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
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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
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Professor & HoD, Department of Chemistry
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University of Iceland
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Manipulating the self-assembly process to generate smart supramolecular systems
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Professor in Nutrigenetics & Nutrigenomics
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University of Reading. UK
TOPICS
International Workshop on Nutrigenetics & Precision Nutrition
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Researcher Business Models research group, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, TUDelft. Faculty, School of Finance and International Business, Saxion
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Saxion University of Applied Sciences. The Netherlands
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Workshop on “Business Models”
Business Models in Rural Community
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Senior lecturer Business Administration & Urban Development, School of Governance, Law and Urban Development
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Saxion University of Applied Sciences. The Netherlands
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Climate Proof Planning
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Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center
UNIVERSITY
City University of New York (CUNY)
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Ayurbiotechnology – Green Drug Development & Ocean Sponge Inspired Sponge Mimetic Tubules
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Internist, Nephrologist, Executive Health Program, General Internal Medicine
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Mayo Clinic
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Team based Medicine- Mayo Clinic Model of Care
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Economist (A very successful businessman and someone who worked with Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman)
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USA
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Prospects for US Inflation and Recession
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Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow, Associate Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering Department
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University of Nevada, Reno
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The multifunctional Applications of 1D Oxide Nanostructures
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Medical Officer, Global Vaccine Safety, WHO(Geneva)
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Switzerland
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Adverse event following Immunisation : Reporting & Response
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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
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USA
TOPICS
AI and Large Language Models in Healthcare
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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
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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
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Founder & President, Biosfera
UNIVERSITY
Netherlands
TOPICS
Smart Ecosystem Engineering to build circular metabolic systems & economy
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International Mobility Office – Social Sciences Area and Humanities, University of Trento
UNIVERSITY
Italy
TOPICS
Opportunities at University of Trento
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Associate Professor – English Literature and Culture, Humanities Department – ‘Letters and Philosophy’
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Italy
TOPICS
“If a book is well written, I always find it too short”. A cognitive-literary approach to why we like reading fiction
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Professor of Public Health and Implementation Science, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute & La Trobe University
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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?
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Secretary General, C20 International Advisory Committee 2023, Teaches Development Policies and Foundations of Economics, University of Milan
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Italy
TOPICS
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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
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Oakland University
TOPICS
AI-driven Distributed Systems and Blockchain
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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) ,
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university of Technology Sydney U.T.S Australia
TOPICS
The Site Stewardship for Effective Coral restoration , a Case Study from the Great Barrier Reef
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Director of International Partnerships, Adjunct in the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and the IUPUI School of Liberal Arts.,Philanthropy
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Indiana University
TOPICS
Indiana University and the SDGs.
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Professor of Operations Management Director, Centre for Business Sustainability
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College of Business (Nanyang Business School) Singapore.
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Corporate Sustainability and Circular Economy
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Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Member of Graduate Admissions Committee, Chair/Faculty Advisor (A.S.M.E./Pi Tau Sigma)
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Kettering University, UK
TOPICS
Lightweight Materials for Automotive Applications and the Joining Technologies
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Assistant Professor, School of Nursing I College of Health and Human Sciences
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Northeren Illinois University, USA
TOPICS
Pain Hygiene: A New model for symptom clusters in chronic pain
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Presidential Teaching Professor and Chair, Dept. Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Northeren Illinois University, USA
TOPICS
Scheduling batch processing machines
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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
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New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
TOPICS
Nano Carbon Enabled Energy and Environmental Technologies
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Endowed Chair in Architecture + Health Design and Director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing
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Clemson University, USA
TOPICS
Improving safety and quality through evidence-based healthcare design
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Professor, Department of Psychology – College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences
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Clemson University, USA
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Using Evidence-Based Practices in Campus Sexual Violence Prevention and Response
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Ph.D Graduate, Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management, Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering
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TUM, Germany
TOPICS
Agricultural production and yields in developing countries
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Professor in School of Zoology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
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Tel Aviv University
TOPICS
Beyond climate change – Our major threats on the planet and nature-based solutions
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Professor, Computer Science Department
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Colorado State University
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That’s My DNA: Ensuring Authenticity and Integrity of Synthetic DNA Molecules
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Professor, Computer Science Department
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Colorado State University
TOPICS
Tracing the Trajectory of Access Control Models in the New Cyber World
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VP Internationalization, Associate Professor, Biosystems and Food Engineering, UCD College of Engineering & Architecture
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University College of Dublin
TOPICS
Impact of ammonia emissions on the environment and human health
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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
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Faculty of Industrial Sciences & Technology
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Universiti Malaysia Pahang
TOPICS
Our share of the solution to the existential problem
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Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, Director, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab, School of Computing and Information Systems
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The University of Melbourne
TOPICS
Neoteric Frontiers in Cloud, Edge, and Quantum Computing
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Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine,
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Florida International University
TOPICS
A novel approach for combining metagenome, metaresistome, metareplicome, and causal inference to determine microbial survival strategies against antibiotics
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Professor, Bioinformatics Research Group (BioRG), Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences
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Florida International University
TOPICS
The Social Network of Microbes
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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
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HOD, Department of Chemistry, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND NATURAL SCIENCES
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University of Iceland
TOPICS
Mimicking nature’s self-assembly process to develop smart materials based on supramolecular systems
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Professor and Director, Ryerson Communications Lab
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Toronto Metropolitan University , USA
TOPICS
Selected Topics on Wireless Communications
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Harvard School of Public Health Takemi Fellow in Global Health,Public Health
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Harvard University
TOPICS
Microcosm, Macrocosm: Health for All through Public Health, Social Justice and Integrative Practices
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Professor, School of Computer Science,Computer Science
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University of Auckland
TOPICS
The Future of Thinking
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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
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Department Head and Professor, Immunobiology, Co-Director, Arizona Center on Aging, College of Medicine-Tucson
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University of Arizona
TOPICS
Immunity against SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination in older adults
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Head of Discipline, Signal Processing and Analytics , School of Electrical and Data Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
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University of Technology Sydney U.T.S Australia
TOPICS
Natural Language Processing
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Associate professor of finance , Brandeis international business school
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Brandeis University U.S.A
TOPICS
Cyber security – Economic threats on malicious cyber activity
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Assistant professor at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology & Computer Science
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University of Tokyo
TOPICS
Cryptography and Wireless localisation
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Professor, School of Engineering (Chemical Engineering),Department of Chemical Engineering
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University of Newcastle
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Master Class on Renewable energy technologies and Engineering solutions at Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources (NIER)
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Lecturer, Public Health, Medical and Applied Sciences Appleton Institute,Public Health
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CQUniversity
TOPICS
Women and girls with Rheumatic Heart Disease: a life-course approach
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Professor and Director,Center for Earth and Environmental Sciences
UNIVERSITY
Indiana University
TOPICS
Phosphorus mobility and water quality in a changing climate
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Professor and Chair ,Chemical & Environmental Engineering
UNIVERSITY
Yale University
TOPICS
Edible-Dye Enhanced Solar Disinfection
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Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering
UNIVERSITY
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
TOPICS
E-Health & Patient Empowerment
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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
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Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
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University of Salerno, Italy
TOPICS
Early warning systems for weather-induced landslides