2^nd INAE Youth Conclave 2018

B.N. Suresh

Guest of Honor

Chancellor, President, INAE

Mr. Byrana Nagappa Suresh is an Indian aerospace scientist. He is presently the Chancellor, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) at Thiruvanthapuram and President of INAE at Delhi. He is also an Honorary Distinguished Professor at ISRO HQ. He served as the Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram during the period 2003–2007, and is widely known for his contribution to the development of Indian launch vehicles, Space Capsule Recovery Experiments (SRE).

Partha Pratim Chakrabarti

Director, IIT Kharagpur

Dr. Partha Pratim Chakrabarti is an Indian computer scientist. He is a distinguished professor and the present director of IIT Kharagpur. Dr. Chakrabarti has made pioneering research contributions and has solved a number of open problems. His work has been incorporated in standard text books as well as industry level tools of major international companies. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences and supervised two dozen PhD students. He is also an honorary awardee of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, for the engineering category in 2000.

Purnendu Ghosh

Vice President, INAE

Professor Purnendu Ghosh is the Executive Director of Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur. He has been a professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and also worked as a Visiting Scientist at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland; University of Melbourne, Australia; and National Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF), Braunschweig, Germany. Presently, he is the Vice-President of INAE.

Anil Sahasrabudhe

Chief Guest

Chairman, AICTE, New Delhi

Dr. Anil Sahasrabuddhe is the present chairman of All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE). He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and has served as the Director for College of Engineering, Pune (COEP). He is the recipient of multiple awards and fellowships, including the Maha-Intrapreneur Award from Praj Industries in 2011 and the Edupreneur Award from Engineering Watch in 2013.

Brig. Minocha

Executive Director, INAE

Brigadier Rajan Minocha is the present executive director of INAE. He has overseen the maintenance of Aviation Assets of the Indian Army. He was also involved in planning and establishing the maintenance network for all Aviation assets held by the Indian Army.

Tapan Misra

Ex-Director, SAC

Tapan Misra is an Indian scientist who was the director of Space Applications Centre at the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO). He received Vikram Sarabhai Research Award in 2004 and ISRO Merit award in 2008 for his contribution of development of SAR technology. He holds two granted patents, six pending patents, five copyrights and more than twenty five papers to his credit.

V. Ramgopal Rao

Director , IIT Delhi

V. Ramgopal Rao is the director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He was a P.K.Kelkar Chair Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and the first elected chairman for the Indian Section of the American Nano Society. He has has more than 430 publications in various journals, and 40 patents in the areas of Electron devices and Nanoelectronics. He is also the recipient of multiple prizes including the Swarnajayanti Fellowship in 2004, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2005, Infosys Prize in 2013 ro name a few.

Session Chair : Dr. Sirshendu De

IIT Kharagpur

Dr. Sirshendu De is an Indian engineering scientist, and a professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur. He has won almost every award in the field of Chemical Engineering from Amar Dye Chem award (in 2000) to Herdillia Award (in 2010). He has also won INAE Young Engineer award (2001),Young Engineer award in Department Of Science and Technology (2001), Department of Atomic Energy- SRC Outstanding Investigator award (2012) and Silver Jubilee Young Engineer award (2012) from INAE, New Delhi.

Subhasis Chaudhuri

IIT Bombay

Subhasis Chaudhuri is an electrical engineer and a K. N. Bajaj Chair Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is known for his pioneering studies on Computer vision and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. the National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Science Academy. He received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2004 from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India, for his contribution to Engineering Sciences.

Prof. Rintu Banerjee

IISER, Kolkata

Rintu Banerjee is a professor of the Agriculturl and Food Engineering department of IIT Kharagpur. She is also a fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) since 2006. She has several honours and awards to her name,like the JSPS visiting Scientist award (in 2001), the Woman Scientist Award of the Biotech Research Society of India (2003), and the Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award in 2013 for outstanding contributions in the field of Natural Resource Management and Agricultural Engineering from ICAR, New Delhi.

Prof. Soumitro Banerjee

IISER, Kolkata

Soumitro Banerjee is an Indian electrical engineer and a professor at the Department of Physical Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. He is known for his studies on bifurcation phenomena in power electronic circuits and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. the National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Science Academy.The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2003.

Ajoy Kumar Ray

IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Ajoy Kumar Ray is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of IIT Kharagpur. He is a fellow of IETE, Institution of Engineers and IEEE (USA). He is known for his research works in Medical Imaging and Biomedical Signal Processing, and has 6 publications to his name. He has also served as the Director of IIEST, Shibpur.

V. Ramgopal Rao

Director , IIT Delhi

V. Ramgopal Rao is the director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He was a P.K.Kelkar Chair Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and the first elected chairman for the Indian Section of the American Nano Society. He has has more than 430 publications in various journals, and 40 patents in the areas of Electron devices and Nanoelectronics. He is also the recipient of multiple prizes including the Swarnajayanti Fellowship in 2004, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2005, Infosys Prize in 2013 ro name a few.

Moderator : A.K. Bhowmick

IIT Kharagpur

Anil Kumar Bhowmick is a professor in the Rubber Technology Centre of IIT Kharagpur. He has performed extensive research work in the fields of polymer, nanomaterials and rubber technology. He is a fellow of National Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Science Academy, and the Indian Rubber Institute. He has over 150 publications to his name, and has received several honours like the Stanton-Redcroft-Itas Award by the Indian Thermal Analysis Society (1989), the K. M. Philip Gold Medal Award by All India Rubber Industry (2001) and the Commonwealth Award by the Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK (1990).

Pushkar Singh

Letstransport, Bangalore

Pushkar Singh is the co-founder and CEO of LetsTransport, a “Last mile” logistics solution provider operating out of Bangalore. An alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, Pushkar has already featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of Asia. His startup provides intra-city logistics solutions for everyday errands like shifting houses, buying furnitures, electronics, etc., and aims to make the logistics sector shift from relying on manual driven processes to being more technology based.

Arindam Bhattacharya

Technocratz

Arindam Bhattacharya is the Founder and CEO of TechnoCratz, a business solutions and healthcare services provider, and the only company in Eastern India that develops software for radiology and imaging. An Electronics and Telecom Engineer, Arindam graduated from the University of Kalyani, West Bengal. His expertise includes software product development, medical imaging and TeleRadiology. Arindam’s mastermind has helped in the implementation of one of their leading solutions – IntellImage -- an automation software for all scopic procedures, in more than 40 hospitals, diagnostic centers, and other healthcare facilities.

Kallol Mallick

Azure Software

Kallol Mallick is the co-founder and CEO of Azure Software Pvt. Ltd. An alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, Kallol boasts of expertise in Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Graphics. He also specialises in Embedded Systems, Image processing, video compression, device interface and application software development. He has 4 publications to his name, and has over 19 years of experience in storage management and protocol development.

B. Bhowmick

IIT Kharagpur

Bhaskar Bhowmick is an assistant professor in the Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship, IIT Kharagpur. He is a fellow of IIM, Ahmedabad, with research works under Techno-Entrepreneurial Leadership and Firm Environment. He has 26 publications to his name, and is currently working on 4 sponsored projects focusing highly on Technology incubation and management.