Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu,IAS,

Addl.Secretary,(H.E.) MHRD

Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu belongs to the IAS batch of 1988 of Uttarakhand cadre. Currently he

is serving as the Additional Secretary of Education in Ministry of Human Resource and

Development. He is responsible for IITs, NITs, IIITs, TE, SPA,TEQIP and Vigilance. Earlier he

has served as Additional Secretary of Central Universities & Language ofHuman Resource and

Development.

Shri Navin Mittal, IAS

Commissioner, CE&TE,GoT, Hyd.

Shri Navin Mittal belongs to the 1996 batch of the Indian Administrative Service assigned to

the Telangana cadre. He is a B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the

prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He stood All India 3rd in Civil Services

Examinations in 1995.

As Commissioner for Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, his works in the area of e-

governance and Sanitation won the CRISIL Award in 2003 & 2005 for the Corporation. As

Project Director of ITDA, his works have been recognized by the World Bank. As Collector and

District Magistrate of Krishna District, he has been instrumental in successfully completing the

Kolleru Operation in 2006. As Collector & District Magistrate of Hyderabad District, Shri Navin

Mittal has actively worked on up gradation of Government schools, rescue and rehabilitation of

child labor and destitute children and regulation of school fees. As Secretary of State Election

Commission, he was instrumental in holding free and fair elections to more than 25000 Local

Bodies in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

As Special Commissioner of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, he has been

instrumental in tripling the revenue of the corporation in last 5 years. This has won the

appreciation of the Prime Minister of India. He has driven the e-governance initiatives in

GHMC, the notable among them being the e-Governance award given by Union Minister for

Urban Development to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.

Shri VLVSS Subba Rao

Sr. Economic Advisor, MHRD

Shri Vedula LVSS Subba Rao joined the Indian Economic Service in 1985. He did his B.A. in

1981 from University of Madras and M.A. in Economics in 1983 from University of Delhi.

Currently he is serving as the Economic Advisor to the Ministry of Human Resource and

Development and is responsible for IISERs, IISc, GIAN, HEFA, Skill Development,Ek Bharat

Shrestha Bharat, SBA, PWD,PG, SC/ST Cell, NER and Technical Coordination. In the past, he

has held notable positions of Economic Adviser to Ministry of Labor and Employment, Adviser

and Director to Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Director to Ministry of Rural

Development.

Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe

Chairman, AICTE

Prof. Anil DattatrayaSahasrabudhe, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of

Technology (IIT), Guwahati joined All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) as

Chairman on 17th July 2015. Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe graduated from BVB College of

Engineering and Technology, Hubli affiliated to Karnataka University, Dharwad, Karnataka in

Mechanical Engineering with First Rank and Gold medal in 1980. Subsequently, he obtained

Master's and Doctoral (with UGC Fellowship) degrees from Indian Institute of Science (IISc),

Bangalore in 1982 and 1989 respectively.

Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe in his illustrious career of 31 years held several important Academic,

Research and Administrative positions. He started his career as Scientific Officer, at Indian

Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1983 and moved to Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE) as

Engineer in the same year. He served as Lecturer and Assistant Professor at North Eastern

Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) from

1987-1988 & again from 1989-1995, before joining IIT Guwahati as Associate Professor in 1995

and has been serving as Professor since 1999. Also, he served as Director, College of

Engineering, Pune (CoEP) since 2006 on deputation from IIT, Guwahati prior to joining as

AICTE Chairman. As an Academician and Researcher in NERIST and IIT Guwahati, and as an

Administrator in the capacity of Director, CoEP, he has taken up several new initiatives for

Academic, Curricular & Co-curricular activities, Entrepreneurship, Research and Good

Governance.

Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe is presently working as Chairman & Expert Member on various

National Level Committees. Some of these include; Chairman, Basic Scientific Research (BSR),

Empowered Committee of UGC, SWAYAM Board and Chairman BOG of NIT Itanagar. He was

awarded with "Maha-Intrapreneur Award-2011" of Praj Industries, Pune for his Leadership and

Innovative abilities in the area of Technology Development and Entrepreneurship initiatives.

Prof. Surendra Prasad,

Chairperson, NBA

Prof. Surendra Prasad, did his graduate studies in electronics and electrical communication

engineering and after passing B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in

1969, he moved to the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi from where he completed M.Tech in

1971. Subsequently, he joined IIT Delhi the same year as a member of faculty and

simultaneously enrolled for his doctoral studies there to secure a PhD in 1974. In 1976, he took a

sabbatical to work at Loughborough University of Technology as a visiting research fellow and

returning to India in 1977, he resumed his career at IIT Delhi where he served till his

superannuation as the director, a post he held from 2006 to 2011. In between, he had a second

stint abroad at Pennsylvania State University as a visiting faculty during 1985-86. At IIT Delhi,

he served in various positions as a professor, coordinator of the Bharti School of Telecom

Technology and Management (BSTTM), Dean of Undergraduate Studies and deputy

director. Post-retirement, he is an Usha Chair Professor at IIT Delhiand an Emeritus professor at

BSTTM. He is an eminent educationist and Researcher and has received numerous recognitions

for teaching and research, including among others, the VikramSarabhaiResearch Award in

Electronics and Telecommunications for the year 1987, the Shanti SwarupBhatnagar Prize for

Engineering Sciences for 1988, the Om Prakash Bhasin Prize for research in Electronics and

Communications for 1994, the VASVIK award for Information Technology for 2006, the

Lifetime Achievement Award of the Systems Society of India (2011), the distinguished alumnus

award of IIT Kharagpur and was Honoured with an honorary doctorate by the Loughborough

University, U.K. (2007). He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the

Indian National Science Academy, the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy

of Science and has been a member of the Governing Body of CSIR and CSIR Society, Govt. of

India and numerous boards of IIT’s, NIT’s and other engineering Institutions. He currently

serves as the chair of the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), an autonomous agency of

the All India Council of Technical Education

Prof. Sandeep Sancheti

President, AIU, New Delhi

Dr. Sandeep Sancheti, known as Institution Builder, holds a Ph.D. from Queens University of

Belfast UK, after obtaining a B.Tech (ECE) from Regional Engineering College, Warangal (now

NITW) and M.Sc (Engg) from Delhi College of Engineering (now DTU) in 1982 and 1985

respectively. He is now the Vice Chancellor, SRMIST, Chennai. Prior to this he was the

President of Manipal University, Jaipur, Director National Institute of Technology, Delhi (NITD)

and Director NITK Surathkal. He has also served as Director In-charge, NIT Tiruchirapally, NIT

Calicut, School of Planning & Architecture (SPA) Delhi and Mentor Director, NIT Goa, NIT

Puducherry and NIT Sikkim. DrSancheti began his professional career at MBM Engineering

College, Jodhpur, as Assistant Professor in the Department of ECE in 1984 and later moved to

Malaviya Regional Engineering College, Jaipur (now MNIT) as Associate Professor in 1990.

He is the Recipient of the Commonwealth Scholarship & Fellowship under Colombo Plan from

1992-95. He was also awarded the SERC Fellowship by DST, Government of India in 1998 and

the UKISTRF Award by the British Council in 1999-2000. Currently he serves as the Vice

President of Association of Indian Universities (AIU) New Delhi

Prof. S Sadagopan

Director, IIIT Bangalore

Professor Sadagopan is an educator, educational administrator, researcher, consultant and an

outstanding communicator – all rolled into one. He is the Founder Director of the Indian Institute

of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIITB) since 1999. Earlier he had taught at IIT Kanpur

and IIM Bangalore, for two decades. Moreover, he had also taught at IIT - Madras, India,

Rutgers - New Jersey, USA, and AIT - Bangkok, Thailand for up to one full year, in addition to

short term visits to MIT, Stanford, Purdue, and U Washington in USA; Nijenrode in Europe;

RMIT, UNSW and UWS in Australia; NUS and Temasek in Singapore; and ADBI, UNU and

Nagaoka in Japan; some of the best universities around the world. He has authored two textbooks

- Management Information Systems (Prentice Hall 1995) and ERP - A Managerial Perspective

(Tata McGraw Hill 1999). He has contributed chapters to several books – Handbook of

Information Systems (Academic Press 2002), Business Process Reengineering – Advancing the

state-of-the-art, (Kluwer 1999), Management Perspectives (Macmillan, 1999) and Saket

InfoTech Handbook (Saket, 1999)

Professor consults extensively to some of the largest private & public sector corporations in

India, in Computing, Communications, Software, Automotive, Oil and Power industries as well

as social sector. He is a member of the Board of Directors of several private and public sector

corporations; he is also a member of the Board of Studies of several Universities.

He was a Fulbright Scholar in 1995 and his name is listed in Marquis’s Who's Who in the World

since 1997. He is Member of the ACM, IEEE – Computer Society and AIS; he is a Life Member

of the Computer Society of India and represents India in the TC9 Sub-committee of the

International Federation of Information Processing Societies (IFIP)

Professor Sadagopan writes frequently on several aspects of IT in the columns of India’s leading

newspapers - Times of India & Economic Times and IT magazines - Computers Today,

Dataquest & CIO India Magazine.

Prof. Debashish Chatterjee

Director, IIM Kozhikode

Prof. Debashis Chatterjee served as a Visiting Professor of McMaster University, Canada; EXCEPEAP, Paris,

France and Reims School of Management, Reims France. Prof. Chatterjee also functioned as Dean, Leadership

Centre at S.P. Jain Centre of Management, Singapore. He served as Co-Convenor of Management Center for Human

Values at IIM Kolkata. Prof. Chatterjee's administrative experience includes his functioning as Chairman of

Placement at IIM Lucknow; Dean of Singapore International Campus at SPJCM; Head of Center for Leadership and

Human Values at IIM Lucknow and Regional Head, HR, GIC. He has taught for more than a decade in IIM

Lucknow and IIM Kolkata. He pioneered and founded the Global Center for Leadership and Human Values at the

Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. He serves as a Director of Aegis Private Ltd. and Kerala State Financial

Corpn.Ltd. He currently serves as Director and Member of Board of Governors at Indian Institute of Management

Kozhikode. He served as a Director of Kerala Financial Corporation since February 6, 2010 until January 25, 2011.

He served as a Director of Jyothy Consumer Products Limited since September 11, 2009 until May 31, 2011. He

served as a Director of AGC Networks Ltd from August 31, 2010 to December 19, 2011. Prof. Chatterjee has

trained more than 10,000 managers globally in Fortune 100 Corporations. He has served as leadership coach to

Chief Executive Officer's and is a pioneer in the field of Asian models in leadership. His five published books

include Leading Consciously (Foreword by Peter M. Senge), Leadership Sutras (Elsevier) and Break Free (Penguin)

which have been translated into several international languages. His latest book, Timeless Leadership, is published

internationally by Jossey Bass and Wiley in 2010. He has been featured in the international media including Gurdian

and London Times, UK and The Financial Review, Australia and The Economic Times, India. He has written

regular columns for national periodicals including The Times of India. Prof. Chatterjee has directed Executive

Development Programmes on Leadership, Self-Management and Learning Organization for over 10000 Managers in

more than 100 Companies in all six continents of the world. Some of the large organizations that have benefited

from his programmes include Motorola Inc., Ford Motor Company, British Petroleum, AT&T, 3M, Infosys

Technologies Ltd., Tata Steel, Monash University, University of St. Thomas, USA and Lucent Technologies. He

was described as one of the "thought leaders" of the world by Prof. John Kotler of the Harvard Business School for

his contribution to the theory and practice of leadership. He was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University's

Kennedy School of Government. His professional career has been a blend of international professional and

academic experience in India, United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, South East Asia and South Africa. He has

been ACC Research Fellow, IIM Kolkata, Pre-Doctoral Fulbright Fellow, UST and MIT and Post-Doctoral

Fulbright Fellow, Harvard University. Prof. Chatterjee served as Visiting Lecturer/ taught in the MBA Programme

at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota and at the Harvard Graduate School of Business. Prof. Chatterjee holds a

Ph.D. in Management from Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Univesity and Master Degree in Personnel

Management

Prof. AbhayKarandikar

Director, IIT Kanpur

Prof. AbhayKarandikar received his M.Tech. and then a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from IIT

Kanpur in 1988 and 1994, respectively. Following it, he joined the high performance computing

group of the Center for Development of Advanced Computing. In April 1997, he joined IIT

Bombay as a faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering and continues to be associated

with the institute. Since then, he has held several administrative positions including Dean

(Faculty Affairs), Professor-in- charge, IIT Bombay Research Park, Head of the Department, and

Head of the Computer Center

Prof. Karandikar's current research interests include frugal 5G and rural broadband, device to

device communication, software defined networking, network function virtualization and 5G

core network, and quality of service and resource allocation in wired/wireless networks. His

large research group comprises research scientists, engineers, scholars and senior managers.

They have together developed several pathbreaking technologies. In 2002, he co-founded and

incubated Eisodus Networks in IIT Bombay's business incubator. The aim was to develop metro

Ethernet switch for broadband access network. Later, the company secured investors' funding

and in 2007, became a part of Tejas Networks.

Prof. Karandikar has 20+ patents to his credit, papers in international journals, contributions to

IEEE, 3GPP standards and contributed chapters in books. He has been an invited speaker in

national and international forums. He has led 20+ sponsored research projects with industries and

government funding agencies and served on numerous national committees as an expert member

and advisor. Currently, he is working as a consultant to provide technical expertise in design and

implementation of BharatNet, Government of India’s flagship initiative under Digital India

program.On 18 April 2018, he took charge as the Director of IIT Kanpur, his alma mater.

Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan

Director, IIM Indore

Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Ph.D. serves as a Member of Advisory Board at YourNest Capital

Advisors Private Limited. He is an Independent Director on the Boards of Smartlink Network

Systems Ltd., Halbit Avionics Pvt. Ltd., and Sundaram BNP Paribas Asset Management Co. Ltd.

Prof. Krishnan is a Consultant to, or conducted management development programs for, British

Telecom, Daimler Chrysler, Wipro, Siemens, Sasken Communication Technologies, the

Murugappa Group, the Aditya Birla Group, Kochi Refineries and the Governments of India and

Karnataka. He is a Professor in the Corporate Strategy & Policy Area and JamunaRaghavan

Chair Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB).

Prof. Krishnan is a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Science and

Technology Task Force, the Advisory Council of CII's National Innovation Mission, and on the

jury of Nasscom's innovation awards. He is a member of government committees to review the

performance of the National Innovation Foundation, and to study The Future of Aviation and

Aeronautics in India. He is a Director at IIM Indore. He has done external reviews of the plan

schemes of India's Department of Scientific & Industrial Research and the Department of

Biotechnology's SBIRI scheme. He is a trustee of the Foundation for Excellence India Trust. He

served as a Director of IBOF Investment Management Private Limited. Prof. Krishnan writes

extensively. One of his important contributions has been the book “From Jugaad to Systematic

Innovation: The Challenge for India” published in February 2010 which identified the challenges

faced by India in enhancing industrial innovation and proposed an agenda to enhance innovation

output. Prof. Krishnan earned an M.Sc. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology at

Kanpur; an M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems (now Management Science & Engineering)

from Stanford University. He holds doctoral qualification from the Indian Institute of

Management, Ahmedabad

Dr. Anil Kumar Nassa

Member Secretary, NBA

Dr. Anil Kumar Nassa obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Textile Chemistry from the

Technological Institute of Textiles, Bhiwani, Master’s Degree in Fibre Science and Technology

and Doctoral Degree on the theses titled “Technical Education System: Accreditation Process

and Improvements” from IIT, Delhi. He served in different capacities in various Textile

Industries. He joined Department of Higher Education,Ministry of Human Resource

Development, Government of India, in 1990 and was working as Deputy Educational Advisor

(Technical) before joining National Board of Accreditation as Member Secretary. Dr.Nassa has

dealt with various important development schemes of Technical Education in the Ministry of

HRD, AICTE and has contributed significantly in the planning, formulation and implementation

of various schemes of Technical Education. He had been associated with the Approval and

Accreditation of Technical Institutions/Programmes at Regional as well as at National level in

AICTE. He has more than 10 research papers to his credit in reputed National and International

Journals and National and International Conferences

Dr. AbhayJere

Chief Innovation Officer (CIO), MHRD, GOI

Dr. AbhayJeregraduated from Doctor BabasahebAmbedkarMarathwada University with a

B.Pharm in 1996 and later went to doMSc.Tech inBioprocess Technology (Chemical

Technology) from 1996 to 1998, atInstitute of Chemical Technology, under Mumbai University.

Later in 2001, he did PhD in the field of molecular biology,genetic engineering and health

sciences.Dr. AbhayJere, one of the prominent scientists in the country, in collaboration with the

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), created the world’s biggest open

innovation model- Smart India Hackathon. With an illustrious educational background and many

achievements to his credit, Dr. Jere is the vice president of Persistent Systems, a software

company. He serves as the Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) at Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India

Prof. FurquanQamar

Secretary General, AIU

Professor FurqanQamar, obtained his bachelor’s degree in Commerce in 1979 from Lucknow

Christian Degree College. He completed his Masters in commerce in 1981 and was awarded

Ph.D. in 1989 from University of Lucknow. In his present position as the Secretary General of

the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), he is the principal executive officer of the largest

and one of the oldest network of universities. In his illustrious career, Dr. Qamar has held the

position of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Rajasthan and the Central University of

Himachal Pradesh. He has also served as Advisor (Education) in the Planning Commission of

India. Essentially a Professor of Management, he has keen research interest in public policy,

planning, administration and financing of higher education and has numerous publications in

journals of repute to his credit. Professor Qamar haschaired and been members of a large number

of committees, working groups at the national and international level. Dr. Qamar, thus, brings

with him academic eminence, leadership qualities and exposure to best global practices

Shri Sujiv Nair

CEO TASK, Telangana State

ShriSujiv Nair is a Chief Executive Officer for Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge

(TASK). He has the unique distinction of conceptualizing and establishing TASK for enhancing

the employability quotient of the youth in Telangana under the Department of ITE&C,

Government of Telangana. He is also the Co-Convener for CII Telangana Higher Education and

Skill Development Panel & Member of the Advisory Board of ICT Academy at NIT Warangal

for South India. Overall Mr. Sujiv has global experience in managing and enabling human

capital initiatives with both Indian and Multinational organizations in the field of Science &

Technology, Information Technology, IT Enabled Services, Pharmaceutical and Manufacturing

across the American, European and Asian continents.

Prof. S.C.Shasrabudhe

Former Director, DAIICT

Prof. S. C. Sahasrabudhe obtained his Ph.D. degree from Leningrad Univesity, USSR in the field

of Communication/Signal Processing. His fields of interest include Communication and

Microprocessor Applications. He served as the Chief Technological Officer at Global

Telesystems Ltd. from December, 2000 till February, 2005 after which he became the Director,

DA-IICT in March 2005. Prior to that, he also served as the Officiating Director and Deputy

Director at IIT-Bombay. He served at IIT-Bombay from 1971 to 2003 in various capacities such

as Head of Electrical Department. He has been awarded the Life Time Achievement Award in

2005 by IIT Bombay. He was also honored with the Fourth IETE Prof. SVC Aiya Memorial

award for outstanding contributions in motivating research work in Electronics and

Telecommunication Engineering in September, 1998. He was also elected Fellow of IEEE and

IETE.

Prof. D.R.Vaman

DRJ Telecommunications, MD, USA

Dr. Vaman is the co-inventor of the DCT patented, Kelquan. He is responsible for wired and

wireless innovation at Digital Compression Technology where he currently leads the

development of high-spectral-efficiency technologies.

Dr. Vaman’s career spans three decades of distinguished contributions to a vast array of mobile

technology research including design of network management systems and low bit-rate speech

coding, as well as digital speech interpolation. He established the ARO Center for Battlefield

Communications Research (CeBCom) at Prairie View A&M and the Advanced

Telecommunications Institute at the US Navy Center of Excellence.

Dr. Vaman also led the Megaxess Corporation (now MXC) as CEO in the development of a

business ISP product, was the Chairman of the IEEE 802.9 Integrated Services LAN Standards

Committee, and was instrumental in developing the first Management Information Base (MIB)

elements for multi-services applications which became ISO standard. Dr. Vaman received his

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from City University of New York (1979); M.E. in Electrical

Engineering from City College of New York (1975); M.Tech in Electronic Instrumentation

(1972) and B.E. in Electrical Engineering (1970) from National Institute of Technology,

Warangal, India.

Prof. Andrew Thangaraj

National MOOCS Coordinator for SWAYAM,IITM, Chennai

Prof. Andrew Thangaraj received his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute

of Technology (IIT), Madras, India in 1998 and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA in 2003. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the

GTL-CNRS Telecom lab at Georgia Tech Lorraine, Metz, France from August 2003 to May

2004. From June 2004, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras,

where he is currently a professor. From Jan 2012 to Jan 2018, he served as Editor for the IEEE

Transactions on Communications. Since July 2018, he has been serving as an Associate Editor

for Coding Techniques for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

Since Oct 2011, he has been serving as NPTEL coordinator at IIT Madras. He has played a key

role in initiating and running NPTEL online courses and certification. He is currently a National

MOOCs Coordinator for NPTEL in the SWAYAM project of the MHRD.

Prof. KannanMoudgalya

Education Technology, IITB Mumbai

Kannan M. Moudgalya is a professor of Chemical Engineering, Systems and Control, and

Educational Technology at IIT Bombay. He obtained his B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from

IIT Madras in 1980 and PhD from Rice University in 1985. Prof. Kannan has held the posts of

Associate Dean (R&D), Head of Application Software Cell and Head of the Centre for Distance

Engineering Education Programme at IIT Bombay. He is a Member of the Standing Committee

of the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. He is a life

member of ISTE and CSI, and a member of IEEE. Prof. Kannan is now devoting his time on

spreading education on a massive scale, without quality dilution. He has been focusing

on spoken tutorials, open source software systems, virtual labs and the low cost tablet, Aakash.

Prof. K. Srinivas,

Head ICT & PMU, NIEPA, New Delhi

Prof. K. Srinivas, Head of ICT & Project Management Unit of National Institute of Educational

Planning and Administration (NIEPA) a Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource

Development (MHRD) Institution in New Delhi. Prof. K. Srinivas holds a Ph.D degree in

Computer Science and has been utilizing open source ICT tools and technologies in teaching,

learning and student evaluation since 1990, both at the graduate and post graduate levels. His

areas of interest are e-Learning, blended learning, MOOCs, Computer Applications in Project

Management, e-governance. He is having more than 28 years of Teaching, Research, Industry

and Consultancy experience.

His areas of interest are e-Learning, blended learning, ICT enabled Pedagogy, MOOCs and

University wide Academic Cloud e-governance (ERP) Planning, Setup, Customization and

Execution.

He is a valuable resource person and delivers skill based technical sessions/lectures across the

country for Faculty Development Programmes, Refresher Courses and Orientation Programmes

at UGC HRDCs in Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi University, JamiaMilliaIslamia,

University of Hyderabad,Maulana Azad Urdu University, Hyderabad, Benarus Hindu University,

Varanasi, Rani Durgavati University Jabalpur, Mysore University, Kerala University, BPS

Mahila University, Kurukshetra University, Kashmir University, Sikkim University, North

Eastern Hill University ( NEHU) , Guru Jambeswar University and other UGC HRDCs and

Universities in India on e-Learning, MOOCs, e-governance and Computer Applications in

Project Management. He also conducts teacher training workshops both at School Education and

Higher Education across the country for teachers. He has written a number of articles on

different aspects on university automation, e-governance, Training needs, etc., which have been

published in research journals. He has also participated in a few International Forums and

presented papers on various aspects of e-governance, Blended Online Mode Teaching, MOOCs

etc.

Ms. DeepanwitaChattopadhyay

Chairperson& CEO, IKP Knowledge Park,Hyderabad

Ms. DeepanwitaChattopadhyay is a postgraduate in Electronics Engineering from the department

of Radio Physics and Electronics, Calcutta University. After brief stints at the Centre for Applied

Research in Electronics, IIT, Delhi and the Electrical and Electronics Engineering department,

BITS, Pilani, she joined the telecom advisory practice of ICICI Bank Ltd. in 1994. As a telecom

consultant, she advised both government agencies and the private sector on telecom regulation

and policy, convergence issues, market forecasts and entry strategies. Her experience with

knowledge driven sectors and interest in networking and knowledge management led her to head

IKP Knowledge Park, the first professionally managed wet lab Research Park in India. AS Chief

Executive Officer of IKP Knowledge Park, Ms. DeepanwitaChattopadhyayis responsible for

creating an innovation and knowledge hub in India and the region. Her current interests are in

setting a process for nurturing innovative companies and developing a sustainable innovative

cluster.

Shri Daniel Calto,

Research Intelligence Elsevier, New York

As director of solution services for academic and government institutional markets at Elsevier

Inc., Daniel Calto currently works with the North American SciVal consulting team and on

special projects globally. He joined Elsevier in 2008 as the director of product management for

the SciVal product team. He has a strong professional interest in research and development

policies and their relation to economic growth, statewide economic development issues, research

and development trends in East Asia, as well as how the changing global research landscape is

reshaping the scientific enterprise. He has spoken on these and other topics at a variety of

national and international conferences. Before joining Elsevier, he was the director of research

strategy and director of research administration at Columbia University. He also worked as

director of sponsored programs administration at New York University School of Medicine and

in a variety of administrative and clinical positions at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New

York. He has a Master of Business Administration in finance and international business from

Stern School of Business at New York University

Shri Vijaysekhar Reddy

Elsevier, New Delhi

Shri Vijay Reddy is Solution Manager at Elsevier India, Gurgaon, since 2014. He is driving

client engagements across South Asia for Elsevier’s suite of solutions, provides information and

analytics. Vijay Reddy is helping governments, universities and corporates to evaluate and

improve their research strategies, advance healthcare and improve performance. Holds a degree

in engineering and a Master of Business Administration. Started career with APTECH limited, a

global education and training company there by contributed to IT/ITES revolution in India. He

then went on to work for Intense Technologies, setting up new businesses for the software

products that are designed for digital business transformation. Primarily for Telecom &

Insurance market segments, Vijay handled South India market and helped improving business

processes for some of the leading players in telecom, BFSI, & other sectors like Bharti Airtel,

Idea Cellular, GE Money & many more. After making a conscious decision to work in a field

that allowed him to “add value” to society, Vijay joined NIIT Ltd. as Regional Sales Head

(South) and successfully helped to turn the business around and provide Managed Training

Services (MTS), which include custom curriculum design and content development, strategic

sourcing, learning technology and advisory services to corporations, government, and

institutions. He later worked as Zonal Head for Trimentus technologies (Start-up), Core

Technologies, GS1 India (Global standards body) set-up by Ministry of Commerce, Government

of India.