Nabanita Ray is a PhD degree holder from The Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai in 2020. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow in TIFR, Mumbai and CMI. Her general research interest is in Algebraic Geometry. She has published several research papers in national and international journals.

Kalpana Shankhwar holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University (2022). She has completed her Masters in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Guwahati (2015) and Bachelor of Engineering also in Mechanical Engineering from Shri G. S. Institute of Technology and Science, Indore (2012). Her research focuses on fundamental and industrial applications of extended reality (XR) and haptic technologies in manual milling operations and welding systems. She has published her work in eight reputed international peer-reviewed SCI journals.

Supratim specializes in scaling machine learning and deep learning models using data/model summarization (aka coresets). He earned his PhD from IIT Gandhinagar and previously served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science, Technion, and the Robotics & Big Data Labs at Haifa University in Israel. His research interests lie in randomized algorithms and the theory and practice of ML/DL models, with a keen focus on solving real-world problems. His current projects are supported by the ANRF under the Ramanujan Fellowship and PMECRG.

Deepak Prince is an anthropologist with an interest in the sociality of technology (specifically, screen-based computational technologies) and in practices of imagination. Other interests include political anthropology, violence and public art. Deepak was founding sociology faculty at GITAM, Hyderabad. He has also taught at Shiv Nadar University and at IIT Jodhpur. He has an MA in economics from the Delhi School of Economics and a PhD in Sociology (Anthropology) from Shiv Nadar. He is on the editorial board of the STS journal, Tecnoscienza, and reviews for Wenner-Gren.

Soibam Haripriya completed her Ph.D from the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics. She was a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellow at the South Asia Institute, University of Texas at Austin (2022-2023). She was also the FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent University, Belgium and a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Shimla.

J.V. Meenakshi is an agricultural economist.

Dr. Anmol Srivastava is an Assistant Professor in the Human-Centered Design (HCD) department at IIIT-Delhi. He received his PhD in 2019 from IIT Guwahati. He specializes in Human-Computer Interaction with emphasis on emerging technologies, exploring AR/VR, the Metaverse, and Tangible User Interfaces to enhance user experience across various applications. Prior to joining IIIT-Delhi, he directed the UX & Interaction Design Program and XR & IxD Lab at UPES Dehradun's School of Design.

Dr. Manuj Mukherjee received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science in 2017. Following his PhD, he did a couple of stints as a postdoc, at Telecom Paris, France, and at Bar Ilan University, Israel. He has regularly published in top tier journals and conferences of IEEE Information Theory Society. He is the recipient of the Seshagiri Kaikini Medal from the Electrical Communication Engineering department of the Indian Institute of Science for the best PhD thesis in the year 2017-2018. His research interests include the broad neighborhood of information theory in general.

Tarini Shankar Ghosh is a computational biologist focusing on human microbiome research. He received his B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, his M.Tech from IIT Kanpur and his Ph.D from the University of Hyderabad (while working at the TCS Innovation Labs of Tata Consultancy Services Ltd). After completing his PhD, he first worked at the Genome Institute of Singapore (as a post-doctoral researcher) and at the APC Microbiome Ireland at Cork as a senior post-doctoral scientist.