The Speakers

Prof. H.P. Khincha is the current Chairman of Karnataka State Innovation Council. He retired as the Vice Chancellor of Bangalore University in 2011. With over 42 years of teaching and research experience at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Prof. Khincha's contribution to the Science and Engineering is monumental. Indian Institute of Science, University of Calgery, Canada, National University Singapore and EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland are some of the few educational organizations that Prof. Khincha has active association with. With his unprecedented passion towards engineering and indomitable energy, Prof. Khincha continues to contribute by associating with several reputed organizations within India and overseas. Some of his current roles include Chairman - Karnataka State Innovation Council, Member - State Planning Commission, Advisor - Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission, Member - National Mission, Hon Member - Harvard Alumni Angel's club, Chairman - National Mission on Intelligent Transportation Systems etc.

Shri. Satheesh G is currently working as Scientist G and Head of Intelligent Transporta􀆟on & Networking Sec􀆟on and Cyber Security Group of C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram.

Shri. Om Prakash Bharthuar is the section Head (Design and development)- Chassis, Powertrain Integration and ADAS. He has more than 17 years of experience in the field of tyre design & development. His Expertise and Achievements includes, First time implementation of ADAS level 1 and level 2 in Indian cars (segment first), Total 5 patents awarded for different innovations so far, Recipient of different organizational awards for innovation, quality improvement and VAVE.

Shri. Vivekananda Nayak has more than 17 years of experience in Automotive and Robotics domain. He was part of Automotive Major’s Bosch and Fiat Chrysler-COMAU, currently with Continental as Location Head of Product Line Human Vision. He has worked in various Automotive areas starting from Software / Function design and development, Verification and Validations in Engine Management control unit(Powertrain). Extensive hands for Function Safety, Requirement / Software engineering, Process Improvements, Agile development, Exhaust gas treatment, Common rail and Unit injection System. He has management experiences in Engine management System(EMS) , ADAS and Automated Driving. Since over 5 years, he has experience in ADAS and Autonomous Vehicle: right from initiating a program from scratch till making the prototype vehicle to run autonomously. In Continental, he was responsible to deploy ADAS function for base development as well as production programs in Japan, China, Europe and a few in North America. In current role, he is responsible for development of next generation Vision functions/features from L2 to L3 level of autonomy. Additionally, he is actively contributing to GRAV (“ Working Party on Automated/Autonomous and Connected Vehicles”) , Automotive industry standards committee (ASIC -India) as Panel Convenor of Active Lane Keep System (ALKS).

Shri. Jerry Daniel J is currently working as Scientist G in the Control & Instrumentation Group of C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram. He has been associated with C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram for the last 23+ years in the field of embedded systems design and its implementation for various applications. He has expertise in the design of embedded products and solutions for industrial automation, vehicle tracking systems, vehicular communication systems, wireless sensor networks and automated test stations. His areas of interest include Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), embedded system design and design of automation systems for Industrial applications.

Dr. Stevanovic is an Associate Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He teaches courses in traffic engineering, transportation planning, and operations research and conducts research in a variety of subjects including traffic signal control systems, intelligent transportation systems, multimodal and sustainable operations, transportation simulation modeling, etc. He has advised more than 30 graduate students (MSc and PhD) and five post-doctoral associates. He has published more than 150 journal and conference papers and presented at more than 80 international, national, and state seminars and professional meetings. He has been principal investigator on 31 research projects for a total of ~ $3.9 million in funding, and has authored more than 30 technical reports for various transportation agencies, including TRB/NAS, NSF, UDOT, UTA, FLDOT, NJDOT, and others. Dr. Stevanovic is a member of TRB AHB25 Committee for Traffic Signal Systems and he is also member of ITE, TRB, ASCE, etc. Dr. Stevanovic serves as a paper reviewer for 30 scientific journals and conference proceedings. Although Dr. Stevanovic’s main research interests emphasize arterial operations and traffic signal control, he is best known for his contributions in Adaptive Traffic Control Systems (ATCS). He is a sole author of the NCHRP 403 Synthesis Study – Adaptive Traffic Control Systems: Domestic and Foreign State of Practice and has been invited many times to give talks and teach about ATCSs, both nationally and internationally. His research has been highlighted in a range of media articles - from local newspapers to the TIME magazine.

Dr. Vijay Kovvali is an Associate Director with IBI Group. He has over 25 years of experience in intelligent transportation systems, traffic engineering and microsimulation modelling. He received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.

Vijay’s interests include traffic operations, transport technology, sustainable transportation, and child friendly cities.

Dr. R Sivanandan is currently a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Madras. He obtained his doctorate from Virginia Polytechnic institute and State University at Blacksburg, United states.

Dr. Deepak Gangadharan is an Assistant Professor at IIIT Hyderabad since September 2019.Prior to this, he has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Pennsylvania working with Prof Insup Lee, and at Embedded Systems Engineering Section of DTU Informatics and Hardware Software Codesign Department of University of Erlangen, Nuremberg. He obtained his PhD degree in School of Computing at National University of Singapore and was advised by Prof Roger Zimmermann and Prof Samarjit Chakraborty. His PhD thesis title was Quality-aware performance analysis of multimedia MPSoC platforms. Prior to his PhD, I have conducted research on Hardware-efficient reconfigurable architectures for image processing algorithms. He also worked as a Senior Design Engineer at Conexant Systems Inc., where he was involved in design and verification of ASIC and FPGA IP cores for optical communication protocols. Prior to that, he obtained a degree in Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication from College of Engineering, Trivandrum, India.

Shri. E B Benoy Gopal is working as Associate Director in Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Thiruvananthapuram, a premier R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). He has completed Engineering graduation in Computer Engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala. He has 26 years of experience in Information Technology (IT) which includes Design, R&D, Consultancy, and implementation of the products for both Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems (SCADA). His present focus is on the Intelligent Transportation domain and released several products suitable for Smart City Deployments.

Dr. Samson Mathew is currently the Dean (Students Welfare). He joined National Institute of Technology (formerly Regional Engineering College), Tiruchirappalli in the year 1994 and is currently the Professor of Civil Engineering CETransE was established in the year 2013 by the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, and Government of India under the scheme ‘Establishment of Centers of Excellence in Frontier Areas of Sciences and Technology (FAST)’. His teaching and research areas include Transportation Planning, Traffic Engineering, Road Safety, Pavement Management and ITS. He has published 36 papers in International/National journals, 29 papers in International conferences and more than 70 papers in National level conferences. He has successfully completed ten projects sponsored by Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India, National Rural Road Development Agency, Coir Board etc. He is also actively involved in Transportation related consultancy works. He is also a life member of the professional organizations such as Indian Roads Congress, Indian Society for Technical Education, Institute of Urban Transport, Institution of Engineers and Transport Group of India. He has delivered expert lectures in many leading institutions in South India. He has also visited Singapore, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Srilanka and Republic of Korea as a part of his academic programmes. He was the coordinator of Golden Jubilee Celebrations of NIT, Tiruchirappalli which was inaugurated by the honorable President of India, Sri. Pranab Mukherjee on 19th July 2014.

Prof. Ashish Verma Professor, Transportation Systems Engineering (TSE) Convenor, IISc Sustainable Transportation Lab (IST Lab.)Dept. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc),Bangalore-560012, Karnataka, India. E-mail: ashishv@iisc.ac.inAbout the Speaker Prof. (Dr.) Ashish Verma is the Convenor of “IISc Sustainable Transportation Lab. (IST Lab.)”.He is Ph.D. from IIT Bombay and is currently serving as a Professor of Transportation Systems Engg. at Dept. of Civil Engg, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. His research interests are in; sustainable transportation planning & policy, integrated public transport planning and management, transport & Quality of Life (QoL), transport & climate change, modeling and optimization of transportation systems, travel behavior analysis and modeling, pedestrian and crowd flow modeling, driver behaviour and road safety, intelligent transportation system (ITS),traffic control & management etc. He has authored more than 2127research publications, including more than 85 journal publications, in the area of sustainable transportation. He is the Founding and Immediate Past President of the society Transportation Research Group of India(TRG). He is presently serving as Steering & Scientific Committee Member of World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS). More details about him can be seen on hishome-page7http://civil.iisc.ac.in/~ashishv/beta/index.php.