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.

Gaurav Arora received his Ph.D. in Economics at Iowa State University in January, 2017. As part of his Ph.D. dissertation work, he combined applied economics models with remote sensing tools to study the impacts of local infrastructure, climate change and conservation policy on regional land use changes for Agroecosystems. He also designed and implemented a satellite image-processing algorithm to characterize land use change using historical Landsat sensor data. He was awarded James R. Prescott scholarship in 2016 for outstanding creativity in research, and Earl O.

Gaurav Ahuja graduated summa cum laude from the University of Cologne, Germany with Ph.D. in Natural Sciences. He is a molecular biologist by training and possesses a vast experience in functional genomics, especially in dissecting complex biological mechanisms using genome-editing and next generation sequencing-based techniques. After the completion of his Ph.D. degree, he worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow at several renowned institutes, including Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Max Planck Institute for Ageing and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore.

Dr. G. P. S. Raghava received his M.Tech from IIT Delhi and PhD from Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh. He worked as Postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University UK (1996-98), Bioinformatics specialist at UAMS, USA (2002-3 & 2006) and visiting professor at POSTECH, South Korea (2004). He worked as scientist for 30 years (1986-2016) in Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh. His group developed more than 250 web servers, 200 research papers, 80 Copyrights/patents, 35 databases and mirror sites.

Dr. Debika Banerjee obtained Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad in 2017 and M.Sc. in Mathematics from IIT Kanpur in 2011. Prior to joining IIIT-Delhi, she was a National Post Doctoral Fellow (NPDF) at IISER Pune from 2017 to 2019. She worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow at Technion, Israel from 2016 to 2017.

Debarka is an Professor of Computational Biology and Computer Science at IIIT-Delhi. He is also an honorary Associate Professor at the Queensland University of Technology-Brisbane. Debarka carried out his doctoral and post-doctoral research in the Machine Intelligence Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute and Genome Institute of Singapore, respectively. His group has been among the first to introduce big data algorithms in the field of single-cell genomics. He received INSPIRE faculty Award in 2015 by the Government of India.

Debajyoti Bera is currently an Associate Professor in IIIT-Delhi. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science from Boston University in 2010, and B.Tech. in Computer Sc. and Engg. from IIT-Kanpur in 2002. He is currently involved in active research on topics in quantum complexity, graph algorithms and privacy issues in online services. His usual areas of research interest spans quantum computing, algorithms, theoretical aspects of security and privacy and algorithmic challenges in other domains like database, networking, etc.