Achuthsankar S. Nair Hon. Director Centre for Bioinformatics University of Kerala, Kariyavattom Campus,Thiruvananthapuram Keralam - 695581, India

Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair heads the State Inter University Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, University of Kerala.  He had his BTech (Electrical Engineering) from College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram and MTech (Electrical Engineering) from IIT Bombay. He also holds an M.Phil in Computer Speech and Language Processing from the Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK and PhD from University of Kerala.

Since 1987, he has taught in various Engineering Colleges, Universities and Institutes both within India and abroad. During 2001 – 2004 he served as Director of Centre for Development of Imaging Technology, C-DIT, an autonomous techno-creative centre of Govt. of Kerala. In 2006 he was a Visiting Professor in University of Korea, Seoul.

He has authored 10 popular-science books on IT in Malayalam, including one on the internet in 1996 and one on Free software in 2002. His latest books are 'ഗൂഗോളവല്‍ക്കരണം' (2009) and Data Structures using C publisheds by Printice Hall in 2009. He has also authored a science fiction novel for children, titled 'ഇടിച്ചക്കപ്ലാമ്മൂടിലെ രാജകുമാരി തന്ത്രം പഠിച്ചതെങ്ങിനെ?'

His current research interests include use of digital signal processing (DSP) in bio-sequence analysis. 10 Candidates have taken PhD under his supervision and he is currently guiding 11 full-time researchers. He has a modest number of research publications in International & Indian Journals. One of his contributions on electro-mechanical model for the Transistor is cited in the classic text book: Hughes's Electrical Technology (7th Edition) published by Orient Longman, UK.

Carnatic classical music tops his hobby list, followed by local history of Thiruvananthapuram in early 19th century. He has published on both the areas. During his tenure as Director, C-DIT, he had led the establishment of the music-rich web site [http://www.swathithirunal.in]. He has widely traveled and given talks in hundreds of venues including Universities, a very large number of colleges in Keralam, University of Madras, Indore University, Bharathi Dasan University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, National University of Juridical Sciences, Culcutta and the Madras Music Academy.

He is recipient of Young Scientist Award of Govt. of Kerala (1991), Cambridge Barclay Scholarship (1991), ISTE National Award for Young Engineering Teachers (1994). He is a member of Computer Society of India, IEEE, Indian Society for Technical Education, and International Society for Computational Biology. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of State Higher Education Council of Govt. of Kerala.

He is passionate about teaching and has been lucky to be mentored by great teachers including his own father Dr. A. Sukumaran Nair and his professor Dr. K.P.P. Pillai and Dr. R.P.R. Nair. One of his current projects is to develop a massive website Gurusmarana to archive the life and thoughts of past teachers.

Dr. S. K. Sinha CEDT, IISc, Bangalore

Prof. Sinha did his BE in Electrical Engineering from Bihar College of Engineering, Patna (now NIT, Bihar) in 1967 and joined the Indian Railways. However, his heart was in academics and he came to the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 1977 where he did ME in Electrical Engineering and then was offered a research position leading to PhD. His research was in the area of Chopper Drive for Traction systems.

On completion of his doctoral program, Prof. Sinha was offered a faculty position in the Department of Electrical engineering at IISc where he worked till 1995. He set up a new Parallel Computing Lab in the EE department and most of his research efforts were directed towards applying the parallel and distributed computing techniques for industrial drive applications. He then moved over to the Centre for Electronics Design and Technology (CEDT) at IISc where he set up an Embedded Systems Laboratory. The Lab has now matured into a leading training and development centre in the area of embedded computing.

He has held various administrative positions at IISc, the most significant being his 4-year stint as the Associate Chairman and then another 4 years as the Chairman of the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Consultancy, which is the primary window of IISc to the outside world. His current research interests are in the broad area of embedded systems. However, most of his efforts are directed towards product development and not into pure research.

Prof. Govindan Rangarajan

Prof. Govindan Rangarajan obtained his PhD from University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He then worked at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, University of California, Berkeley before returning to India in 1992. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics and chaos, time series analysis and brain machine interface. He is a J. C. Bose National Fellow. He is also a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India. He was knighted by the Government of France: Knight (Chevalier) of the Order of Palms. He was also a Homi Bhabha Fellow.

Professor. S. Sundar Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) Chennai 600 036, INDIA

Area of research : Numerics for PDEs, Mathematical Modeling & Numerical Simulation

K. P. Ray

K. P. Ray obtained M. Tech degree in Microwave Electronics from University of Delhi, South Campus and Ph.D. degree from I.I.T., Bombay. He joined SAMEER (TIFR), Mumbai and has been working on the design of different types of antenna elements and arrays, high power generation of RF and Microwaves, Industrial Microwave Systems, Atmospheric Radar/Instrumentations, RFID, etc. Currently, he is heading the RF and Microwave System (RFMS) Division in SAMEER. He is/ has been a visiting/adjunct/guest faculty in IIT, Bombay Mombai University and CSIR for post graduate courses. He has published more than 185 research papers in national/ international journals and conferences and co-authored a book entitled, "Broadband Microstrip Antennas" for Artech House, USA. He has two international patents and filed five national patents. He has been UNDP, Fellow. He is a reviewer of IEEE MTT, IET, RFCAE (John Wiley), International Journal of antennas and Propagation (USA), PIERS (USA), International Journal of electronics (USA) and many international conferences. He is a senior member of IEEE (USA), a fellow IETE, and life member of Instrument society of India and Engineers of EMI/EMC society of India.
Email: kpray@rediffmail.com

Florian Schatz Department of Computer Science, Christian-Albrechts-University Germany

Florian Schatz is at Department of Computer Science, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany with focus in algorithms for cloud computing in bioinformatics. He has many publications during his Phd. study at international conferences and journals. He has completed Masters degree in Computer Science with the topic "Motive search in DNA sequences. It was awarded for best masters degree in computer science. He has also secured award for programming skills in university contest.
Area of talk: Green computing for high performance algorithms: Approaches with the cloud and FPGAs.

Dr. Rakesh Kumar Bajaj Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Waknaghat, INDIA.

Brief Profile:
• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Waknaghat, INDIA.
• More than 9 Years of Teaching Experience at JUIT, Waknaghat.
• 7 Years of Research Experience in the field of Fuzzy Mathematics.
• Member of the Editorial Board in American Journal of Mathematics and Sciences.
• Life Member of Indian Society of Technical Education(ISTE), Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) and Indian Mathematical Society (IMS).
Area of Talk: Fuzzy Information Theory, Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and their Applications.