MINRO - Key Persons


Dr Sachit Rao

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
Dr Sachit Rao obtained his Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University. His specialization is in the area of Control Systems and Theory with an emphasis on Sliding Mode Control.

Dr. Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Assistant Professor at IIIT Bangalore
Dr. Dinesh Babu Jayagopi is an Assistant Professor at IIIT Bangalore since Dec 2013, where he heads the Multimodal Perception Lab.

Dr. E.V. Ramana Reddy

Job Titles:
  • Chairman - Additional Chief Secretary, Dept. of IT, BT and S & T, GOK / Dr. E.V.
Dr. E.V. Ramana Reddy is an Indian Administrative Service Officer of 1988 batch. He is one of the senior most bureaucrats in Karnataka and has been instrumental in establishing the leading position of Karnataka as an economic and technology hub of India.

Dr. Eswaran Subrahmanian

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor at the ICES

Dr. V. Ramasubramanian

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Ramasubramanian obtained his B.S. degree from the University of Madras in 1981, B.E. degree from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1984 and the Ph.D. degree from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Bombay in 1992.

Edwin Sibley Webster

Job Titles:
  • Edwin Sibley Webster Professor, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT

G. Srinivasaraghavan

Job Titles:
  • Partner at Performance Engineering Associates
  • Professor
G. Srinivasaraghavan, PhD is a Partner at Performance Engineering Associates. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and has over 18 years of industry experience.

Jaya Sreevalsan Nair

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
Professor Nair obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Davis; after a B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT-Madras and an M.S. in Computational Engineering from Mississippi State University.

Jyotsna Bapat

Job Titles:
  • Professor Bapat Received Her Ph.D. from Penn State University. Her Thesis Was in the Area of Semi - Blind Equalization Applied to Communication Systems
Professor Bapat received her Ph.D. from Penn State University. Her thesis was in the area of semi-blind equalization applied to communication systems.

Madhav Rao

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
Madhav Rao received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama, Master of Science in Microelectronics from University of Arkansas.

Manohar Swaminathan

Job Titles:
  • Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India
  • Principal Researcher at MSR India
Manohar Swaminathan (aka Swami Manohar) is currently a principal researcher at MSR India, where his research interests are in assistive technologies, virtual and augmented environments and their impact in emerging markets.

Naresh Shah

Job Titles:
  • President, India R & D at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Naresh has been in the technology industry for 3 decades. He served as President of India R&D for Hewlett Packard Enterprise from 2011 to 2019. Before HPE, Naresh worked at Novell for 4 years as Managing Director of Novell's India Development Center and 20 years at AT&T.

Neelam Sinha

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
Neelam received her PhD from IISc, Bangalore. Her thesis was on strategies for rapid MR imaging. Her previous stints include MILE Lab, IISc and MR Imaging group at GE Healthcare, Bangalore.

Prof. AnnaLee Saxenian

Job Titles:
  • Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
AnnaLee (Anno) Saxenian is a professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarship focuses on regional economies and the conditions under which people, ideas, and geographies combine and connect into hubs of economic activity.

Prof. Chandrashekar Ramanathan

Job Titles:
  • Member at IIITB
Professor Chandrashekar Ramanathan is a faculty member at IIITB since 2007. His primary focus area is data science, software engineering and application development. Professor Chandrashekar received his Ph.D degree from Mississippi State University. His thesis was in the area of object-oriented databases. He has extensive application software development experience spanning over 10 years in large multinational organizations. His current focus is in the area of information convergence and software engineering. Technology for education, Application architectures, enterprise architecture and content management are his other areas of interest.

Prof. Debabrata Das

Job Titles:
  • Director of IIIT Bangalore
  • Director, IIITB
Prof. Debabrata Das is serving as Director of IIIT Bangalore (IIITB). Before joining IIITB, he had served at G S Sanyal School of Telecommunication at IIT Kharagpur and later at Kirana Networks in New Jersey, USA. He is PI and nodal officer of project under National Mission for Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems in the areas of Advanced Communication System, from DST, Govt of India.

Prof. Eshwaran Subrahmanian

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor at the ICES and EPP at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Dr. Eswaran Subrahmanian is a Research Professor at the ICES and EPP at Carnegie Mellon University. He was the Chief Scientist at the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (India, 2008- 2011) and has held visiting professorships at the Faculty of Technology and Policy Management at TU-Delft (Netherlands), the University of Lyon II; and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Prof. Krithi Ramamritham

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Computer Science, IIT - Mumbai
Prof. Krithi has made several landmark contributions towards research, teaching and service in the field of Computer Science and Engineering in general and real-time systems and database systems.

Prof. Rahul De

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Information System, IIM - Bangalore
Professor Rahul De' teaches Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence at IIM Bangalore. His research interests are in ICT for development, open source, e-Government systems, digital payments, internet governance and telemedicine.

Prof. Yadati Narahari

Job Titles:
  • Professor at the Department of Computer Science
  • Professor, Computer Science, IISc, Bangalore
Y. Narahari is currently a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He is also the chairing the Division of EECS (Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Sciences) at IISc.

Rajeev Rashtogi

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Machine Learning at Amazon
Rajeev Rastogi is the Vice President of Machine Learning at Amazon India. Previously, he was Vice President of Yahoo! Labs Bangalore and the founding Director of the Bell Labs Research Center in Bangalore, India. Rajeev is an ACM Fellow and a Bell Labs Fellow.

Rajeev Rastogi

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Machine Learning at Amazon India

Srinath Srinivasa

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Srinath Srinivasa heads the Web Science lab and is the Dean (R&D) at IIIT Bangalore, India.

Srini Devadas

Job Titles:
  • Professor of EECS at MIT
Srini Devadas is the Webster Professor of EECS at MIT where he has been on the faculty since 1988. His current research interests are in computer security, computer architecture and applied cryptography. Devadas received the 2015 ACM/IEEE Richard Newton award, the 2017 IEEE W. Wallace McDowell award and the 2018 IEEE Charles A. Desoer award for his research in secure hardware.

Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti has a Ph.D. from the department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Vivek Yadav

Job Titles:
  • Research Consultant
Vivek Yadav is Adjunct Faculty at IIIT Bangalore since August 2017. He is co-founder of FullStackNet and distinguished alumnus of Government Engineering College - Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, MP. His area of interest is in the field High Performance Systems, Big Data, Data Stream, Algorithm and Data Structure.