Bio of Penalists
Dr. Lipika Dey
Dr. Lipika Dey is Chief Scientist at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Research. She is currently heading research in the theme of Economic and Financial Intelligence. Her areas of interest are Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence applications, Machine learning, and analytics of multi-structured data. She has been awarded the Fellowship of Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE) in 2021 and the Distinguished Scientist award by TCS in 2012
Prior to joining TCS Research, she was a member of the faculty in the Department of Mathematics at IIT Delhi.
Lipika has a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, where she had also done her graduation and post-graduation in Mathematics and Computer Science. She is actively involved with ACM(W) organization since its inception and an active champion of all causes related to Women in STEM.
Dr. Seema Khanna
Dr. Seema Khanna, is a Deputy Director General in National Informatics Centre, a premier scientific and ICT body under the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY). She has over 2 decades of ICT experience spanning across various domains including e-governance, Health-ICT, Application, Email, Messaging, Cyber Security, Networking, Data Centre and ICT Operations.
Dr. Seema Khanna, holds a Bachelor's from NSUT, New Delhi (erstwhile NSIT) and Master's & PhD from IIT-Delhi. In addition to diverse application platforms, she has also pioneered and architected the email and messaging platform which is the largest platform of its kind offered by a government globally.
Implementing Aarogyasetu for the nation is one of the many initiatives she has taken in the ICT arena. She has been a part of the Aarogyasetu Project, right from the inception. Her efforts in leading the design, development, roll-out and operations of the aarogyasetu project, played a vital role in making the app as the world's largest app-based contact tracing platform.
Dr.Seema Khanna is also the Director(Operations) of National Knowledge Network (NKN), the largest National Research and Education Network (NREN) of its kind in the world. She has played a key role in taking NKN to the global arena, and successfully forged partnerships with other major NRENs across the globe, thereby, facilitating mutual R&D partnerships between Indian Researchers and their counterparts across the world. Today NKN is connected with more than 100 countries through the partnerships with other Regional & National RENs. Dr.Khanna has also played a key role in connecting NKN with the SAARC countries, thereby implementing our hon'ble PM's vision .
She is also the Steering Committee member of the prestigious Asi@Connect project which has 24 partner countries. During her tenure she has initiated many projects that have contributed in the capacity building, digital connectivity, R&D of developing countries in the Asian sub-continent.
She is the Chief Investigator of DHRISTI, a research project funded by NSCS. DHRISTI project is focused on providing a security posture assessment and detect threats/attacks targeted at Government's ICT Infrastructure.
Prof. Ram Gopal Rao
Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao is currently a Professor in EE and the immediate Past Director of IIT Delhi. Before joining IIT Delhi as the Director in April 2016, Dr. Rao served as a P. K. Kelkar Chair Professor for Nanotechnology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and as the Chief Investigator for the Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics project at IIT Bombay. Dr. Rao has over 480 research publications in the area of nano-scale devices & Nanoelectronics and is an inventor on 49 patents and patent applications, which include 18 issued US patents. Thirteen of his patents have been licensed to industries for commercialization.
Prof. Rao is a co-founder of two deep technology startups at IIT Bombay (Nanosniff & Soilsens) which are developing products of relevance to the society. Dr. Rao is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Indian National Science Academy. More about Prof. Rao can be check here
Dr. Andreia Cathelin
Andreia Cathelin, an Electrical Engineer PhD and HDR from the University of Lille, is a Technology R&D Fellow with STMicroelectronics, in Crolles France.
Her focus areas are in the design of advanced RF/mmW/THz and ultra-low-power circuits and systems.
She is very active in the IEEE community, strongly implied with SSCS, the Executive Committee of VLSI Symposium and has been the TPC chair of ESSCIRC2020/21 in Grenoble. Very recently, Andreia has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lund, Sweden, promotion of 2020.