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Board

Industry leaders guiding our strategic vision

Kusumika Krori Dutta

Kusumika Krori Dutta

Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering

Kusumika Krori Dutta is an enthusiastic lifelong learner. She believes that knowledge increases with sharing so a true team player. Mathematics and innovation are her main life goals, and Machine Learning helps her to go forward to achieve the same. She completed B.E  in Electrical Engineering and stood 1st class 1st, M.Sc (Engg) by research on Superconducting Fault Current Limiter, and PhD in “Electrophysiological Based Detection and Classification Of Epileptic Seizure Using Machine Learning Techniques”. Her research on the human brain made her a better human. She is now able to read through the minds, and it helps her excel in the teaching-learning process a lot. She is a passionate innovator with lots of patience. She believes AI/ML is not only for the software field but equally applicable to hardware implementations. In ever-growing demand for AI/ML can be matched by the shaking hands of hardware and software engineers. Being in teaching for 24 years, invented pattern based multiplication technique, 70+ publications, had 14 patents (8 granted, 2 published), 50+ lectures delivered in different Conferences, FDPs, Workshops, invited Tech talks, etc., developed more than 10-course content, taught 30+ different subjects both coding and mathematics-based, handled more than 14 different labs, guiding 50+ projects (many of it based on Electronics & AI/ML applications in various domains), working as a reviewer for many Q1 and Q2 journals. She has excellent leadership and management skills and is excited to collaborate with different researchers across the world. 

Nilo Antonio de Souza Sampaio

Nilo Antonio de Souza Sampaio

State University of Rio de Janeiro

He holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Lorena School of Engineering EELUSP (1994), a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Taubaté UNITAU (2005), and a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho UNESP (2011). He is currently an Associate Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, teaching undergraduate engineering courses, the Master's in Environmental Engineering (PEAMB), and the Doctorate in Environmental Engineering (DEAMB). He is the leader of the Environmental and Climate Data Analysis Research Group: statistical treatment and use of artificial intelligence, registered with CNPq. He has experience in the field of Mathematics and Statistics, with an emphasis on Applications of Statistics and Mathematics in Science, Mathematical Modeling, Optimization and Design of Experiments, Multivariate Statistics, Process Monitoring, and Artificial Intelligence.

Shubham Agnihotri

Shubham Agnihotri

IDFC First Bank

Shubham Agnihotri is a Senior Data Scientist (Chief Manager – Generative AI) at IDFC FIRST Bank, where he leads a team of data scientists within AI Labs to build and deploy large-scale AI systems. His work spans generative AI, multimodal models, and production-grade machine learning systems, with key contributions including in-house OCR and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) saving significant operational costs, fraud detection systems using Variational Autoencoders, and AI-powered simulation platforms for enterprise training.

Previously, he founded S.AgriUdaan, Gujarat’s first agriculture drone services company, where he led large-scale deployments across 15,000+ acres, serving 4,500+ farmers and collaborating with government and enterprise partners. His work in this space earned recognition as a Times Gujarat Icon 2022.

Shubham has also worked as a Data Scientist at Arcadis, where he built RAG-based systems, digital twin platforms for water utilities, and large-scale data pipelines handling billions of data points. Beyond his professional work, he is an active speaker and community contributor, having delivered sessions at global conferences such as Gitex Global, Asia Tech x Singapore, Tech Show London, and Google and AWS events. He has also organized and led multiple AI communities, training hundreds of practitioners in machine learning and AI.

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