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.
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