The Speakers

Dr. Alpana Dubey

Alpana leads Digital Experiences R&D group at Accenture Labs Bangalore. Her area of interests are HCI, AI, and software engineering. Her passion lies in inventing new ways to use digital experience technologies for businesses and people. She has been consistently contributing to academic bodies such as ACM, IEEE, Elsevier, as conference chair, steering board member, editor, and reviewer She has 19 patents / patent applications. She has 35 peer reviewed papers. At present, she is driving research programs on future of consumer experience, sustainable design, and multi-sensory experiences. She holds Ph.D. in CSE from IITK.

Dr. Kaushik Mitra

Dr. Kaushik Mitra leads the Computational Imaging lab at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. He is an Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical Engineering, IITM. Before joining IITM, he was a postdoctoral research associate with Ashok Veeraraghavan at ECE department of Rice University. Here, he worked on framework for analysis of Computational Imaging (CI) systems.

Kumar Abhinav

Abhinav is R&D Associate Principal in Digital Experiences R&D group of Accenture Labs, Bangalore. His research interests include 3D Vision and analytics, Deep Learning, Multi-modal analysis, and Natural Language Processing.

Dr. M. Manivannan

Dr. Manivannan is a professor of Biomedical Engineering in IIT Madras, under the Department of Applied Mechanics. He received post-doctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. He was a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) of Harvard Medical School (HMS) in Boston, and a visiting faculty in the Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore. Dr. Manivannan has setup the first Touch lab in India at IIT Madras, which is also known as Haptics Lab. He holds PhD and ME degrees from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

Dr. Mansi Sharma

Dr. Mansi is as an INSPIRE faculty in Electrical Engineering Department at IIT Madras since May 2018. In November 2017, she graduated with a Ph.D. from Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi. Her core specialization is in Computer Vision, Computational Photography, Computational Imaging & Imaging Optics, VR/AR/3D Displays, Wearable Head-mounted Displays, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics and Data Science.

Nitish Bhardwaj

Nitish is Technology Research Associate Principal at Accenture Labs. He is a researchers from Digital Experiences R&D group at Accenture Labs Bangalore. His areas of interests are Deep Learning, Computer Vision, 3D Modeling and 3D Deep Learning. He is very passionate about exploring new technology and developments in 3D domain.

Rohit Mehra

Rohit Mehra is a Technology R&D Assoc. Principal at Accenture Labs, India. He recently led research in novel applications of Extended Reality (AR/VR/MR) for Software Engineering and has filed/published 15+ patents and research papers in key conferences in this area. His other areas of interest include Software Engineering, Mobile Computing, HCI, and Sustainability. He is also a strong advocate of "Metaverses."

Dr. Vibhu S. Sharma

Vibhu is a Technology Research Senior Principal at Accenture Labs and has over 18 years of experience in industrial and academic R&D, and IP development. His research has spanned across software metrics & process insights, Cloud computing, Agile process governance, and more recently on approaches to augment intelligence of the different roles in software delivery using eXtended Reality. Vibhu has published more than 45 peer-reviewed research papers in key international journals and conferences. Additionally, he holds 47 granted patents and many patent applications filed/pending. At present, he is driving Green Software Engineering R&D at Accenture Labs. He holds Ph.D. in CSE from IITK.

Veenu Arora

Veenu is an Application Development Manager in the Digital Experiences R&D group at Accenture Labs, Bangalore. She holds an MCA degree from University in Vanasthali, Rajasthan. At Accenture, she plays a lead role in architecting and developing the application for B2B/B2C use cases; especially she leads the architecture and development efforts of building innovative AR/VR and multi-sensory applications at Accenture Labs. At present, she is exploring how these technologies will transform the Metaverse.

Ramesh Anumukonda

Ramesh is founding partner at A Plus Associate LLP. He provides thought leadership in AR, VR, MR for enterprise adoption. Prior to that, he has worked at Unity Technologies as country manager for Indian subcontinent. He has co-founded several firms and worked as CEO of Media and Entertainment Skills, a Government of India initiative to address the workforce skill development needs of Media & Entertainment Industry covering 1)Film, 2)Television, 3)Animation, 4)Gaming, 5)Digital, 6)Radio, 7)Print, 8)OOH, 9)Advertising. He is passionate about bringing positive social impact primarily through education.

Abinaya P.

Abinaya is a research scholar from Haptics lab, IIT, Madras. She is pursuing her M.S and PhD in the Biomedical group of Applied Mechanics department, IIT, Madras. She is an awardee of Prime Minister's Fellowship for Doctoral Research sponsored by the Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, and Merkel Haptic Systems Private Limited. Her area of research involves Medical training simulators with Haptics and VR technology. She is specialized in human-computer interfaces and communications, software development, and control systems.

Raghavendra Achari

Raghavendra Achari is a Mechanical engineer with 24+ years of Technical cum Creative experience in the entire gamut of `3D {COMPUTER GRAPHICS) ` in Gaming, Videos, Movies, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Gamification projects / products. Prior to joining IIT Madras, He worked as Executive Producer (DISNEY), Studio Head (RedOctane of ACTIVISION Inc and Playizzon of JET Synthesys), Creative Director (Vreon/EON Reality, I NexGen and AUGRAY), Technical Art Director (TATA Elxsi), and CG supervisor (PENTAFOUR).

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