CFS Talk

  
PROGRAM

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
in order of appearance in the program

Debnath Pal, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science
Debnath Pal currently serves as an Associate Professor at the Supercomputer Education Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He graduated with a M.Sc and Ph.D degree in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Jadavpur University, Kolkata, respectively. Formally trained as a chemist, his deep desire to understand the relationship between chemical activity and molecular structure initiated him into the world of computing. His current research is interdisciplinary in nature, which combines the emerging areas of Omics and Computational Biology. He is recognized for his contributions in understanding molecular properties of proteins. He is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany and has won several honors, including the NASI-SCOPUS award (2010) co-sponsored by Elsevier. Dr. Pal devotes a significant amount of his time in promoting science and education in India, and his involvement in Code-for-Science, India is in the same spirit.

Y. S. Chi, Chairman, Elsevier Management Committee
YoungSuk “YS” Chi is a leader in the media-tech industry.  As Chairman of the Elsevier Management Committee, he leads the development of information solutions that are transforming the STM industry.  He also oversees Corporate Affairs as well as Asia Strategy for Elsevier’s parent company, Reed Elsevier.  In addition, Chi serves as President of the International Publishers Association. Chi joined Elsevier in 2005 after serving as Chairman of Random House Asia and President of Random House.  Prior to Random House, he held several President and CEO positions at Ingram Distribution Holding, the parent company of Ingram Book Group, and co-founded Lightning Source, the book industry’s first ever print-on-demand and e-book distribution company.  Chi has served on numerous boards including that of Princeton University, and currently serves on the Executive Committees of the Association of American Publishers and the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers.

Aravind Chinchure, Ph.D., Asst. Vice President - Innovations, Reliance Innovation Leadership Center                                                                                                   Aravind Chinchure has a Ph.D. in Physics with 18 years experience in R & D, intellectual property, innovation, investment and business strategy. He has worked on diverse technology areas in the field of materials, chemistry, physics, electronics, renewable energy and information technology. Aravind is a member of the Sectoral Innovation Council of Ministry of Trade and Commerce, Government of India. He is a member of advisory council of the Institute of International Trade (IITrade), Kolkata. He is also Executive Member of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Alumni Association and Fellow of Society for Technology Management (STEM). Prior to joining Reliance industries, he has worked as a scientist at the General Electric (GE) Global Research Center, Bangalore, Leiden University, Netherlands, and TIFR, Mumbai.

Ananda Byrappa, Global Leader, Knowledge Center, GE                                                  Ananda Byrappa has a Master's degree in Information Science from Bangalore University. He did his Knowledge Management course at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Ananda has spent over 15 years in top multinational corporates like Deutsche Bank Group and Zee Media Group. He is currently with GE, heading their Knowledge Center, which serves GE's 28 global sites in Asia, Europe and USA. He is a six sigma certified information professional. Ananda has served on the Scopus internaltional advisory board. He is a winner of Vikram Sarabhai Operation Excellence Award at GE India and is a certified Six Sigma Black-belt.

Vishal Gupta, Director, Developer Network, Elsevier
Vishal Gupta is the Director of Developer Network at Elsevier where he leads the effort to bring a paradigm shift in partnering with researcher and developer communities on Elsevier’s applications platform to jointly develop tools that are embedded deeply in user’s workflow, geared towards driving research outcomes and expand the information search and discovery experience for over 15 million users worldwide.  In his four years at Elsevier, Vishal has worked in different roles in product management, business development and in building strategic partnerships. Vishal holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS from Delhi University.

Punit Kishore, HW Design Manager, NVIDIA                                                                     Punit Kishore has a B.Tech degree from IIT Kanpur in the field of Electrical engineering. Punit started his career at Texas instruments as a wireless hardware design engineer. After working for 1.5 years at Texas Instruments, he moved to join NVIDIA and started working on GPU and MCP designs. He has total experience of 8 years in the field of high speed VLSI design. Punit currently manages the high speed IO DFT group at NVIDIA. He has keen interest in high performance computing and have evangelized CUDA programming  in the Indian universities like IIT, CDAC, IISc.

Akhilesh Pandey, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Founder & Director, Institute of Bioinformatics
Akhilesh Pandey is currently a Professor at the Institute of Genetic Medicine and the Departments of Biological Chemistry, Oncology and Pathology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He obtained his M.D. from Armed Forces Medical College, Pune and completed his residency in Pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He obtained his Ph.D. in the laboratory of Vishva Dixit at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1995 and carried out his Postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Harvey Lodish at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1996-1999. He was a Visiting Scientist with Matthias Mann at the University of Southern Denmark from 1999-2002 before joining Johns Hopkins in 2002. He is a past Editorial Board member of Genome Research and currently serves as an Editorial Board member of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, Journal of Proteome Research, Proteomics, Clinical Proteomics and DNA Research and as an Associate Editor of BMC Bioinformatics. He is also the Founder and Director of the Institute of Bioinformatics, a non-profit research institute in Bangalore, India.

Panelists

Debnath Pal, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science

Ramesh Hariharan, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Strand Life Sciences

Sanjeeva Srivastava, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay

Gajendra P. S. Raghava, Ph.D., Scientist and Head of Bioinformatics Center, Institute of Microbial Technology

Soumitra Kumar Nandy, Ph.D., Professor, Indian Institute of Science

Debasis Dash, Ph.D., Scientist, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology