Gaurav Arora received his Ph.D. in Economics at Iowa State University in January, 2017. As part of his Ph.D. dissertation work, he combined applied economics models with remote sensing tools to study the impacts of local infrastructure, climate change and conservation policy on regional land use changes for Agroecosystems. He also designed and implemented a satellite image-processing algorithm to characterize land use change using historical Landsat sensor data. He was awarded James R. Prescott scholarship in 2016 for outstanding creativity in research, and Earl O.

Gaurav Ahuja graduated summa cum laude from the University of Cologne, Germany with Ph.D. in Natural Sciences. He is a molecular biologist by training and possesses a vast experience in functional genomics, especially in dissecting complex biological mechanisms using genome-editing and next generation sequencing-based techniques. After the completion of his Ph.D. degree, he worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow at several renowned institutes, including Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Max Planck Institute for Ageing and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore.

Ganesh Bagler is a computational researcher trained in physics, computer science, and computational biology. Prof. Bagler is well-known for his pioneering research in ‘Computational Gastronomy.’ By building keystone data repositories, algorithms, and applications, he has established the foundations of this emerging data science that blends food with artificial intelligence. Trailblazing research from his lab has significantly contributed to this niche area that deals with food, flavors, nutrition, and public health.

Prof. G. P. S. Raghava received his M.Tech. from IIT Delhi and his Ph.D. from CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh. He served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK, as a Bioinformatics Specialist at UAMS, USA, and as a Visiting Professor at POSTECH, South Korea. He worked as a Scientist at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, for nearly three decades (1986–2016). Prof. Raghava is a champion of open source software and open access, all the resources develoed at his group are free for the scientific community.

Dr. Debika Banerjee obtained Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad in 2017 and M.Sc. in Mathematics from IIT Kanpur in 2011. Prior to joining IIIT-Delhi, she was a National Post Doctoral Fellow (NPDF) at IISER Pune from 2017 to 2019. She worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow at Technion, Israel from 2016 to 2017.

Debarka is an Professor of Computational Biology and Computer Science at IIIT-Delhi. He is also an honorary Associate Professor at the Queensland University of Technology-Brisbane. Debarka carried out his doctoral and post-doctoral research in the Machine Intelligence Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute and Genome Institute of Singapore, respectively. His group has been among the first to introduce big data algorithms in the field of single-cell genomics. He received INSPIRE faculty Award in 2015 by the Government of India.

Debajyoti Bera is currently an Associate Professor in IIIT-Delhi. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science from Boston University in 2010, and B.Tech. in Computer Sc. and Engg. from IIT-Kanpur in 2002. He is currently involved in active research on topics in quantum computing and theoretical computer science. and B.Tech. projects.

Before joining IIIT-Delhi, Dr. Chatterjee worked as an ISTPlus Postdoc Fellow at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria for two and a half years. Prior to that, he worked as a Researcher with IBM India Research Lab for two years post his doctoral studies. Dr. Chatterjee obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden in January 2018. His current research interests are Distributed Machine Learning, Concurrent Data Structures, Neural Architecture Search, and Learned Index Structures.

Ashish Pandey obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA in April 2018. He completed his Integrated M.Sc. in Mathematics from National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India in May 2012. His primary area of research is Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). He tries to understand existence, well-posedness, stability or instability of solutions of nonlinear PDEs arising as physical models. He uses tools from Harmonic analysis and Operator theory.