Eminent Personalities participating in Sahyadri Conclave during 6th to 10th January 2018
Prof. Satya Prakash, Professor, Mcgill University, Canada heads the Biomedical Technology & Cell therapy research laboratory at Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada. His major Research areas include Bioengineering, Artificial Cell, Biomaterial, Drug Delivery, Microbiome, Probiotics, Regenerative Medicine, Cell Therapy, Health Food, GI model, Stem Cell, Heart Health, and Medical Device. He will be delivering a session on Microbiome next generation therapeutics.
 Mr. Sanjay Sahay, IPS is the Additional Director General of Police, Govt. of Karnataka. He has accomplished high degree of professionalism in wide and varied professional assignments and finally got groomed and refined into an officer who has 360 degrees experience of all policing tasks, simultaneously maintaining keen interest in all staff functions and a passion for usage of appropriate technology in policing at all levels and in all fields. Important assignments providing immense value addition to his professional persona includes – Chief of Police of three districts Raichur, Mandya and Chamrajnagar, SP and DIG in the State CID, DIG in charge of Finance, UN Peacekeeping in Kosovo and Sudan, Additional Commissioner in Bangalore City, Head of Police Computerization, Communications and State Crime Records Bureau. He created Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, the Police IT, for Karnataka State Police and headed the CCTNS project. At Sahyadri Conclave, Mr. Sanjay Sahay would facilitate a technical session on Mid-Infrared integrated silicon photonics for sensing.
Dr. S N Omkar is currently a Chief Research Scientist at IISC, Bangalore. Prof. Omkar obtained his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Science. His current research interests include Helicopter dynamics, Satellite image processing, Biomechanics, Uninhabited Air Vehicles (UAV), composite design optimization & structural health monitoring. He has significantly contributed towards the field of helicopter dynamics. His research involves helicopter model development, system identification and control.
 Mr. Rajashekar Hiremath, President, Flexitron, Bengaluru, has over 300 plus innovations in varied fields like solar photovoltaic’s, wind energy, led lighting, empowerment equipments for the rural population, textiles, khadi, ceramics, disability aids, silk, artisan equipment and tools. He has extensive ‘hands on’ experience of over 30 years in design, development and production of aids, appliances and systems for ‘Barrier Free Access’ of the challenged population and geriatric persons. He has been conferred with four National Awards by the Government of India in the field of innovation. Out of the four awards, three awards relate to best innovations for the physically challenged. During Sahyadri Conclave, Mr. Rajashekar Hiremath will be facilitating a technical session on “Future of Human transportation”.
Dr. T. G. Sitharam, Chairman, AICTE, South West Regional Office will be giving a talk on “Sustainable Strategies for Water Resource Development using Rain Water” during Sahyadri Conclave. Prof. Sitharam is the former founder Chairman of a Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transport and Urban Planning (CiSTUP) at IISc, Bengaluru. He is also the Vice President of Indian Society for Earthquake Technology (ISET). He was recognized by Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) with IGS-Kucklemann award in 2015 and by IIT-Roorkee with Prof. Gopal Ranjan research award in 2014 for his life time contributions in Geotechnical Engineering. He is also the recipient of Sir CV Raman Young Scientist Award in engineering sciences in 2002.
Dr. Jagadeesh Gopalan is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. He is the Founder Chairman of Centre of Excellence in Hypersonics, IISc, Bengaluru. He is also the Founder Director of Super-wave Technology Pvt. Ltd. He was a visiting Professor in Tohoku University, Japan, honorary professor in the University of Glasgow, UK and an Adjunct Professor in Defense Institute for Advanced Studies, Pune. His major recognitions include - Dr. Biren Roy Space Design Award by Aeronautical Society of India, Prof. Satish Dhawan Young Engineer award and Gold Medal by Lockheed Martin -Dept. of Science & Technology. He will be delivering a session on “Enchanting waves”.
Dr. Gopal Mugeraya, Director, NIT, Goa obtained his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in the area of Biochemical Engineering/Industrial pollution control and Post-Doctoral degree from the University of California Riverside, USA. Along with teaching, he is actively involved in research, consultancy, administrative activities and coordination of technical projects. He had a special privilege as one of the technical expert accompanying The President of India. He will be delivering a session on “Role of Engineers in nation building”.
Dr. Kavi Mahesh, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Dharwad received Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. He is interested in understanding the ontological basis for everything, applying epistemological models to the ontological basis to derive solutions for teaching, learning, e-teaching, e-learning, collaboration and sharing and management of knowledge. He has been a guest faculty at Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute.
Mr. Ramakrishna Y B is the Chairman - Working Group on Bio Fuels Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering from Mysore University and P.G. Diploma in Management from USA. His area of Specialization is Nuclear Engineering. He is the Chairman of Working Group on Bio fuels, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India and Task force on Methanol/DME production from Bio mass/MSW/ other than coal. He will be delivering a talk on “Bio-Energy status in India” during Sahyadri Conclave.
Mr. Sundaram Moorthy Sunder is currently the CEO of Caliper Engineering & Lab Pvt Ltd, Sahyadri Campus, Adyar, Mangalore. Earlier, he was the director of Yoke Engineering Outsourcing private limited. He has 30 years of in-depth experience in manufacturing especially welding and has worked in various MNCs like Dresser Valves, Cameron, Mokveld Valves. He is specialised in Global Sourcing, Supply Chain Management & Industrial Training. He holds a BE degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Mysore.
Dr. Dipshikha Chakravortty is currently working as a Professor in Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. She obtained Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Pune University in the year 2000. Her research interests include infectious diseases and host-pathogen interaction. She has received several awards including Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, NASI-Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award in 2015.
Mr. C D Balaji is the former director of LCA at Aeronautical Development Agency. He was responsible for the design, development, building and flight testing of LCA (Navy) Prototypes at ADA, Bangalore as the Project Director LCA (Navy). The historic maiden flight of the first Naval variant of LCA (NP1) took place under his leadership.
Quote for the day
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."
- Swami Vivekananda
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