Mr. Gopal Krishna
Mr. Gopal Krishna is currently working as the Managing Director at Maxim India Integrated Circuits Pvt. Ltd at San Francisco Bay Area from August 2006. He worked as the General Manager of AMD IEC at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. as well as that of AMD India Engineering Center during 2004 and 2006. He also has experience as the director at HW Engineering at Realchip communications and also as the director at Real chip Communications Inc. He completed his masters from University of California in 1984 and bachelors from Bangalore University in 1982. His skills and expertise lie in the fields of Semiconductors, ASIC, Analog, Embedded Systems and Mixed Signal.
Dr.Mohan Rajesh Elara
Dr. Mohan Rajesh Elara received his Ph.D and M.S degrees from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2011 and 2005, respectively. Since October 2011, Dr. Rajesh has been a Lecturer in the Engineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. He was a Lecturer in the School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Singapore Polytechnic from October 2006 to October 2011 and Research Associate in the School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University from April 2005 to October 2006. He is a visiting faculty in the School of Science and Technology, Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore Since 2010. His research interests are in reconfigurable robotics, design for robots, and modular mechanisms with emphasis on design as well as research problems related to control, human robot interaction, navigation, and perception. He has published more than 50 papers in journals, books, and conferences. Dr. Rajesh has served in various positions of organizing and technical committees of several international competitions (RoboCup International, Singapore Robotic Games, RoboCup Singapore Open, RoboCon, First Robotics) and conferences (ICIUS, ICICS, ICIEA, ICARA, ISATE).
Dr. Sharath Pankanti
Dr. Sharath Pankanti is at Research Staff Member and Manager with Exploratory Computer Vision Group at IBM T J Watson Research Center. He received a B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engg from College of Engineering Pune in 1984, M.Tech in Computer Science from Hyderabad Central University in 1988 and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Michigan State University in 1995. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has contributed to over 50 inventions related to biometrics, privacy, object detection, and recognition. Dr. Pankanti is an IEEE Fellow. His experience spans a number of safety, productivity, and security focused projects involving biometrics-, multi-sensor surveillance, driver assistance technologies.
Dr. Anubha Gupta
Dr. Anubha Gupta received the B.E. and M.E degrees in electronics and communication engineering from Delhi University (DU) in 1991 and 1997. She received the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, in 2006. She completed a second master’s in higher education leadership and policy studies from the University of Maryland-College Park, USA in 2010.
Dr. Gupta worked with All India Radio as Assistant Director from 1993 until 1999 and as Assistant Professor with Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT), DU from 2000 to 2008. She worked with Bowie State University, Maryland, USA as Director of Assessment from 2010 to 2011. Since July 2011, she is working as Associate Professor in the Signal Processing and Communications Research Center at International Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIIT-H).
Her teaching and research interests include signal processing, wavelet transforms and its applications, and biomedical signal/image processing. She is also interested in higher education policy issues including financing of higher education, access, and retention.
Dr. Gupta is a member of IEEE Signal Processing Society and a life member of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE), India.
Mr. Jayesh
Mr. Jayesh is an expert in this field and is a student trainee under the Career Launcher team. He is also the Business partner of Career Launcher India Ltd and Director, Career Launcher Trivandrum (Kerala).He took his executive MBA from Harvard University in Human Resource and Marketing Management. He has more than 15 years of experience in preparing students for examination for entry in various academic courses both nationally and internationally, at both undergrad and postgrad levels.
He is also the Founder/Partner and CEO of Vertex HR Management Consultants and Career Training Academy and also have 7 years of corporate experience as Mines Manager in companies like Coal India Ltd, English Indian Clays Ltd, Caterpillar Inc.
His work experience include Consultant Empanelled Trainer of Mafoi Management Consultants Ltd, Chennai, TN.He also worked as Assistant Mines Manager for 2 years in English Indian Clays Ltd, a multinational company dealing with mining and processing of china clay and Technical Marketing Manager for 3 years in Grintex Asia Ltd( a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. U.S.A, Carpco, MDL Technologies, Readings of Lismore Pty, Australia), dealing with export, import, erection, installation and commissioning of Heavy Duty Mining Machinery.
He has been training students in more than 30 educational institution like IIT Kanpur, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Kerala, Amrita Viswa vidyapeetam, SRM University, PMC college of Engineering, Hosur, Tamilnadu, Asian Business School, Trivandrum, College of Engineering, Trivandrum and many more.
Mr.Anoop
Mr.Anoop, Systems/Networks Manager in the Amritapuri Campus of Amrita University has 13 years of strong experience in Systems/networking. He has a strong expertise in WAN/LAN technologies, Systems and Network Administration with outstanding troubleshooting abilities. He has also worked as Systems Administrator in Infozech Ltd, Delhi and Network Administrator in CDAC, Trivandrum.
He is highly trained and knowledgeable in computer networking encompassing planning, designing, implementing and maintaining local area networks. He also have a comprehensive background using multiple operating systems such as Windows, Linux and Cisco IOS.
He is a MCA graduate from DOEACC (2002) and has a diploma in Electronics & Avionics (1998). He also has an industrial certification on CISCO, Redhat, Microsoft, Radware, Extreme, Checkpoint, Fortinet.
Mr. Prabaharan
Mr. Prabaharan is an Asst. Professor at Amrita Cyber Security Center. He has 17 years of experience in various areas of Cyber Security including, Network security, Application Security, Cryptography, Reverse engineering, Malware Analysis, Mobile and wireless security etc. His current research focus is on the situational awareness in Cyber Security, Cyber Physical and Social systems security among other areas.
Mr.Srinath Balachandran
Mr. Srinath Balachandran received his Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Madras, India. He finished his M.S and Ph.D., both in electrical engineering specializing in the area of RF-MEMS from the University of South Florida. Upon graduation, Srinath pursued his postdoctoral research at the Center of Nanoscale materials in Argonne National Laboratory. At ANL he was involved in developing MEMS and NEMS switches using thin film ultra-Nanocrystalline diamond (UNCD) for wireless applications. Since 2010, Srinath has been with Innovative Micro Technology where he is involved in developing fully packaged RF-MEMS devices for wireless and phased array applications.
Mr. Sethu Rao
Mr. Sethu Rao is an associate Professor at the Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications, Amrita University since 2012. He received his B Tech in Mechanical engineering and M Tech in Computer science from IIT Madras. He has held engineering management positions at Juniper Networks and Alcatel-Lucent in USA for over 18 years before joining Amrita in 2012.
Mr.Vysakh Pillai
Mr. Vysakh Pillai is an embedded systems R&D professional with 4+ years of experience in design and development of various layers of an embedded system from hardware to Interactive UI. He holds a Masters degree in digital system design and has worked on multiple projects developing high-end solutions for companies like Nokia and VSSC. Currently he is working as an embedded systems engineer at Cisco Video technologies India and is responsible for developing rationalization modules for multi-room STBs
Mr.Arjun Ashok
Mr. Arjun Ashok is Currently working with Intel Technologies India Pvt Ltd as 'Graphics Hardware Engineer' in Structural Verification. Prior to this, He worked with AMD for an year in Functional Verification. He is an MS graduate from Manipal University in the stream VLSI Design.
Light Magic School of Photography
Light Magic School of Photography, the only reliable training center in photography in Kerala, is lead by a group of masters in the field like Madhuraj (Chief Photographer Mathrurbhoomi), Anilkumar (renowned Advertising Photographer), Reji Bhasker (renowned Advertising Photographer), Ajeeb Komachi (renowned Photojournalist), Nandakumar Moodadi (renowned Senior Photographer), Gopan Ampatt (renowned Photographer), Josekutty Panackal (senior Photojournalist, Malayala Manorama), Biju Varghese (senior Photojournalist Mathrubhoomi), Vijayan Maranchery (Chief Editor Phototracks Photography Magazine) Saji Ennakkad (Associate Editor, Fotowide Photography Magazine) and so on…
Amrita Technology Business Incubator
Amrita TBI came into existence in the year 2008 as part of a joint initiative by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University and Department of Science and Technology, India.The mission of Amrita TBI is to nurture innovations, entrepreneurship and enterprises for societal benefit.By providing supportive environments, mentorship and wide reach, Amrita TBI empowers passionate entrepreneurs achieve their dreams.Amrita TBI provides a unique ecosystem for a startup company to turn an idea into a product that is commercially viable. We have a rich and diverse group of mentors from across the globe that will help in various aspects of setting up a successful startup. Mentorship will be provided in many areas such as strategy, finance, marketing, intellectual property, product management, micro-insurance, microfinance, Internet technologies etc.Its main vision is to encourage the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship for creating sustainable business ventures that contribute to the overall welfare of the society
Mr.Shameer Thaha
Mr. Shameer Thaha is an Entrepreneur and a Social Media Strategist who has over 7 years experience in the social media domain working with CXOs and Brand managers from various sectors across Asia Pacific. Mr Shameer Thaha is currently the CEO & Founder of decidequick. He is also the Co-Founder and director of CGWerks. He has a work experience working as the vice president, strategic alliance at ThoughtBuzz,team member at Microsoft and a senior software engineer at Infosys Technologies. He completed his Masters in Business Administration from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai -SPJIMR in the year 2009
Mr.Snehal Shetty
Mr.Snehal has over 16 years of technical and management experience in the development of technology products and solutions for the IT industry. He worked as the first employee at a silicon valley startup which later on went to receive $21 million in VC funding. Over the past 8 years, he enjoyed performing fundamental and technical analysis of several companies listed in US markets.
In his current role as Vice President, Amrita TBI, he is involved in building the startup ecosystem at Amrita University, mentoring startup companies and students, commercializing innovative products and building the social entrepreneurship program.
Snehal completed his B.E(Electronics) from University of Pune and MBA Finance from George Mason University, Virginia, USA.
