Prof. Abhay Karandikar is currently serving as the Director of IIT Kanpur. Earlier, he was the Dean (Faculty Affairs) and the Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay. He is the founding member and chairman of the Telecom Standards Development Society of India (TSDSI), India’s standards body for telecom. He has also served as the coordinator of Tata Teleservices IIT Bombay Center of Excellence in Telecommunications (TICET) and the National Center of Excellence in Technology for Internal Security.

Prof. Ganesh received his PhD from Banaras Hindu University in 1996. After a short postdoctoral training in the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, he joined the RIKEN Brain Science (Japan) in February 1998 as a staff scientist. He is currently the Deputy Director at IIT Kanpur, and a faculty at the BSBE department. Known for his pioneering studies on Lafora progressive myoclonic epilepsy and other neurodegenerative disorders, Prof. Ganesh is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India, and a proud recipient of the National Bioscience Award for Career Development for his contributions to biosciences in 2008.

Prof. AR Harish serves as the Dean (Research & Development) at IIT Kanpur. He completed his PhD from IIT Kanpur in 1997 and worked in the UK until 2002. He joined IIT Kanpur as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering department in 2002.