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SPEAKERS

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Shantanu Abhyankar

Obstetrician and Gynecologist

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Varun Aggarwal

Founder, India Science Fest, Co-Founder at Aspiring Minds

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Awais Ahmed

Founder and CEO, Pixxel

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Philip Altbach

Founding Director & Research Professor, Center for International Higher Education

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Daniel Angerhausen

Astrophysicist and Astrobiologist at ETH Zurich, Explainables CEO & NASA FDL mentor

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Dimitra Atri

Research Scientist, NYUAD Center for Space Science

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Satchit Balsari

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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Philip Altbach

Founder, SEARCH

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Andreas Bergsland

Associate Professor, Music Technology Program at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

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Bidushi Bhattacharya

Former NASA scientist, Founder and CEO, Astropreneurs HUB

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Ansley Booker

Director, Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives, Mercer University

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Rodney Brooks

CTO and Founder, Robust.AI; Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus), MIT

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Vijay Chandru

Co-founder and Director at Strand Life Sciences, Pioneer at AI Foundry.ai

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Girish Chowdhary

Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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Rumi Chunara

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Global Public Health, NYU

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Peter Corke

Professor of Robotic Vision at Queensland University of Technology, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision

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Emily Cross

Professor of Social Robotics (University of Glasgow) and Human Neuroscience (Macquarie University)

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Bitasta Das

Senior Editor- Office of Communications and Humanities Instructor, IISc, Bangalore

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Abhijit De

Head, Molecular Functional Imaging Laboratory, ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre

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Pawan Deshpande

Head of ModelOps, Domino Data Lab

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Siraj Dhanani

Founder and CEO at InnAccel

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Anthony England

Former NASA Astronaut, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn

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Rupamanjari Ghosh

Vice-Chancellor of Shiv Nadar University

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Jyoti Gupta

Founder, The Colo(u)rism Project, Author – Different Differenter

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Sunetra Gupta

Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Oxford University

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Vineet Gupta

Co-Founder & MD, Jamboree Education; Founder and Trustee, Ashoka University; Founder and Trustee, Plaksha University

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Sourabh Gupta

Founder and CEO, Vernacular.ai

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Ramesh Hariharan

Co-Founder and CEO at Strand Life Sciences

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Shantala Hegde

Associate Professor, Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Center, NIMHANS

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Sarah Iqbal

Lead, Communications and Public Engagement, DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance

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Betul Kacar

Assistant Professor of Astrobiology, University of Arizona

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Robert Kanigel

Biographer and science writer

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Srimathy Kesan

Founder and CEO, SpaceKidz India

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Neha Kirpal

Co-Founder of InnerHour, a mental health platform, and Mental Health Ambassador

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Ajit Kulkarni

Director of Homoeopathic Research Institute, Satara & Pune

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Vidur Mahajan

Head of Research at CARING, Associate Director at Mahajan Imaging

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Deepa Malik

President of Paralympic Committee of India, Paralympic Olympics Medalist

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Geetha Manjunath

Founder, CEO and CTO, NIRAMAI

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Lavanya Marla

Assistant Professor, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Mark McCaughrean

Senior Advisor for Science & Exploration, European Space Agency

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Trent McConaghy

Founder, Ocean Protocol

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Pulok Kumar Mukherjee

Director, Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development

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Rishabh Nakra

Admin and Founder, The Secrets Of The Universe

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Priyamvada Natarajan

Professor of Astronomy and Physics,
Yale University

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Iruka Okeke

Professor of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

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Ken Ono

Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia

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Una-May O’Reilly

Leader, AnyScale Learning for All,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Sleeba Paul

Creator, Auria Kathi; Machine Learning Engineer at Perleybrook Labs LLC

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Dan Peer

Director, Laboratory of Precision NanoMedicine, Tel Aviv University

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Janhavi Phalkey

Founding Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru, PhD, History of Science and Technology

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Nick Pope

UK Ministry of Defence UFO Investigator (Retired)

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Prabhu Rajagopal

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, IIT Madras Rajagopal

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Ritu Raman

Postdoctoral Fellow, Langer Lab, MIT

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Sunder Ramaswamy

Vice Chancellor, Krea University

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P. Rammanohar

Research Director, Amrita School of Ayurveda

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K. Srinath Reddy

President, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)

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Josef Reinke

Director, Club for the Future

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Sandeep Sancheti

Vice Chancellor, SRM Institute of Science and Technology

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Sanjay Sarma

Vice President, Open Learning and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Shekhar Saxena

Co-founder of Librum, a mental health consultancy, and Professor of Global Mental Health, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health

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Sebastian Scherer

Associate Research Professor, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

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Anita Sengupta

Research Associate Professor, Astronautics and Space Technology, USC Viterbi College of Engineering, Former Engineer, JPL, NASA

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Amitabh Shrivastava

Managing Partner at July Ventures LLP

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Satendra Singh

Associate Professor of Physiology, Co-founder of Health Humanities Group at University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi

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Vandana Singh

Sci-Fi author, Professor, Department of Physics & Earth Science, Framingham University

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Ravdeep Singh Anand

Founder and President, Dystrophy Annihilation Research Trust [DART]

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Sujatha Srinivasan

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Head, TTK Center for Rehabilitation Research and Device Development (R2D2), IIT Madras

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Venkat Srinivasan

Archivist, Archives at NCBS

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Frank J. Tipler

Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Tulane University

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Lav R. Varshney

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Usha Venkatraman

Storyteller, Founder and Curator of SCIFARI – Exploring Science Through Stories

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Venkat Srinivasan

Premnath Venugopalan
Head, NCL Innovations; Head, IP Group; Scientist, NCL; Director, Venture Center

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Vinod Vidwans

Professor & ex-Chair, School of Fine & Performing Arts, FLAME University

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Erika Wagner

Payload Sales Director, Blue Origin

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Robert Van Zyl

Director, Africa Space Innovation Centre, French South African Institute of Technology

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Competition Winners

Spin Your Science

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Manu Priyadarshi

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Kuljeet Kaur

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Melissa Maize

Talk Your Thesis

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Arjun Kamdar

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Jayshree Mazumder

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120+

Speakers

65+

Events

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20,000+

Attendees

Over the past 2 editions

India Science Festival has seen

IMPACT

TESTIMONIALS

The festival feels very energetic and fresh, would love to be a part of it offline!

Richard Wiseman

I really enjoyed the conversation and the engagement from the audience. The audience wasn’t that large, but the question were insightful, which made me feel that I was engaging in a meaningful way with them.

Andrew Maynard

The organization was excellent. The media and publicity features, choice of speakers and sessions were outstanding.

Karishma Kaushik

I really liked the variety and creative angle of the talks. I also appreciate that the talks are available online via YouTube – I’ll be able to use some in future teaching.

Marina Joubert

It (India Science Festival) might prove to be a turning point in the history of our brilliant, perpetually interesting, mad, magical country of ours. We want India not only to excel in technology but become a world leader in basic science.

V.S. Ramachandran

Director Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego

ISF is an interesting first step towards democratizing science. Definitely take this forward! More essential than ever in these times. Love the festivalization of science making it accessible, engaging and meaningful to diverse populations.

Payal Arora

Professor and Chair in Technology, Values and Global Media Cultures, Erasmus School of Philosophy

The large number of children and young adults who are eager to hear things. (were the best thing about ISF).

P. J. Narayanan

Professor & Director, IIT Hyderabad

"I had a great time at the festival the whole day–both at the talk and panel, as well as the almost nonstop interactions with students…wherever I went ;-) Hats off to you for putting this event together. It requires a certain level of delusion to even think of putting together a festival of this size, let alone pulling it off!"

Subbarao Kambhampati

Professor of Computer Science, Arizona State University

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