QETCI - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Professor of Quantum Information
Arun Pati is a Professor of Quantum Information and Computation Group, at the Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad. He is also an adjunct Professor at IISER Mohali and IIIT, Hyderabad. He has been working in the area of Quantum Science, Quantum computing and Quantum information over the last 30 years. He is the National Coordinator of Quantum Enabled Science and Technology (QuEST) Program that is initiated by DST, India.
Prof. Pati has made many pioneering contributions in the area of Quantum Information. His research papers have been featured in Nature, Science, Scientific American and Nature Asia. For his original and creative contributions he has received many awards. This include the Indian Physical Society Award for Young Scientists, Kolkota (1996), Indian Physics Association Award for Young Physicist of the Year, Mumbai (2000),the Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award for the year 2009 from the Orissa Science Academy, India and the Distinguished Alumni award from the Berhampur University Odisha. He is an elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore and also Fellow of the National Academy of Science, Allahabad. He has received J C Bose National Fellowship from the Department ofScience and Technology India in 2019. He ranks in top 2% Scientists in the world recently conducted by Stanford University.
Job Titles:
- Founder and Partner at Quantonation, Quantum Investors
Dr Durga Prakash ( or DP as he is more popularly known) is Staff Vice President Technology and Member of SLT Innovation, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Platforms at Carelon.
Legato (the earlier name for Carelon) is GCC for US$130Billion Fortune 23 from the US, which is into Health Insurance. Dr. Durga Prakash(DP) has a Doctoral degree and Master's degree in Information Technology with experience over 25 years in, software and global delivery operations covering both Software development & support businesses, mainly in the areas of Artificial Intelligence,
Dr Saraswat is the Co-Chair for the PMSTIAC ( Prime Minister's Science Technology and Innovation Advisory Committee) . He is Member Niti Aayog, Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Chairperson, Governing Board of Quantum Ecosystems and Technology Council of India.
Dr. Vijay Kumar Saraswat is an eminent Scientist who retired as Secretary, DRDO, after more than four decades of Government service. He is ME from IISc Bangalore and Phd from Osmania University and a gifted scientist with vast experience in defence research in both basic and applied sciences.
He is a recipient of many awards and most notable among them being Padma Shri (1998), Padma Bhushan (2013). He has been conferred Honorary Doctorate by more than 25 Universities the latest among them being Jamia Hamdard
Job Titles:
- Head - Service Lines, India / South Asia, WWPS / Amazon Internet Services Private Limited
Kanishka Agiwal heads AWS' Service Lines, India/South Asia, with focus on Digital Innovation and Deep Tech such as AI/ML, Analytics, Quantum Computing, HPC, IoT as well as AWS service offerings such as databases, storage, edge, hybrid cloud and security. At AWS, he works with the public sector, central/state governments, education and health care sector, not-for-profit, travel & transportation, and PSUs to drive AI at scale for citizen impact. He has worked extensively across global markets with significant stints in all geographies and major countries.
In his previous stint, he led IBM's Cognitive Solutions, Watson, for the Travel & Transportation industry globally. He has held key positions around strategy, business development, solutions and offerings and oversee the conception, development and take to market of industry solutions.
Kanishka speaks regularly at industry conferences and trade bodies on areas of artificial intelligence, healthcare, travel, and transportation. He is an adjunct faculty at various b-schools in the areas of consulting, strategy and communications. In addition, he also serves on the board of advisors for startups in the areas of financial services and healthcare.
Michele Mosca is CEO and co-founder of the quantum-safe cybersecurity company, evolutionQ. He also co-founded the quantum software company softwareQ and serves as Chair of the board of Quantum Industry Canada. He is co-founder of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, a Mathematics Professor, and a founding member of Waterloo's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
He started working in cryptography during his undergraduate studies and obtained his doctorate in Mathematics in 1999 from the University of Oxford on the topic of Quantum Computer Algorithms.
He co-founded the not-for-profit Quantum-Safe Canada, and the ETSI-IQC workshop series in quantum-safe cryptography and is globally recognized for his drive to help academia, industry and government prepare our cyber systems to be safe in an era with quantum computers.
Dr. Mosca's awards and honours include 2010 Canada's Top 40 Under 40, Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013), SJU Fr. Norm Choate Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), and a Knighthood (Cavaliere) in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2018).
Padmapriya is from Bengaluru, and is passionate about quantum computing. She is a research intern at IIT Madras, currently focused on quantum error correction. She is actively engaged in understanding the country's quantum ecosystem, and works as a Policy Fellow at QETCI. She is working on a report about the Indian quantum technology value chain.
P J Narayanan is the Director of IIIT, Hyderabad and a researcher in the areas of 3D vision, computational cameras, and parallel computing. He built the Virtualized Reality system in mid 1990s at the Carnegie Mellon University to capture 3D geometry and appearance of dynamic events. He also was an early adopter of GPUs for several Computer Vision and general computing tasks. He got his Bachelors (1984) from IIT Kharagpur, Masters and PhD (1992) from the University of Maryland, all in Computer Science. He was a research faculty member at the Robotics Institute of CMU from 1992 to 1996 and headed the Vision and Virtual Reality groups of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Bangalore from 1996 to 2000. He has been with IIIT Hyderabad from 2000 and has been its PG Coordinator, Dean of Research, and, from 2013, the Director. He was the President of ACM India from 2009 to 2014 and has involved with various activities of ACM such as Awards, Technology Policy, etc.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Chief Executive Officer
Reena Dayal Yadav is a Technology Leader and an Innovation Management Expert. She is known for her work in Establishing and Scaling up Innovation Functions within Organization and Incubating new Tech Oriented Businesses. She is the Founding Chairperson for the Quantum Ecosystems and Technology Council of India ( QETCI) and the CEO and Partner for Benzaiten Advisors. She is on the Steering Committee of the IEEE Quantum Initiative , Chair for the IEEE Quantum Special Interest Group in India and on the Consultative Committee for Quantum for the Government of Telangana. She is the Ex-Chairperson for SNIA in India. She is also on the Governing Board and Executive Committee of The Cloud Computing Innovation Council of India.
She is an Author - her Book "Innovation Magic" is a guide to creating and managing Innovation Management functions within Organizations. Her report on "Innovation Governance: Board Imperatives" has been published and referred to by many organizations.
She is a mindfulness practitioner and believes in Mindful and Compassionate Leadership.
She has an Engineering degree from IIT Roorkee. She is a Chevening Fellow for Science and Innovation Leadership Program from The Said Business School, University of Oxford.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President With Jio Platform Limited
Sameer Mehta is Senior Vice President with Jio Platform Limited. He has spent over a decade with Jio in various business, product, and technology roles. He has been recognised as Technology Leader by the Indian Leadership Academy. He brings diverse product and technical experience in various industries, including Telecom and BFSI. He has a keen interest in disruptive technologies, especially Quantum Computing. In a previous stint, he was heading IT for Hitachi Payment Services Pvt. Ltd. He holds Masters's and Bachelors's engineering degrees from IIT Kharagpur.
Prof. Sinha has been awarded several extramural grants from national agencies like the
Job Titles:
- Business Operations Coordinator
Vaishnavi Ragam Kishan is a cheerful and highly ambitious individual creating impact in Quantum Technology and Ecosystem as a Business Operations Coordinator at QET Council of India. She holds a Masters in Business Administration (Global MBA) from Solent Southampton University in the United Kingdom, interned in Business Operations at CGI London Business Unit, she has also worked for TATA Consultancy Services as a Business Development Associate right after graduation. With a rich exposure in terms of education and work Vaishnavi is actively focused on upscaling herself in project coordination, planning, organizing and general Management while simultaneously contributing towards the growth and development in the ecosystem