Keynote and Invited Speakers

Prof. Perumal Alagarsamy is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), where he heads the magnetic materials group. He is an IEEE Senior Member.

He joined IIT Guwahati as an Assistant Professor in 2004 and became a Professor in 2014.

His research is on magnetism and magnetic materials, including materials for energy harvesting, CIP-GMR sensors, transition-metal-oxide films, nanogranular magnetic materials for ultrahigh-density magnetic recording, multilayer soft magnetic thin films, magnetic and electrical transport properties, nanostructure formation in rapidly solidified and mechanically alloyed materials, and magnetic nanoparticles and nanocomposites.

Prof. Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari is a Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad).

He received his B.Tech. from S.V. University, Tirupati, his master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, USA, and his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.

His research interests are biosensors, electrochemistry, MEMS, 3D-IC, biomedical materials, biomedical devices and sensors.

Prof. Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati (IIIT Guwahati). He is an IEEE Member.

He received his B.E. from Jorhat Engineering College and his M.Tech. and Ph.D. from IIT Guwahati.

His primary research areas are cybersecurity, biometric security and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Dr. Buddha Deka Boruah is an Associate Professor at University College London (UCL).

He received his B.Sc. in Physics from Cotton College, India, in 2011 and his M.Sc. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati in 2013. He completed an integrated M.S. (Engineering)–Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, in 2018. In the same year he was awarded a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship and joined the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.

His research lies at the intersection of energy materials, micro/nanotechnology and electrochemical devices, with a focus on next-generation metal-ion batteries and microbatteries. His group studies how energy materials and interfaces behave at the micro- and nanoscale, and uses these insights to engineer high-performance energy-storage devices, including miniaturised batteries that can be integrated with Internet of Things (IoT), system-on-chip (SoC) and related microsystem technologies, using CMOS-compatible materials and fabrication processes. His work combines micro/nanostructuring, interface engineering, advanced electrochemical and materials characterisation, and device-level integration, and seeks to bridge fundamental materials science and device engineering to enable compact, integrated and sustainable power sources for emerging electronic systems.

Prof. Ratul Kumar Baruah is a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering, Tezpur University.

He received his M.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Tezpur University and his Ph.D. from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA.

His research is in nanoelectronic devices, VLSI circuit design, chaotic circuits, embedded systems, biosensors and flexible electronics.

Prof. Gaurav Trivedi is a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati).

He received his B.E. in Electronics from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, in 1998, his M.Tech. in Microelectronics from IIT Bombay in 2000, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2006.

His research interests include VLSI computer-aided design (CAD), analog and digital circuit simulation, electronics system design, computer architecture, semiconductor devices, hardware security, embedded systems, the Internet of Things (IoT), high-performance computing and machine learning. He has also served as Principal Investigator of the Electronics and ICT Academy at IIT Guwahati, contributing to skill development and capacity building in electronics and information technology.