K. V. Venkatesh is a professor in the department of chemical engineering at IIT Bombay. He had his undergraduate degree from IIT Madras and a doctoral degree from Purdue University, USA. Since 1993, he has been as a faculty at IIT Bombay. His area of expertise is in systems biology, applying engineering systems principles to biological phenomena. He has developed novel theoretical platforms to understand the underlying design principles in nature thereby linking genotype to phenotype. His lab has been focusing on analyzing genetic, signaling and metabolic networks in microorganisms and in higher organisms. He has close to 200 peer reviewed publications. He has won several accolades including Swaranjayanthi fellowship, INSA young scientist & INAE young engineering awards, elected fellow of National Science Academy. He has incubated a startup MetFlux research pvt limited, which offers specialized applications using system physiology models in drug discovery, disease management and wellness.

Smita Krishnaswamy is an Associate professor in Genetics and Computer Science. She is affiliated with the applied math program, computational biology program, Yale Center for Biomedical Data Science and Yale Cancer Center. Her lab works on the development of machine learning techniques to analyze high dimensional high throughput biomedical data. Her focus is on unsupervised machine learning methods, specifically manifold learning and deep learning techniques for detecting structure and patterns in data. She has developed algorithms for non-linear dimensionality reduction and visualization, learning data geometry, denoising, imputation, inference of multi-granular structure, and inference of feature networks from big data. Her group has applied these techniques to many data types such as single cell RNA-sequencing, mass cytometry, electronic health record, and connectomic data from a variety of systems. Specific application areas include immunology, immunotherapy, cancer, neuroscience, developmental biology and health outcomes. Smita has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Roman Hovorka PhD FMedSci is Professor of Metabolic Technology Research at the Institute of Metabolic Science and Department of Paediatrics at University of Cambridge. He made seminal contributions to diabetes technology including the "Artificial Pancreas", a device that delivers insulin in glucose responsive fashion. He is Chief Investigator on several trials evaluating the Artificial Pancreas in populations such as young children and newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes.

Prof. Radhakant Padhi earned his Masters in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1996, followed by his Ph.D. from Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST) - Rolla, USA, in 2001. After two years of postdoctoral studies, he joined the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a faculty member in December 2003, where currently he a full professor. He has briefly served the Defence Research and Development Organisation of India as a scientist during 1996-1997.

Ian Craig received the B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Pretoria, the S.M. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Ph.D and M.B.A. degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand. He has been a professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria since 1995 where he heads the control systems group. Previously he was part of the Measurement Control Division of Mintek where he was involved in the design, implementation and commercialisation of advanced controllers for the mineral processing industry. His research interests include model-based control and optimisation in the process industries, as well as the modelling and control of infectious diseases. Ian was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Control Engineering Practice from 2005-2010 and President of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) from 2011- 2014. He is the current Chair of the IFAC Foundation Board.

Dr. Mohit Kumar Jolly leads the Cancer Systems Biology group at the Centre for Bio Systems Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science. He has made seminal contributions to decoding the emergent dynamics of cell-state transitions in cancer metastasis, through mathematical modeling of regulatory networks. His work has featured on the cover of Journal of Clinical Medicine, Cancer Research, and Molecular and Cellular Biology, and he won the 2016 iBiology Young Scientist Seminar Series - a coveted award for communicating one's research to a diverse audience. Currently, his lab focuses on developing mechanism-based and data-based mathematical modeling for cancer progression, working in close collaboration with experimental cancer biologists and clinicians. He co-chairs the Mathematical Oncology subgroup of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) of over 250 members.

Dr. Roy is Professor and Head, School of Bio-Medical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, B.H.U., Varanasi. He had earlier been Director / Incharge, National Brain Research Centre, Gurgaon. At IIT (BHU) he is also Coordinator of the Healthcare domain, National Mission on Data Analytics & Predictive Technology, sponsored by DST. Dr Roy was trained in radiology at the Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Calcutta University, and had been Research Scientist at The University of Connecticut, Storrs. Dr Roy has received the Tata Innovation Fellowship Award, Dept. of Bio-Technology, Govt. of India. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences - India.

Dr. Deepak obtained his MBBS degree from GMC, Bhopal in 1981 and MD degree in 1984 & PhD Degree in Physiology in 1990 from AIIMS, New Delhi. He has been awarded DSc degree from SVYASA University from Bengaluru. He has been serving as faculty in the Dept of Physiology since 1987. Currently he is heading the department and also serving as Dean, Examinations at AIIMS New Delhi.

Dr. Jitendra Prasad is currently working with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar as an Associate Professor. After graduating with a B.Tech.(Hons.) from IIT Kharagpur in 1997, he worked with Indian Register of Shipping at Mumbai for 4 years. He then did his M.Eng. at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. With a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University (MSU), he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine at the University of Washington at Seattle. In April 2011, he joined IIT Ropar as an Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering.

Dr. Prasad's research is focused on computational engineering applied to design, analysis, innovation and discovery. In particular, he is interested in areas spanning applied mechanics, engineering design, optimization, bone biology and biomechanics. His research group at IIT Ropar is particularly focused on development of novel theoretical and computer models of bone fracture healing and bone's adaptation to exogenous mechanical loading.