Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu,IAS,
Addl.Secretary,(H.E.) MHRD
Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu belongs to the IAS batch of 1988 of Uttarakhand cadre. Currently he
is serving as the Additional Secretary of Education in Ministry of Human Resource and
Development. He is responsible for IITs, NITs, IIITs, TE, SPA,TEQIP and Vigilance. Earlier he
has served as Additional Secretary of Central Universities & Language ofHuman Resource and
Development.
Shri Navin Mittal, IAS
Commissioner, CE&TE,GoT, Hyd.
Shri Navin Mittal belongs to the 1996 batch of the Indian Administrative Service assigned to
the Telangana cadre. He is a B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the
prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He stood All India 3rd in Civil Services
Examinations in 1995.
As Commissioner for Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, his works in the area of e-
governance and Sanitation won the CRISIL Award in 2003 & 2005 for the Corporation. As
Project Director of ITDA, his works have been recognized by the World Bank. As Collector and
District Magistrate of Krishna District, he has been instrumental in successfully completing the
Kolleru Operation in 2006. As Collector & District Magistrate of Hyderabad District, Shri Navin
Mittal has actively worked on up gradation of Government schools, rescue and rehabilitation of
child labor and destitute children and regulation of school fees. As Secretary of State Election
Commission, he was instrumental in holding free and fair elections to more than 25000 Local
Bodies in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
As Special Commissioner of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, he has been
instrumental in tripling the revenue of the corporation in last 5 years. This has won the
appreciation of the Prime Minister of India. He has driven the e-governance initiatives in
GHMC, the notable among them being the e-Governance award given by Union Minister for
Urban Development to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.
Shri VLVSS Subba Rao
Sr. Economic Advisor, MHRD
Shri Vedula LVSS Subba Rao joined the Indian Economic Service in 1985. He did his B.A. in
1981 from University of Madras and M.A. in Economics in 1983 from University of Delhi.
Currently he is serving as the Economic Advisor to the Ministry of Human Resource and
Development and is responsible for IISERs, IISc, GIAN, HEFA, Skill Development,Ek Bharat
Shrestha Bharat, SBA, PWD,PG, SC/ST Cell, NER and Technical Coordination. In the past, he
has held notable positions of Economic Adviser to Ministry of Labor and Employment, Adviser
and Director to Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Director to Ministry of Rural
Development.
Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe
Chairman, AICTE
Prof. Anil DattatrayaSahasrabudhe, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT), Guwahati joined All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) as
Chairman on 17th July 2015. Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe graduated from BVB College of
Engineering and Technology, Hubli affiliated to Karnataka University, Dharwad, Karnataka in
Mechanical Engineering with First Rank and Gold medal in 1980. Subsequently, he obtained
Master's and Doctoral (with UGC Fellowship) degrees from Indian Institute of Science (IISc),
Bangalore in 1982 and 1989 respectively.
Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe in his illustrious career of 31 years held several important Academic,
Research and Administrative positions. He started his career as Scientific Officer, at Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1983 and moved to Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE) as
Engineer in the same year. He served as Lecturer and Assistant Professor at North Eastern
Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) from
1987-1988 & again from 1989-1995, before joining IIT Guwahati as Associate Professor in 1995
and has been serving as Professor since 1999. Also, he served as Director, College of
Engineering, Pune (CoEP) since 2006 on deputation from IIT, Guwahati prior to joining as
AICTE Chairman. As an Academician and Researcher in NERIST and IIT Guwahati, and as an
Administrator in the capacity of Director, CoEP, he has taken up several new initiatives for
Academic, Curricular & Co-curricular activities, Entrepreneurship, Research and Good
Governance.
Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe is presently working as Chairman & Expert Member on various
National Level Committees. Some of these include; Chairman, Basic Scientific Research (BSR),
Empowered Committee of UGC, SWAYAM Board and Chairman BOG of NIT Itanagar. He was
awarded with "Maha-Intrapreneur Award-2011" of Praj Industries, Pune for his Leadership and
Innovative abilities in the area of Technology Development and Entrepreneurship initiatives.
Prof. Surendra Prasad,
Chairperson, NBA
Prof. Surendra Prasad, did his graduate studies in electronics and electrical communication
engineering and after passing B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in
1969, he moved to the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi from where he completed M.Tech in
1971. Subsequently, he joined IIT Delhi the same year as a member of faculty and
simultaneously enrolled for his doctoral studies there to secure a PhD in 1974. In 1976, he took a
sabbatical to work at Loughborough University of Technology as a visiting research fellow and
returning to India in 1977, he resumed his career at IIT Delhi where he served till his
superannuation as the director, a post he held from 2006 to 2011. In between, he had a second
stint abroad at Pennsylvania State University as a visiting faculty during 1985-86. At IIT Delhi,
he served in various positions as a professor, coordinator of the Bharti School of Telecom
Technology and Management (BSTTM), Dean of Undergraduate Studies and deputy
director. Post-retirement, he is an Usha Chair Professor at IIT Delhiand an Emeritus professor at
BSTTM. He is an eminent educationist and Researcher and has received numerous recognitions
for teaching and research, including among others, the VikramSarabhaiResearch Award in
Electronics and Telecommunications for the year 1987, the Shanti SwarupBhatnagar Prize for
Engineering Sciences for 1988, the Om Prakash Bhasin Prize for research in Electronics and
Communications for 1994, the VASVIK award for Information Technology for 2006, the
Lifetime Achievement Award of the Systems Society of India (2011), the distinguished alumnus
award of IIT Kharagpur and was Honoured with an honorary doctorate by the Loughborough
University, U.K. (2007). He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the
Indian National Science Academy, the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy
of Science and has been a member of the Governing Body of CSIR and CSIR Society, Govt. of
India and numerous boards of IIT’s, NIT’s and other engineering Institutions. He currently
serves as the chair of the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), an autonomous agency of
the All India Council of Technical Education
Prof. Sandeep Sancheti
President, AIU, New Delhi
Dr. Sandeep Sancheti, known as Institution Builder, holds a Ph.D. from Queens University of
Belfast UK, after obtaining a B.Tech (ECE) from Regional Engineering College, Warangal (now
NITW) and M.Sc (Engg) from Delhi College of Engineering (now DTU) in 1982 and 1985
respectively. He is now the Vice Chancellor, SRMIST, Chennai. Prior to this he was the
President of Manipal University, Jaipur, Director National Institute of Technology, Delhi (NITD)
and Director NITK Surathkal. He has also served as Director In-charge, NIT Tiruchirapally, NIT
Calicut, School of Planning & Architecture (SPA) Delhi and Mentor Director, NIT Goa, NIT
Puducherry and NIT Sikkim. DrSancheti began his professional career at MBM Engineering
College, Jodhpur, as Assistant Professor in the Department of ECE in 1984 and later moved to
Malaviya Regional Engineering College, Jaipur (now MNIT) as Associate Professor in 1990.
He is the Recipient of the Commonwealth Scholarship & Fellowship under Colombo Plan from
1992-95. He was also awarded the SERC Fellowship by DST, Government of India in 1998 and
the UKISTRF Award by the British Council in 1999-2000. Currently he serves as the Vice
President of Association of Indian Universities (AIU) New Delhi
Prof. S Sadagopan
Director, IIIT Bangalore
Professor Sadagopan is an educator, educational administrator, researcher, consultant and an
outstanding communicator – all rolled into one. He is the Founder Director of the Indian Institute
of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIITB) since 1999. Earlier he had taught at IIT Kanpur
and IIM Bangalore, for two decades. Moreover, he had also taught at IIT - Madras, India,
Rutgers - New Jersey, USA, and AIT - Bangkok, Thailand for up to one full year, in addition to
short term visits to MIT, Stanford, Purdue, and U Washington in USA; Nijenrode in Europe;
RMIT, UNSW and UWS in Australia; NUS and Temasek in Singapore; and ADBI, UNU and
Nagaoka in Japan; some of the best universities around the world. He has authored two textbooks
- Management Information Systems (Prentice Hall 1995) and ERP - A Managerial Perspective
(Tata McGraw Hill 1999). He has contributed chapters to several books – Handbook of
Information Systems (Academic Press 2002), Business Process Reengineering – Advancing the
state-of-the-art, (Kluwer 1999), Management Perspectives (Macmillan, 1999) and Saket
InfoTech Handbook (Saket, 1999)
Professor consults extensively to some of the largest private & public sector corporations in
India, in Computing, Communications, Software, Automotive, Oil and Power industries as well
as social sector. He is a member of the Board of Directors of several private and public sector
corporations; he is also a member of the Board of Studies of several Universities.
He was a Fulbright Scholar in 1995 and his name is listed in Marquis’s Who's Who in the World
since 1997. He is Member of the ACM, IEEE – Computer Society and AIS; he is a Life Member
of the Computer Society of India and represents India in the TC9 Sub-committee of the
International Federation of Information Processing Societies (IFIP)
Professor Sadagopan writes frequently on several aspects of IT in the columns of India’s leading
newspapers - Times of India & Economic Times and IT magazines - Computers Today,
Dataquest & CIO India Magazine.
Prof. Debashish Chatterjee
Director, IIM Kozhikode
Prof. Debashis Chatterjee served as a Visiting Professor of McMaster University, Canada; EXCEPEAP, Paris,
France and Reims School of Management, Reims France. Prof. Chatterjee also functioned as Dean, Leadership
Centre at S.P. Jain Centre of Management, Singapore. He served as Co-Convenor of Management Center for Human
Values at IIM Kolkata. Prof. Chatterjee's administrative experience includes his functioning as Chairman of
Placement at IIM Lucknow; Dean of Singapore International Campus at SPJCM; Head of Center for Leadership and
Human Values at IIM Lucknow and Regional Head, HR, GIC. He has taught for more than a decade in IIM
Lucknow and IIM Kolkata. He pioneered and founded the Global Center for Leadership and Human Values at the
Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. He serves as a Director of Aegis Private Ltd. and Kerala State Financial
Corpn.Ltd. He currently serves as Director and Member of Board of Governors at Indian Institute of Management
Kozhikode. He served as a Director of Kerala Financial Corporation since February 6, 2010 until January 25, 2011.
He served as a Director of Jyothy Consumer Products Limited since September 11, 2009 until May 31, 2011. He
served as a Director of AGC Networks Ltd from August 31, 2010 to December 19, 2011. Prof. Chatterjee has
trained more than 10,000 managers globally in Fortune 100 Corporations. He has served as leadership coach to
Chief Executive Officer's and is a pioneer in the field of Asian models in leadership. His five published books
include Leading Consciously (Foreword by Peter M. Senge), Leadership Sutras (Elsevier) and Break Free (Penguin)
which have been translated into several international languages. His latest book, Timeless Leadership, is published
internationally by Jossey Bass and Wiley in 2010. He has been featured in the international media including Gurdian
and London Times, UK and The Financial Review, Australia and The Economic Times, India. He has written
regular columns for national periodicals including The Times of India. Prof. Chatterjee has directed Executive
Development Programmes on Leadership, Self-Management and Learning Organization for over 10000 Managers in
more than 100 Companies in all six continents of the world. Some of the large organizations that have benefited
from his programmes include Motorola Inc., Ford Motor Company, British Petroleum, AT&T, 3M, Infosys
Technologies Ltd., Tata Steel, Monash University, University of St. Thomas, USA and Lucent Technologies. He
was described as one of the "thought leaders" of the world by Prof. John Kotler of the Harvard Business School for
his contribution to the theory and practice of leadership. He was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University's
Kennedy School of Government. His professional career has been a blend of international professional and
academic experience in India, United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, South East Asia and South Africa. He has
been ACC Research Fellow, IIM Kolkata, Pre-Doctoral Fulbright Fellow, UST and MIT and Post-Doctoral
Fulbright Fellow, Harvard University. Prof. Chatterjee served as Visiting Lecturer/ taught in the MBA Programme
at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota and at the Harvard Graduate School of Business. Prof. Chatterjee holds a
Ph.D. in Management from Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Univesity and Master Degree in Personnel
Management
Prof. AbhayKarandikar
Director, IIT Kanpur
Prof. AbhayKarandikar received his M.Tech. and then a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from IIT
Kanpur in 1988 and 1994, respectively. Following it, he joined the high performance computing
group of the Center for Development of Advanced Computing. In April 1997, he joined IIT
Bombay as a faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering and continues to be associated
with the institute. Since then, he has held several administrative positions including Dean
(Faculty Affairs), Professor-in- charge, IIT Bombay Research Park, Head of the Department, and
Head of the Computer Center
Prof. Karandikar's current research interests include frugal 5G and rural broadband, device to
device communication, software defined networking, network function virtualization and 5G
core network, and quality of service and resource allocation in wired/wireless networks. His
large research group comprises research scientists, engineers, scholars and senior managers.
They have together developed several pathbreaking technologies. In 2002, he co-founded and
incubated Eisodus Networks in IIT Bombay's business incubator. The aim was to develop metro
Ethernet switch for broadband access network. Later, the company secured investors' funding
and in 2007, became a part of Tejas Networks.
Prof. Karandikar has 20+ patents to his credit, papers in international journals, contributions to
IEEE, 3GPP standards and contributed chapters in books. He has been an invited speaker in
national and international forums. He has led 20+ sponsored research projects with industries and
government funding agencies and served on numerous national committees as an expert member
and advisor. Currently, he is working as a consultant to provide technical expertise in design and
implementation of BharatNet, Government of India’s flagship initiative under Digital India
program.On 18 April 2018, he took charge as the Director of IIT Kanpur, his alma mater.
Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan
Director, IIM Indore
Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Ph.D. serves as a Member of Advisory Board at YourNest Capital
Advisors Private Limited. He is an Independent Director on the Boards of Smartlink Network
Systems Ltd., Halbit Avionics Pvt. Ltd., and Sundaram BNP Paribas Asset Management Co. Ltd.
Prof. Krishnan is a Consultant to, or conducted management development programs for, British
Telecom, Daimler Chrysler, Wipro, Siemens, Sasken Communication Technologies, the
Murugappa Group, the Aditya Birla Group, Kochi Refineries and the Governments of India and
Karnataka. He is a Professor in the Corporate Strategy & Policy Area and JamunaRaghavan
Chair Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB).
Prof. Krishnan is a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Science and
Technology Task Force, the Advisory Council of CII's National Innovation Mission, and on the
jury of Nasscom's innovation awards. He is a member of government committees to review the
performance of the National Innovation Foundation, and to study The Future of Aviation and
Aeronautics in India. He is a Director at IIM Indore. He has done external reviews of the plan
schemes of India's Department of Scientific & Industrial Research and the Department of
Biotechnology's SBIRI scheme. He is a trustee of the Foundation for Excellence India Trust. He
served as a Director of IBOF Investment Management Private Limited. Prof. Krishnan writes
extensively. One of his important contributions has been the book “From Jugaad to Systematic
Innovation: The Challenge for India” published in February 2010 which identified the challenges
faced by India in enhancing industrial innovation and proposed an agenda to enhance innovation
output. Prof. Krishnan earned an M.Sc. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology at
Kanpur; an M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems (now Management Science & Engineering)
from Stanford University. He holds doctoral qualification from the Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad
Dr. Anil Kumar Nassa
Member Secretary, NBA
Dr. Anil Kumar Nassa obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Textile Chemistry from the
Technological Institute of Textiles, Bhiwani, Master’s Degree in Fibre Science and Technology
and Doctoral Degree on the theses titled “Technical Education System: Accreditation Process
and Improvements” from IIT, Delhi. He served in different capacities in various Textile
Industries. He joined Department of Higher Education,Ministry of Human Resource
Development, Government of India, in 1990 and was working as Deputy Educational Advisor
(Technical) before joining National Board of Accreditation as Member Secretary. Dr.Nassa has
dealt with various important development schemes of Technical Education in the Ministry of
HRD, AICTE and has contributed significantly in the planning, formulation and implementation
of various schemes of Technical Education. He had been associated with the Approval and
Accreditation of Technical Institutions/Programmes at Regional as well as at National level in
AICTE. He has more than 10 research papers to his credit in reputed National and International
Journals and National and International Conferences
Dr. AbhayJere
Chief Innovation Officer (CIO), MHRD, GOI
Dr. AbhayJeregraduated from Doctor BabasahebAmbedkarMarathwada University with a
B.Pharm in 1996 and later went to doMSc.Tech inBioprocess Technology (Chemical
Technology) from 1996 to 1998, atInstitute of Chemical Technology, under Mumbai University.
Later in 2001, he did PhD in the field of molecular biology,genetic engineering and health
sciences.Dr. AbhayJere, one of the prominent scientists in the country, in collaboration with the
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), created the world’s biggest open
innovation model- Smart India Hackathon. With an illustrious educational background and many
achievements to his credit, Dr. Jere is the vice president of Persistent Systems, a software
company. He serves as the Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) at Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India
Prof. FurquanQamar
Secretary General, AIU
Professor FurqanQamar, obtained his bachelor’s degree in Commerce in 1979 from Lucknow
Christian Degree College. He completed his Masters in commerce in 1981 and was awarded
Ph.D. in 1989 from University of Lucknow. In his present position as the Secretary General of
the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), he is the principal executive officer of the largest
and one of the oldest network of universities. In his illustrious career, Dr. Qamar has held the
position of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Rajasthan and the Central University of
Himachal Pradesh. He has also served as Advisor (Education) in the Planning Commission of
India. Essentially a Professor of Management, he has keen research interest in public policy,
planning, administration and financing of higher education and has numerous publications in
journals of repute to his credit. Professor Qamar haschaired and been members of a large number
of committees, working groups at the national and international level. Dr. Qamar, thus, brings
with him academic eminence, leadership qualities and exposure to best global practices
Shri Sujiv Nair
CEO TASK, Telangana State
ShriSujiv Nair is a Chief Executive Officer for Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge
(TASK). He has the unique distinction of conceptualizing and establishing TASK for enhancing
the employability quotient of the youth in Telangana under the Department of ITE&C,
Government of Telangana. He is also the Co-Convener for CII Telangana Higher Education and
Skill Development Panel & Member of the Advisory Board of ICT Academy at NIT Warangal
for South India. Overall Mr. Sujiv has global experience in managing and enabling human
capital initiatives with both Indian and Multinational organizations in the field of Science &
Technology, Information Technology, IT Enabled Services, Pharmaceutical and Manufacturing
across the American, European and Asian continents.
Prof. S.C.Shasrabudhe
Former Director, DAIICT
Prof. S. C. Sahasrabudhe obtained his Ph.D. degree from Leningrad Univesity, USSR in the field
of Communication/Signal Processing. His fields of interest include Communication and
Microprocessor Applications. He served as the Chief Technological Officer at Global
Telesystems Ltd. from December, 2000 till February, 2005 after which he became the Director,
DA-IICT in March 2005. Prior to that, he also served as the Officiating Director and Deputy
Director at IIT-Bombay. He served at IIT-Bombay from 1971 to 2003 in various capacities such
as Head of Electrical Department. He has been awarded the Life Time Achievement Award in
2005 by IIT Bombay. He was also honored with the Fourth IETE Prof. SVC Aiya Memorial
award for outstanding contributions in motivating research work in Electronics and
Telecommunication Engineering in September, 1998. He was also elected Fellow of IEEE and
IETE.
Prof. D.R.Vaman
DRJ Telecommunications, MD, USA
Dr. Vaman is the co-inventor of the DCT patented, Kelquan. He is responsible for wired and
wireless innovation at Digital Compression Technology where he currently leads the
development of high-spectral-efficiency technologies.
Dr. Vaman’s career spans three decades of distinguished contributions to a vast array of mobile
technology research including design of network management systems and low bit-rate speech
coding, as well as digital speech interpolation. He established the ARO Center for Battlefield
Communications Research (CeBCom) at Prairie View A&M and the Advanced
Telecommunications Institute at the US Navy Center of Excellence.
Dr. Vaman also led the Megaxess Corporation (now MXC) as CEO in the development of a
business ISP product, was the Chairman of the IEEE 802.9 Integrated Services LAN Standards
Committee, and was instrumental in developing the first Management Information Base (MIB)
elements for multi-services applications which became ISO standard. Dr. Vaman received his
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from City University of New York (1979); M.E. in Electrical
Engineering from City College of New York (1975); M.Tech in Electronic Instrumentation
(1972) and B.E. in Electrical Engineering (1970) from National Institute of Technology,
Warangal, India.
Prof. Andrew Thangaraj
National MOOCS Coordinator for SWAYAM,IITM, Chennai
Prof. Andrew Thangaraj received his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute
of Technology (IIT), Madras, India in 1998 and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA in 2003. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the
GTL-CNRS Telecom lab at Georgia Tech Lorraine, Metz, France from August 2003 to May
2004. From June 2004, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras,
where he is currently a professor. From Jan 2012 to Jan 2018, he served as Editor for the IEEE
Transactions on Communications. Since July 2018, he has been serving as an Associate Editor
for Coding Techniques for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
Since Oct 2011, he has been serving as NPTEL coordinator at IIT Madras. He has played a key
role in initiating and running NPTEL online courses and certification. He is currently a National
MOOCs Coordinator for NPTEL in the SWAYAM project of the MHRD.
Prof. KannanMoudgalya
Education Technology, IITB Mumbai
Kannan M. Moudgalya is a professor of Chemical Engineering, Systems and Control, and
Educational Technology at IIT Bombay. He obtained his B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from
IIT Madras in 1980 and PhD from Rice University in 1985. Prof. Kannan has held the posts of
Associate Dean (R&D), Head of Application Software Cell and Head of the Centre for Distance
Engineering Education Programme at IIT Bombay. He is a Member of the Standing Committee
of the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. He is a life
member of ISTE and CSI, and a member of IEEE. Prof. Kannan is now devoting his time on
spreading education on a massive scale, without quality dilution. He has been focusing
on spoken tutorials, open source software systems, virtual labs and the low cost tablet, Aakash.
Prof. K. Srinivas,
Head ICT & PMU, NIEPA, New Delhi
Prof. K. Srinivas, Head of ICT & Project Management Unit of National Institute of Educational
Planning and Administration (NIEPA) a Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource
Development (MHRD) Institution in New Delhi. Prof. K. Srinivas holds a Ph.D degree in
Computer Science and has been utilizing open source ICT tools and technologies in teaching,
learning and student evaluation since 1990, both at the graduate and post graduate levels. His
areas of interest are e-Learning, blended learning, MOOCs, Computer Applications in Project
Management, e-governance. He is having more than 28 years of Teaching, Research, Industry
and Consultancy experience.
His areas of interest are e-Learning, blended learning, ICT enabled Pedagogy, MOOCs and
University wide Academic Cloud e-governance (ERP) Planning, Setup, Customization and
Execution.
He is a valuable resource person and delivers skill based technical sessions/lectures across the
country for Faculty Development Programmes, Refresher Courses and Orientation Programmes
at UGC HRDCs in Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi University, JamiaMilliaIslamia,
University of Hyderabad,Maulana Azad Urdu University, Hyderabad, Benarus Hindu University,
Varanasi, Rani Durgavati University Jabalpur, Mysore University, Kerala University, BPS
Mahila University, Kurukshetra University, Kashmir University, Sikkim University, North
Eastern Hill University ( NEHU) , Guru Jambeswar University and other UGC HRDCs and
Universities in India on e-Learning, MOOCs, e-governance and Computer Applications in
Project Management. He also conducts teacher training workshops both at School Education and
Higher Education across the country for teachers. He has written a number of articles on
different aspects on university automation, e-governance, Training needs, etc., which have been
published in research journals. He has also participated in a few International Forums and
presented papers on various aspects of e-governance, Blended Online Mode Teaching, MOOCs
etc.
Ms. DeepanwitaChattopadhyay
Chairperson& CEO, IKP Knowledge Park,Hyderabad
Ms. DeepanwitaChattopadhyay is a postgraduate in Electronics Engineering from the department
of Radio Physics and Electronics, Calcutta University. After brief stints at the Centre for Applied
Research in Electronics, IIT, Delhi and the Electrical and Electronics Engineering department,
BITS, Pilani, she joined the telecom advisory practice of ICICI Bank Ltd. in 1994. As a telecom
consultant, she advised both government agencies and the private sector on telecom regulation
and policy, convergence issues, market forecasts and entry strategies. Her experience with
knowledge driven sectors and interest in networking and knowledge management led her to head
IKP Knowledge Park, the first professionally managed wet lab Research Park in India. AS Chief
Executive Officer of IKP Knowledge Park, Ms. DeepanwitaChattopadhyayis responsible for
creating an innovation and knowledge hub in India and the region. Her current interests are in
setting a process for nurturing innovative companies and developing a sustainable innovative
cluster.
Shri Daniel Calto,
Research Intelligence Elsevier, New York
As director of solution services for academic and government institutional markets at Elsevier
Inc., Daniel Calto currently works with the North American SciVal consulting team and on
special projects globally. He joined Elsevier in 2008 as the director of product management for
the SciVal product team. He has a strong professional interest in research and development
policies and their relation to economic growth, statewide economic development issues, research
and development trends in East Asia, as well as how the changing global research landscape is
reshaping the scientific enterprise. He has spoken on these and other topics at a variety of
national and international conferences. Before joining Elsevier, he was the director of research
strategy and director of research administration at Columbia University. He also worked as
director of sponsored programs administration at New York University School of Medicine and
in a variety of administrative and clinical positions at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New
York. He has a Master of Business Administration in finance and international business from
Stern School of Business at New York University
Shri Vijaysekhar Reddy
Elsevier, New Delhi
Shri Vijay Reddy is Solution Manager at Elsevier India, Gurgaon, since 2014. He is driving
client engagements across South Asia for Elsevier’s suite of solutions, provides information and
analytics. Vijay Reddy is helping governments, universities and corporates to evaluate and
improve their research strategies, advance healthcare and improve performance. Holds a degree
in engineering and a Master of Business Administration. Started career with APTECH limited, a
global education and training company there by contributed to IT/ITES revolution in India. He
then went on to work for Intense Technologies, setting up new businesses for the software
products that are designed for digital business transformation. Primarily for Telecom &
Insurance market segments, Vijay handled South India market and helped improving business
processes for some of the leading players in telecom, BFSI, & other sectors like Bharti Airtel,
Idea Cellular, GE Money & many more. After making a conscious decision to work in a field
that allowed him to “add value” to society, Vijay joined NIIT Ltd. as Regional Sales Head
(South) and successfully helped to turn the business around and provide Managed Training
Services (MTS), which include custom curriculum design and content development, strategic
sourcing, learning technology and advisory services to corporations, government, and
institutions. He later worked as Zonal Head for Trimentus technologies (Start-up), Core
Technologies, GS1 India (Global standards body) set-up by Ministry of Commerce, Government
of India.
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