Speakers – 2020
Speakers – 2021
Speakers – 2022

Speakers – 2020

Anna Agarwal

Fellow,
Centre for Policy Research

Bharat Agarwal

President,
Vishwakarma University

Harshit Agrawal

AI-Artist & HCI Researcher,
Adobe Design Lab

Narendra Ahuja

Director, Information Technology
Research Academy (ITRA)

Payal Arora

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

Ravindran Balaraman

Head, Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI,
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Satchit Balsari

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Gargi Banerjee Dasgupta

Director,
IBM Research India

Raman Batra

Executive Vice President,
Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida

Upinder Singh Bhalla

Professor of Computational Neurosciences,
National Centre for Biological Sciences

Santanu Bhattacharya

Chief Data Scientist,
Airtel

Mani L. Bhaumik

Physicist and Philanthropist,
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Cong Cao

Professor in Innovation Studies,
University of Nottingham Ningbo, China

Saurabh Chandra

Co-Founder,
Ati Motors

Rama Rao Damrela

Researcher in Cancer Genomics, Department of Biotechnology,
Kasturba Medical College

Dhananjaya Dendukuri

CEO & Co-Founder,
Achira Labs

Rajesh Gopakumar

Centre Director and Senior Professor,
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR)

R. Gopu

Researcher,
Tamil Heritage Trust

Manish Gupta

Director,
Google Research India

Ramesh Hariharan

Co-Founder and CTO,
Strand Life Sciences

Vivek Jayaraman

Head, Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Prahlad Kakar

Founder and Chairman,
Prahlad Kakar School of Branding & Entrepreneurship

Subbarao Kambhampati

Professor of Computer Science,
Arizona State University

Gagandeep Kang

Executive Director,
Translational Health Science and Technology Institute

Arnav Kapur

Graduate Lead Researcher,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Karishma Kaushik

Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellow,
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India

Bishesh Khanal

Research Scientist and Chairperson,
Nepal Applied Mathematics and Informatics Institute for Research (NAAMII)

Manoj Kumar

Co-Founder, CEO,
Social Alpha

Vidur Mahajan

Head of R&D,
CARING

Rahul Matthan

Partner,
Trilegal

Una-May O’Reilly

Leader, AnyScale Learning for All,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tashan Mehta

Novelist

Raja Mugasimangalam

Founder and CEO,
Genotypic Technology

Venkatesh N. Murthy

Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor and
Chair of Molecular & Cellular Biology,
Harvard University

Sunita Nadhamuni

Head – Healthcare Solutions,
Dell EMC

Ashwin Naik

Founder,
Manah Wellness

Shambhavi Naik

Research Fellow,
Technology and Policy Programme, Takshashila Institution

P. J. Narayanan

Professor & Director,
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Priyamvada Natarajan

Professor of Astronomy and Physics,
Yale University

Jahnavi Phalkey

Founding Director,
Science Gallery, Bengaluru

V.S. Ramachandran

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

Rajesh P.N. Rao

Director, NSF Center for Neurotechnology,
University of Washington

Anil Sahasrabudhe

Chairman,
All India Council for Technical Education

Taslimarif Saiyed

CEO and Director,
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms

Sunita Sarawagi

Professor of Computer Science & Engineering,
IIT Bombay

Sanjay Sarma

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

Badri Sesadri

Managing Director,
Synprosoft (NHM)

Nandini Chatterjee Singh

Cognitive Neuroscientist,
UNESCO MGIEP

Pawan Sinha

Professor, Vision and Computational Neuroscience,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Suresh Subramani

Professor of Molecular Biology
University of California, San Diego

Subramanian Swaminathan

(Retd.) Professor of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi
Founder, Tamil Heritage Trust

Milind Tambe

Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science,
Harvard University

Vani Tripathi Tikoo

Actress and Board Member,
Central Board of Film Certification

Shubha Tole

Neuroscientist, Professor and Principal Investigator,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Dwarika Prasad Uniyal

Professor & Dean,
FLAME University

Minnie Vaid

Author and Founder,
Little Doc Productions

Chintan Vaishnav

Academic Director,
MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design

Nisheeth Vishnoi

Professor of Computer Science,
Yale University

Spenta Wadia

Founding Director and Infosys Homi Bhabha Chair Professor,
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences – Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (ICTS-TIFR), Bangalore

Speakers – 2021

Shantanu Abhyankar

Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Varun Aggarwal

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

Awais Ahmed

Founder and CEO, Pixxel

Philip Altbach

Founding Director & Research Professor, Center for International Higher Education

Daniel Angerhausen

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

Dimitra Atri

Research Scientist, NYUAD Center for Space Science

Satchit Balsari

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Philip Altbach

Founder, SEARCH

Andreas Bergsland

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

Bidushi Bhattacharya

Former NASA scientist, Founder and CEO, Astropreneurs HUB

Ansley Booker

Director, Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives, Mercer University

Rodney Brooks

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

Vijay Chandru

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

Girish Chowdhary

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

Rumi Chunara

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

Peter Corke

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

Emily Cross

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

Bitasta Das

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

Abhijit De

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

Pawan Deshpande

Head of ModelOps, Domino Data Lab

Siraj Dhanani

Founder and CEO at InnAccel

Anthony England

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

Rupamanjari Ghosh

Vice-Chancellor of Shiv Nadar University

Jyoti Gupta

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

Sunetra Gupta

Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Oxford University

Vineet Gupta

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

Sourabh Gupta

Founder and CEO, Vernacular.ai

Ramesh Hariharan

Co-Founder and CEO at Strand Life Sciences

Shantala Hegde

Associate Professor, Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Center, NIMHANS

Sarah Iqbal

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

Betul Kacar

Assistant Professor of Astrobiology, University of Arizona

Robert Kanigel

Biographer and science writer

Srimathy Kesan

Founder and CEO, SpaceKidz India

Neha Kirpal

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

Ajit Kulkarni

Director of Homoeopathic Research Institute, Satara & Pune

Vidur Mahajan

Head of Research at CARING, Associate Director at Mahajan Imaging

Deepa Malik

President of Paralympic Committee of India, Paralympic Olympics Medalist

Geetha Manjunath

Founder, CEO and CTO, NIRAMAI

Lavanya Marla

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

Mark McCaughrean

Senior Advisor for Science & Exploration, European Space Agency

Trent McConaghy

Founder, Ocean Protocol

Pulok Kumar Mukherjee

Director, Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development

Rishabh Nakra

Admin and Founder, The Secrets Of The Universe

Priyamvada Natarajan

Professor of Astronomy and Physics,
Yale University

Iruka Okeke

Professor of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Ken Ono

Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia

Una-May O’Reilly

Leader, AnyScale Learning for All,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sleeba Paul

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

Dan Peer

Director, Laboratory of Precision NanoMedicine, Tel Aviv University

Janhavi Phalkey

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

Nick Pope

UK Ministry of Defence UFO Investigator (Retired)

Prabhu Rajagopal

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

Ritu Raman

Postdoctoral Fellow, Langer Lab, MIT

Sunder Ramaswamy

Vice Chancellor, Krea University

P. Rammanohar

Research Director, Amrita School of Ayurveda

K. Srinath Reddy

President, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)

Josef Reinke

Director, Club for the Future

Sandeep Sancheti

Vice Chancellor, SRM Institute of Science and Technology

Sanjay Sarma

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

Shekhar Saxena

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

Sebastian Scherer

Associate Research Professor, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Anita Sengupta

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

Amitabh Shrivastava

Managing Partner at July Ventures LLP

Satendra Singh

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

Vandana Singh

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

Ravdeep Singh Anand

Founder and President, Dystrophy Annihilation Research Trust [DART]

Sujatha Srinivasan

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

Venkat Srinivasan

Archivist, Archives at NCBS

Frank J. Tipler

Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Tulane University

Lav R. Varshney

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

Usha Venkatraman

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

Venkat Srinivasan

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

Vinod Vidwans

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

Erika Wagner

Payload Sales Director, Blue Origin

Robert Van Zyl

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

Speakers – 2022

Mary Chambers

Head of Public and Community Engagement (PCE) at OUCRU

Suchitha Champak

Founder, SciRio

Mohamed Soliman Daoud

Science Communication Officer
at The American University, Cairo

Priyanka Dasgupta

Communication and Marketing
Fellow at CERN

Edward Duca

Senior Lecturer, Science & Innovation
Communication, University of Malta

Sean Ellis

Post Doctoral Scientist &
Public Engagement with Research
Leader Jenner Institute

Rajesh Gopakumar

Senior Professor and Director,
International Centre for
Theoretical Sciences-TIFR in Bangalore

Lewis Hou

Founder and Director,
Science Ceilidh

Sarah Jenkins

Director & Principal Consultant, Jenesys Associates Ltd

Marina Joubert

Science Communication Strategist and Senior Researcher at Stellenbosch University

Madhushree Kamak

Programme Manager, Science Gallery, Bengaluru

Siddharth Kankaria

Communications & Program Coordinator for the Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences

Banya Kar

Science Communication and Public Engagement Practitioner/ Consultant

Anastasia Koch

Co-founder and co-director, Eh!woza

Abraham Mamela

CEO & Founder Infers Group & Wellcome Engagement Fellow

Argha Manna

Comics artist, Visual and Graphics Art consultant

Jenni Metcalfe

Consultant and Director, EConnect Communications

Siuli Mitra

Communications Associate to the Principal Scientific Adviser of Government of India

Subhra Priyadarshini

Chief Editor, Nature India, Nature Research

Namrata Sengupta

Program Manager for Scientific Public Engagement at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Iain Stewart

Co-Director, Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability (3CS), Ashoka University, India

T.V Venkateswaran

Scientist (F), Vigyan Prasar, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

Krithi Karanth

Chief Conservation Scientist and Director at the Centre for Wildlife Studies

Angela Saini

Science Journalist and Author

Marina Joubert

Senior researcher – Science Communication, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Shahid Jameel

Principal Investigator, Public Health, Science and Technology in Muslim societies, Oxford University

Krish Ashok

Techie, Musician and Writer

Anil Seth

Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex

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

Ilyas Khan

Founder and CEO at Cambridge Quantum Computing

Deborah Blum

Science Journalist, Director, Knight Science Journalism Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Muhammad Ali Imran

Professor of Communication Systems Dean University of Glasgow UESTC

Bhramar Mukherjee

Chair of Biostatistics Professor of Epidemiology Professor of Global Public HealthSchool of Public Health, University of Michigan

Sharada Shrinivasan

Professor at National Institute of Advance Studies

Richard Wiseman

Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire

Sumaiya Shaikh

Neuroscientist, Editor of Science – AltNews.in

Bruce Pon

Founder at Ocean Protocol; Global Innovator at World Economic Forum

Barbara Webb

Professor of Biorobotics, Institute for Perception, Action and Behaviour, School of Informatics University of Edinburgh

Sethu Vijayakumar

Professor of Robotics at Edinburgh University, Programme Director at The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK

Vikram Patel

Pershing Square Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School

Rakesh Kumar

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Andrew Maynard

Associate Dean of Curricula and Student Success, Arizona State University College of Global Futures, Director of the ASU Risk Innovation Lab

Venkatesh Narayanamurti

Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Physics, Emeritus at Harvard University

Spoorthy Raman

Science Journalist and Writer

Nirupama Vishwanath

Illustrator and designer

Janhavi Phalkey

Founding Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru

Hari Pulakkat

Journalist

Abhishek Goel

Co-founder and CEO, Cactus Communications

Harini Calamur

Head, Impact Science

Varun Aggarwal

Founder, India Science Festival

Uma Ramakrishnan

Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences-TIFR

Nistha Tripathi

Founder and Director, Scholar Strategy

Shiv Ramdas

SciFi Writer and Author

Arati Kadav

SciFi Writer and Film Director

Sayantan Datta

Science Journalist

Arjun Kamdar

Wildlife Biologist at WWF-India

Chiki Sarkar

Publisher and founder of Juggernaut Books

Munmun Dhalaria

Documentary Director at Moon Peak Films; National Geographic Storytelling Explorer

Minhaj Sirajuddin

Associate Investigator at Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (DBT-inStem)

Richa Kedia

Wildlife Illustrator

Mohit Kumar Jolly

Assistant Professor, Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering (BSSE), IISc Bangalore

Karishma Kaushik

Physician-Scientist/Assistant Professor Department of Biotechnology Savitribai Phule Pune University, Co-Founder – Talk To A Scientist

Snehal Kadam

Co-Founder, Talk To A Scientist; PHD Student at Hull York Medical School (HYMS)

Aditi Chandra

Executive Director at Kay Bouvet Engineering, Founder of Nisaba Education

Yukti Arora

Senior Manager, Academic Communications at Ashoka University

Brian Lin

Editorial Content Strategy, EurekAlert! at AAAS

Shivanee Shah

Senior Managing Editor at Impact Science, Cactus Communications- Medical Communications

Shane Rydquist

Head Of Content and Operations, Impact Science, Reasearch Communication Services at Cactus Communications

Sunaina Singh

Freelance Editor & Consultant Academic Trainer

Tarun Khanna

Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Director, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard

Sarah Iqbal

Science Engagement Consultant

Jayant Krishna

Chief Executive Officer, Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology

Brooke Borel

Articles Editor at Undark