Professor (Dr.) Balran Dogra is the Vice Chancellor of Sri Sai University, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India. A core academician with 24 years of experience did his Ph. D. in Export Marketing under the guidance of Professor R. N. Singh, Ex Vice Chancellor of University of Rajasthan. An M. Phil. (University Gold Medalist) and MBA from H P University, Shimla has been Director of Apeejay Insitute of Management, Jalandhar. He also served as Dean of faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, H P University as well as Director of Institute of Vocational Studies, HP University, Shimla. He is an expert of various Indian bodies of University Grant Commission, Union Public Service Commission and selection committee of different universities like Kurukshetra University, Punjabi University, Gurukul Kangri University, and Punjab Technical University. He has authored 9 books and published more than 40 research paper in various journal of national and international repute.

Dr. Ashok Agarwal is the Adjunct Professor of Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, India, and Chairman EWB India (Engineers Without borders, India) a nonprofit body for using innovative engineering solutions through the students of various engineering colleges for improving quality of life of common person and member of the Board of EWB International representing Asia. He is a Gold Medalist in Mechanical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, India, and completed his Master Degree and Ph. D. from University of Minnesota, USA. He started his professional career with Bell Telephone Laboratories followed by Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India, as a Professor of MIS. He taught various courses in MBA and Ph.D. He was involved in guiding number of doctoral candidates for their Ph. D. program. He was also Project coordinator for Computer Aided Management center sponsored by Govt. of India and United Nations Development Program and was a member of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India, for four years. Dr. Agarwal was a visiting professor at Northeastern University, Boston, USA, Visiting Professor and Ford Fellow at Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and University of Minnesota, USA.

He is the Founding Director of Indian Institute of Port Management, Calcutta, India, under Indian Ports Association. He is also Consultant to numerous organizations and member of various academic and parliamentary committees of Govt. of India, like Railway Reforms Committee, Parliamentary Committee for Chief controller of Imports and Exports, UGC Committee for evaluation of M. Tech. Program at Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India, and Indian Statistical Institute & DOE committee for evaluation of programs at Indian Institute of Management, Ahemdabad, India, and Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, India.

Dr. Agarwal is deeply involved in Computer Society of India. He was the Chairman of Division V, Data Communication during 2003-2005 in Execom of CSI and Convener of CSI – Nihilent e-Governance awards for two years. He was the Event Chairman for the Annual convention of Computer Society of India (CSI 2005) at Hyderabad during 2005 and the Conference Chairman of International Conference on e-Governance during December 2007 at Central University, Hyderabad, India. He was the Founding Chairman of Special Interest Group on e-Governance of Computer Society of India. He was awarded the prestigious CSI Fellowship for his contribution to the IT profession In India.
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As an entrepreneur, from 1986 onwards Dr. Agarwal was involved in setting up various IT organizations in India. He founded Era Software Systems (P) Ltd., SQL Star International Ltd., Cyber Media India Ltd., and ACS Technologies Ltd.

He is also Member of the Governing Body of Andhra Mahila Sabha School of Informatics, Osmania University, India, Chairman of Aurora engineering College, Hyderabad, India, Member of Governing Council of Badruka Education Society, India, and Board member of IDES Ltd., Reliance Cellulose Ltd. & Cyber Media India Ltd. He is an active member of BITS Pilani Alumni Association encouraging entrepreneurship in Students.

Professor G. S. Singh is the Advisor of CRISIL Limited for educational grading & Honorary Professor of Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India. He holds a M. Sc. in Physics from Punjab University, Patiala, India & Docteur de 3eme cycle from Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI France. He has also completed one year course in Nuclear Science from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India. He started his professional career as Scientific Officer to Principal Scientific Officer Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India and has more than forty years of professional experience embracing education and training, research and development, management, evolving and implementing stable solutions from ideation to implementation & Business Development through informal and formal interactions. He was a Professor & Head of the Department in Computer Science & Engineering, and Dean Engineering Faculty at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India apart from Technical Advisor (IT) in the Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India. After his retirement from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India, he joined Tata Infotech Ltd. as General Manager (Training) later moving to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. as Principal Consultant – Innovation Lab involving in Innovation, Innovation and Business interface, Patents Creation and Business Development, where four patents were applied by his group at TCS Innovation Lab. He is also a visiting faculty in some of the premier institutions and universities globally such as, S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, India, Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad , India, Asian Institute of Communication and Research Business School, Neral, India, Punjabi University, Patiala, India, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Technical University of Delft, Holland, CWI Amsterdam, Holland and Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Paris, France.

Professor Singh has about 25 publications in the National and International Conference Proceedings, Journals etc. in parallel Computing, Neural Networks, and Computational Techniques. He was a member of various research & professional bodies, such as, Member of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India and did his research in the areas of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Parallel Computing and Artificial Neural Networks also a Member of Electronics & Instrumentation Committee of BRNS (Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences), a funding agency for Research and Development projects in universities across India. Professor Sing is also Member Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Higher Education Forum & Global Journal of Enterprise Information System, GJEIS. He is the recipient of Life Time Achievement Recognition honored by Higher Education Forum.

Professor (Dr.) Narsingh Deo is known for his work in computational graph theory and in parallel algorithms. He holds the Charles N. Millican Eminent Scholar's Chair in Computer Science at University of Central Florida, USA. Prior to this, he was a Professor of Computer Science at Washington State University, where he also served as the department chair. Before that he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and a Member of Technical Staff at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. (EE) from Northwestern University.

He has held Visiting professorships at numerous institutions—including at the University of Illinois, Urbana; University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; and IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center; ETH, Zurich; University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Oak Ridge National Lab.; Australian National University, Canberra; Chuo University, Tokyo; Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; and IIT/Kharagpur.

A Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the ICA and a Fellow of the AAAS, Dr. Deo has authored four other books and about 250 refereed research papers. He holds a number of patents in computer hardware and is a recipient of NASA's Apollo Achievement Award.Among his other awards are: Gold Medal of Patna University; Drake Scholar at Caltech, Governor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to High Tech Researchin Florida (1989); UCF's Distinguished Researcher Award-89; UCF's Professorial Excellence Program Award (1997); UCF's Teaching Incentive Program Award (1999); and UCF's Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award (2001). He has served as an editor/guest editor/ member of the editorial board for several journals.

Dr. Tamal K. Dey is professor of computer science at the Ohio State University, USA. His research interest includes computational geometry, computational topology and their applications in graphics and geometric modeling. After finishing his Ph. D. from Purdue University in 1991 he spent a year in University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign as a post doctoral fellow. He has held academic positions in Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and Max-Planck Institute, Germany. He authored a book ``Curve and surface reconstruction: Algorithms with mathematical analysis" published by Cambridge University Press. He leads the Jyamiti group which has developed various software including the well known Cocone software for surface reconstruction and DelPSC software for mesh generation.

Professor (Dr.) Ashok N. Bhaskarwar is the Petrotech Chair Professor and Head of Department, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He obtained his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1987. He later had post-doctoral assignments at the State University of Gent, Belgium, and at the I.I.Sc., Bangalore, before joining I.I.T., Delhi. He had been awarded the prestigious INSA Medal for Young Scientist in 1991 and received the BOYSCAST award of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, in 1994.

He had been a Visiting Professor at the famed Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, U.S.A., during 1995-96. He had been a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the international journal "ACH -- Models in Chemistry" for several years. More recently, he has also been inducted into the advisory and editorial boards of several international journals spanning a wide range of science from biological and medical sciences to fuel cells. He is an active reviewer for leading international journals like Chemical Engineering Science, AIChE Journal, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, etc. Professor Bhaskarwar's research interests include foam-bed reactors, dissolution kinetics, thin film growth, photochemical and photo-electrochemical reactors, heat-transfer augmentation, agglomeration kinetics, flow of fluids through porous media, pollution-preventing technologies especially the novel printing inks, paints, fuels, and lately development of multifunctional nano-constructs for targeted drug-delivery systems A start-up christened EnNatura Technologies Ventures Private Ltd has recently been launched by a team of his students clasping the pollution-preventing printing inks developed in his Laboratory.

Professor (Dr.) R. K. Shyamasundar is with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai where he is currently a Senior Professor and JC Bose National Fellow. He was the Founder Dean of the School of Technology and Computer Science. He completed his B.E. (Electrical Engineering) from University of Mysore, M.E. (Electrical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and Ph. D. (Computer Science and Automation) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His principle areas of research are: Specification, Design and Verification of reactive and real-time systems, Programming Languages, Logics of programs, Formal methods, Computer and Network & Information Security. He has published widely and has more than 200 publications in refereed journals, conference proceedings, two monograph, several edited books, and holds several patents in US and India. He has given several invited talks at various conferences. He is a Fellow IEEE, Fellow ACM and serves on IEEE Esterel Std Committee. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and Fellow of TWAS (Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Trieste.)

Dr. Robert D. Atkinson is the founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington, DC-based technology policy think tank. He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989. He is the author of the State New Economy Index series and the book,"The Past and Future of America's Economy: Long Waves of Innovation That Power Cycles of Growth" Published by Edward Elgar in 2005. He has an extensive background in technology policy, he has conducted ground-breaking research projects on technology and innovation, is a valued adviser to state and national policy makers, and a popular speaker on innovation policy nationally and internationally.

Before coming to ITIF, Dr. Atkinson was Vice President of the Progressive Policy Institute and Director of PPI's Technology & New Economy Project. While at PPI he wrote numerous research reports on technology and innovation policy, including on issues such as broadband telecommunications, Internet telephony, universal service, e-commerce, e-government, middleman opposition to e-commerce, privacy, copyright, RFID and smart cards, the role of IT in homeland security, the R&D tax credit, offshoring, and growth economics.

Previously Dr. Atkinson served as the first Executive Director of the Rhode Island Economic Policy Council, a public-private partnership including as members the Governor, legislative leaders, and corporate and labor leaders. As head of RIEPC, he was responsible for drafting a comprehensive economic strategic development plan for the state, developing a ten-point economic development plan and working to successfully implement all ten proposals through the legislative and administrative branches. Prior to that, he was Project Director at the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. While at OTA, he directed The Technological Reshaping of Metropolitan America, a seminal report examining the impact of the information technology revolution on America's urban areas.

He is a board member or advisory council member of the Alliance for Public Technology, Internet Education Foundation, Net Choice Coalition, the Pacific Institute for Workforce Innovation, and the University of Oregon Institute for Policy Research and Innovation. He is also chair of the Congressionally-created National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission. He also serves on the advisory panel to Americans for Computer Privacy, is an affiliated expert for the New Millennium Research Council, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Electronic Government and the Journal of Internet Policy, a member of the Reason Foundation's Mobility Project Advisory Board, a member of the Global Innovation Forum Brain Trust and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Atkinson was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Commission on Workers, Communities, and Economic Change in the New Economy. He is also a member of the Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, co-chaired by Markle Foundation president Zoe Baird and former Netscape Communications chairman James Barksdale. In 1999, he was featured in "Who's Who in America: Finance and Industry." In 2002, he was awarded the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award Silver Medal. In addition, Government Technology Magazine and the Center for Digital Government named him one of the 25 top Doers, Dreamers and Drivers of Information Technology. In 2006, Inc. Magazine listed Dr. Atkinson as one of 19 Friends of Small Business in Washington. Ars Technica listed Dr. Atkinson as one of 2009's tech policy People to Watch. Dr. Atkinson has testified before a number of committees in Congress and has appeared in various media outlets including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR, and NBC Nightly News.