Dr. Yashraj Bhatanagar (Chair, IISc AANA)
Dr. Yashraj Bhatnagar came to IISc in 1983 from B.I.T.S. Pilani to join the MTech Program in Solid State Physics, completing his degree in 1985. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, England, in 1990. He has since worked at GEC (UK), University of Vigo (Spain), and the University of Waterloo (Canada). Currently, he is a Senior Manager with Applied Materials in Santa Clara, California.

Dr. Subba Rao Gunupudi (Co-Chair, IISc AANA)
Dr. Subba Rao Gunupudi, Ph.D., is CEO of CALALPTECH, Mountain View, California. He is also founder and President of Dx-Sys, Inc., Palo Alto, CA. He is an Adjunct Professor at Ambala College of Engineering and Applied Research, Ambala, India. Formerly, he was Vice President of R & D at ChemTrak, Sunnyvale, CA. He was also an Executive Mentor in Bay Area Regional Technology Alliance (BARTA).He received his Ph. D. in Biochemistry from IISc in 1975.

Sanjeev S. Ukhalkar (President, IISc AANA)
Sanjeev graduated from IISc in 1975. He has several years of experience in networking and currently working as Director, Engineering at Cisco Systems. He has been very active since 2004 and has led the fund raising for Global Conf-2007. 

Dr. Arkal Shenoy (Chair IISc AANA South Cal Chapter)
Dr. Arkal joined IISc in 1964 and earned his M.E. (Mechanical) in 1966. He joined the Nuclear Engineering program at Georgia Institute of Technology and was awarded a Ph.D. He is currently director of Gas Cooled Nuclear Reactor Programs at General Atomics, San Diego, USA. He has over thirty-five years of professional experience in management, design, development, and operation of nuclear power projects. He is member of several professional organizations including Sigma XI, American Nuclear Society, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Prof. Murali Ghantasala (Chair IISc AANA Midwest Chapter)
Muralidhar Ghantasala joined IISc in 1985 and received his M.Sc.(Engg.) and Ph.D. from IISc. He was awarded Martin J. Forster Gold Medal for Best PhD Thesis in the Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences in 1993. He worked in various positions at RMIT University and Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia from 1994 to 2003. He is currently an Associate Professor at Western Michigan University in the department of Mechanical and Aeronautical engineering.

Prof. Satish Nagarajaiah (Chair IISc AANA South Central Chapter)
Professor Satish Nagarajaiah holds a joint appointment between the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and the Mechanical Engineering and Material Science Department at Rice University. He joined IISc in 1980 and earned his M.E. (Structural Eng./Mechanics) in 1982. National Science Foundation has awarded him the prestigious faculty early CAREER award for his research in semi-active structural control.

K Sundararaghavan (Chair IISc AANA South East Coast Chapter)
K.R. Sundararaghavan, alias Sundar, joined IISc in 1980 and earned his B.E (EE) in 1983. He received his M.S in Computer Science from University of Alabama in Birmingham in 1987. He is one of the founders and Vice President of Spectrum Software, a software product company based in Atlanta. He is a member of several professional organizations including Project Management Institute and IEEE. He is actively involved with several non-profit community service organizations in metro Atlanta.

Prof. Ramakrishna Akella
Prof. Ram Akella is currently Professor and Director of Information Systems and Technology Management, at the University of California Santa Cruz, Silicon Valley Center. He joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in 1985 and also taught at Stanford and University of California, Berkeley. Professor Akella completed his B.S. in Electronics at IIT Madras in 1976 and Ph.D. in Systems/EECS at IISc in 1982.

Dr. Murthy Gudipati
Dr. Murthy Gudipati is a Principal Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech, and a faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Before moving back to the U. S. in 2001, Murthy taught for over a decade at the University of Cologne, Germany, where he received Habilitation (tenure) in 1998. Murthy obtained his Ph. D. from the Indian Institute of Science in 1987 and his M. Sc. in 1981 from the Central University of Hyderabad, India.

Gopi Mamidipudi
Gopi Mamidipudi, alias M. Gopikrishna, joined IISc in 1978 and earned his B. E. (ECE) in 1982 and M. E. (School of Automation) in 1985. Gopi worked for CMC Ltd. in Delhi on the Railway Reservation System and moved to New Zealand in 1987. Since 1989, he has been a "serial" entrepreneur and is currently involved in two businesses—a software consulting firm and an online education company for K-12 students, HighPoints Learning Inc. Gopi is also one of the founders of the IISc Alumni in the Bay Area, in 1999, along with Anita, Animesh and others.