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 seven reputed international peer-reviewed SCI journals.

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.

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 was, until recently, a Professor at the Dept.

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.

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.

Dr. Chanekar Prasad Vilas received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Computing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India and an AMIE degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Institution of Engineers, India. He then obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and the University of Maryland, College Park, USA respectively. He was a Post-Doctoral researcher in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, USA.