Dr. Kamna Pande is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Mahindra University École Centrale School of Engineering. She completed her Ph.D. in the area of Fiber and Integrated Optics from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2005. Her research interests are in the field of fiber and integrated optics. Prior to joining MU, she taught at St. Stephens College and Miranda House College in Delhi University. She worked as an Erasmus Mundus Post-doctoral researcher at City, University of London, UK. 

Dr. Manish Tiwari received Ph.D. in ECE in the field of Photonics from MNIT Jaipur. Presently, he is Professor of ECE Department at Manipal University Jaipur.  He has more than 26 years of professional experience in various colleges and universities of repute. He has published more than 100+ research papers in reputed journals and conferences, and book chapters. He has also authored and edited more than a dozen of books. He has also supervised more than 30 projects sponsored by DST Rajasthan.

He is principal investigator in a BRICS project on Quantum Satellite and Fiber Communication (QuSaF) alongwith research partners in UKZN Durban, PSUTI Samara and USTC Shanghai. He has also served on panel of experts and editor in various workshops by CSTT, MHRD, Govt. of India. He has been visiting researcher to City University, London under UKIERI project in Microstructured Optical Fibers during 2010 and 2011 and Tsinghua University, Beijing during 2016. Dr. Tiwari has presented talks in PIERS at NTU Singapore, APMP at PolyU-Hong Kong, TJMW at KMUT-Bangkok and Kasetsart University-Bangkok, City University- London and several UKIERI workshops.

He is on the panel of Traveling Lecturer Program of reputed societies like SPIE (USA) and OSA (USA) under which he has delivered invited talks in USTC Shanghai, UESTC Chengdu, Tsinghua University Beijing, ITS Indonesia, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban (SA) on photonics technologies and career development.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE and IEEE Photonics Society, Life Fellow of the Optical Society of India (OSI-India), Senior Member of OSA, Member of SPIE and Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) India.  He has been Technical Program Committee member of many IEEE conferences and reviewer of IEEE/Elsevier/OSA/Springer/T&F journals.

His current research interest includes Free Space and Optical Fiber Communication, Photonics, Nonlinear Optics, Optical Sensors, Specialty Optical Fibers, Space Division Multiplexing, Structured Light, Photonic Crystal Fiber for nonlinear applications, Space Division Multiplexing and Sensing. Photonic Switching. 

Prof. Somnath Ghosh is dedicated to quality teaching and learning and is passionate about cutting edge research in the emerging domains of Photonics and Quantum photonics. He has rich teaching, research, and academic administrative experience. He believes in interactive teaching and learning. He has experience in the hybrid method of teaching and flipped teaching. He even has experience of designing and development of the academic curricula for outcome-based learning. He has already supervised one post-doc, four Ph.D. thesis and more than 20 B.Tech./M.Sc./M.Tech projects. He has more than 5 years of administrative experience and has published 65 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and more than 100 papers in conferences/workshops/symposiums

Dr. Kirankumar Hiremath is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at IIT Jodhpur. He is an applied mathematician working in wave-matter interactions, mathematical physics, scientific computations, and applied analysis. His specialization is mathematical optics-photonics and the design of efficient methods to solve problems in integrated optics. He did his post-graduation from IIT Bombay and PhD from the University of Twente (The Netherlands). After that, he did his post-doc at  Optoelectronics Center, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (USA), and  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). He worked at Zuse Institute Berlin (Germany). Since 2012, he has been with IIT Jodhpur. There, he is also a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Quantum Information and Computation and the Center for Technology Foresight and Policy. His mathematical work on bent waveguides, microresonators, and coupled mode theory is very well received. He serves as a reviewer for several international journals.