Speakers at India Science Festival 2025

Prof. Payal Arora

Professor, Inclusive AI Cultures

Utrecht University

The Netherlands

Dr. Lav Varshney

Associate Professor, Autonomous Systems

University of Illinois – Urbana Champaigne

USA

Ms. Laura Herman

AI Research

Adobe

UK

Dr. David-Cohen Tanugi

Venture Builder

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

USA

Dr. Priyadarshi Panda

Founder, International Battery Company

USA

Prof. Sujatha Ramdorai

Professor, Mathematics

University of British Columbia

Canada

Dr. Sedat Gundogdu

Marine Biologist, Faculty of Fisheries

University of Cukurova

Turkey

Prof. Vidita Vaidya

Professor, Neuroscience

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

India

Prof. Sumathi Rao

Professor, Theoretical Physics

ICTS Bengaluru

India

Prof. Ashish Garg

Professor, Sustainable Energy Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

India

Dr. Poonam Thakur

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram

India

Dr. Joao Antunes Pequenao

CERN Media Lab

Switzerland

Dr. Shubhendu Bhasin

Professor, Adaptive and Learning Control

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

India

Dr. K Thangaraj

J C Bose Fellow, Human origin, health and disease

Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology

India

Prof. S P Arun

Professor, Neuroscience

Indian Institute of Science

India

Dr. Nayana Shah

Research Scientist, Washington University in St. Louis

USA

Vivek Natarajan

AI Researcher, Google

USA

Prof. Vivek Polshetiwar

Professor (H), Department of Chemical Sciences, TIFR-M

India

Kaldi Moss

Audio Visual Artist

India

Karishma Kaushik

Executive Director, India Bioscience

India

Raza Kazmi

Wildlife Conservationist and Historian

India

Debarati Chatterjee

Associate Professor, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics)

India

Gaurav Raina

Professor, Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

India

Anusheela Chatterjee

Program Head – Science Media Centre, TIFR Hyderabad

India

Krishna Ravi Srinivas

Adjunct Faculty, NALSAR Law

India

Aakash Ranison

Author

India

Sayantan Datta

Assistant Professor of Practice at the Centre for Writing & Pedagogy, Krea University

India

Chhavi Mathur

Independent Consultant

India

Joy Bhattacharjee

Founder, QuDyCo

India

Varuni P

Outreach Associate, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences

India

Debdutta Paul

Science Writer, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR, Bengaluru

India

Harish Iyer

Deputy Director, Digital, Health Innovations and AI, BMGF

India

Dorje Angchuk

Science Photographer

India

Nandini Rajamani

Associate Professor, Biology Department, IISER Tirupati

India

Umesh Shaligram

Executive Director, Serum Institute

India

Vishal Rai

Professor, Chemisty, IISER Bhopal; Founder, Plabeltech

India

T V Venkateswaram

Senior Scientist, Vigyan Prasar

India

Anantharaman Iyer

Director, ICT, IHAT

India

Sudarshan Shaw

Artist, Conservationist

India

Projit Bihari Mukharji

Head of Department, Professor of History, Ashoka University

India

Karthik Venkatesh

Executive Editor at Penguin Random House India

India

Prachi Shukla

Country Head, World Health Partners

India

Shilpi Sharma

Professor, Dept. of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, IIT Delhi

India

Sahana Ghosh

Associate Editor, Nature India

India

Swapnil Jain

Co-founder, Ather Energy

India

Pranab Dutta

Founder, GDQ Labs

India

Yogesh Shouche

Director, SKAN Research Trust

India

Chetna Krishna

Communications Officer, CERN

India

Vaishali Shroff

Author/ Science Writer

India

Rana Vivek Singh

Co-Founder & CEO, Magicroll

India

Kuldeep Yadav

SHL, SVP, AI & Labs

India

Kasisomayajula Viswanath

Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication, Harvard University

India

Alex Cooke

Executive Director – Strategic Examination of the R&D System Secretariat, CSIRO Australia

India

Dr. Tushar Sakorikar

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani – Goa Campus

India

Anita Kulkarni Puranik

Founder, Metamagics

India

Dr. Deepa Subramanyam

Scientist F, National Centre for Cell Science

India

Sharada Balasubramanian

Environmental and Development Journalist

India

Tanuja Ganu

Director of Research Engineering, Microsoft

India

Dr. Anwesha Ghosh

Research Associate, CCES, IISER Kolkata

India

Rajeev Jorapur

Sr. Vice President, Bajaj Auto Ltd.

India

Dr. Kavitha Sairam

Founder & CEO at FIB-SOL Life Technologies Pvt. Ltd

India

Dr. Subramani Ailoor

Vice President, R&D, Renault Nissan Technology & Business Centre India

India

Ramtilak Ananthan

Chief Technology Officer, Bajaj Auto

India

Vishwanath R Bhagwat

Head – PowerTrain, Bajaj Auto R&D

India

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