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Amrita Center for
International Programs

The Amrita Center for International Programs (ACIP) serves as the hub for international academic relations at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Responsible for overseeing and managing all international educational and research endeavours of the institution, ACIP’s primary aim is to enhance the quality of education and research. By facilitating collaboration among students, educators, and scholars worldwide, ACIP cultivates a dynamic interchange of knowledge and ideas that enriches both learning and research experiences

Dr. Koenraad Elst
Dr. Koenraad Elst

POSITION

Belgian scholar of Asian studies & renowned historian

UNIVERSITY

Sanchi University of Buddhist and Indic Studies (SUBIS)

TOPICS

Negationism and its Consequences – Concealing the records of Invasions

Propaganda against India, its Culture and Hinduism

Hindu Dharma and Culture Wars

Problems with Secularism

Aryan Invasion theory: Its role in splitting Indian society

Caste Divisions in Indian Society

Dr. Krishna Kumar Damodaran
Dr. Krishna Kumar Damodaran

POSITION

Professor & HoD, Department of Chemistry

UNIVERSITY

University of Iceland

TOPICS

Manipulating the self-assembly process to generate smart supramolecular systems

Prof. Vimal Karani
Prof. Vimal Karani

POSITION

Professor in Nutrigenetics & Nutrigenomics

UNIVERSITY

University of Reading. UK

TOPICS

International Workshop on Nutrigenetics & Precision Nutrition

Prof. Thierry Tartarin
Prof. Thierry Tartarin

POSITION

Researcher Business Models research group, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, TUDelft. Faculty, School of Finance and International Business, Saxion

UNIVERSITY

Saxion University of Applied Sciences. The Netherlands

TOPICS

Workshop on “Business Models”

Business Models in Rural Community

Dr. G.H. (Gerry) Stegeman
Dr. G.H. (Gerry) Stegeman

POSITION

Senior lecturer Business Administration & Urban Development, School of Governance, Law and Urban Development

UNIVERSITY

Saxion University of Applied Sciences. The Netherlands

TOPICS

Climate Proof Planning

Dr. Krishnaswami Raja
Dr. Krishnaswami Raja

POSITION

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center

UNIVERSITY

City University of New York (CUNY)

TOPICS

Ayurbiotechnology – Green Drug Development & Ocean Sponge Inspired Sponge Mimetic Tubules

Dr. Amit K Ghosh
Dr. Amit K Ghosh

POSITION

Internist, Nephrologist, Executive Health Program, General Internal Medicine

UNIVERSITY

Mayo Clinic

TOPICS

Team based Medicine- Mayo Clinic Model of Care

Mr. Daniel Gressel
Mr. Daniel Gressel

POSITION

Economist (A very successful businessman and someone who worked with Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman)

UNIVERSITY

USA

TOPICS

Prospects for US Inflation and Recession

Dr. Vaidyanathan (Ravi) Subramanian
Dr. Vaidyanathan (Ravi) Subramanian

POSITION

Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow, Associate Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering Department

UNIVERSITY

University of Nevada, Reno

TOPICS

The multifunctional Applications of 1D Oxide Nanostructures

Dr. Madhav Ram
Dr. Madhav Ram

POSITION

Medical Officer, Global Vaccine Safety, WHO(Geneva)

UNIVERSITY

Switzerland

TOPICS

Adverse event following Immunisation : Reporting & Response

Prof. Vladimir Filkov
Prof. Vladimir Filkov

POSITION

Professor and DECL Lab Co-director in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Davis, and the Director of Translational Data Science at the Data Lab

UNIVERSITY

USA

TOPICS

AI and Large Language Models in Healthcare

Dr Prasad Gudimetla
Dr Prasad Gudimetla

POSITION

Senior Lecturer/Head of Course PG Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Centre for Intelligent Systems, Institute for Future Farming Systems at CQUni.

UNIVERSITY

Australia

TOPICS

Myths of Sustainability Engineering

Dr. Dipak Ghosal
Dr. Dipak Ghosal

POSITION

Professor Department of Computer Science,chair,Graduate Group of Computer Science(GGCS), Prem Chand Jain family presidential chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, UC Davis

UNIVERSITY

USA

TOPICS

Resource management and control for next generation latency-critical applications

Mr. Daniel Lipschitz
Mr. Daniel Lipschitz

POSITION

Founder & President, Biosfera

UNIVERSITY

Netherlands

TOPICS

Smart Ecosystem Engineering to build circular metabolic systems & economy

Ms. Silvia Bevilacqua
Ms. Silvia Bevilacqua

POSITION

International Mobility Office – Social Sciences Area and Humanities, University of Trento

UNIVERSITY

Italy

TOPICS

Opportunities at University of Trento

Prof. Greta Perletti
Prof. Greta Perletti

POSITION

Associate Professor – English Literature and Culture, Humanities Department – ‘Letters and Philosophy’

UNIVERSITY

Italy

TOPICS

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short”. A cognitive-literary approach to why we like reading fiction

Prof. Brian Oldenburg
Prof. Brian Oldenburg

POSITION

Professor of Public Health and Implementation Science, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute & La Trobe University

UNIVERSITY

Australia

TOPICS

Implementing at scale to improve diabetes and other NCD outcomes in LMIC: What have we learnt over the last 20 years about how to do better?

Mr. Riccardo Moro
Mr. Riccardo Moro

POSITION

Secretary General, C20 International Advisory Committee 2023, Teaches Development Policies and Foundations of Economics, University of Milan

UNIVERSITY

Italy

TOPICS

Dr. Vijayan Sugumaran
Dr. Vijayan Sugumaran

POSITION

Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Management Information Systems, Chair, Department of Decision and Information Sciences, Co-Director, Center for Data Science and Big Data Analytics, School of Business Administration

UNIVERSITY

Oakland University

TOPICS

AI-driven Distributed Systems and Blockchain

Dr. Emma Camp
Dr. Emma Camp

POSITION

Senior Lecturer , School of Life Sciences , Team Leader | Future Reefs Program ,UTS Chancellor’s Research Fellow , Coral Nurture Program Co-Founder, Climate Change Cluster (C3) ,

UNIVERSITY

university of Technology Sydney U.T.S Australia

TOPICS

The Site Stewardship for Effective Coral restoration , a Case Study from the Great Barrier Reef

Dr. Ian McIntosh
Dr. Ian McIntosh

POSITION

Director of International Partnerships, Adjunct in the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and the IUPUI School of Liberal Arts.,Philanthropy

UNIVERSITY

Indiana University

TOPICS

Indiana University and the SDGs.

Prof. S Vishwanathan
Prof. S Vishwanathan

POSITION

Professor of Operations Management Director, Centre for Business Sustainability

UNIVERSITY

College of Business (Nanyang Business School) Singapore.

TOPICS

Corporate Sustainability and Circular Economy

Dr. Raghu Echempati
Dr. Raghu Echempati

POSITION

Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Member of Graduate Admissions Committee, Chair/Faculty Advisor (A.S.M.E./Pi Tau Sigma)

UNIVERSITY

Kettering University, UK

TOPICS

Lightweight Materials for Automotive Applications and the Joining Technologies

Dr. Anitha Saravanan
Dr. Anitha Saravanan

POSITION

Assistant Professor, School of Nursing I College of Health and Human Sciences

UNIVERSITY

Northeren Illinois University, USA

TOPICS

Pain Hygiene: A New model for symptom clusters in chronic pain

Dr. Purushothaman Damodaran
Dr. Purushothaman Damodaran

POSITION

Presidential Teaching Professor and Chair, Dept. Industrial and Systems Engineering

UNIVERSITY

Northeren Illinois University, USA

TOPICS

Scheduling batch processing machines

Dr. Somenath Mitra
Dr. Somenath Mitra

POSITION

Executive Director, Otto York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science, http://centers.njit.edu/york/index.php and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science, NJLT

UNIVERSITY

New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

TOPICS

Nano Carbon Enabled Energy and Environmental Technologies

Dr. Anjali Joseph
Dr. Anjali Joseph

POSITION

Endowed Chair in Architecture + Health Design and Director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing

UNIVERSITY

Clemson University, USA

TOPICS

Improving safety and quality through evidence-based healthcare design

Dr. Heidi Zinzow
Dr. Heidi Zinzow

POSITION

Professor, Department of Psychology – College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences

UNIVERSITY

Clemson University, USA

TOPICS

Using Evidence-Based Practices in Campus Sexual Violence Prevention and Response

Dr. Soham Adla
Dr. Soham Adla

POSITION

Ph.D Graduate, Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management, Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering

UNIVERSITY

TUM, Germany

TOPICS

Agricultural production and yields in developing countries

Dr. Avigdor Abelson
Dr. Avigdor Abelson

POSITION

Professor in School of Zoology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences

UNIVERSITY

Tel Aviv University

TOPICS

Beyond climate change – Our major threats on the planet and nature-based solutions

Dr. Indrajit Ray
Dr. Indrajit Ray

POSITION

Professor, Computer Science Department

UNIVERSITY

Colorado State University

TOPICS

That’s My DNA: Ensuring Authenticity and Integrity of Synthetic DNA Molecules

Dr. Indrakshi Ray
Dr. Indrakshi Ray

POSITION

Professor, Computer Science Department

UNIVERSITY

Colorado State University

TOPICS

Tracing the Trajectory of Access Control Models in the New Cyber World

Professor Tom Curran
Professor Tom Curran

POSITION

VP Internationalization, Associate Professor, Biosystems and Food Engineering, UCD College of Engineering & Architecture

UNIVERSITY

University College of Dublin

TOPICS

Impact of ammonia emissions on the environment and human health

Dr. Shachar Richter
Dr. Shachar Richter

POSITION

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & University Center for NanoScience and Nanotechnology

UNIVERSITY

Tel Aviv University

TOPICS

When Nature meets Nanotechnology: Development of Novel Bio-composites from Renewable Resources

Dr. Jose Rajan
Dr. Jose Rajan

POSITION

Faculty of Industrial Sciences & Technology

UNIVERSITY

Universiti Malaysia Pahang

TOPICS

Our share of the solution to the existential problem

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya

POSITION

Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, Director, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab, School of Computing and Information Systems

UNIVERSITY

The University of Melbourne

TOPICS

Neoteric Frontiers in Cloud, Edge, and Quantum Computing

Dr. Kalai Mathee
Dr. Kalai Mathee

POSITION

Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine,

UNIVERSITY

Florida International University

TOPICS

A novel approach for combining metagenome, metaresistome, metareplicome, and causal inference to determine microbial survival strategies against antibiotics

Dr. Giri Narasimhan
Dr. Giri Narasimhan

POSITION

Professor, Bioinformatics Research Group (BioRG), Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences

UNIVERSITY

Florida International University

TOPICS

The Social Network of Microbes

Dr. Oren Harman
Dr. Oren Harman

POSITION

Renowned historian and philosopher of science and writer, Israel, Director of the Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society

UNIVERSITY

Bar-Ilan University

TOPICS

The Price of Altruism, or Where Kindness Comes From

Dr. Krishna Kumar Damodaran
Dr. Krishna Kumar Damodaran

POSITION

HOD, Department of Chemistry, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND NATURAL SCIENCES

UNIVERSITY

University of Iceland

TOPICS

Mimicking nature’s self-assembly process to develop smart materials based on supramolecular systems

Prof. Xavier Fernando
Prof. Xavier Fernando

POSITION

Professor and Director, Ryerson Communications Lab

UNIVERSITY

Toronto Metropolitan University , USA

TOPICS

Selected Topics on Wireless Communications

Dr. Farah Shroff
Dr. Farah Shroff

POSITION

Harvard School of Public Health Takemi Fellow in Global Health,Public Health

UNIVERSITY

Harvard University

TOPICS

Microcosm, Macrocosm: Health for All through Public Health, Social Justice and Integrative Practices

Prof. Michael Witbrock
Prof. Michael Witbrock

POSITION

Professor, School of Computer Science,Computer Science

UNIVERSITY

University of Auckland

TOPICS

The Future of Thinking

Dr. Richard Voyles
Dr. Richard Voyles

POSITION

Head of the Collaborative Robotics Lab at Purdue, Professor and Director of the Robotics Accelerator,Department of Computer and Information Technology.

UNIVERSITY

Purdue University

TOPICS

Cyber-Physical-Sentient Systems – The Intersection of Humans, Robots, AI and IoT

Dr. Janko Nikolich- Žugich
Dr. Janko Nikolich- Žugich

POSITION

Department Head and Professor, Immunobiology, Co-Director, Arizona Center on Aging, College of Medicine-Tucson

UNIVERSITY

University of Arizona

TOPICS

Immunity against SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination in older adults

Prof. Massimo Picardi
Prof. Massimo Picardi

POSITION

Head of Discipline, Signal Processing and Analytics , School of Electrical and Data Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

UNIVERSITY

University of Technology Sydney U.T.S Australia

TOPICS

Natural Language Processing

Prof. Anna Scherbina
Prof. Anna Scherbina

POSITION

Associate professor of finance , Brandeis international business school

UNIVERSITY

Brandeis University U.S.A

TOPICS

Cyber security – Economic threats on malicious cyber activity

Dr.Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn
Dr.Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn

POSITION

Assistant professor at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology & Computer Science

UNIVERSITY

University of Tokyo

TOPICS

Cryptography and Wireless localisation

Prof. Behdad Moghtaderi
Prof. Behdad Moghtaderi

POSITION

Professor, School of Engineering (Chemical Engineering),Department of Chemical Engineering

UNIVERSITY

University of Newcastle

TOPICS

Master Class on Renewable energy technologies and Engineering solutions at Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources (NIER)

Dr. Geraldine Vaughan
Dr. Geraldine Vaughan

POSITION

Lecturer, Public Health, Medical and Applied Sciences Appleton Institute,Public Health

UNIVERSITY

CQUniversity

TOPICS

Women and girls with Rheumatic Heart Disease: a life-course approach

Prof. Pierre-André Jacinthe
Prof. Pierre-André Jacinthe

POSITION

Professor and Director,Center for Earth and Environmental Sciences

UNIVERSITY

Indiana University

TOPICS

Phosphorus mobility and water quality in a changing climate

Dr. Jaehong Kim
Dr. Jaehong Kim

POSITION

Professor and Chair ,Chemical & Environmental Engineering

UNIVERSITY

Yale University

TOPICS

Edible-Dye Enhanced Solar Disinfection

Prof. Enrico Gianluca Caiani
Prof. Enrico Gianluca Caiani

POSITION

Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering

UNIVERSITY

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

TOPICS

E-Health & Patient Empowerment

Prof. Richard Wingate
Prof. Richard Wingate

POSITION

Head of Department and Chair of Departmental Education Committee & Reader of Developmental Neurobiology, Department of Developmental Neurobiology

UNIVERSITY

King’s College London

TOPICS

Making holes in the brain: modelling human development in the zebrafish

Prof. Michele Calvello
Prof. Michele Calvello

POSITION

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

UNIVERSITY

University of Salerno, Italy

TOPICS

Early warning systems for weather-induced landslides

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