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Praveen is an alumnus of IIT Delhi’s Integrated Master of Technology program in Mathematics and Computing with specialization in Computational Biology. He did his master project under the guidance of Professor B. Jayaram and worked on ChemGenome Genome Analysis. The underlying mathematical model of ChemGenome is the outcome of his master thesis work. He joined the Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at IIT Delhi, where his responsibilities were creating algorithms and programs for minimization and Monte Carlo simulations of bio-molecules. He has international publications in genome analysis and protein structure prediction. He previously worked in Adobe’s Digital Video group in Noida, in the Sun Centre of Excellence in Calgary and in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai. He is currently the CTO of LeadInvent Technologies.

Prayas Abhinav lives in Bangalore, India. He presently has an interest in re-vitalizing and re-imagining urban spaces. Through his work he explores how outdoor spaces can be utilized for cultural and civic uses. Employing social networks and low-fi technologies to connect communities and resources is often one of his approaches. He has been part of efforts to seed open content movements in India and in 2007 helped launching the Creative Commons India licenses. His focus of research in this areas has been identifying and understanding non-coercive business models which do not depend on restrictive intellectual property policies for their efficiency. He has been supported by fellowships by Openspace India, International Institute for Art, Culture and Democracy (IIACD) and Center for Media Studies (CMS). His fiction and poetry has been published in a few magazines and newspapers. "Even War has Limits," an essay he wrote won a prize from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and took him to Kosovo in 2000. He has taught workshops and electives at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT). He published a literary magazine, Crimson Feet from 2003-05. For his experiments with ways to make small presses in India sustainable, the magazine was part of the venture incubators at the National Institute of Design (NID) and IndiaCo (2003-04). He has presented his projects and proposals at Futuresonic, Manchester (09), Make Them Love You, Chennai (09), Wintercamp, Amsterdam (09),48c: Public Art Ecology (08), Urban Climate Camp, ISEA (08), Urban Typhoon, Koliwada (08), Sensory Urbanism, Glasgow (08), First Monday, Chicago (06), The Paris Accord (06), Public Service Broadcasting Trust (06), Sarai (05), Alliance Française, Ahmedabad (02) and Chitra Kala Parishath (02).

Ichthyologist (I study fishes!) Evolutionary biologist and natural historian researching and discovering new species while exploring the world in an effort to understand fundamental aspects of biological diversity. Also a former Program Director at the National Science Foundation so ask me about fundamental basic science research. I am also a Fulbright Distinguished Chair, a AAAS Fellow, and Chair of LSU's Center for Collaborative Knowledge (so ask me about making connections between scientists and humanists/artists). Watch my TED talks — “4 billion years of evolution in six minutes” & “Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish” And my TEDed — "What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry?" Also my new book ‘Explaining Life Through Evolution’ is available at the TED2022 Bookstore

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CTO and Founder at Gridbots Technologies. We develop robotic systems for defense - Nuclear Agencies - Space Agencies - industries.Our Robots solve day to day problems - To assist human beings in Dirty - Dangerous and Dull situations. Recently was conferred with MIT Young Innovator -2011 Award for developing underwater Robots for cleaning water tanks for people of developing nations and Rajiv Motwani Circle Fellowship

I work with international scientists and architects to explore cutting-edge, sustainable technologies that take the form of new materials that possess some of the properties of living systems. By creating living materials such as, paint that can 'eat' carbon dioxide and change colour when it is 'full' cities will be able to participate in cleaning up the environment and even repairing some of the damage that we've already created. Collaborative work with architect Philip Beesley has been nominated for a Katerva Award in the field of Urban Design.

Raffael Lomas Sculptor Born 1962 in Tel-Aviv, Israel Currently lives Israel. www.raffaellomas.net A Journey as a Form of Art project. The Voyage of the Screw 1995-2002 1995 - Materialization of the screw. 1998 - Florence, Italy. 2000 - Dachou, Germany. The Art brut Collection in Lausanne, Switzerland. The tomb of Vincent van Gogh near Paris, France. 2001 - New York, in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum. 2002 - India, the sources of the Ganga River in the Himalaya Mountains.: Solo Exhibitions 2009- OK Harris. USA Avingion , France 2008 - Kayama Gallery Tel- Aviv Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery.Roma .Italy Art Fair Bolonga ,Italy 2007 - Teffen Museum, Israel 2006 - Home Base – Israeli Art Week, NY - Shanghai Art Fair. - Tel Hashomer sculpture park, Israel 2005 - Broadway Windows, NYU, NY. November 19-2004 -January 3 2005 2002 - Raffael Lomas – The turn of the Screw, Long Island, NY, USA 1999 - Raffael Lomas - The presence of the Absence, Florence, Italy. 1999 - Raffael Lomas, ‘Foyer Degli Artiste Gallery’, Florence, Italy 1998 - Nitkei Tikkun,Yanko Dada Museum, Haifa, Israel. Curated by Mr. Yonah Fisher Group Exhibitions 2008- Fresh –Paint .Tel Aviv 2005 - Sticks and stones, The making of a sculpture garden, Philadelphia, PA. 2004 –; Mars Gallery, Hobe Sound; Florida .Raffael Lomas-The Wheel Series 2004 - Visionaries, Makor Gallery (92st Y), Manhattan, NY. 2004 - Art in the Park, Key West National Park, Key West, Florida, USA. 2001 - Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul. 2000 - The Arturo Schwarz Collection, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Israel. 2000 - Outsider Art, Mersey, France. Some of Raffael Lomas’ works are included in major collections such as the Pecci collection - Florence, Fracaroli Collection – Verona, La-loga collection Florence; Arturo Schwarz Collection ,Milano.Italy. Tel-Aviv museum of art.Israel. The Open Museum Tefen .Israel. Brandies Bardin Collegiate Institute,USA Reviews 2008- Grand Avignon 14 Jun .France 2007- The Topor Sculpture Garden pa. 15-16 Haaretz Art Magazine May 14 Israel. 2006- Bar –Ilan University .The Faculty of Jewish Studies pa .30 Art Shanghai Catalog pa.206 2004 NY Arts Magazine Vol.6 N 9 pa78 2002- Great Neck Record – Feb 14 .Pa 4 2002 - Greta Gruber; Independent Art Curator “around and again” 2001-Segnid Darte Magazine no.20 pa.2 2001 - Danielle Knafo; ‘The Metamorphosis of Raffael Lomas’ 2000- Arturo Schwarz Collection.Tel Aviv Museum 1999 - Arturo Schwarz; ‘The Life of the Screw’ 1998 - Mr. Dan Eban, Former Curator of the Israel Museum Art Collection, Jerusalem, Israel. Lectures: 2009- The Israel Museum .Jerusalem. Israel 2005 – Makor .NY 2004 – Lishmah NY 2000 - Haifa University Israel 1999 - Bologna University .Italy Artist in Residence: 2005 – 2009 Brandies Bardin Collegiate Institute, California Awards 2003-2004 Artist Visa, USA. 2006 Excellency Grant from the Israeli Ministry of Integration. 2007 A Scholar at "Artist for Social Change " Program at the Naggar School.Jerusalem. 2009 Institute of International Education of America , Exchange Program. Documentary Film 2009- Visual Workshop for the Blind .( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MvyIqGEH-0) 2003 Liberez la Vis; Co-Production France-Israel (http://beam-light.com/docu/docu.htm#vis)

Cape Town Entrepreneurship Competition Winner 2011 Top ICT Youth Innovator in Africa 2007

Motorsports Engineer - Tuning Engines and Transmission, Remap ECU, Fabricate Active and Passive safety systems - Roll Cage Design, EBD system modifications, track strategy, etc. Founder and Chief Engineer at IgNite - a mutibrand car service station specializing in high octane car service, engine blue printing, modifications, regular car service and repairs. IgNite also happens to be Chennai's first 'green' workshop which takes its commitment to environment seriously

Ramesh Manickam is the founder and CEO of Centroid Creative Hubb an Industrial Design firm based in Chennai, to practice and push boundaries in industrial design work in India. Ramesh as an Industrial designer has styled products ranging from Tractors, wheel loaders, motorcycles, water heaters, baby warmer till pens. In the past 10 years he has worked on more than about 80 different projects giving creative design solutions and designing to context for his clients. The projects / products range from varying scale of complexity from mass-produced till one off products. Ramesh represented India as a National finalist in International Young Design entrepreneur of the year 2006, award conducted by British council to nurture design entrepreneurship. He is also an alumnus of IIT Delhi, Industrial design program. His passion from child hood is to keep drawing, he is a self thought artist, studied civil engineering, and aligned his career in Industrial Design. Before starting Centroid, he was with Royal Enfield, as an automotive designer and designed the legendary Thunderbird Motorcycle.

Rebecca Brachman is a pioneer in the field of preventative psychopharmacology, developing drugs to enhance stress resilience and prevent mental illness. Current treatments for mood disorders only suppress symptoms without addressing the underlying disease, and there are no known cures. The drugs Rebecca discovered could be the first to prevent psychiatric disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. Rebecca completed her PhD at Columbia University, prior to which, she was a fellow at the National Institutes of Health, where she discovered that immune cells carry a memory of psychological stress and that white blood cells can act as antidepressants and resilience-enhancers. Rebecca's research has been featured in The Atlantic, WIRED and Business Insider, and her work was recently described on NPR as a "moonshot project that is very much needed in the mental health arena." In addition to conducting ongoing research at Columbia, Rebecca is an NYCEDC Entrepreneurship Lab Fellow and cofounder of Aision -- a NYC biotech startup launched from Columbia University, whose mission is to develop the first drugs that would prevent mental illness. She is also working on a non-profit venture to create novel financial tools to fund scientific research and to repurpose generic drugs, and previously served as the Interim Program Director for Outreach at the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University. Rebecca is also a playwright and screenwriter. She holds Bachelor's degrees in both neuroscience and creative writing, and she is currently working on a tech-focused writing project with her long-time writing partner, Sean Calder ("Grimm," "Damages," "ER"). She served as the director of NeuWrite, a national network of science-writing groups that fosters ongoing collaboration between scientists, writers and artists, and she has been featured as a storyteller at The Story Collider. Rebecca is a 2017 TED fellow.