Dr. Mrinmoy Chakrabarty completed his doctoral training with a fellowship from the Interdisciplinary Program for Biomedical Sciences of the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, earning his Ph.D. with Distinction. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for almost three years in the Dept. of Rehabilitation for Brain Functions at the National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Japan [WHO Collaborating Center], before joining IIIT-Delhi.

Monika Arora defended her Ph.D. thesis in Computational & Applied Mathematics from Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA in May 2018. She did her M.Sc. in Applied Statistics and Informatics (ASI) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India in May 2011. After her M.Sc. she worked for two years as a lead scientist in statistical modeling at a start up incubated by IIT-Bombay. Her current areas of research are count data and statistical modeling.

Mohammad Hashmi attended Prifysgol Caerdydd in Wales for PhD (Electronics Engineering), and Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany for MS (Information and Communication Engineering). He is currently a faculty member of Electronics and Communications Engineering at IIIT Delhi, New Delhi, India. Earlier he held research and engineering positions at the University of Calgary in Canada, Cardiff University in the UK, Philips Technology Center in Nuremberg, and Thales Engineering Design Center in Berlin.

Md. Shad Akhtar completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Patna in 2019. He received his M.Tech from IIT (ISM), Dhanbad in 2014, and BEng from JMI, New Delhi, in 2009. He also has industry experience of more than two years with HCL Technologies Ltd. He has published research papers in various peer-reviewed conferences and journals of international repute. He has also served as the program committee member and reviewer for numerous international conferences and journals.

Manohar Kumar has a PhD in Political Theory from LUISS University Rome and has held Postdoctoral positions at IIT Delhi and GREQAM, Aix Marseille University. He is the co-author with Daniele Santoro of Speaking Truth to Power. A Theory of Whistleblowing . He has also edited a book 'Social Scientists in the Civic Space. Ethical Perspectives on Democratic Involvement(with Arundhati Virmani and Jean Boutier).

Kiriti Kanjilal completed his 5 year Integrated Masters in Economics at the University of Hyderabad in 2013 and defended his Ph.D. in Economics at Washington State University in May 2018. His dissertation was titled Essays in Behavioral Industrial Organization and Natural Resource Economics. His research interests are primarily in the fields of microeconomics, game theory, industrial organization, environmental economics and behavioral economics. He also has experience in conducting economic experiments. He uses Mathematica, Stata and z-Tree for research.

Dr. Jaspreet Kaur Dhanjal received her PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) in 2019. She has then worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Japan. Her research interests have been at the interface of computation, cellular and molecular biology. In particular, she is interested in studying cancer genomics for designing personalized therapeutics. She is also interested in exploring the mechanism of action of bioactive compounds from natural sources.

Jainendra Shukla, the founder, and director of the Human-Machine Interaction[HMI]research group at IIIT-Delhi, holds a distinguished Ph.D. with Industrial Doctorate and International Doctorate distinctions from Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Spain. Earlier, he completed an M.Tech. in I.T. with a specialization in Robotics at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIIT-Allahabad), and a B.E. in I.T. with First Class and Distinction from the University of Mumbai.

Gayatri Nair is Assistant Professor of Sociology, at the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India. Her research interests lie in urban informal labour with an emphasis on the question of caste, gender and technology. With a focus on political economy, she has published work that interrogates the role of caste and gender in shaping ‘traditional’ livelihoods and new forms of work specifically platform-based gig work; also detailing how workers organise.