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