Prof. Muralikrishna Iyyanki, a distinguished expert in Geospatial Modeling, Environment, and Health Analytics, holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and an M.Tech from IIT Madras. With extensive experience spanning academia, research, and consultancy, Prof. Murali has chaired significant international initiatives like the ISPRS Working Group III/9 on Geospatial Environment and Health Analytics. Dr. Murali has served in pivotal roles such as the Chairman of the Smart Village Movement, Consultant for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Project on Population Health Analytics, and as a Distinguished Fellow at DRDO, Government of India. As a prolific academic, he has mentored numerous scholars, led research projects, and founded esteemed journals like Geospatial Today and Technology Spectrum. With a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation, Prof. Muralikrishna fondly called IVM continues to shape the landscape of geospatial technology and its applications in diverse domains.
C P Madhusudan is co -founder of Vyuhaa Med Data a Startup focused on Preventive Healthcare which is incubated at IIT Hyderabad. He is also Director of Lucid Software Ltd. which develops software for Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) industry. Lucid’s focus is on industries where safety is a critical issue and secure operations are a must. These include Nuclear Power, Aerospace, Civil Engineering Infrastructure, Oil and Gas. In addition, he is supporting the scale up of CPath Laboratories, national chain of diagnostics laboratories. He is an alumnus of IIT Madras and IIM Bangalore. He has led alumni activities for both institutes for many yearsC.
Ravindranath Jonna completed his B.Tech (Metallurgy) from IIT, Madras in 1977. He joined SAIL, Salem Steel Plant, Salem in 1978 as Management Trainee (Technical) and worked in Production, Planning, Customer Services, Market Development, Domestic Marketing and Exports. He has travelled across the globe during his fifteen years stint as in-charge of Exports. He received Jawahar award for his contribution in improving exports from SSP. He has also received Regional Top Exporter Shield from EEPC (SR) for record growth of Exports. He superannuated in 2015 as DGM (Marketing), in-charge of Stainless Steel Marketing from SAIL, CMO. He has settled down in Visakhapatnam and presently helping ISSDA as advisor in spreading the knowledge about Stainless Steels & cost-effective uses of SS to improve the consumption in India.
Pingili Vikram Kumar (विक्रम कुमार విక్రమ్ కుమార్), well known as vikram bhayyA in academic circles, is basically a science communicator. Was with bharatiscript.com project at IIT Madras till 2022. Worked in the industry as a DSP engineer for a short while. Served as faculty in Engg colleges for about 4.5 years. Visited 550+ schools & has been the resource person for signal processing / MATLAB / embedded systems/ Robotics workshops/ FDPs at 90+ colleges across the country. Given lecture cum demo sessions for over 250 hrs online. Taught mathematical magics & basic science demos to over 1 lakh students, teachers, and the general public. Concurrently does several activities such as mentoring/ supporting students in doing socially relevant projects.
VVB Anjaneya Prasad (Brahma) Completed M. Tech (Power Systems & Power Electronics) from IIT Madras, B. Tech (EEE) from ANU, DEEE from MBTS Govt. Polytechnic. Having 25 years of industrial experience in Design, Testing, Commissioning, QC, Project Management Consultancy & Engineering Consultancy in Oil & Gas and Electrical Industry in India & GCC. Worked in top EPC & Engineering Companies CCC, Worley. Worked in Schneider/SIEMENS/ABB Channel Partners Companies, Voltamp Energy SAOG. He founded Veerabhadra Elite Electrodynamic Solutions LLP and doing R&D in HVDC (>500kV DC) and applied 4 PATENTS (HVDC Generators & Converters).
Kiran Murthi (1995EE batch) works on the intersection of technology and sales. He is a consultant to mid sized corporates on leveraging technology to drive sales & is an Advisor to early stage tech companies or their investors on commercialization and speed to market.