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.

Ojaswa Sharma is an associate professor at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi. He completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark, Denmark. He has more than four years of experience with corporate R&D. His research spans various aspects of Computer Graphics, and Computational Geometry. In particular his work focuses on Geometry creation and reconstruction, Virtual/Augmented Reality (AR/VR), Volume rendering, and high performance computing on GPU. He leads the Graphics Research Group (GRG) at IIIT-Delhi.

Nishad received his PhD in philosophy from The New School for Social Research (NSSR), New York, U.S.A in 2013. He holds a M.A. in philosophy from NSSR, as well as a M.A. and M.Phil. in philosophy from Delhi University. His dissertation entitled, “Time, Space and Finitude; Kant and Husserl on the Question of Transcendental Logic” received the ‘Alfred Schutz Memorial Award in Philosophy and Sociology’.

Mukulika Maity is an associate professor at the computer science department of IIIT- Delhi. She received her M.Tech. + Ph.D. dual degree from computer science department of IIT Bombay in 2017. Her PhD advisors were Prof. Bhaskaran Raman and Prof. Mythili Vutukuru. She received her B.E. in 2010 in the computer science department of Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur. Her research interests lie in developing networked systems solutions, designing solutions for dense WiFi networks, and developing mobile system solutions.