The Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI is home to the Department of Data Science and AI, and also brings together several faculty from across several centres, working together on various exciting interdisciplinary problems in Data Science & AI. We also have a diverse set of 40+ affiliate faculty and research fellows from all over the world, strengthening our interdisciplinarity. We are also actively recruiting new faculty at the Assistant Professor level: please see here!
Department Faculty
Visiting Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Aravindan Raghuveer
Principal Engineer, Google DeepMind
Arun Ayyar
Director, Santa Fe Research Private Limited
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
Professor, IIIT Hyderabad
Sri Vallabha Deevi
Director, Data Science at Tiger Analytics
Affiliate Faculty
Arun D. Mahindrakar
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI / Professor, IIT Madras
Athi N. Naganathan
Affiliate Faculty, IBSE / Professor, IIT Madras
Bhargava Rama Chilukuri
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI / Associate Professor, IIT Madras
Gandham Phanikumar
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI / Professor, IIT Madras
Himanshu Sinha
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI | IBSE / Associate Professor, IIT Madras
Kamakoti Veezhinathan
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI / Professor, Director of IIT Madras
Karthik K Srinivasan
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI / Professor, IIT Madras
Kaushik Mitra
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI / Assistant Professor, IIT Madras
Krishnan Balasubramanian
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI / Institute Chair Professor, IIT Madras
Lelitha Devi Vanajakshi
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI / Professor, IIT Madras
Manikandan Narayanan
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI | IBSE / Associate Professor, IIT Madras
Meiyappan Lakshmanan
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI | IBSE / Assistant Professor, IIT Madras
Michael Gromiha
Affiliate Faculty, IBSE / Professor, IIT Madras
Rahul Ratnakar Marathe
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI / Professor, IIT Madras
Ramkrishna Pasumarthy
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI / Professor, IIT Madras
Rohit Batra
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI / Assistant Professor, IIT Madras
Satyanarayanan Seshadri
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI / Associate Professor, IIT Madras
Shankar Narasimhan
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI / M.S. Ananth Institute Chair Professor, IIT Madras
Sridharakumar Narasimhan
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI | IBSE / Professor, IIT Madras
Srinivasa Chakravarthy V
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI / Professor, IIT Madras
Sudarsan Padmanabhan
Affiliate Faculty, CeRAI | RBCDSAI / Professor, IIT Madras
Usha Mohan
Affiliate Faculty, RBCDSAI / Professor, IIT Madras
Associate Fellows
Ameen Jauhar
Associate Research Fellow, CeRAI / Senior Resident Fellow
Amlan Mohanty
Associate Research Fellow, CeRAI / Independent Consultant
Anshu Bhardwaj
Associate Research Fellow, RBCDSAI / Principal Scientist, Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR)
Aravindan Raghuveer
Associate Research Fellow, RBCDSAI / Senior Engineering Manager, Google Research
Ashish Tendulkar
Associate Research Fellow, RBCDSAI / Machine Learning Architect, Google Research
Balaji Vasan Srinivasan
Associate Research Fellow, RBCDSAI / Principal Scientist, Adobe Research
Dr. Ramachandran Thiruvengadam
Associate Research Fellow, RBCDSAI / Assistant Professor Biochemistry, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences
Gugan Thoppe
Associate Research Fellow, RBCDSAI / Assistant Professor, IISc
Harshad Khadilkar
Associate Research Fellow, RBCDSAI / Principal Research Scientist, Franklin Templeton | Visiting Associate Professor, IIT Bombay
Hemanth Kumar Tanneru
Associate Research Fellow, RBCDSAI / Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Petroleum & Energy
Krishnaram Kenthapadi
Associate Research Fellow, CeRAI / Chief AI Officer & Chief Scientist, Fiddler AI
Lavanya Marla
Associate Research Fellow, RBCDSAI / Associate Professor, University of Illinois
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK)
Associate Faculty Fellow, CeRAI | RBCDSAI / Professor of Computer Science, IIIT Hyderabad
Raji Baskaran
Associate Research Fellow, RBCDSAI / Founder and CEO, Manifolds Lab
Ramakrishnan
Associate Research Fellow, RBCDSAI / Assistant Professor of VIT University Vellore
Ravi Srinivas
Associate Faculty Fellow, CeRAI / Adjunct professor at NALSAR University of Law
Resmi Suresh
Associate Research Fellow, RBCDSAI / Assistant Professor department of chemical engineering, IITG
Sudip Gupta
Associate Faculty Fellow, CeRAI / Associate Professor of Finance, JHU Carey Business School
Suresh Sudarsan
Associate Research Fellow, RBCDSAI / Senior Program Manager, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, High Density Physiology, DTU Microbes Initiative
Tarunima Prabhakar
Associate Research Fellow, CeRAI / Co-founder, Tattle Civic Technologies
Urvashi Aneja
Associate Research Fellow, CeRAI / Founder and Executive Director, Digital Futures Lab
Vibhav Mithal
Associate Research Fellow, CeRAI / Associate Partner at Anand and Anand
Vijay K Tiwari
Associate Research Fellow, RBCDSAI / Professor, Queen’s University Belfast