MICA 2025 Keynote speakers
Prof. Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, India
Anil Sahasrabudhe is the present Chairman of National Educational Technology Forum (NETF), chairman of EC National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and Chairman NBA.
Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe has held several important Academic, Research and Administrative positions at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Tata Consulting Engineers, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) and IIT Guwahati. He also served as Director, College of Engineering, Pune (CoEP) since 2006 on deputation from IIT, Guwahati prior to joining as AICTE Chairman. As an academician and researcher in NERIST and IIT Guwahati, and as an administrator in the capacity of Director, CoEP, he has taken up several new initiatives for Academic, Curricular & Co-curricular activities, Entrepreneurship, Research and Good Governance.
Prof. U. B. Desai
Founding Director, IIT Hyderabad
Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad
Prof. Uday B. Desai is the Chancellor of ICFAI Dehradun & Anurag University, and Honorary Distinguished Professor at Plaksha University. He served as Director of IIT Hyderabad (2009–2019), and mentored IIT Bhilai and IIIT Chittoor. He is a Strategic Consultant at TSDSI and instrumental in taking IIT Hyderabad to a top 10 NIRF ranking.
Prof. Arun Kumar Pujari
Former Vice Chancellor, Central University of Rajasthan
Prof. Arun Kumar Pujari joined as Advisor & Professor Emeritus, Department of CSE, Mahindra University in November 2020. He had an extensive tenure from 1985 to 2019 at the School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad. His distinguished career includes serving as the Vice Chancellor of the Central University of Rajasthan (2015-2020) and Sambalpur University (2008-2011). Before joining the University of Hyderabad, Prof. Pujari served at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, and the AutoCarto Cell, Survey of India. His academic journey includes earning a Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur. Prof. Pujari has played pivotal roles in various advisory capacities, contributing to decision-making committees of organizations such as DST, UGC, AICTE, DOS, and more. Notably, he served as the Chairman of the Executive Committee on Conservation of Indian Heritage and Related Matters at DST. His involvement extends to serving as a member of the Programme Advisory & Monitoring Committee (PAMC) on the Technology Fusion and Application Research (TFAR) Program of the (DST), Government of India.
Prof. Sudip Misra
Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Sudip Misra is a Professor and INAE Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. His current research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things. Professor Misra has published over 460 scholarly research papers and 12 books. He has won nine research paper awards in different conferences and four best paper awards in IEEE journals. He was awarded the IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award at IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, California, USA. He was also the recipient of several academic awards and fellowships such as the Faculty Excellence Award (IIT Kharagpur), Young Scientist Award (National Academy of Sciences, India), Young Systems Scientist Award (Systems Society of India), Young Engineers Award (Institution of Engineers, India), (Canadian) Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal at Carleton University, the University Outstanding Graduate Student Award in the Doctoral level at Carleton University and the National Academy of Sciences, India – Swarna Jayanti Puraskar (Golden Jubilee Award), Samsung Innovation Awards-2014 at IIT Kharagpur, IETE-Biman Behari Sen Memorial Award-2014, and the Careers360 Outstanding Faculty Award in Computer Science for the year 2018 from the Honourable Minister for Human Resource Development (MHRD) of India.
Prof. Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues
Professor, Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Brazil
Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues is a professor at the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Brazil; and senior researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal. He received the Academic Title of Aggregated Professor in informatics engineering from UBI, the Habilitation in computer science and engineering from the University of Haute Alsace, France, a PhD degree in informatics engineering and an MSc degree from the UBI, and a five-year BSc degree (licentiate) in informatics engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. His main research interests include IoT and sensor networks, e-health technologies vehicular communications, and mobile and ubiquitous computing. Prof. Rodrigues is the leader of the Next Generation Networks and Applications research group (CNPq), IEEE Distinguished Lecturer [2018-2021], Director for Conference Development - IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors [2018-2019], Technical Activities Committee Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Latin America Region Board [2018-2019], the President of the scientific council at ParkUrbis – Covilhã Science and Technology Park, a Past-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on eHealth, a Past-chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communications Software, Steering Committee member of the IEEE Life Sciences Technical Community and Publications co-Chair, and Member Representative of the IEEE Communications Society on the IEEE Biometrics Council.
Prof. Subhas C. Misra
Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Dr. Subhas C Misra received the Ph.D. degree in management from Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 2007, PDF, Harvard University, USA. He is currently an Professor with the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India. His research interests include process management, product lifecycle management, project management, managing supply chain services, business analytics/data analysis, enterprise resource planning, change and risk management, e-governance, and information systems.
Prof. Cowlessur Sanjeev K
Professor, Université des Mascareignes, Mauritius
His research interests are broadly in the area of Artificial Intelligence, more specifically Machine Learning, Data Mining, Big Data Analytics and their applications in solving real life problems.
His current research involves analysis of healthcare data, deriving insights, predicting trends and outcomes, optimising resources, and providing recommendations.
His teaching interests include cross platform mobile application development, discrete mathematics, linear algebra, automata and formal languages, numerical methods, Python programming.
He is a professional member of the British Computer Society (MBCS).
Note: All keynote speakers are expected to be present based on their availability and academic workload during December 22–24, 2025.