Organizers

Organizing Institutes

Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness

Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) Kharagpur, India

&

Indian Institute of Management (I.I.M) Ranchi, India

In collaboration with

Partha Ghosh Academy of Leadership

Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) Kharagpur, India

Chief Patron

Prof. V. K. Tewari, Director, IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Virendra Kumar Tewari is the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

An alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, Prof. Tewari did B.Tech. (Hons.) in Agricultural Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1979, M.Tech. in Farm Machinery and Power Engineering in 1981 and Ph.D. in Engineering in 1985. Prof. Tewari joined the Institute as a faculty member in 1990 where he rose to the rank of Professor in Farm Machinery and Power Engineering in the Dept. of Agricultural and Food Engineering. He was associated with JEE from 2003-2006 and was the All India Organizing Committee Chairman of JEE from 2005-2006. Many of his pioneering initiatives such as the design of question papers are being followed even now.

Honorary Chairs

Director In-Charge, IIM Ranchi

Prof. P. K. Bala is the Director In-Charge of IIM Ranchi. He earned his B.Tech., M.Tech. and Ph.D. from IIT, Kharagpur. His area of expertise is Data Mining & Predictive Analytics, Social Media & Cognitive Analytics, Data Warehousing & Big Data Analytics, Text, Web & Social Network Analytics, Machine Learning & Recommender Systems, and Natural Language Processing.

Dr. Satinder Singh Rekhi, Honorary Chairman,

Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness, IIT Kharagpur

Dr. Rekhi Singh earned his undergraduate degree in Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. In 2017 he established the Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness at IIT Kharagpur.

He is chief executive officer of R Systems, a global, publicly traded company he founded that specializes in information technology outsourcing across industries, including banking and finance, telecom and digital media, retail and e-commerce, health care, manufacturing and logistics.

General Chairs

Prof. Priyadarshi Patnaik,

Chairman, Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness and Professor, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Rajlakshmi Guha

Assistant Professor,

Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness, IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Atasi Mohanty

Assistant Professor, Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness, IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Saamdu Chetri

Visiting Faculty, Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness, IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Tanusree Dutta

Associate Professor, Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness, IIM Ranchi

Organizing Committee

Academic Committee

Dr. Archi Banerjee

Shazia Nasreen

Debayoni Mal

Baishali Bose

Technical Committee

Deepak Panda

Poulami Sengupta

Vidisha Rai

Design Committee

Shalini Chaudhary

Subhashini R

Suhita Karmakar

Ashraf Alam

Publicity Committee

Ankur Shukla

Akanksha

Munmun Mohapatra