Dr. Ram Krishna Ghosh obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2013. He has experience in computational nanoelectronics, particularly in the area of 'materials-devices co-design' of next-generation CMOS and beyond CMOS computing. He has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Notre Dame, USA. He has been a DST Inspire Faculty at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, before joining IIIT-Delhi. He is the recipient of the Best Ph.D.

Rajiv Ratn Shah received his Ph.D. in computer science from the National University of Singapore, Singapore. Prior completing his Ph.D., he received his M.Tech. and MCA degrees in computer applications from the Delhi Technological University, Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, respectively. He has also received his BSc in Mathematics (Honors) from the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

My primary area of research is algorithms. I am interested in the design and analysis of algorithms for problems in various domains such as scheduling, resource allocation, graph colouring and geometry. I also have an interest in the development of efficient practical heuristics for real-life problems. I obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Iowa in 2007. Since then, I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck institute for informatics in Germany, and at the centre for Discrete Mathematics and Applications at the University of Warwick.

Rahul Purandare is an Associate Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIITD). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Before starting his Ph.D., he worked in software industry for 10 years in various capacities such as a software engineer, a project leader, and a senior consultant.

Pushpendra Singh is a Professor at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIITD), New Delhi. He completed his Ph.D. in 2004 from Inria-Rennes, France in the area of mobile computing. He worked at Portsmouth University, Newcastle University, and Inria-Rocquencourt before IIITD. His primary research interest areas are mobile systems and applications, middleware, and ICT for Development. His work has been successfully transferred to Industry in the past leading to creation of start-ups and new products. His research is funded by DEiTY, ITRA, DST, DRDO, CEFIPRA etc.

I was born in Raigarh, India and received my B.Tech from IIT Bombay in 2002 and MS from McMaster University in the year 2004. I have also worked at the Ikanos Communications while pursuing my Ph.D. at the IIT Delhi till early 2012. In the later 2012, I was a post- doctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis with Prof. Tom Luo. I have won the INSPIRE Faculty award by the Govt. of India in 2012 and am currently an INSPIRE faculty at the IIIT Delhi.

Dr. Praveen Priyadarshi completed his Ph.D. in Development Studies from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London. His academic interest lies at the intersections of the categories of space, institutions and policy especially in the urban context. He brings these categories to bear upon his understanding of contemporary politics in India and the Global South. Before joining us, Praveen has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Zakir Husain Delhi College, Evening, University of Delhi (DU).

Paro received her Ph.D. from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2017. Her core research interests lie at the intersection of Gender and Technology – New Reproductive Technologies (NRTs) and Information/ Digital Technologies, in particular. She has published on intimate migrations, masculinity, aging, care circulation, care work and gendered surveillance.

Piyus Kedia is an assistant professor at IIIT Delhi. He received his Ph.D. from IIT Delhi. He works in the area of programming languages and systems security. His research work appeared at conferences ISSTA, OOPSLA, EuroSys, etc.

Pankaj Jalote is currently a Distinguished Professor (CSE). He was the founding Director of IIIT-Delhi from 2008-2018. Earlier, he has also been an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland College Park, Professor and Head of Computer Science Department at IIT Kanpur, and Chair Professor at IIT Delhi, . He has also been Vice President at Infosys for 2 years, Visiting Researcher at Microsoft in Redmond for 1 year, and Interim Vice Chancellor of Delhi Technological University (DTU) for six months. He has a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur, MS from Pennsylvania State University, and Ph.D.