Vandana is MBA (Financial Management) from Pace University, NY and MS (Mathematics) from Arizona State University, AZ.  She has worked as Vice President, Investor Relations (Tantiv4), Incentive Analyst (IBM), in USA and as Assistant Professor of Mathematics in different Engineering Colleges in India.

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Vandana loves to teach and wants the next gen to get trained for the future starting today. Learn more about Vandana...

Biplav Srivastava is a Professor of Computer Science at the AI Institute at University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA. Previously, he was at IBM for two decades in the roles of a Research Scientist (at IBM Research; 18 years), Distinguished Data Scientist (at Chief Analytics Office; 2 years) and Master Inventor. In his 25+ years work experience, Biplav has conducted research in Artificial Intelligence, Services Computing and Sustainability, mostly at IBM Research, as well as lead in commercial, deadline-oriented, software development organizations in both India and US. Biplav is an ACM Distinguished Scientist (2014), AAAI Senior Member (2020), IEEE Senior Member (2018) and had two terms as ACM Distinguished Speaker (2013-2019).

Lokesh is passionate about tennis and hiking and has a nerdy need to write code every day. He has a masters degree in business and CS and has an undergrad degree from IIT. His childhood obsession with “tinkering” has finally found expression in his expertise in the entire technology stack of Internet of Things. He has a special interest in STEM education, especially with regard to the new Technologies.  In the past Lokesh has worked for several startups  including being part of the founding teams in Security, Networking and Industrial Automation space. His present venture is Tantiv4, wants to create a system of “smart connected things” in a manner that an average consumer can adopt them easily.

Navrati Saxena was an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. She worked as an Assistant Professor in Amity University, India, and as a visiting researcher in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the University of Texas at Arlington. She completed her PhD degree from the University of Trento, Italy. She is serving as the guest editor of Springer EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking and in the technical program committee of many international conferences. She has co-authored one book (published by Taylor and Francis, USA) and published more than 20 international journals and more than 20 international conferences.