Speakers ISF 2024
Thomas Barlow
R&D policy adviser
Director, Barlow Advisory
Australia
Takashi Ikegami
Artificial Life & Complex Systems Science
University of Tokyo
Japan
Mayuri Rege
Microbiologist & Educator
Homi Bhabha Centre For Science Education (HBCSE), TIFR, Mumbai
India
Siddharth Garg
Machine learning, cyber-security & computer hardware design
New York University (NYU)
USA
Vineeth Venugopal
Material Science & Artificial Intelligence
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
USA
Annapurni Subramaniam
Astrophysics & Astronomy
Director, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru
India
Soumya Swaminathan
Former Chief Scientist, WHO
Chairperson, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
India
Sudip Parikh
CEO
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
USA
N Ramnani
Behavioural Neuroscience
Royal Holloway University of London
UK
Samir Mitragotri
Bioengineering
Harvard Univeristy
USA
Lewis Hou
Founder & Director
Science Ceilidh
Scotland
Lavanya Marla
Operations Research
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
USA
Tim Blais
Creator
Acapella Science
Canada
Bivas Saha
Materials Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru
India
Tapan Gandhi
Biomedical Signal & Image Processing, Computational Neuroscience
IIT Delhi
India
Maneesha Inamdar
Cell and developmental biology
Director, inStem, Bengaluru
India
Somak Raychaudhury
Astrophysics & Cosmology
Vice Chancellor, Ashoka University
India
Jahnavi Punekar
Geosciences
IIT Bombay
India
B N Jagatap
Multidisciplinary Physics
IIT Bombay
India
Rashmi Gupta
Psychology
IIT Bombay
India
Balaram Ravindran
Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
IIT Madras
India
Rohan M Ganapathy
CEO & Founder
Bellatrix Aerospace
India
Mayank Shrivastava
Semiconductors
IISc Bengaluru & Co-founder, AGNIT Semiconductors Pvt. Ltd.
India
Gagandeep Reehal
Co-Founder, CEO & CTO
Minus Zero
India
Nikhil Malhotra
Chief Innovation Officer and creator of Maker’s Lab
CIO, Tech Mahindra
India
Abinaya Sampath
Chemical Engineering
IIT Gandhinagar
India
Kaneenika Sinha
Number Theory & Probability
IISER Pune
India
Pranav Radhakrishnan
YouTuber & Science Communicator
Science is Dope
India
Chetana Sachidanandan
Chemical genetics & Neurodevelopment
CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB)
India
Nandini C Singh
Cognitive neuroscience
UNESCO – Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP)
India
Sriram Rajamani
Programming Languages & Machine Learning
Corporate Vice President and Managing Director, Microsoft Research India
India
Sanjeev Galande
Epigenetics & Cancer Biology
Shiv Nadar University
India
LS Shashidhara
Developmental & Cancer Biology
Director, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) Bangalore
India
Anita Mani
Author & Editor
India
Raza Kazmi
Author, Conservationist & Researcher
India
Vidya Krishnan
Author & Journalist
India
Alan Harvey
Visual Neurophysiology
University of Western Australia
Australia
Sunil Bhagwat
Director
Indian Institute of Science, Research & Education
India
Suruchi Rao
Co-Founder
Ossus Biorenewables
India
Sonisha Kukreja
Author
Blume Ventures
India
Satyajit Phadke
Co-Founder
Hydrovert
India
Renu Vyas
Dean, Faculty of Technology and Head MIT School of Bioengineering Sciences & Research
MIT Art, Design and Technology University
India
Noopur Jhunjhunwala
Trustee & Co-Founder
Changeinkk
India
M Krishnamurthy
Center Director, TIFR
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
India
Leslie D’Monte
Journalist
MINT
India
Charru Malhotra
Professor
Indian Institute of Public Administration
India
Aditi Tandon
Senior Production Editor
Mongabay
India
Aditi Agrawal
Journalist
Hindustan Times
India