P. J. Narayanan
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P. J. Narayanan is the Director and Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad and the institute’s current director since April 2013
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He is known for his work in Computer Vision (3D reconstruction, Structure-from-Motion, Computational Displays), Computer Graphics (Ray-tracing of implicit surfaces, dynamic scenes), and Parallel Computing on the GPU (Graph algorithms, String sorting, ML techniques like Graph cuts, ANN and clustering, as well as several Computer Vision tasks).
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Narayanan obtained his B. Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1984. Narayanan graduated with master’s degree from University of Maryland, College Park, USA in 1989 and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park, USA in 1991 and worked in DRDO till 2000
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He was appointed the Co-Chair of the ACM India Council when it was formed. He became the first President of ACM India in 2012 and is the Chair of the ACM India Research Board from 2014. He has played several roles in the Association for Computing Machinery including being in the Nominations Committee and the committee to decide on the Outstanding Contributions to ACM award.
Srikanth Sundarajan
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Dr. Srikanth Sundararajan is a Partner with Ventureast, and works closely with the Ventureast Proactive Fund’s portfolio to help them scale their business operations.
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Dr. Srikanth Sundararajan has 25+ years of international experience in the software product and services space. He has worked at HP, Informix, and was part of the executive leadership team at HCL, the worldwide CTO at Cognizant and the COO at Persistent. He had also successfully founded his own startup, Pretzel Logic Software Inc., which was subsumed into BEA, now Oracle.
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He is also a visiting faculty of computer science at IIT Bhubaneswar and has taught at several US universities. He also serves on national committees on technical education, an initiative of MHRD, India.
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He holds a B Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a MS/PhD in Computer and Information Sciences from University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. He has several publications and is the holder of patents, jointly with HP and BEA.
Vasudeva Varma
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Professor and the Dean (Research and Development) at IIIT Hyderabad, India. He obtained his Ph.D from the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad in 1996.
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His research interests are in the broad areas of Information Retrieval, Extraction and Access. More specifically, social media analysis, cross-language information access, summarization and semantic search. He also works in the areas of Cloud Computing and Reuse in software engineering.
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He is also the CEO of IIITH Hyderabad Foundation, which runs one of the largest technology incubators in India. The Foundation manages IIIT-H’s and technology transfers.
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He co-founded SETU software systems Pvt. Ltd. SETU’s product, Veooz is a Social signal based content discovery platform with social media search and analysis capabilities.
Y. Raghu Reddy
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Y. Raghu Reddy currently works as an Associate Professor at International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT Hyderabad), India. His primary research interests are in design and construction of complex software systems. He is a part of several national and international conference committees. He is also a mentor for Startups and is on the board of Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at IIIT Hyderabad.
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He is Currently the Head of the Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) at IIIT Hyderabad and the Computer Associates (CA) Technologies Endowed Faculty Chair at IIIT Hyderabad. He was previously the IIIT lead for CA Technologies – IIIT Hyderabad Innovation Center established at CA Technologies, Gachibowli, Hyderabad. He has worked on several projects with governmental as well as non-governmental organizations. Some of them are MHRD, CA Technologies, Nokia Inc., Alstom Signaling Inc., TCN Telecom Consulting Group, QWest Communications, etc.
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In his previous role, Dr. Reddy worked as an Assistant professor with the Department of Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), USA. He played a major role in building the Software Engineering Master’s program at RIT. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA.
Ramesh Loganathan
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Ramesh Loganathan is currently the Professor of Co-Innovation at IIIT-Hyderabad where he Heads the Research/Innovation outreach. He is also the Chief Operating Officer of Centre For Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) at IIIT.
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Ramesh was also the Chief Innovation Officer of State Innovation Cell of Government of Telangana
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Ramesh brings with him almost 25+ years of vast executive leadership experience with a successful track record in running multi-million dollar companies. Prior to IIIT, Ramesh was the Managing Director of Progress Software, India and was responsible for leading product development at the India Development Center He provided strategic guidance to the teams with the focus on cross-product consideration for SOA & Data Integration.
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Ramesh has also held the position of Vice President at Paramati Technologies. As the VP he was responsible for managing the Product Engineering which included managing the product lines, product releases, product architecture, systems, and processes.
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He is also the Co-Founder of HeadStart Network, a volunteer organization that helped to build an early-stage startup eco-system in Hyderabad and pan India. Until recently he was the part of the core team and drives the Hyderabad end of the events including monthly Startup Saturdays and the annual HeadStart startups’ showcase.
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Until recently he was the President of HYSEA (Hyderabad Software Industry Association) and Regional Council Member at Nasscom.
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After a 2 decade-long stint as an accomplished Technologist in the product R&D space, on Dec 2015, Ramesh moved full-time into academics.
Manish Srivastava
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Sanjay Jesrani
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Sanjay Jesrani is the Founder & CEO of Go North Ventures.
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Go North is an angel investment and advisory firm, focused on investing in & mentoring Startups. It also provides Strategy inputs to high growth Early stage companies and SMB’s moving to their next orbit.
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Sanjay, an active member of the Indian Angel Network, the premier national group of Angel Investors – has investments in startups across the Healthcare, Education, Impact, Consumer and Tech sectors. A Charter member at TiE, Hyderabad (The Indus Entrepreneurs), he is also on the advisory board of Parampara Capital, an early stage fund and 50K Network, an emerging national investor network.
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He was the Executive Vice President & Head, Global Delivery Center, Hitachi Consulting India. As CEO and Head of the Global Delivery Center at India, he led the company’s global delivery team of 1800+ across the centers at Hyderabad, Pune and Bangalore.
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As a member of Hitachi Consulting’s Exec Leadership Team, he was actively involved in the company’s Growth strategy and M&A programs targeted at reaching the $1B + size. He was a core member of the India and South Asia Hitachi group company CEO network.
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Sanjay brings over 20 years of solid execution experience from his previous role at Sierra Atlantic, as the CFO – Asia & China.”
Vikram Vuppala
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Vikram is a seasoned healthcare strategy consultant with over 12 years of global healthcare industry experience. His passion to redefine healthcare delivery in India prompted him to found NephroPlus, a chain of premium dialysis centers.
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He has helped hospitals, dialysis centers, pharmacy benefit managers, healthcare distributors, consumer health, and pharmaceutical clients on various strategic issues such as business development, growth strategy, operational improvement, portfolio rationalization, redefining customer strategies, clinical trial strategy and M&A.
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Prior to founding NephroPlus, Vikram was a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company in their New Jersey office. He also founded an internal management consulting group at Abbott Laboratories helping key management on various strategic and sales force management issues. Prior to that Vikram worked for two years as a business analyst at ZS Associates, a worldwide leader in sales force management consulting.
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Vikram did his Bachelors in Chemical engineering from IIT-Kharagpur, Masters in Computer Science from University of Illinois, and a full time MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth school of business. He is based out of Hyderabad, India and enjoys international travel, bollywood movies, roller blading, and sky diving.
Executive Council
Vasudeva Varma
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Professor and the Dean (Research and Development) at IIIT Hyderabad, India. He obtained his Ph.D from the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad in 1996.
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His research interests are in the broad areas of Information Retrieval, Extraction and Access. More specifically, social media analysis, cross-language information access, summarization and semantic search. He also works in the areas of Cloud Computing and Reuse in software engineering.
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He is also the CEO of IIITH Hyderabad Foundation, which runs one of the largest technology incubators in India. The Foundation manages IIIT-H’s and technology transfers.
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He co-founded SETU software systems Pvt. Ltd. SETU’s product, Veooz is a Social signal based content discovery platform with social media search and analysis capabilities.
Y. Raghu Reddy
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Y. Raghu Reddy currently works as an Associate Professor at International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT Hyderabad), India. His primary research interests are in design and construction of complex software systems. He is a part of several national and international conference committees. He is also a mentor for Startups and is on the board of Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at IIIT Hyderabad.
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He is Currently the Head of the Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) at IIIT Hyderabad and the Computer Associates (CA) Technologies Endowed Faculty Chair at IIIT Hyderabad. He was previously the IIIT lead for CA Technologies – IIIT Hyderabad Innovation Center established at CA Technologies, Gachibowli, Hyderabad. He has worked on several projects with governmental as well as non-governmental organizations. Some of them are MHRD, CA Technologies, Nokia Inc., Alstom Signaling Inc., TCN Telecom Consulting Group, QWest Communications, etc.
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In his previous role, Dr. Reddy worked as an Assistant professor with the Department of Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), USA. He played a major role in building the Software Engineering Master’s program at RIT. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA.
Ramesh Loganathan
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Ramesh Loganathan is currently the Professor of Co-Innovation at IIIT-Hyderabad where he Heads the Research/Innovation outreach. He is also the Chief Operating Officer of Centre For Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) at IIIT.
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Ramesh was also the Chief Innovation Officer of State Innovation Cell of Government of Telangana
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Ramesh brings with him almost 25+ years of vast executive leadership experience with a successful track record in running multi-million dollar companies. Prior to IIIT, Ramesh was the Managing Director of Progress Software, India and was responsible for leading product development at the India Development Center He provided strategic guidance to the teams with the focus on cross-product consideration for SOA & Data Integration.
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Ramesh has also held the position of Vice President at Paramati Technologies. As the VP he was responsible for managing the Product Engineering which included managing the product lines, product releases, product architecture, systems, and processes.
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He is also the Co-Founder of HeadStart Network, a volunteer organization that helped to build an early-stage startup eco-system in Hyderabad and pan India. Until recently he was the part of the core team and drives the Hyderabad end of the events including monthly Startup Saturdays and the annual HeadStart startups’ showcase.
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Until recently he was the President of HYSEA (Hyderabad Software Industry Association) and Regional Council Member at Nasscom.
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After a 2 decade-long stint as an accomplished Technologist in the product R&D space, on Dec 2015, Ramesh moved full-time into academics.
Sanjay Jesrani
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Sanjay Jesrani is the Founder & CEO of Go North Ventures.
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Go North is an angel investment and advisory firm, focused on investing in & mentoring Startups. It also provides Strategy inputs to high growth Early stage companies and SMB’s moving to their next orbit.
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Sanjay, an active member of the Indian Angel Network, the premier national group of Angel Investors – has investments in startups across the Healthcare, Education, Impact, Consumer and Tech sectors. A Charter member at TiE, Hyderabad (The Indus Entrepreneurs), he is also on the advisory board of Parampara Capital, an early stage fund and 50K Network, an emerging national investor network.
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He was the Executive Vice President & Head, Global Delivery Center, Hitachi Consulting India. As CEO and Head of the Global Delivery Center at India, he led the company’s global delivery team of 1800+ across the centers at Hyderabad, Pune and Bangalore.
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As a member of Hitachi Consulting’s Exec Leadership Team, he was actively involved in the company’s Growth strategy and M&A programs targeted at reaching the $1B + size. He was a core member of the India and South Asia Hitachi group company CEO network.
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Sanjay brings over 20 years of solid execution experience from his previous role at Sierra Atlantic, as the CFO – Asia & China.”