Speakers – 2020

R. Gopu
Researcher,
Tamil Heritage Trust
Speakers – 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Van Zyl
Director, Africa Space Innovation Centre, French South African Institute of Technology
Speakers – 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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