Dr. Gautham Sekar is Founder & President of Madras Fintech Services Pvt. Ltd (MFS), Chennai. He holds a B.E.(Hons.) degree in Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering and an M.Sc.(Hons.) in Physics from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, and a PhD in the area of Cryptology from the KU Leuven, Belgium. He has worked in various capacities at leading academic institutions such as the National University of Singapore, the Indian Statistical Institute, the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Chennai) and BITS Pilani (Off-Campus). Dr Sekar has (co-)authored 19 peer-reviewed publications, with several appearing in top venues such as Fast Software Encryption, CT-RSA, Information Security Conference, the Journal of Mathematical Cryptology and the Journal of Computer Security. He has served on the technical programme committee of Security Standardisation Research 2015. Aside from lecturing at intensive courses on Information Security, he has been involved in (co-)teaching courses in data science / information security at the Madras School of Economics, BITS Pilani, University of Madras and the Indian Statistical Institute. He is a recipient of the Dr. Ranjit Singh Chauhan Undergraduate Research Award. Dr Sekar has contributed to the security evaluation of the GOST block cipher for ISO/IEC. A secure implementation of a 3GPP encryption standard that he co-developed has been included in the LTE/4G wireless standards.

Dr. Soumyadeep Bhattacharya is a Visiting Expert at Madras Fintech Services, and an Architect of High Performance Computing & Simulations Platform at SankhyaSutra Labs (subsidiary of Jio Platforms, Reliance Industries). He leads a team of engineers designing optimised software frameworks for massively parallel engineering and scientific simulations on petascale supercomputing infrastructure. He has collaborated with computing teams at Intel, AMD, Nvidia and HPE. He has worked on algorithms for particle detectors at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), on reliability analysis of hybrid electronic modules at Centum Electronics, on fabrication of thermoelectric nanomaterials at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and has published his research on statistical physics, cryptography and logistics. In 2017, he collaborated with the Decision Sciences and Information Systems Group of IIM Bangalore and developed algorithms for stock index time-series prediction in automated trading using machine learning techniques. He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, and a dual degree with M.Sc.(Hons.) Physics and B.E.(Hons.) Electrical & Electronics Engineering from BITS Pilani.

Dr. Gopalasamudram Sivaramakumar is a Senior Manager at Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS). He holds a B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy, an M.E. in Instrument Technology from the Madras Institute of Technology, and a PhD in the field of Adaptive Systems from the Indian Institute of Science. He has worked in the implementation and support of supply chain management systems and data analytics systems in various industrial domains such as paints, food processing, semiconductors, transportation logistics, automotive, health care, hospitality, retail and telecom at Siemens Information Systems, Sherwin-Williams Company and CTS. He has also worked briefly at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR-DRDO) in Bengaluru. His teaching experience includes courses on machine learning, supply chain modelling, optimisation methods, robust control and statistics. His research papers are in the areas of control theory, supply chain planning and optimisation, and he has served as a member of the editorial board of an international journal called ‘Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems’.