Mentors & Experts — DAST Innovation Network
Learning Beyond the Classroom
Innovation becomes stronger when learners interact with people who have built, researched, engineered and led organizations. DAST works to connect learners and teams with:
Scientists
Researchers
Engineers
Entrepreneurs
Industry Leaders
Product Experts
Technology Specialists
Mounika Aireddy
Co-Founder
DAST Pvt. Ltd.
Area of Expertise
Financial Management, Startup Strategy & Business Operations
Anki Reddy K
Director-Product Innovation Studio
DAST Pvt. Ltd.
Area of Expertise
Academic Strategy, Educational Technology, Curriculum Architecture, and STEM Initiatives
Dr. Harinath Aireddy
Director - Maker Space & Director - COE Additive Manufacturing
Alliance University
Area of Expertise
Instrumentation, Nanoelectronics, Semiconductors, Spintronics, IoT, Embedded Systems, 3D Printing, and STEM Learning
Prof. Dr. S. Seetharamu
Former Director
Central Power Research Institute (CPRI)
Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Academic Institutions
Area of Expertise
Materials Technology, ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance), Green Hydrogen (GH2) Technology, and Fuel Cells
Prof. Dr. R. Jayaganthan
Professor & HOD Dept. of Engineering Design
IIT Madras
Area of Expertise
Additive Manufacturing, Severe Plastic Deformation (SPD), Structural Nanomaterials, Fatigue & Fracture Mechanics, and FEM Simulation
Prof. Dr. Amal Kumar Das
Professor, Dept. of Physics
IIT Kharagpur
Area of Expertise
Spintronics, Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors (DMS), Cantilever Beam Magnetometry (CBM), and Ferromagnet/Semiconductor Heterostructures
Dr. Subash Chandra Mishra
Former Head of Department (HOD), Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
NIT Rourkela
Area of Expertise
Materials Science, Metallurgical Engineering, Advanced Materials & Surface Engineering
Dr. Korra Sathya Babu
Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
IIITDM Kurnool (Ph.D., NIT Rourkela)
Area of Expertise
Natural Language Processing, Sentiment & Emotion Analysis, Time-series Prediction, Recommender Systems, Privacy in Location-based Systems, Aerosol Pollution, Big Data Issues
Dr. N. Vijay Prakash C
Head of Research And Development
Waaree Group (Ph.D., IIT Kharagpur)
Area of Expertise
Product Design and Development, Modelling and Simulation, AI, and Robotics
Dr. Pavan Kumar P
Staff Engineer
Gamma Technologies (Ph.D., IIT Kharagpur)
Area of Expertise
Product Design and Development, Modelling and Simulation, AI, and Robotics
Dr. Y. Srinivasa Rao
Librarian
NIT Warangal
Area of Expertise
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Academic Library Systems, Digital Resources, Scholarly Communication, Research Ethics, and Open Access
Dr. C. DhanaSekhar (Ph.D IIT Bombay)
Postdoctoral Fellow
National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU)
Area of Expertise
Product Design and Development, Modelling and Simulation, AI, and Robotics
Jithendar Reddy Gorre
Strategic Growth Advisor
University of North Texas
Area of Expertise
Business Strategy, Business Analytics, Sales & Growth Strategy, Business Development, Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy, and Data-Driven Decision Making
P Rajasheker Reddy
Senior Package Consultant (SAP)
IBM
Area of Expertise
SAP Enterprise Solutions, Package Consulting, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Business Process Transformation
Jannapureddy Vishnu
Design and Verification Engineer & Technical Project Manager
Renesas Electronics -JAPAN
Area of Expertise
Design and verification of Micro Controller Unit(MCU's) varients