Dr. Pooja Singh is currently associated with Symbiosis Centre for Waste Resource Management (SCWRM) of the Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune India, as an Assistant Professor. She is CSIR-NET-JRF qualified, has 4 patents filed and over 30 research publications and book chapters to her name. She was the recipient of the DST-WOS-B grant (2017-2020) and was associated with Symbiosis School of Biological Sciences (SSBS) as a DST Woman Scientist.

Prof. Raju Kumar Gupta is currently a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. His current research interests are photocatalysis for water remediation and CO2 capture & conversion to fuels, desalination, perovskite solar cells and energy storage devices based on batteries. Prof. Gupta has been recipient of several fellowships and awards, including DST Inspire Faculty Award, Distinguished Young Alumnus Awards, PK Kelkar Young Faculty Fellowship and Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Prof. Gupta is an Editorial Board member of several international journals, including ‘Sustainable Chemistry One World’, ‘Solar Energy’, ‘Scientific Reports’, ‘Journal of Polymer Science’ and ‘Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry’.

Sudeshna Das earned her PhD from the Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. Her doctoral research concentrated on AI-driven Gender Bias Identification in Textbooks. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Emory University, USA, where she is part of the Sarker Lab. Her research interests lie at the intersection of AI and Social Good, with a particular focus on gender equity in education and healthcare. Prior to her doctoral research, she studied computer science and engineering, leading to an MTech from the National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India, and a BTech from West Bengal University of Technology, India.

Dr. Vishal Chaudhary is a lecturer at Mahidol University in Thailand since 2025. He is an expert in the field of green semiconductors at the nanoscale for One Health management, with a special focus on breath-based diagnosis, environmental sensors and waste-water remediation. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, 4 authored books, and 3 edited books in reputed journals.

He has been recognized as Top 2% of Scientists in both 2023 and 2024 by the Stanford University List and is also serving as an associate editor and review editor in significant journals. He founded “The Happy Mentals Club” after battling depression during his doctorate tenure, and started to aid the research community, especially students, for mental health-related help through his public talks and club events.

Dr. Chaudhary received the 2023 Materials Today Agents of Change Award due to his dedicated work in the field of mental health for researchers. Currently, he aims to establish mental health clubs in academic and research institutes, examine the prevalence of mental health issues by conducting surveys during his talk and examining its causative factors, correlate mental health concerns with environmental factors, develop non-invasive biosensors to screen mental health, root out the stigma related to mental health, especially in the LGBTQI+ community, and developing awareness on suicide prevention through his club and institute collaborative initiatives.