India Science Festival 2024
India Science Festival 2024 witnessed
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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