Chengappa is associated with HP/HPE for a decade and is currently associated with Compute Business Group, catering to the requirements and solutions for telco on NFV Infrastructure. From an early career as an intern software engineer, his current focus areas have moved him into defining, building, and delivering NFV-based telco solutions bringing together technologies that form building blocks integrating Cloud-native applications / VNFs on NFVi platforms. Being IEEE Senior member, he also plays a key role in being part of IEEE Bangalore Section initiatives around Industry engagement, Professional Activities.

Dr. Siva Teja Kakileti has 5+ years of experience in AI/ML for Medical Imaging. He is currently one of the key data scientists at Niramai. He previously worked in the health care analytics group at Xerox Research Centre India as a Budding Scientist for 1.5 years. He co-authored 18 international publications, 1 book chapter and has 7 granted US patents. He was granted a PhD degree by the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He received his Bachelors of Technology degree with majors in Electronics and Communication Engineering and minors in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. He was a recipient of DAAD WISE fellowship 2014 and was offered MITACS Globalink Fellowship in 2014.

Ketan Keshav, is a Computer Science Engineer, currently working as a Software Engineer at KreditBee. He is passionate about Mobile and Web Development, Cyber Security, Coding and Cricket. He completed two internships to further amplify his passion. He is an Experienced Chairperson with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. He is a highly organized and detail-oriented individual with Event Management experience having organized several IEEE Events, hackathons and college workshops. His team was the Regional Level Winner of Technology Dissemination Contest conducted by IEEE Pune Section. He has competed at TCS EngiNX and was the finalist and the 2nd Runner up of this National-level competition. He is currently an Execom member at IEEE Bangalore Section, Treasurer, IEEE Young Professionals and SCT Mentor, IEEE Bangalore Section. Other titles he holds are Section Chapter Representative, IEEE TEMS, India, Member Student Representative, IEEE Bangalore Section, PR and Promotions Coordinator for Students Activities Committee (SAC), IEEE Bangalore Section, IEEE Chairman and Student Activity Committee(SAC) Chairman for K.S Institute of Technology. Despite his eventful life, he always makes time for family, cricket and volunteers at various NGOs and conducts monthly events which are aimed to make life better for the underprivileged.

Amith is an Education Technical Evangelist at MathWorks and works with the academic institutions in India on the adoption of MathWorks’ workflows in curriculum and research. Amith has been with the MathWorks for seven years and has previously worked with the Engineering Development Group and Software Development in the Image Processing and Computer Vision areas focusing on workflows for image registration and pixel labeling. His areas of interests include Computer Vision and Software Engineering. Amith has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from NITK Surathkal and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Sanmathi is leading the Video team at Leia Inc headquartered in the Silicon Valley. He has obtained his Masters degree from San Diego State University with a thesis focussing on Region of Interest Video Coding with H.264. He has been in the industry for over a decade working with various aspects of Video domain including real time streaming, compression and transport. His current role entails Video processing for 3D, multiview and holographic displays for automative, retail, medical and consumer applications. He is actively working with efficient encoding strategies for transport and storage of 3D video on mobile devices.

Shailesh has 20 years of industrial experience in the field of Audio Signal processing with 4 approved patents and some more pending. He has worked in the capacity of Director of Audio Algorithms in Knowles (Formerly Audience Inc) and Manager in Amazon Lab126. During this period Shailesh worked on Noise Suppression and Echo Cancellers which were adopted into major smartphones like Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, LG, OnePlus, etc. Shailesh was the backbone of the Audience when it became the number one supplier of Noise Suppression chipsets in the industry. Shailesh worked in Amazon Lab126 and was leading the team which delivered the industry's leading smart speaker products the Echo series. He was the lead for delivering the Echo Show( Echo Show, Echo Spot, Echo Show 5, Echo Show8) series of products along with Amazon's first premium Echo Product (users rating for the device as the superior audio device). Shailesh was also responsible for delivering the Echo Dot, which is Amazon's leading Alexa device with close to 100 million devices sold worldwide and a user rating of 4.2/5. Currently, Shailesh is working in Harman International as Senior Engineering Manager for the DSP team responsible for delivering Car Audio solutions like ANC, Road Noise Cancellation, Vehicle Noise Compensation, Audio Equalizer, Surround sound Audio, and other audio features to major car audio manufacturers worldwide. He is also serving as the current Chairman of the IEEE Bangalore Section Signal Processing Chapter.

K.V.S. HARI (PhD UC San Diego 1990) has been with the Department of ECE, Indian Institute of Science, since 1992, where he is currently a Professor and coordinates the activities of the Statistical Signal Processing Laboratory. He has been a visiting faculty at Stanford University and KTH, Stockholm. His research interests include statistical signal processing, sparse signal processing, array signal processing, machine learning, with applications to MIMO wireless communication systems, radar and navigation systems, autonomous systems, assistive technologies for the elderly, MRI systems, and neuroscience. He is the Editor-in-Chief (Electrical Sciences) of Sadhana and a Fellow of IEEE and INAE.
Expertise: Signal Processing, Wireless Communications, Neuroscience

Abhinav Jain graduated from I.I.T Kanpur with a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering. With an interest to work in the domain of Machine Learning and Computer Vision, he joined and worked at IBM Research Labs India for three years as a Research Engineering. Recently, he joined VideoKen as a Machine Learning Engineer, and here, he is leading the development of new and unique AI-enabled services for VideoKen.

Dr. Abhishek Appaji is working as Institutional Coordinator for R&D and Assistant Professor at B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore. He is also serving as Guest faculty at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp specialized in new ventures leadership. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering in Medical Electronics with University Rank from BMSCE, Masters of Technology in Information Technology, and a Masters of Engineering (M.E) in Bioinformatics from University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore. His Ph.D. was in Mental Health and Neurosciences from Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Abhishek is a Senior Member of IEEE. He has served in various volunteering positions at IEEE. Currently, he is the Chapter coordinator Chair of the IEEE Bangalore Section, Treasurer of IEEE IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter, Webmaster, and MD Chair for IEEE PES Bangalore Chapter and advisor for IEEE EMB BMSCE Chapter. He is also serving as Secretary of IEEE Smart Cities Marketing Committee. Abhishek has received various grants from Indian agencies like DST, DBT, BIRAC, and from abroad. Abhishek has also worked as a research associate in the Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He has two patents filed in Medtech Space. He has more than 50 International/National journal publications and conferences to his credit. He has been a part of more than 150+ Invited expert talks in various conferences, Forums, and events. He has renowned laurels including IEEE International Best paper Award in Malaysia, MGH CamTech Jugadathon Awards, Best Nodal Coordinator award, Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award 2016 at Rastrapathy Bhavan (President of India House) New Delhi, Elderly care Hackathon (the Netherlands), Winner of Class 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, IEEE MGA Young Professional Achievement Award, R10 YP achievement award, etc.

Aseem Vardhan works as a Senior Director of engineering with the HPE Storage division and leads a global engineering team of R&D engineers to build “Intelligent Storage” that is self-healing and self-managing using AI and ML. Prior to this role, Aseem has spent more than a decade in Operating systems group where he led advanced product development teams in the areas of High Availability, Systems Management, and OS security. During the start of his career, Aseem worked with Sun Microsystem in the Operating systems group in the Bay area as Member of technical staff and then moved to Bangalore to set up the engineering group. Aseem holds an engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Masters in Business Administration with Specialization in technology management from the University of Phoenix.

Prasant Misra, Ph.D. is currently working as a Scientist at Corporate Research & Innovation, TATA Consultancy Services Ltd., Bangalore. Prasant is passionate about building systems "at scale" that can extend human and machine capabilities with newer and better ways of observing and managing the physical world. His research cuts across various aspects of computational sensing, optimization, and control of cyber-physical systems. His current focus is on smart mobility management. He also has a background in middleware for wireless sensor networks and low-power networked embedded systems. He has more than ten years of experience in scientific and industrial research. He has worked in different roles and capabilities for: Keane Inc. (a unit of NTT Data Corporation), Bangalore (2006-08); CSIRO Sydney and Brisbane (2008-12); Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2013-16)