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.

Dhruv Kumar is a PhD in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. He did his post-doc from Microsoft Research. His research is centered around building large scale systems for distributed analytics. His work has been published in venues such as ACM SIGMETRICS, ACM/IEEE SEC, USENIX HotEdge, ACM EdgeSys. Dhruv has been a recipient of 3M Science and Technology fellowship. During his PhD, he has also interned with Google Cloud, California. He graduated from BITS, Pilani in 2014 with a bachelors in Computer Science.

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.

Dr. N. Arul Murugan, is a Ph.D. from Solid State and Structural Chemistry unit at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India). He was awarded a Ph.D.

Dr. Diptapriyo Majumdar obtained his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Computer Science from The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, India in October 2018. He has spent 2 years 11 months at Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom as a postdoctoral researcher. He did his B.Tech. in CSE from West Bengal University of Technology and M.Tech in Computer Science from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. His research area is primarily in the field of algorithms. He has largely worked in fixed-parameter algorithms for graph theoretic problems.