Dr. Balvinder Shukla is a professor of entrepreneurship, leadership & Information Technology and is currently the Vice Chancellor of Amity University Uttar Pradesh. She has an M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur and a Ph.D. from Queen’s University, UK. She is the co-author of several books including 'The Role of Business Incubators in the Economic Growth of India' and 'Human Resource Management'. Her keen areas of interest lie in promoting Entrepreneurship, Research, Internationalization, CSR, and Industry-Academia Collaborations. She has conducted several executive programs and consulting assignments for Industry and mentored many budding Entrepreneurs, Women Entrepreneurs, and Family Business Owners in various clusters/sectors. Her contributions are widely acclaimed and recognised with numerous prestigious awards and honours. Some of the recent ones are “Excellence in Entrepreneurship Development Award, Academic Leadership Award, Excellent Contribution to Education Sector Award, Vice Chancellor of the Year Award, and Life-Time Achievement Award” and the latest one “National Distinguished Vice Chancellor Award” by the esteemed Indian Institute of Ecology and Environment, and the prestigious Sushma Swaraj Stree Shakti Samman Award in 2024."
Dr. Bulusu Krishna Murthy is currently working as Dean Translational Research and Entrepreneurship Development at Amity University, Nioda. He also served as Dean Research, Atria University, Bengaluru; Senator IIITDM Kurnool and Professor of Practice DIT University Dehradun and Adjunct Professor at IIITM Gwalior. As Senior Director (Scientist G) and Group Coordinator (R&D in IT and NKN) in the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), Government of India, where he served for 35 years, he was responsible for promotion of R&D in IT; Viswesvaraya PhD Fellowship scheme; National Knowledge Network, Cyber Security, Digital India Infoway, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing and National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology. Establishment of Media Lab Asia (Digital India Corporation). Main architect of the National Strategy on Blockchain and Unified Blockchain Farmework in 2021. After taking VRS from MeitY in October 2021, he joined as CEO, IIT Bhilai Innovation and Technology Foundation (IBITF), Raipur, with the responsibilities of establishment of Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) for FinTech under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems, funded by DST, Govt. of India. Dr. Murthy was Conferred with the prestigious VASVIK Industrial Research Award for the year 2020 in the field of Information and Communication Technologies.
Dr. Nitasha Hasteer is a Professor and Head of the Information Technology Department, as well as the Deputy Director (Academics) at the Amity School of Engineering & Technology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering and ha
