Dr. Geetha Manjunath is the Co-founder and CEO of NIRAMAI Health Analytix, a startup developing a novel breast cancer screening solution. Geetha has over 25 years in IT research and has created many innovative prototypes, patents, publications and new products. Till end of 2016, she was the head of Data Analytics Research at the Xerox Research India, where she supervised many interesting projects using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in healthcare, smart cities and customer care domains. Before that, she was a Principal Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Labs India and a Technical Lead at C-DAC Bangalore.

Geetha is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore from where she holds a Master’s Degree and PhD from Computer Science and Automation Department. She was recently recognized by Indian Government with BIRAC WinER (Women in Entrepreneural Research) Award for 2018. She was earlier the winner of 2009 NASCCOM IT Innovator and 2010 MIT TR Grand Challenges for technologist. She is the author of a book on Cloud Technologies called “Moving to the Cloud”. She is currently the Chair of IEEE Computer Society, Bangalore Chapter, and on the Governing Board of CCICI. She holds 14 US patents and many more pending grant.

More details are available at https://sites.google.com/site/geethamhp/

Snehanshu Saha holds Masters Degree in Mathematical and Computational Sciences at Clemson University, USA and Ph.D. from the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington in 2008. He was the recipient of the presitigious Dean’s Fellowship during PhD and Summa Cum Laude for being in the top of the class. After working briefly at his Alma matter, Snehanshu moved to the University of Texas El Paso as a regular full time faculty in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas El Paso.

Currently, He is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at PES University since 2011 and heads the Center for AstroInformatis, Modeling and Simulation. He is also a visiting Professor at the department of Statistics, University of Georgia, USA and BTS Pilani, India. He has published 90 peer-reviewed articles in top-tier International journals and conferences and authored three text books on Differential Equations, Machine Learning and System Sciences respectively.

Dr. Saha is an IEEE Senior member, ACM Senior Member, Vice Chair-International Astrostatistics Association and Fellow-IETE. He’s Editor of the Journal of Scientometric Research. Dr Saha is the recipient of PEACE Award for his foundational contributions in Machine Learning and AstroInformatics. Dr. Saha’s current and future research interests lie in Data Science, Astronomy and theory of Machine Learning.

Vishwas is currently Principal Architect at Smarten Spaces and leads its IoT/AI Platform design & development. His areas of interest include IoT, AI, Cyber Security, Privacy and Cloud/Edge Technologies.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE and Chair of IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter. He holds a PhD in ICT/Wireless Communications and MTech & BE in ECE.

Hima Patel is a research manager at IBM Research Lab and leads a team of researchers in problems at the intersection of NLP and machine learning with an aim to build scalable systems that can be deployed into IBM products.

In her 13 years of experience spanning Visa, Shell Research and GE, she has worked on several research problems spanning from object detection in medical images to anomaly detection from sensor data collected from machines like compressors and turbines. She is also actively involved with the organization of Grace Hopper India conference for last three years and is also an executive committee member for IEEE Computer Society, Bangalore Section.

She holds a B.E. in Computer Science from GCET and M Tech in Information and Communication Technology from DA-IICT.

Anand is a Software Engineer in the PowerMax Replication and Cloud team at Dell Technologies(Dell EMC). He is involved with various organizations like IEEE, ACM and Internet Society and is actively involved in PowerMax University Relations activities. He is an IEEE Member for 7 years and he has worked with various teams across different organizational units in multiple roles.

He is a Richard E. Merwin Student Scholar in April 2016 cycle and have served as the Regional Student Ambassador for IEEE Computer Society. During his tenure with IEEE India Council SAC, he had been instrumental in bringing out many new initiatives. He loves sharing knowledge and is a resource person for various workshops and technical sessions. In his leisure time, he likes to read books on technical topics and also love to click pictures.

He can be found at linkedin.anandj.xyz or www.anandj.xyz

Executive MBA (GMITE) from IIMB, having rich experience in driving the Development, Quality engineering (QE) and Release engineering (RE) initiatives at Yahoo! and start-up space. Technologist, passionate about key technologies like Data science, ML, AI, IoT and Blockchain.

Corporate experience spans over 15 years with MNCs like MphasiS, Toshiba, Symphony & Yahoo!; collaborated extensively with international teams while building products.

Since 4 years, its been an entrepreneurial journey, building products in start-up space, focusing on customer-centric solutions. Also continued learning the latest key technologies. Completed a course on Introduction to AI from IISc. Currently, learning IoT from Jigsaw Academy. Also, following and learning blockchain. Passionate about solving problems creatively by driving technology initiatives and have exhibited this strength in small way by delivering a product to Target Inc. One of 50 entrepreneurs who underwent boot camp at IIMB’s “Women’s Startup Program” from NSRCEL – 2017.

Two Defensive publication in the area of digital display ads.
Technical membership: IEEE (Senior Member & Execcom of computer Society).
Purpose of my life: Nurture kids and youth, making them enablers of economic growth, through technology!

Kartik completed his PhD in Information Systems from the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University (SMU). He is currently a Scientist at the TCS Research and Innovation Labs. His area of research is in Pervasive computing with a focus on understanding user behaviour through mobile context.

His research interests includes solving real-world problems towards the practical realization and deployment of existing mobile technologies, within an enterprise or emerging markets, as well as dwell into the ‘usability’ and ‘usefulness’ attributes of these technologies .

Ankit is working as a Principal Consultant (Architect) at Honeywell and leads SAP GRC program working closely with the business to design, and manage the delivery of compliance and automation solutions.

His areas of interest include Cloud Technologies, AI/ML, and Compliance/Security. He holds a master’s degree (MBA) in Systems & Finance from Symbiosis, Pune and a bachelor’s degree (BE) in Electronics and Communication.

Archana is currently working as Assistant Professor at Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology. Her past experience includes working as Technical Lead at Cynepia Technologies, Bangalore and as Project Linked Personnel at Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore. She has also worked as Technical Lead in SciBase Project (Web-page: http://sahascibase.org/) at Center for Applied Mathematical Modeling and Simualtion. Recently, she submitted her PhD Thesis under VTU in Scientometrics and Machine Learning.

Her researchgate profile can be accessed at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Archana_Mathur3.
Her Repositories at Github can be viewed at:
https://github.com/mathurarchana77
https://github.com/AstrIRG
https://github.com/NeuralFuzzy

She is also associated with ‘Journal Of Scientometrics Research’ as Associate Fellow and Associate Editor for Special Edition on Machine Learning. She received her Masters in Engineering in Web Technologies, (Computer Science) from UVCE, Bangalore wherein she secured first rank (89%) at Department level. Her overall Rank in PGCET at the state level was 8th (PG Common Entrance Test) in the year 2011.

Dr Nagaraja G.S., is presently working as Professor and Associate Dean in the department of Computer Science and Engineering, R.V. College of Engineering, Bengaluru-59. He has 25+ years of Teaching and 15+Years of Research experience.

His research interests include Computer Organization, Computer Architecture and its applications, Computer Networks, Networks Management, Storage Optimization, Wireless Networks, Cloud computing, Parallel processing, HPC, Routing and Switching, Protocol design, Multimedia Communications.

Dr Seema Chopra is working as Global Technical Leader – Data Analytics at Boeing Research and Technology, India.

She has recognised as the part of Boeing Technical Fellowship and became Boeing India’s first ‘Associate Technical Fellow’ for
Artificial Intelligence. Her current work includes developing next generation advanced health management technologies using analytics and big data platforms for commercial and defence applications.

Prior to this role, she was with GE as a PHM (Prognostic Health Management) Technical Leader and was involved in design and developing prognostic health management technologies to enable strategic growth for Condition Based Maintenance for Gas turbines. Seema earned her doctorate degree in Control engineering from IIT Roorkee, India and the focused area was to design Fuzzy Controller with Intelligent Design
Approaches with reduced rule set.

Seema is certified Black belt – DFSS Lean Six Sigma and has 14 patents, 5 Trade secrets and 35+ publications in various International/National journals & conferences, 8 Technical reports and received several awards for leadership and technical expertise including PHM Expertise award from President & CEO, GE Power Gen Services and GE Impact award 2012 from CEO of GE, for volunteering on Mid-Day meal.

Working as Dean of Research, PES University, Bangalore
Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
Have 27+ years of teaching & research experience
Published 100+ papers in conferences and journals
Reviewer for conferences and journals
Research Interests: Computer Architecture, Sensor Networks, Robotics Computing

Udayasree Gorantla has Masters degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. She has 10 years of experience in developing wireless technology products at Center for Development of Telematics. Her interest extends to 4G, 5G IoT and Management of Network density in future networks. She holds a U.S. patent. She is currently an ExeCom Member of the IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter.

Nimrita is working as Assistant Professor in School of Computing and Information Technology, REVA University, Bangalore. She is B.E (Computer Science and Engineering), Gold Medalist, M.Tech (Computer Science and Engineering) and pursuing her PhD in Computational Cancer Biology. She has an experience of 14 years and has 30 publications in International and National Journals and Conferences. Her research interests include Machine Learning and Computational Biology. She has filled 3 patents and is an active member of various technical forums and professional societies in Computer Science and Engineering.