Speakers at India Science Festival 2025
Payal Arora
Professor, Inclusive AI Cultures
Utrecht University
The Netherlands
Lav Varshney
Associate Professor, Autonomous Systems
University of Illinois – Urbana Champaigne
USA
Hayat Sindi
Founder, Diagnostics for All
Saudi Arabia
Jason D’Cruz
AI and Philosophy
University of Albany
USA
Laura Herman
AI Research
Adobe
UK
David-Cohen Tanugi
Venture Builder
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
USA
Adriana Marais
Founder, Proudly Human
South Africa
Priyadarshi Panda
Founder, International Battery Company
USA
Sujatha Ramdorai
Professor, Mathematics
University of British Columbia
Canada
Sedat Gundogdu
Marine Biologist, Faculty of Fisheries
University of Cukurova
Turkey
Vidita Vaidya
Professor, Neuroscience
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
India
Thomas Barlow
R&D Strategist and Director, Barlow Advisory
Australia
Sumathi Rao
Professor, Condensed Matter Physics
Harish Chandra Research Institute
India
Ashish Garg
Professor, Sustainable Energy Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
India
Poonam Thakur
Assistant Professor, Parkinson’s Disease
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram
India
Joao Antunes Pequenao
Chief Troublemaker, CERN Media Lab
Switzerland
Shubhendu Basin
Professor, Adaptive and Learning Control
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
India
K Thangaraj
J C Bose Fellow, Human origin, health and disease
Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology
India
S P Arun
Professor, Neuroscience
Indian Institute of Science
India
Rajesh Gopakumar
Director, Quantum Field Theory and String Theory
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences – Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
India
Jahnavi Phalkey
Founding Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru
India