Dr. Ashwin J. Baliga is an Assistant Professor of Sales at IESEG School of Management, Paris Campus, France and has a PhD in B2B Marketing from IIT Madras. He is the recipient of the “IIT Madras Institute Research Award” for the exemplary research work done and received " Sri N Kannan Prize " for the Best PhD Thesis in Marketing at the 59th Convocation IIT Madras. Ashwin has published in Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, International Journal of Mineral Processing and Harvard Business Publishing. His research interests are in B2B service failure and recovery, tech usage in sales, mental health, and well-being of B2B salespeople, B2B customer reacquisition, relationship reactivation, buyer- supplier relationships etc.

Dr. Aaditya Chandel holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras and is currently working as a Research Scientist in IIT Madras. He has publications in Acta Mechanica and has an interest in the start-up eco system. His thesis investigated the effect of wall proximity on the wake of a rotating and translating sphere. He is the founder of QkRes Technologies and Research Services (https://www.qkres.com/), incubated in IIT Madras.

Dr. Venkatesh is a Professor of Practice at IIT Madras, where he is involved with several projects in the field of education. He is also a Fellow and Director of Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd, a leading Indian R&D services provider, and a founder of Mylspot, an education technology startup that aims to bridge knowledge gaps of students through a mentored learning platform.

Dr Venkatesh is a graduate in electronics from IIT Madras, PhD in Computer Science from TIFR, Mumbai and was a faculty member of the Computer Science & Engineering Dept of IIT Bombay for 8 years where his research interests revolved around declarative languages and their application to the design of embedded systems. He moved to the industry when Sasken was being formed, where he led their technology activities for over two decades. He was a visiting/adjunct faculty at IIM Bangalore for 10 years and a Chair Professor in the department of EE at IIT Madras for 3 years.

Dr. Venkatesh was elected as a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers in 2006 and the IETE in 2012. He won the Technomentor award of the Indian Electronics and Semiconductor Association in 2013 and the Vasvik award for industrial research in 2015. Dr. Venkatesh serves on a number of government, industry and investor committees and boards in the areas of microelectronics, telecommunications and education.

Other courses by the same instructor: BSCS1001 - Computational Thinking , BSMS2001 - Business Data Management and BSMS2002 - Business Analytics

Milind is the Chief Program Officer at the Center of Excellence for Machine Intelligence and Robotics, IIIT Bangalore. Prior to joining IIITB, Milind has 26 years of experience in the corporate sector, first with Sasken Communication Technologies and most recently with Tata Elxsi as the head of the Systems Business Unit. Milind has lead projects in Semiconductor, Automotive, Communications and Smart Home verticals.

Milind has a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay. Before his PhD, Milind obtained a B.Tech and an M. Tech also from IIT Bombay. His thesis was on Abstract Interpretation of Functional Programming Languages. Milind also has a Diploma in Practicing Management from INSEAD, France.

Milind’s primary research interests are AI (Natural Language Processing, Mathematical Logic, Hardware acceleration for AI at the Edge) and Interaction between Society and Technology.

Other courses by the same instructor: BSMS2001 - Business Data Management