Dr Nirav P Bhatt earned his Bachelor in Chemical Engineering from The M S University of Baroda, Masters in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras, and Docteur es Science (DSc) from EPFL, Switzerland. Currently, He is Assistant Professor with Bio Tech Department in IIT Madras.

Dr. Karthik Raman is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras since April 2011. His research interests are in the areas of metabolic network analysis, with applications in metabolic engineering and drug target identification. He received his Ph.D. in 2009 from the lab of Prof. Nagasuma Chandra at the Supercomputer Education and Research Centre at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His Ph.D. thesis involved the computational analysis of metabolic networks and protein-protein interaction networks in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, for the prediction of potential drug targets. Following his Ph.D., Karthik was a post-doctoral researcher at the lab of Prof. Dr. Andreas Wagner, at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. Karthik’s post-doctoral research was involved the analysis of signalling circuits in yeast as well as synthetic logic circuits, for their robustness and evolvability.

Dr. Himanshu Sinha is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in the Department of Biotechnology. He is also a Co-ordinator for the Initiative for Biological Systems Engineering. His research Area is Complex Genetics, Systems Biology.He received his Ph.D. in Department of Plant Science at the [Downing College, Cambridge University]. He carried out his postdoctorate at the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA. He was a Senior Postdoc at Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany. Following this he was a Reader at Department of Biological Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai, India.