a computational viewpoint. Here, his current focus includes studying entropy, the emergence of intelligent behavior, and ethical problems at the interface of artificial intelligence and society. He was the recipient of the Best Paper Award at IEEE FOCS in 2005, the IBM Research Pat Goldberg Memorial Award in 2006, the Indian National Science Academy Young Scientist Award in 2011, the IIT Bombay Young Alumni Achievers Award in 2016, and the Best Technical Paper award at ACM FAT* in 2019. He was named an ACM Fellow in 2019. He holds a B. Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 1995-1999, Ph. D., Algorithms,Combinatorics and Optimization, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999-2004.

Narendra Ahuja

UIUC

Narendra Ahuja is a Research Professor in CSL and ECE at UIUC where he was Donald Biggar Willet Professor till 2012. During 2013-19, he was the Founding Director, Information Technology Research Academy (https://itra.dic.gov.in/ ), a Government of India initiative involving 76 research groups, 62 institutions, 143 Faculty and 167 PhD students, aimed at large scale digital transformation, resulting in 20 prototype IT solutions to societal problems. During 1999-2002, he was the Founding Director of the first IIIT, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (https://www.iiit.ac.in/). He has co-authored 3 books, over 400 papers and 4 patents. He has supervised over 50 PhD, 15 MS and 100 Undergrad students and over 10 Postdocs. His texture models were incorporated in GE’s flight simulators and CMC Ltd’s fingerprint system. His automated railway inspection methods were used in commercial products. His body-neck-eyes move-orient-verge-focus-zoom stereo camera prototype was a precursor to commercial products. His spatial occupancy algorithms were used by Honeywell. His awards include: IEEE Emanuel Piore award, SPIE Technology Achievement award, IME’s Stewart-Dyer/Frederick-Harvey-Trevithick Prize, University of Maryland’s Alumni Hall of Fame, several Best Paper Awards; Distinguished Alumnus Awards from University of Maryland, BITS Pilani and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; and an Honorary Doctorate from York University, England.

Rama Chellappa

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Prof. Rama Chellappa is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). At JHU, he is also affiliated with CIS, CLSP, Malone Center and MINDS. Before coming to JHU in August 2020, he was a Distinguished University Professor, a Minta Martin Professor of Engineering, and a Professor in the ECE department and the University of Maryland Institute Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland (UMD). He holds a non-tenure position as a College Park Professor in the ECE department at UMD. His current researcher interests are computer vision, pattern recognition, machine intelligence and artificial intelligence. He received the K. S. Fu Prize from the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). He is a recipient of the Society, Technical Achievement, and Meritorious Service Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society and four IBM Faculty Development Awards. He also received the Technical Achievement and Meritorious Service Awards from the IEEE Computer Society. He received the Inaugural Leadership Award from the IEEE Biometrics Council and recently the 2020 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Medal for Signal Processing. At UMD, he received college and university level recognitions for research, teaching, innovation, and mentoring of undergraduate students. He has been recognized as an Outstanding ECE by Purdue University and as a Distinguished Alumni by the Indian Institute of Science, India. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of PAMI. He is a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society, served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and as the President of the IEEE Biometrics Council. He is a Fellow of AAAI, AAAS, ACM, IAPR, IEEE and OSA and holds six patents.

B.M. Mehtre

Professor, IDRBT

He received his PhD (Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1991.

Mehtre has over 30 years of experience, in industrial and academic R&D. He has worked at CMC Limited R&D Center, Hyderabad, at National University of Singapore, and at Michigan State University. He has worked in various areas like Automated Fingerprint and Identification, Map Understanding system; Content based Image Retrieval and visual information systems, Digital Watermarking, Technologies for Intellectual Property management, and Technologies for e-Commerce. His seminal work on fingerprint led to the development of the 1st Automated Fingerprint Identification System in India. He also has expertise in the philosophy of Saankhya and Yoga, and has passion for Human Values, Scientific Spirituality and ancient Vedic literature.

Mehtre was General Chair for the international conferences, ISBA 2019, and ICISS 2014, held at IDRBT, Hyderabad in Jan 2019 and Dec 2014 respectively. He has conducted 8 International programs in Cyber Security for BFSI sector, in collaboration with University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA. He has guided a number of student projects/ theses and was examiner for Master’s and PhD theses. He is on the Editorial Board of Pattern Recognition Journal, an Elsevier Publication. He has 2 US Patents and over 100 articles in various journals, conferences, magazines and encyclopedia. He was invited as a Distinguished Alumni speaker by IIT Kharagpur at their Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2001.

Mehtre has received a number of awards – these include 2 best papers in cyber defense conferences (2013 and 2014), 4 Best Paper Awards from Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India (for his work on automatic fingerprint identification) during 1988-‘92, KS Krishnan Memorial Award 1986 from IETE (for his work on Automatic Cloud Classification), Outstanding Creativity Award 2004 and Outstanding Contribution Award 2007 from CMC Limited. He has been listed in the Who's Who in the World directory of 1995 Marquis, USA. He is a fellow of IETE, AP Academy of science and senior member of IEEE.

Jonathon Phillips

NIST

Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips is an Electronic Engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Information Technology Laboratory. Jonathon is a leading researcher in the fields of computer vision, face recognition, biometrics, and forensics. He pioneered the development of competitions in face recognition, biometrics and computer vision. Dr. Phillips was assigned to the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) as a program manager. His work has been reported in print media of record including the New York Times and the Economist. He has appeared on National Public Radio’s ScienceFriday. He received his Ph.D. in operations research from Rutgers University. He served as an Associate Editior of IEEE Trans. on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science; was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; and guest editor of an issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE. He won the inaugural IEEE Mark Everingham Prize, the 2018 IEEE Biometric Council Leadership Award, and two Dept. of Commerce Gold Medals (2003 and 2020). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the IAPR.

Nalini Ratha

Professor, University at Buffalo

Dr. Nalini K. Ratha is an Empire Innovation Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo – SUNY. Previously, he was a research staff member at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. He received his B. Tech. (EE) and M. Tech. (CSE) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and Ph. D. in computer science from Michigan State University, East Lansing. He has authored more than 100 research papers and patents in privacy and security of biometrics systems and has been co-chair of several leading biometrics conferences and served on the editorial boards of IEEE Trans. on PAMI, IEEE Trans. on SMC-B, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing and Pattern Recognition journal. He has co-authored a popular book on biometrics entitled Guide to Biometrics and co-edited two books entitled Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems and Advances in Biometrics: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems. He is Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IAPR and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. During 2011-2012 he was the president of the IEEE Biometrics Council. He received the 2019 IEEE Biometrics Council Leadership award. Recently, he was appointed as the Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior and Identity Science in 2021 for a period of three years.

Richa Singh

IIT Jodhpur (IEEE Fellow, CVPR22 Program Chair)

Richa Singh has received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA, in 2008. She is currently a Professor at IIT-Jodhpur, India, and an Adjunct Professor with IIIT-Delhi and West Virginia University, USA. She has co-edited book Deep Learning in Biometrics and has delivered tutorials on deep learning and domain adaptation in ICCV 2017, AFGR 2017, and IJCNN 2017. Her areas of interest are pattern recognition, machine learning, and biometrics. I am also a fellow of IAPR and a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM. She was a recipient of the Kusum and Mohandas Pai Faculty Research Fellowship at the IIIT-Delhi, the FAST Award by the Department of Science and Technology, India, and several best paper and best poster awards in international conferences. She has also served as the Program Co-Chair of AFGR2019 and BTAS 2016, and a General Co-Chair of ISBA 2017. Currently, she is serving as a Program Co-Chair of IJCB 2020. She is also the Vice President (Publications) of the IEEE Biometrics Council and an Associate Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition, and Area/Associate Editor of several journals.

Gretchen Greene

Senior Advisor, The Hastings Center

Gretchen Greene is an internationally recognized expert on face and emotion recognition and AI policy and ethics whose advice to governments has been read in 8,000 cities. Greene is a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; a senior advisor at The Hastings Center, a leading bioethics think tank; a partner at Baker Thomas Oakley Greene, a law firm serving AI and robotics start-ups; a founder of Greene Strategy, an AI policy, strategy, and risk consultancy; and a former U.S. national lab mathematician and autonomous vehicle engineer. Greene is editor and co-author of Government Briefing Book: Emerging Technologies and Human Rights, which includes 14 contributors from MIT, Harvard, and RightsCon Tunis and has been distributed to governments and NGOs on six continents, and author of The Ethics of AI and Emotional Intelligence: Data Sources, Applications, and Questions for Evaluating Ethics Risk, a report written while leading Partnership on AI’s work towards the international, multi-stakeholder development of emotion recognition and ethics best practices, and informed and inspired by conversations with more than 200 individuals from industry, academia, government, civil society and news media organizations.

Amba Kak

Director of Global Policy & Programs, AI Now Institute, NYU

Amba is currently Director of Global Policy & Programs at AI Now Institute at New York University where she develops and leads the Institute’s global policy engagement and partnerships, and is also a fellow at the NYU School of Law. Amba has over a decade of experience in the field of technology-related policy across multiple jurisdictions and has provided her expertise to government regulators, civil society organizations, and philanthropies. She is currently part of the Strategy Advisory Board of the Mozilla Foundation. Before AI Now, Amba was the Global Policy Advisor at Mozilla, where she led the organization’s work in India and contributed to global policy fora on issues such as data protection, online content regulation, and network neutrality. Amba has previously been the recipient of the Google Policy Fellowship and the Mozilla Tech Policy Fellowship which supported her research and advocacy in this field.

Trained as a lawyer, Amba received her BA LLB (Hons) from the National University of Juridical Sciences in India. She has a Masters in Law (BCL) and an MSc in the Social Science of the Internet at the University of Oxford which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar.

Vidushi Marda

Senior Programme Officer at ARTICLE 19

Vidushi is an Indian lawyer and researcher working on the societal implications of AI. She is a senior programme officer at ARTICLE 19 where she leads global engagement and research on the human rights implications of machine learning. She is also a member of the Expert Group on Governance of Data and AI at United Nations Global Pulse.

Rahul Matthan

Attorney, TMT

Rahul Matthan is a technology lawyer and heads the TMT practice of Trilegal. In addition to advising clients on issues as diverse as cryptocurrency, satellite regulations, fintech and social media, he has played an active role in tech policy in the country including in relation to the country's privacy law, its spatial data infrastructure and the Unique ID law. His book - ' Privacy 3.0: Unlocking Our Data-Driven Future' - describes the evolution of privacy in India and the world and the impact that technology has had on the evolution of this fundamental human right.

He is a published author and a regular speaker across the world on matter relating to emerging technologies and the law and he writes a weekly column on the interface of law and technology entitled Ex Machina in mint, a leading national business daily. He also hosts a podcast series with the same name which picks up on many of the themes discussed in his articles and dives into them in much more detail.

Rahul now serves on the Board of Trilegal after having served for many years on the Firm’s Management Committe.

Rahul Panicker

Advisor to the CTO at Vicarious AI

Rahul Panicker is Principal Technologist and Advisor to the CTO at Vicarious AI. Vicarious develops AI for robotics, to enable next-generation manufacturing, and is backed by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Vinod Khosla. Rahul was previously Chief Research and Innovation Officer at the Wadhwani Institute for AI. Wadhwani AI is a non-profit research institute based in Mumbai developing AI solutions in health and agriculture for underserved populations in developing countries, and is backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID. Before that, he was the Co-founder and President of Embrace, a venture-backed startup out of Stanford that has helped over a million premature babies in over 25 developing countries, and whose infant incubator the WHO recognized as a top innovation in global health. Rahul is also a member of the steering committee of the AI-and-Shared-Prosperity Initiative by the Partnership on AI. He is an MIT Technology Review 35-innovators-under-35 awardee, World Economic Forum Social Entrepreneur of the Year, Industrial Design Society of America Gold winner, and The Economist Innovation Award winner. Rahul holds an MS/PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University, is an alumnus of the Stanford d.school, and has a B.Tech in electrical engineering from IIT Madras, India.

John Richards

Research Scientist, T. J. Watson Research Center,

John Richards is a Distinguished Research Staff Member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He has created award-winning systems in support of interpersonal communication, ubiquitous computing, and web accessibility, and is now exploring new tooling to support the creation and testing of trustworthy AI systems. He received the Alexander C. Williams Jr. Award from the Human Factors Society in 1984, was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1997, elected a member of the IBM Academy of Technology in 2006, named a Fellow of the British Computer Society in 2011, and received the Lifetime Practice Award from ACM SIGCHI in 2021.

Michelle Shevin

Senior Program Manager, Technology and Society, Ford Foundation

Michelle Shevin is Senior Program Manager of the Public Interest Technology Catalyst Fund at the Ford Foundation. In the spirit of public interest law, the fund aims to build and sustain public-centered institutions, diverse career pathways, and robust networks of aligned organizations expanding the space for justice and accountability. This infrastructure will continue to undergird an ecosystem of technologists working in the public interest. She is also teaches critical futures thinking methodologies at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Amber Sinha

Executive Director of the Centre for Internet and Society, India

Nika Haghtalab

Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley

Nika Haghtalab is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. She works broadly on the theoretical aspects of machine learning and algorithmic economics. Prof. Haghtalab's work builds theoretical foundations for ensuring both the performance of learning algorithms in presence of everyday societal and economic forces and the integrity of social and economic forces that are born out of the use of machine learning systems. Her work addresses emerging fields such as learning in economic and societal settings, collaborative federated learning, robustness of ML, fairness and privacy. Previously, Prof. Haghtalab was an Assistant Professor in the CS department of Cornell University, in 2019-2020. She received her Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University. She is a co-founder of Learning Theory Alliance (LeT-All). Among her honors are the CMU School of Computer Science Dissertation Award, SIGecom Dissertation Honorable Mention, and other industry research awards.

Peter Kairouz

Research Scientist, Google

Peter Kairouz is a research scientist at Google, where he leads research efforts on federated learning and privacy-preserving technologies. Before joining Google, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is the recipient of the 2012 Roberto Padovani Scholarship from Qualcomm's Research Center, the 2015 ACM SIGMETRICS Best Paper Award, the 2015 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist Award, and the 2016 Harold L. Olesen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from UIUC.

Sameep Mehta

IBM India

Sameep Mehta is Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research AI. His research interests are broadly in the area of AI, Trusted AI, Data Quality, Data Preparation, Meta Data Management and Data Modernization. He is responsible for setting and executing Data strategy at IBM Research and works closely with products, services and customers. His innovations has been part of multiple IBM offerings.He serves as Adjunct Faculty at IIIT-Delhi in the area of AI and Data Management. He received his Ph.D, from The Ohio State University in 2006. He regularly publishes at top AI conferences and his work has received multiple Best Paper and Runner-up best paper award.

Shrikanth Narayanan

USC

Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan is University Professor and Niki & C. L. Max Nikias Chair in Engineering at the University of Southern California, and holds appointments as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and Pediatrics, Research Director of the Information Science Institute, and director of the Ming Hsieh Institute. Prior to USC he was with AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T Research. Shri Narayanan and his Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) at USC focus on developing engineering approaches to understand the human condition and in creating machine intelligence technologies that can support and enhance human experiences. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, IEEE, ISCA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association for Psychological Science, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the National Academy of Inventors. He has published over 900 papers and has been granted eighteen U.S. patents, and has won many awards for his work. His research and inventions have led to technology commercialization including through startups he co-founded: Behavioral Signals Technologies focused on the telecommunication services and AI based conversational assistance industry and Lyssn focused on mental health care delivery, treatment and quality assurance.

Research page Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL).

Prem Natarajan

Vice President Alexa, Amazon

Prem Natarajan is a Vice President in Alexa and leads a multidisciplinary science, engineering, and product organization which improves customer experience worldwide through advances in dialog modeling, natural language understanding, entity linking and resolution, and related machine learning technologies. Before joining Amazon, he was senior vice dean of engineering at the University of Southern California where he led nationally influential DARPA and IARPA sponsored research efforts in biometrics/face recognition, OCR, natural language processing, media forensics, and forecasting. Prior to that, he served as executive vice president and principal scientist for speech, language, and multimedia at Raytheon BBN Technologies.

Sandy Pentland

Toshiba Professor, Media Arts & Science, MIT Media Lab

MIT Prof. Alex Pentland's research group has recently helped the 18 largest US banks, SwissPost and SwissPost, and EuroStat implement federated data systems. Pentland has been Advisory Board Member for AT&T, Google, Nissan, and is currently a member of US National Academies and the Board Member of UN Global Partnership for sustainable data.

Chandramani Singh

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Chandramani Singh is an assistant professor with the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He received his MTech and PhD degrees from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2005 and 2012, respectively. He was a research engineer with INRIA and École normale supérieure from February 2012 to February 2013. He was a postdoctoral research associate at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

Raghavendra Bhat

Intel India

Raghavendra Bhat (Raghu) is a Principal Engineer at Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd. He has a BTech in Computer Science from NIT Warangal and PGDBA (Finance) from Symbiosis Pune. He has over 22 years of industry experience spread across domains like Network Management, Embedded platform development for Mobile, IoT and Biometrics solutions. In his current role at Intel, he leads exploration in Healthcare space as part of Vertical Solutions and Services Group. In his role, the primary focus is on design, development, and ecosystem adoption of optimized AI solutions on Intel AI portfolio for Speech, Language, Image and Video analytics use cases. Currently, a significant focus is on AI Training at the Edge where training methodologies like Federated Learning, Incremental Learning etc. He is on the ISO and BIS standardization panels of Blockchain and AI. His interests extend to SW architecture methodologies, Blockchain and Aadhaar ecosystem where he has contributed towards Iris biometric device development and specifying device security requirements. As part of IEEE standards organization, he is leading the pre-standardization study for low resourced Indian languages. He has several patents and publications to his credit.

Vivek Raghavan

Vivek is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and out-of-the-box problem solver. Vivek Raghavan is Chief Product Manager and Biometric Architect at the Unique Identification Authority of India. He has been responsible (as a volunteer) for the design and rollout of the technology platform for Aadhaar, the world’s largest identity program. He joined the Aadhaar project before the first Aadhaar was issued, and was there when the billionth person was enrolled into Aadhaar. Vivek has also been the Chief Technologist for Team Indus, India's entry for the Google Lunar XPrize. Prior to that, he spent 20 years in the field of Electronic Design Automation, successfully founding, running and selling two EDA startups and being responsible for the design and development of multiple market-leading EDA products. He has held senior management positions at Magma, Synopsys and Avant! Corporation. Vivek has an M.S. and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi. Vivek has an eclectic portfolio of Angel investments, reflecting his contrarian viewpoint.