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Advanced Materials & Manufacturing

S. No. Name Affiliation Committee
1. Prof. Giridhar U Kulkarni JNCASR, Bengaluru Chairperson
2. Dr. Ramanuj Narayan Director, CSIR-IMMT Member
3. Prof. T Narasinga Rao IIT, Hyderabad Member
4. Dr. G Madhusudhan Reddy Former Director, DMRL Member
5. Prof. Suhas Joshi Director, IIT, Indore Member
6. Dr. R Ratheesh CMET, Hyderabad Member
7. Dr. R Vijay Director, ARCI, Hyderabad Member
8. Dr. G Mahesh Head, SCDD, CSIR, New Delhi Member Secretary
9. Dr. Chhama Awasthi / Dr. S Anandan DST Convenor

Artificial Intelligence

S. No. Name Affiliation Committee
1. Dr. Ganesh Ramakrishnan IIT, Bombay Chairperson
2. Shri. Srikanth Velamakanni Co-founder, Group Chief Executive & Vice-Chairman, Fractal Analytics Member
3. Prof. P J Narayanan IIIT, Hyderabad Member
4. Prof. Balaram Ravindran IIT, Madras Member
5. Dr. Sanjay Wandekar CDAC, Pune Member
6. Dr. Kavita Bhatia MeitY, New Delhi Member Secretary
7. Dr. Poonam Yadav / Dr. Joydip Joardar DST Convenor

Bio-Manufacturing

S. No. Name Affiliation Committee
1. Prof. B Ravi, Director NIT, Suratkal Chairperson
2. Prof. Samir K. Maji IIT, Bombay Member
3. Prof. Ashwani Pareek NABI, Mohali Member
4. Dr. Manish Diwan BIRAC, New Delhi Member
5. Dr. Garima Gupta DBT Member Secretary
6. Dr. Sucheta Mondal / Dr. R Subasri DST Convener

Blue Economy

S. No. Name Affiliation Committee
1. Dr. Sunil Kumar Singh Director, NIO, Goa Chairperson
2. Dr. Tune Usha National Centre for Coastal Research Member
3. Dr. Grinson George Director, CMFRI, Kochi Member
4. Prof. S K Mohanty RIS, New Delhi Member
5. Dr. Balakrishnan Nair Director, INCOIS, Hyderabad Member
6. Cdr P K Srivastava MoES, New Delhi Member Secretary
7. Dr. Swati Jain / Dr. Ramya Krishnan DST Convener

Digital Communications

S. No. Name Affiliation Committee
1. Prof. Kiran Kuchi IIT, Hyderabad Chairperson
2. Prof. R Ganti IIT, Madras Member
3. Shri. Anurag Gupta C-DOT, New Delhi Member
4. Shri. Priyank Chaturvedi MoE Member
5. Shri. Vinod Kumar DDG, DoT Member Secretary
6. Dr. Pramod Shankar / Dr. Raju Prakash DST Convener

Electronics & Semiconductor Manufacturing

S. No. Name Affiliation Committee
1. Prof. Navakant Bhat IISc, Bengaluru Chairperson
2. Prof. V Ramgopal Rao BITS, Pilani Member
3. Dr. Swaroop Ganguly IIT, Bombay Member
4. Smt. Sunita Verma MeitY, New Delhi Member
5. Dr. Meena Mishra SSPL Member
6. Dr. Narendra Kumar Arya DRDO, New Delhi Member Secretary
7. Ms. Suchita Lokhande / Dr. L Ramakrishna DST Convener

Emerging Agriculture Technologies

S. No. Name Affiliation Committee
1. Dr. S N Jha DDG (AE), ICAR, New Delhi Chairman
2. Dr. Geeta Lakshmi V TNAU, Coimbatore Member
3. Dr. A K Nayak DDG (NRM), ICAR, New Delhi Member
4. Dr. Sridevi Annapurna Singh Director, CFTRI, Mysuru Member
5. Dr. S K Pradhan ADG (F&FC), ICAR, New Delhi Member
6. Dr. R N Sahoo Principal Scientist, IARI Member
7. Dr. P K Jain Associate Director, ARCI, Hyderabad Member
8. Dr. Anil Rai ICAR, New Delhi Member Secretary
9. Dr. Anuradha Pughat / Dr. Buchi Suresh DST Convener

Energy, Environment & Climate

Sl. No. Name Affiliation Committee
1. Dr. R R Sonde IIT Delhi Chairperson
2. Dr. S Venkata Mohan Director, NEERI Member
3. Dr. Vikram Vishal IIT Bombay Member
4. Prof. A P Dimri Director, IIG Member
5. Prof. Amit Garg Public Systems Group, IIMA Member
6. Dr. Rupsha Bhattacharyya Scientific Officer - F, BARC Member
7. Prof. Venkatasailanathan Ramadesigan IIT Bombay, Mumbai Member
8. Prof. Mohd. Rihan DG, NISE, Gurugram Member
9. Dr. Saurav Suman Scientific Officer, NCPW, DAE Member Secretary
10. Dr. Pradyut Koley / Dr. S Sakthivel Scientist D, DST / Scientist G, ARCI Convenor

Health & Medical Technologies

S. No. Name Affiliation Committee
1. Dr. Sanjay Behari SCTIMST, Trivandrum Chairperson
2. Dr. Santasabuj Das ICMR-NIRBI, Kolkata Member
3. Prof. Amitabha Bandyopadhyay IIT, Kanpur Member
4. Dr. Amit Kumar Yadav THSTI, Faridabad Member
5. Dr. Srinivas Rao Chinta Joint Advisor, M/o Ayush Member
6. Dr. Vandana Siroha Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth Member
7. Dr. Shivakumar S. Harti All India Institute of Ayurveda Member
8. Dr. Rakesh Narayan V. Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences Member
9. Dr. Krushna Chandra Sahoo ICMR/DHR, New Delhi Member Secretary
10. Dr. Ruchi Verma / Dr. BV Sarada DST Convener

Quantum Science & Technology

S. No. Name Affiliation Committee
1. Dr. Shankar Kumar Selvaraja IISc, Bengaluru Chairperson
2. Dr. Kasturi Saha IIT, Bombay Member
3. Dr. Urbasi Sinha RRI, Bengaluru Member
4. Dr. A Venugopal Director CSIR-NPL, Delhi Member
5. Dr. J B V Reddy Head QTC, DST Member Secretary
6. Dr. Swati Rawal Dang / Dr. Ravi Bathe DST Convenor

Space Technologies

S. No. Name Affiliation Committee
1. Shri. A Rajarajan Director, SDSC SHAR, ISRO Chairperson
2. Shri. Shantanu Bhatawdekar Former Sci. Secretary, ISRO/ Advisor, NSIL Member
3. Prof. Anil Bharadwaj PRL, Ahmedabad Member
4. Dr. Senthil Kumar SAC, Ahmedabad Member
5. Dr. Rajeev Jaiswal ISRO, DoS Member Secretary
6. Dr. Bhupendra Sharma/Dr. B P Saha DST Convenor