REACH 2025

Name	Date, Time/Theme	Title
Prof. Vinod Singh	8.50 AM	Welcome Remarks
	Learnings from the Machine, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond	Session Chair: R. Medwal
Nitin Saxena	9.00 AM	(Artificial) Intelligence in Society
Sruti Raghavan	9.40 AM	AI as a part of the whole
Break	10.20 AM
Vipul Arora	10.50 AM	Complex systems, Sequences, and Trustworthy AI
Sayak Chowdhury	11.30 AM	LLM alignment, data issues, and solutions
Lunch	12.30 PM
	Bench to Bedside: Translating Laboratory Science to the Clinic	Session Chair: Santosh Misra
Ashok Kumar	2.00 PM	Translational Bioengineering for Healthcare
Jonaki Sen	2.40 PM	Combining molecular manipulations and in silico modeling to study disorders of brain development
Break	3.20 PM
Jayadharan	3.50 PM	Gene Therapy: Progress and Prospects
	Evening Session	Session Chair: Raj Pala
Prof. Manindra Agrawal	6. 00 PM	The Story of PRIMES is in P
Prof. Dhruv Raina	6.45 PM	Scientific Practices and the Circulation of Knowledge: Towards a Global History of Science
Dinner	7.30 PM

Name	Date, Time/Theme	Title
Discussants: Profs. M. Agrawal, A.K. Chaturvedi, Pradip Sinha Moderator: J. Bera	9:00 AM	Panel Discussion on Beyond The Paved Road
	Expanding the Landscape of Energy Molecules and Materials	Session Chair: Sri Sivakumar
Rajeev Jindal	10.00 AM	Role of materials in energy transition (pertaining to climate change): Opportunitiesand Challenges
Break	10.40 AM
Sundar Iyer	11.10 AM	Organic Photovoltaic Technology for a Sustainable Approach to Power Generation
Srinivas Dharavath	11.50 AM	Next-Generation High Energy Density Materials (HEDMs)
Lunch	12.30 PM
Shobit Omar	2.00 PM	Development of Solid-State Sodium-ion Batteries
Tanmoy Maiti	2.40 PM	Decoupling electron and heat transport in oxides for high-temperature thermoelectric power generation from waste heat
Break	3.20 PM
Amit Agrawal	3.50 PM	2-D heterostructures for efficient photovoltaic and water-splitting applications
	Learnings from the Machine, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond	Session Chair: R. Medwal
Ketan Rajawat	4.30 PM	Large-Scale Optimization in Machine Learning and Beyond
	Evening Session	Session Chair: Raj Pala
Sachchida Nand Tripathi	6.00 PM	Sustainability- An all pervasive and timeless idea
	Bench to Bedside: Translating Laboratory Science to the Clinic	Session Chair: Santosh Misra
Harshawardhan Wanare	6.45 PM	Making Big Impact with Tiny Tools: Our Single Optical Fiber Imaging Journey
Dinner	7.30 PM

Name	Date, Time/Theme	Title
	Learnings from the Machine, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond	Session Chair: R. Medwal
Ashish Dutta	9.00 AM	Brain Computer Interface based hand exoskeletons for stroke rehabilitation
	Bench to Bedside: Translating Laboratory Science to the Clinic	Session Chair: Santosh Misra
J. Ramkumar	9.40 AM	Translating laboratory science to the clinic
Break	10.20 AM
S. Sivakumar	10.50 AM	Ultrasoft PDMS nanoparticle and Membrane-Free Liver-on-a-Chip for Translational Drug Delivery and Screening Applications
Raj Pala	11.30 AM	Closing Remarks & Feedback from participants
Lunch	12.30 PM

REACH (REsearch And CHallenges) Symposium