Organizing Committee
Chief Patrons
A. S. Kiran Kumar
Member, Space Commission
S. Somanath
Secretary, DOS & Chairman, ISRO
Pawan Kumar Goenka
Chairman, In-SPACe
Sameer V. Kamath
Chairman, DRDO
Patrons
Nilesh M. Desai
Director, SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
G. Viswam
Director, LRDE/DRDO, Bangalore
General Co-Chairs
Rajeev Jyoti
IN-SPACe, Ahmedabad
M. Jaleel Akhtar
IIT, Kanpur
TPC Co-Chairs
Milind B. Mahajan
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Nagendra Prasad Pathak
IIT Roorkee
Finance Chair
Prateek Bansal
ISRO, Ahmedabad
Jaswant Sharma
ISRO, Ahmedabad
MAPCON Executive Committee
Yahia Antar
Co-Chair
Goutam Chattopadhyay
Co-Chair
Rajeev Jyoti
IN-SPACe, Ahmedabad
Shibon Kaul
Debatosh Guha
K J Vinoy
Puneet K Mishra
Jaleel Akhtar
Dr. Chinmoy Saha
Sherry Hess
Tutorials and Faculty Development Program
S. B. Chakrabarty
IIT, Gandhinagar
Manoj Kumar Meshram
IIT-BHU, Varanasi
Trushit Upadhyaya
Charusat, Changa
Vivek Pandit
PDEU, Gandhinagar
Special Sessions
Sanjeev Kulshrestha
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava
IIT, Kanpur
Amit Kumar Singh
IIT Patna
Himangshu B Baskey
DRDO-DMSRDE, Kanpur
Ramesh Gupta
Ligado Networks, USA
Qammer H. Abbasi
University of Glasgow
Kranti Kumar Katare
Ericsson Antenna Technology, Germany
Pratik Mevada
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Workshop
Dhaval A. Pujara
PDEU, Gandhinagar
K.P. Ray
DIAT, Pune
Yogesh Verma
RCI/DRDO, Hyderabad
M. M. Sharma
MNIT, Jaipur
Raghvendra Kumar Chaudhary
IIT Kanpur
Prabhakar Pathak
USA
Industry Engagement
Rod Waterhouse
Octane Wireless, USA
Debabani Choudhury
Intel Labs, USA
Jolly Dhar
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Sandeep Chaturvedi
GAETEC, Hyderabad
Mayank Gajjar
Pacemaker Solutions, Ahmedabad
G. R. Shinde
AMPL, Hyderabad
Tapas Chakravarty
TCS Research, Kolkata
SIGHT
Puneet Kumar Mishra
URSC/ISRO, Bangalore
Chinmoy Saha
IIST, Trivandrum
Sravan Kumar Sagi
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Ajay Poddar
Synergy Microwave Corp. , USA
Exhibition and Sponsors
Nikhil Arora
IN-SPACe, Ahmedabad
Ashutosh Kedar
LRDE/DRDO, Bangalore
Santanu Sinha
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Devendra Kumar Sharma
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
C. J. Reddy
Altair, USA
Sukomal Dey
IIT Palakkad
Sandhya Chandravanshi
CML Microcircuits Ltd., UK
Prashant Vashishtha
DRDL, Jodhpur
Startup Initiative and Government Outreach:
Tushar Sharma
Renesas Elecronics, USA
Vinod Kumar
IN-SPACe, Ahmedabad
Yogesh Karandikar
Tantrayut , Mumbai
Brijesh Soni
IN-SPACe, Bangalore
Sanjay Nekkanti
Dhruva Space, Hyderabad
V. Vishwanathan Vedam
Azista, Ahmedabad
Vishal Kumar Chakradhary
RF Nanocomposites, SIIIC, IIT Kanpur
WIE
Shilpi Soni
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedbad
Mridula Gupta
University of Delhi South Campus
Shobha Sundar Ram
IIIT, Delhi
Harshita Tolani
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Beenamole K.S
LRDE/DRDO, Bangalore
Anwesha Khasnobish
TCS Research, Kolkata
Young Professionals
Somak Bhattacharyya
IIT-BHU, Varanasi
Shruti Sinha
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Malika Somanath
IISc, Bangalore
Anamiya Bhattacharya
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Zubair Akhter
KAUST
PhD Initiative
C.V.N. Rao
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
A.R. Harish
IIT, Kanpur
Karun Rawat
IIT, Roorkee
Ashwini Sawant
IIT, Guwahati
Ganga Prasad Pandey
PDEU, Gandhinagar
Tushar Goel
NIT, Uttarakhand
Surya Prakash Singh
IIIT, Bhubaneswar
Anirban Sarkar
IIT, Mandi
Student Paper Contest
Amalendu Patnaik
IIT, Roorkee
S.C. Bera
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Vijay Kumar Singh
SAC, Ahmedabad
Senthil Kumar
URSC, Bangalore
Deepak Ghodgaonkar
DAIICT, Gandhinagar
Mentor-Mentee Initiative
Y. P. Kosta
Charusat University,Changa
Ratnajit Bhattacharjee
IIT, Guwahati
Chandrakanta Kumar
URSC/ISRO, Bangalore
Pratik Mevada
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Website & IT
Nikhil Arora
IN-SPACe, Ahmedabad
Rakesh Kumar
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
B Gowrish
IIT, Roorkee
Advisory Committee
Rajarajan A
SHAR/ISRO, Sriharikota
K. S. Dasgupta
DAIICT, Gandhinagar
Apurba N. Bhattacharya
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Surendra Pal
DRDO, Bangalore
Pradeep K Jain
Director, NIT Patna
M V Kartikeyan
Director, IIITDM Kancheepuram
Hanumantha Rao
SAMEER, Chennai
Anurag Kumar
ECIL, Hyderabad
Nelson Fonsenca
ESA
Dr. B. K. Das
Director General (ECS). DRDO, Hyderabad
D. K. Singh
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Sumitesh Sarkar
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Sungtek Kahng
Univ. of Incheon, South Korea
Subba Rao
Ananth Technology, Hyderabad
M.V. Reddy
Astra Microwave Products, Hyderabad
Vinod Chippalkatti
Centum, Bangalore
Shashank Chaturvedi
IPR, Gandhinagar
Nadagouda R
URSC/ISRO, Bangalore
Ved Vyas Dwivedi
Indus Univ, Ahmedabad
Shaunak Shah
Chairman
Group Automation
Local Organizing Committee
Jayesh Thakkar
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Kanhaiya Sharma
SIT, Pune
Vineet
IIT-Roorkee
Yogesh Tyagi
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Vrishank Shah
Indus Univ., Ahmedabad
Amit Nihalchandani
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Pankaj Bhavsar
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
Ravi Hegde
IIT, Gandhinagar
Shilpi Gupta
SVNIT, Surat
S.K. Pathak
IPR, Gandhinagar
S. Krishna Prasad
SAC/ISRO, Ahmedabad
