Mozilla Announces Judges for Responsible Computing Challenge in India

Vinayak Abarol

Dr. Vinayak Abrol is a Discovery Track Faculty at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering & Infosys Centre for AI at IIIT Delhi, India. Prior to this, he held an Oxford-Emirates data science fellowship at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, the position of Academic Advisor at Kellogg College, Oxford and SNSF funded postdoctoral position at IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland. He received his TCS Innovation Lab funded Ph.D. from the School of Computing and Electrical Engineering, IIT Mandi, India; following his M.E and B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Panjab University Chandigarh, India. His research focuses on the design and analysis of numerical algorithms for information inspired applications, which is multi-disciplinary and lies at an intersection of Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science.

Supriya Bhuwalka

Supriya Bhuwalka is the founder of Coding and More, an Edtech startup focused on providing personalized AI and Coding education to students in the K-12 grade band. A staunch supporter of women empowerment, Coding and More is an all women run organization that helps upskill women and gives them opportunity to work flexitime and WFH. Committed to fostering AI literacy within her community, she has organized numerous AI hackathons for students, emphasizing responsible AI practices aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Additionally, her company regularly hosts live sessions with esteemed AI professionals from academia and industry, aimed at motivating and empowering young learners. Her education is from Wellesley College, USA - double major in Math and Economics.

Jaspreet Bindra

Jaspreet Bindra is the Managing Director and Founder of Tech Whisperer Limited UK, which does Advisory and Consulting work on Digital Transformation AI, Blockchain, and the Future of Work. He also represents Findability Sciences, a Softbank-invested enterprise AI firm, as their Chief Tech Whisperer / Chief Evangelist He is the author of the bestselling book “The Tech Whisperer: On Digital Transformation and the Technologies that Enable it,” as well as “The Immune Organisation: Future Proofing Organisations from COVID-like Disruptions.” published by Amazon Westland. He is also pursuing his second Masters in AI, Ethics and Society at Cambridge University.

Priyanjit Ghosh

Priyanjit is the Co-founder and CEO of Logy.AI, an AI-based digital health platform that enables early health screening and care coordination. He leads the business, strategy, and AI consulting functions of the company, which he started in 2019 from a college dorm room with other co-founders. Priyanjit holds a PGDM in marketing from the Indian Institute of Management Raipur, where he was a student entrepreneur. He is passionate about solving global health problems with AI and has been recognized as a key opinion leader, TEDx speaker, and award winner in the field of digital transformation, digital health, and strategy. He has also been a guest faculty in elite academic institutes and has secured multiple grants and helped expand Logy.AI in India, Africa and UAE.

Sameep Mehta

Sameep Mehta is IBM Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research AI. He leads the global Data Strategy for AI. His research interests include Innovations in Data Lifecycle, Trusted AI & Meta Data Management. He is a regular speaker at various technical forums and is recipient of multiple best & runner-up best paper awards at top AI conferences. He holds Adjunct Faculty Position at IIT-Jodhpur and IIIT-Delhi. Recently, he has co-authored the book “AI for You - The New Game Changer which aims to demystify AI for Business Leaders.” Prior to joining IBM Research, Sameep received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 2006.

Shivangi Narayan

Dr. Shivangi Narayan is an independent researcher based in Noida (NCR). She is currently affiliated with the Algorithmic Governmentality and Cultures of Policing (AGOPOL) project funded by the Norwegian Research Council and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. In this three-year project, she is looking at the use of facial recognition technology by the Delhi Police. She is the author of “Surveillance as Governance: Big Data in Governance|Aadhaar” and “Predictive Policing and the Construction of the Criminal.” Starting her journey as an electronics engineer, she completed her MPhil and PhD in Sociology from Centre for Study of Social Systems (CSSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Prior to being a researcher, she was a technology journalist at a fortnightly magazine in Delhi, titled ‘Governance Now’.

Ananth Padmanabhan

Ananth Padmanabhan, the Dean at Vinayak Mission Law School. Renowned for his expertise in intellectual property rights and technology policy, Ananth also serves as a non-resident senior fellow at the Institute for South Asian Studies, NUS. He has authored the acclaimed treatise "Intellectual Property Rights: Infringement and Remedies" and co-edited the important volume "India as a Pioneer of Innovation." With a focus on the public law and regulatory dimensions of new technologies, his co-authored chapter on Big Data in the influential book "Regulation in India: Design, Capacity, Performance" (Hart Publishing, 2019) builds upon his deep understanding of the Indian State and the Supreme Court within the constitutional context. Ananth actively contributes to public discussions on technology's impact through opinion pieces in leading print and new media platforms. He holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and has held significant leadership roles, including founding dean of Sai University Law School and team lead for the technology and policy research vertical at Carnegie India. Ananth's notable accomplishment includes establishing the Daksha Fellowship, India's first residential fellowship for lawyers, with a primary focus on technology law and policy.

Parul Pandey

Parul Pandey has a background in Electrical Engineering and currently works as a Principal Data Scientist at H2O.ai. Prior to this, she was working as a Machine Learning Engineer at Weights & Biases. Parul is one of the co-authors of the Machine Learning for High-Risk Applications book, which focuses on the responsible implementation of AI. She is also a Kaggle Grandmaster in the notebooks category and was one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices in the Software Development category in 2019. Parul has written multiple articles focused on Data Science and Software development for various publications and mentors, speaks, and delivers workshops on topics related to Responsible AI. She is currently part of the “The 2023 Kaggle AI Report” as an area chair and section editor, focusing on the section dedicated to the theme of continued studies of AI ethics.

Manan Suri

Dr. Manan Suri leads the NVM and Neuromorphic Hardware Research group at IIT-Delhi. His research interests include Semiconductor Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Technology and its Advanced Applications (Neuromorphic, AI, Security, Computing, Sensing). Dr. Suri has been globally recognized as a leading DeepTech Innovator. He was selected by MIT Technology Review as one of the world's Top 35 Innovators under the age of 35 (MIT-TR 35 Global List - 2018) and Top 10 Indian Innovators under 35 (MIT-TR 35 India List - 2018). Dr. Suri received the prestigious IEEE EDS Early Career Award (2018), Young Scientist Award (2017) from The National Academy of Sciences, Young Engineers Award (2016), from The Institution of Engineers, and Laureat du Prix (2014) from the French Nanosciences Foundation. Dr. Suri has filed several patents, authored 100+ publications, delivered 80+ Invited talks, and led 15+ sponsored research projects/consultancies as principal investigator. Dr. Suri is the founder of IIT-Delhi Deeptech startup CYRAN AI Solutions which has developed multiple innovative technology products and solutions. He also serves as an advisor to leading Tech Companies and government bodies. Dr. Suri was a visiting scientist at CNRS, France. In the past, he has worked at NXP Semiconductors, Belgium as a Senior Scientist and CEA-LETI, France. Dr. Suri received his PhD from INP-Grenoble, France and Masters/Bachelors from Cornell University, USA.