Speakers – 2020
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R. Gopu
Researcher,
Tamil Heritage Trust
Speakers – 2021
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Emily Cross
Professor of Social Robotics (University of Glasgow) and Human Neuroscience (Macquarie University)
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Lavanya Marla
Assistant Professor, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Prabhu Rajagopal
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, IIT Madras Rajagopal
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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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Anita Sengupta
Research Associate Professor, Astronautics and Space Technology, USC Viterbi College of Engineering, Former Engineer, JPL, NASA
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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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Sujatha Srinivasan
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Head, TTK Center for Rehabilitation Research and Device Development (R2D2), IIT Madras
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Lav R. Varshney
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Venkat Srinivasan
Premnath Venugopalan
Head, NCL Innovations; Head, IP Group; Scientist, NCL; Director, Venture Center
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Robert Van Zyl
Director, Africa Space Innovation Centre, French South African Institute of Technology
Speakers – 2022
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Rajesh Gopakumar
Senior Professor and Director,
International Centre for
Theoretical Sciences-TIFR in Bangalore
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Siddharth Kankaria
Communications & Program Coordinator for the Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences
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Namrata Sengupta
Program Manager for Scientific Public Engagement at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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Iain Stewart
Co-Director, Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability (3CS), Ashoka University, India
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T.V Venkateswaran
Scientist (F), Vigyan Prasar, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
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Shahid Jameel
Principal Investigator, Public Health, Science and Technology in Muslim societies, Oxford University
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Dashun Wang
Founding Director, Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI) at Kellogg School of Management, Professor at Kellogg School of Management & McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University
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Deborah Blum
Science Journalist, Director, Knight Science Journalism Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Bhramar Mukherjee
Chair of Biostatistics Professor of Epidemiology Professor of Global Public HealthSchool of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Richard Wiseman
Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire
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Barbara Webb
Professor of Biorobotics, Institute for Perception, Action and Behaviour, School of Informatics University of Edinburgh
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Sethu Vijayakumar
Professor of Robotics at Edinburgh University, Programme Director at The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK
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Rakesh Kumar
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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Andrew Maynard
Associate Dean of Curricula and Student Success, Arizona State University College of Global Futures, Director of the ASU Risk Innovation Lab
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Venkatesh Narayanamurti
Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Physics, Emeritus at Harvard University
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Minhaj Sirajuddin
Associate Investigator at Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (DBT-inStem)
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Mohit Kumar Jolly
Assistant Professor, Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering (BSSE), IISc Bangalore
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Karishma Kaushik
Physician-Scientist/Assistant Professor Department of Biotechnology Savitribai Phule Pune University, Co-Founder – Talk To A Scientist
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Shivanee Shah
Senior Managing Editor at Impact Science, Cactus Communications- Medical Communications
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Shane Rydquist
Head Of Content and Operations, Impact Science, Reasearch Communication Services at Cactus Communications