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Distinguished Speakers

Aparna Taneja

Dr. Aparna Taneja

Senior Research Scientist

Google DeepMind

Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind India. She leads research in artificial intelligence for social impact, developing restless multi-armed bandits and predictive machine learning models to improve maternal and public health.

Dr. Arijit Patra

Dr. Arijit Patra

Senior Principal Scientist

UCB Pharma

Senior Principal Scientist at UCB Pharma and Rhodes Scholar from Oxford. He focuses on artificial intelligence for biomedical imaging, non-clinical drug safety workflows, and machine learning pipelines that accelerate therapeutic discovery.

Prof. Ashutosh Modi

Prof. Ashutosh Modi

Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

IIT Kanpur

Associate Professor of Computer Science at IIT Kanpur. He specializes in natural language processing, affective computing, multimodal dialogue systems, and legal AI, developing models for machine comprehension and emotion recognition.

Dr. Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

Dr. Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

Principal Scientist

Adobe Research, India

Principal Scientist at Adobe Research India specializing in multimodal artificial intelligence, generative models, and computer vision. His work advances text-to-image synthesis, automated layout generation, and AI-assisted creative workflows.

Dr. Deepak N. Subramani

Dr. Deepak N. Subramani

Associate Professor, Computational and Data Sciences

IISc Bangalore

Associate Professor at IISc Bangalore and MIT alumnus leading the QUEST Lab. His research focuses on physics-informed machine learning, autonomous robotic navigation, ocean forecasting, and Bayesian uncertainty quantification.

Dinesh Raghu

Dr. Dinesh Raghu

Senior Researcher

IBM Research , India

Senior Researcher and Manager in Agentic AI at IBM Research India. He leads research on autonomous agents, function calling in IBM Granite foundation models, multi-turn reasoning, and task-oriented conversational workflows.

Prof. Karthik Raman

Prof. Karthik Raman

Professor, Data Science and AI, and Biotechnology

IIT Madras

Professor at IIT Madras across Data Science and Biotechnology, and coordinator of IBSE. His research integrates computational systems biology, metabolic modeling, and biological network analysis to investigate complex disease mechanisms.

Prof. Manik Varma

Prof. Manik Varma

Technical Fellow & Corporate Vice President

Microsoft Research India

Technical Fellow at Microsoft Research India and Adjunct Professor at IIT Delhi. He pioneered extreme multi-label classification, developing scalable machine learning algorithms widely deployed in global web search and recommendation systems.

Dr. Nanda Kishore Kambhatla

Dr. Nanda Kishore Kambhatla

Head of Adobe Research Lab

Adobe Research, India

Heads Adobe Research India, driving research in natural language processing, conversational AI, and content intelligence. He previously led machine learning and dialogue systems initiatives at IBM Research for IBM Watson.

Nitendra Rajput

Dr. Nitendra Rajput

Senior Vice President & Head

Mastercard AI Garage

Vice President and Head of the AI Garage at Mastercard, and ACM Distinguished Scientist. He directs global AI research and deployment in financial security, fraud prevention, risk mitigation, and emerging agentic commerce.

Dr. Nitish Naik

Prof. Nitish Naik

Professor of Cardiology

AIIMS, New Delhi

Professor of Cardiology at AIIMS, New Delhi, and Padma Shri recipient. His work encompasses interventional cardiology, cardiovascular diagnostics, and the rigorous, clinically validated translation of artificial intelligence technologies into patient care.

Dr. Prashant Warier

Dr. Prashant Warier

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Qure.ai

Co-Founder and CEO of Qure.ai and an IIT Delhi alumnus. He develops deep learning diagnostic algorithms for medical imaging, deploying automated screening solutions for tuberculosis, stroke, and lung cancer across over 100 countries.

Prof. Raghunathan Rengaswamy

Prof. Raghunathan Rengaswamy

Professor, Data Science and AI, and Chemical Engineering

IIT Madras

Marti Mannariah Gurunath Chair Professor at IIT Madras. His research focuses on process systems engineering, fault detection and diagnosis, reinforcement learning, and combining first-principles physical models with data-driven analytics.

Srikanth Ramakrishnan

Srikanth Ramakrishnan

Head, Commercial Data Science & AI

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

AI and data science leader who has driven enterprise AI transformation across Medical Safety, Discovery, Clinical Operations, Regulatory, and now Pharma Commercial functions. Currently leading Agentic AI platform initiatives to reshape how life sciences organizations work and deliver value to patients.

Prof. Surya Ganguli

Prof. Surya Ganguli

Associate Professor of Applied Physics

Stanford University

Bridges theoretical physics, neuroscience, and machine learning at Stanford. His research investigates the mathematical foundations of deep neural networks, neural dynamics, and scaling laws to understand biological and artificial intelligence.

Vaibhav Ranjan

Dr. Vaibhav Ranjan

Senior Research Scientist

Google DeepMind

Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and former Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on machine learning, algorithm design, and artificial intelligence for healthcare and biomedical discovery.