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Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri has held various administrative positions at IIT Bombay including Deputy Director (Academic and Infrastructural Affairs), Dean (International Relations), Head of the Electrical Engineering Department. He is also a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and is known for his pioneering studies in the areas of image processing, computer vision, machine learning and computational haptics. Some of the areas where he has contributed significantly include - depth recovery from defocused images, image super-resolution, blind deconvolution, hyper-spectral image visualization and pattern recognition in remote sensing images. Prof. Chaudhuri has received numerous awards for his research, which include the G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Swarnajayanti Fellowship, NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award for Application Oriented Innovation, J. C. Bose National Fellowship, Hari Om Prerit Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award to name a few.

Dr. K V Krishna Rao is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and has over 30 years of experience in teaching, R&D and consultation in the area of Transportation Systems Engineering. He is presently the Deputy Director – Finance & External Affairs. He has a PhD in Urban Transportation Planning and a Masters in Transportation Engineering, both from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His research interests include sustainable urban transportation planning, travel survey design and analysis, and urban land use transport modelling, among others. His contribution in preparing master plans for metro rail systems in the cities of Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune and MMR in general is noteworthy. He has served as Dean and Associate Dean of Infrastructure Planning at IIT Bombay from 2006 to 2012 and was the Head of the Civil Engineering department from 2012 to 2017. He was conferred with the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2008, 2012 and 2016 by IIT Bombay. He is a member of professional bodies like ASCE, IRC, WCTRS, IUT and is represented on several technical committees of IRC and government agencies.

Prof Milind Atrey is currently the Dean (Research and Development) at IIT Bombay, holds the Bank of Baroda chair for Entrepreneurship, in addition to be Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Before taking charge as Dean (R&D), he was the Professor-in-charge of the Business Incubator at IIT Bombay for 6.5 years. He is also the President of the Indian Cryogenics Council and a founding chair of IMechE’s Process Division in India. He is the Fellow of Indian Cryogenics Council and IMechE (Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK). He has been entrusted with various projects related to Defence, Space, and Atomic Energy applications. Prof. Atrey is the recipient of various awards namely, the Prof Sukhatme Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Dr Patwardhan Technology development award, the Industrial Impact award and the Excellence in Teaching award. He has more than 150 research publications, 9 patents and a book to his credit. As Dean (R&D), his office is responsible to take care of academia - industry collaboration, Technology transfers and IP monitoring in addition to managing the sponsored research and consultancy projects at IIT Bombay.

Prof. Swaroop Ganguly received the B.Tech. degree from IIT Kharagpur in 1999, and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. Thereafter, he worked in R&D roles at the University of Texas, Tokyo Electron Limited, and Freescale Semiconductor. In 2009, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay, where he is now Institute Chair Professor. He has been a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, and Visiting Faculty at the National ChaioTung YangMing University (NCYU) in Taiwan - also serving as the coordinator for IITB-NCYU collaboration. His research interests are in the domain of semiconductor technology and nanoelectronics, where he has been involved in R&D projects with Indian and global companies. He has led the Nanoelectronics Centre at IIT Bombay from 2016. He was Co-PI of the IITB Research Park since its inception until 2020.

Professor Devang Khakhar is currently Professor of Chemical Engineering at IIT Bombay. Professor Khakhar did his B.Tech. from IIT Delhi in 1981 and his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1986. He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Bombay in January 1987, and has been with the Institute since then. Prof. Khakhar's research interests include mechanics of granular materials and polymer processing. He has been recognised for his research by the Bhatnagar Prize and is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy and the National Academy of Science, India. Professor Khakhar serves as a member of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board. He has served as Head, Chemical Engineering, Dean (Faculty Affairs) and Director at IIT Bombay.

Dr. Prasanna M Mujumdar is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Bombay, with about 35 years of teaching and R&D experience. He has held the position of Deputy Director (Finance & External Affairs) of the Institute from 2015 to 2021. He was Dean (Research & Development) at IIT Bombay from 2012 to 2015, heading the Industrial Research & Consultancy Centre (IRCC). He was the Head of the Aerospace Engineering Department from 2008 to 2011.
Prof. Mujumdar joined as a faculty member at IIT Bombay in September 1986 after obtaining his B. Tech, M. Tech and Ph.D. degrees, all in the field of Aeronautical Engineering, from IIT Bombay. His specialization within the field is in the broad area of Aerospace Structures. His expertise and research interests include Structural Stability, Vibration & Structural Dynamics, Aeroelasticity & Aeroservoelasticity, Composite Structures, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, Smart Structures and Structural Health Monitoring. Prof. Mujumdar has been a member of the core group of faculties responsible for initiating, developing and sustaining the Centre for Aerospace Systems Design & Engineering (CASDE) and its activities since 1998, with funding from the Aeronautics Research & Development Board (AR&DB), Govt of India. He has been awarded the AR&DB Silver Jubilee Research Excellence Award, Excellence in Teaching Award of the Aeronautical Society of India, the IIT Bombay Teaching Excellence Award, and the Hotchand and Jamuna Lala Excellence in Teaching Award.

Mr. Pradeep Goyal was brought up in a family with a background of technical education and a drive to work for social causes. He completed his B Tech in Metallurgical Engineering at IIT Kanpur in 1978, graduating with the First Rank, for which he was awarded a silver medal by the President of India. He was also awarded the Best Metallurgist of the year by the Indian Institute of Metals. He completed Masters in Metallurgy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. After a small stint of work in the USA, Mr Goyal returned to India in 1983 to start PRADEEP METALS LIMITED which presently manufactures and exports machined forgings. He has been a fellow and later a Trustee of ASM International. He is conducting research in a novel process that manufactures steel using microwaves, and can potentially save energy and reduce greenhouse gases by 50%. He has held directorships and board positions in UPL Limited, Hind Rectifiers Limited, Technology Development Board, GOI, Janakalyan Sahakari Bank Limited, and National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology. He is also the Chairman of Ekal Abhiyan Trust, an NGO that runs over 100,000 single teacher schools in tribal areas of India, teaching 2.8 million children. He has been the Assistant Governor of Rotary International and a recipient of the Gandhi Peace prize for the year 2017.

An IIT Bombay alumnus, Dr. Kanakia pioneered a new type of switching fabric, which was used to build very fast data switches. He has patents on new ways of sending videos over packetized transport that has now become very core of video streaming services and a patent on 'means and methods for fast routing of packets', to his credit. Before joining Columbia Capital, he was founder and CEO of Torrent Networking Technology, co-founder of Photuris and Gemplex, inc. (now aquired by different companies). Previously, Dr. Kanakia served on the Board of Directors of many private companies as well as on the board of trustees for Virginia Tech and Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Hemant Kanakia is focused on mentoring young entrepreneurs in India through India Angel networks in the sectors ranging from education, technology and healthcare.

Dr. Nitin Kareer joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1988 with the objective of serving the public and positively impacting the lives of people. Working in several sectors across the State of Maharashtra, primarily in Revenue administration, Urban Development, Taxation, and Development administration have provided this opportunity in ample measure. He has been a recipient of the Satyen Mitra Award for the Best Adult Literacy Programme in the country in 1998 for the Sangli district. He has also been instrumental in full computerisation of the land transaction in the Registration Department in 2002 and has won the first prize at National e-Governance. He has been recognised internationally for his automated building plan approval system developed at Pune Municipal Corporation. He is also closely involved in the promotion of sports activities in the state of Maharashtra. Dr Nitin is continuously focused on ensuring the proper implementation of social sector schemes for empowerment of the public.

Rekha is the co-founder of Koita Foundation, an organization which works with NGOs to build scale and enhance impact through process improvements and technology enhancements. She has also been a corporate trainer for the past 10 years and specializes in business process consulting. Rekha was a management consultant at Accenture for over 8 years where her key focus areas included operations (business process re-engineering, ERP design and implementation, performance/profitability enhancement), and human resources (corporate governance, recruitment and training). Based on her experience in management consulting, Rekha conducts corporate training for leading Indian and multinational organizations. She also conducts training workshops for start-ups and NGOs in niche areas like problem solving and presentation skills. Rekha has done her B.Tech from IIT Mumbai in 1992, after she completed her Master of Science degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (USA) in 1994.