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

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