G. K. Ananthasuresh earned his bachelor's degree from IIT-Madras, master's from the University of Toledo, and PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, all in mechanical engineering. He is currently a Professor in Mechanical Engineering and the Dean of the Division of Mechanical Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. His principal research interests are compliant mechanisms and topology optimization with applications in microelectromechanical systems, biomechanics of cells, biomedical devices, and microrobotics. In addition to research output of about 300 journal and conference publications and 16 patents, his research group has spun off four startups. He is a co-author or a sole author of two textbooks, five edited books, and 17 book chapters. He and his students have been recognized with 14 best paper awards and 10 design prizes. His work is recognized with National Science Foundation (USA) Early Career Award, Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph R. Teeter Educational Award (USA) as well as Swarnajayanthi Fellowship, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, and Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship from the Government of India.

Ramray Bhat is an Assistant Professor at the Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, IISc. He is interested in studying the underlying principles of cell organization. Research in his lab explores various aspects of development, evolution and cancer.

Deepak K Saini is an Associate Professor at the Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, IISc. His research group studies various aspects of Signalling in Ageing, Inflammation and Infection, and have developed multiple cellular model systems for studying cellular senescence.

Annapoorni Rangarajan is a Professor at the Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, IISc. The main focus of her laboratory is to understand the origin and biology of Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs), underlying mechanisms that regulate their stemness and drug resistance, and to develop novel strategies to target CSCs for effective treatment of cancer.

Rahul Roy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, IISc. Research in his lab aims to innovate and engineer novel technologies to help understand and manage infectious diseases using single molecule detection, single cell analysis, quantitative genomics and high-resolution imaging. His lab explores the molecular behaviour of biological macromolecules like proteins or nucleic acids at the single molecule level as well as its distribution at the population level using highly sensitive optical and non-optical detection methods.

Nagasuma Chandra is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, IISc. A major interest in her laboratory is to understand genome-wide perturbations in several human diseases using multi-level modelling of biological systems and translate such insights into biomarker and drug discovery. A specific focus is to understand how anti-microbial resistance emerges and identify new strategies and drug-combinations for tackling resistance.

Ashok M Raichur is an Indian materials scientist, nanotechnologist and a professor at the Department of Materials Engineering, IISc. He is known for his studies on the use of nanotechnology for biomedical and environmental applications. Current focus topics of his group include generation of novel drug delivery systems for gene and anticancer drugs, development of polyelectrolyte/nanoparticle multilayers for environmental applications, nanostructured multilayers for sensing applications, and development of 2D and 3D structures as fillers in epoxy nanocomposites.

Prasanta Kumar Ghosh is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc. His research interests include non-linear signal processing methods for speech and audio, speech production and its relation to speech perception, and automatic speech recognition inspired by the speech production and perception link.

Kumaran Viswanathan is a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, IISc. He works broadly in the area of fluid dynamics and the dynamics of complex fluids. He is known for his research in theoretical analysis and experimental study of stability of flow past flexible surfaces. His fundamental work relates to complex flows with important applications in biological systems, marine and aerospace propulsion.

Subinoy Rana is an Assistant Professor at the Material Research Centre, IISc. He conducts research in the area of nanobiotechnology, in particular, the role of biomaterials surface chemistry in modulating the materials-biology interface. His group has demonstrated the utility of these novel materials in different bio-applications including diagnostics, drug discovery and therapeutic delivery and aims to innovate effective point-of-care diagnostics for different diseases with personalized screening abilities, novel platforms for precision medicine, and tissue engineering incorporating the desired materials properties.

Vijay Chandru is an Adjunct Faculty at the Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering, IISc and the co-founder of Strand Life Sciences. He has taught and conducted research in the computational mathematics of optimization, geometry, logic and biology.