• Dr. Omkar serves as the Chief Research Scientist at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science. His research interests include Uninhabited Air Vehicles (UAVs), Autonomous Navigation of UAVs, Helicopter Dynamics, Satellite Image Processing, Yoga and Biomechanics.
• Dr. Omkar heads the UAV lab, Computational Intelligence lab and Yoga & Biomechanics labs.
• He has published more than 140 articles in leading international technical journals. He is also the convenor (TED 14:1) sub-committee on “Standardization of Drones in India”, under Bureau of Indian Standards
• Dr. Omkar was also a Panellist and Coordinator at the “Vaibhav Summit”, Global Summit of the Overseas and Resident Indian Scientists and Academicians.

Parimal Kopardekar (PK) serves as the Director of NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI). In that capacity, he is responsible for exploring new trends, collaborations and partnership needs related to aviation enterprise. He also serves as NASA's senior technologist for Air Transportation Systems and principal investigator for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) project. He is the recipient of many awards, including NASA Government Invention of the Year, Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal, Outstanding Leadership Award, Engineer of the Year Award, and Samuel J. Heyman Service to America’s Promising Innovation Award. PK was named among 25 most influential people in drone industry. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Aerospace Operations and Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He also serves as an adjunct faculty and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses related to operations management and supply chain management.

Ravishankar Mysore, is the Chair for SAEINDIA Aerospace Forum since Feb 2021 and has been associated with the SAEINDIA since 2016. He has over 32 years of industry experience in Engineering and retired as Vice President-Engineering, Global Engineering and Technology Center, Collins Aerospace. The center grew from 100 to 1400 engineers under his leadership with capabilities in mechanical, electrical, electronics, software, materials, reliability and systems engineering. The center works with all the strategic business units of Collins Aerospace in the areas of product design, development, sustenance engineering and technology development.
Ravi began his career with Larsen Toubro Ltd and worked for Bharat Earth Movers Limited, Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys Technologies Ltd before joining Goodrich, now Collins Aerospace.
Ravi has a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal and a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was one of the founding members of NASSCOM Engineering Services forum and served on the forum from 2005 to 2007.

Dr. Ravi Kumar G. V. V. is Associate Vice President and Head Advanced Engineering Group (AEG) of Engineering Services, Infosys. He has led many innovation and applied research projects over the past 25 years. His areas of expertise include mechanical structures and systems, knowledge-based engineering, composites, artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous systems, AR, VR, and Industry 4.0. He is involved in the development of commercial products like AUTOLAY (CADDS-COMPOSITES), Nia Knowledge and KRTI 4.0. He contributed to many Industry 4.0 implementation projects and played a key role in the development of Industry 4.0 maturity index under the umbrella of Acatech, Germany.

He is also involved in various initiatives of the World Economic Forum (WEF) fourth industrial revolution technologies in production. He is the Chair of G-31 and member of HM-1 technical committees of SAE International contributing to various aerospace standards development.

Dr. Ravi Kumar has published over fifty technical papers and five patents. He has a PhD and an MTech in Applied Mechanics from IIT Delhi, and a BE (Honors) from BITS Pilani, India. He won many awards including James M. Crawford Executive Standards Committee Outstanding Achievement award from SAE International and Corporate Excellence Award from American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin.

Dr. Ramakrishnan Raman received B. Tech and MS degrees from IIT Madras, and Ph.D. from IIIT-
Bangalore. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and is INCOSE Certified Expert Systems Engineering
Professional - ESEP. He has extensive systems and software engineering experience
in the Building/ Industrial Automation and Aerospace domains. He has to his credit several
publications in refereed international conferences & journals on complex systems architecture design
and Artificial Intelligence – Machine Learning. He is active in many professional societies, including SAE, IEEE, and
INCOSE. He is currently Principal Systems Engineer at Honeywell. He has received many organizational awards including 2010 Honeywell Technology
Solutions Annual Leadership Excellence Award. In the year 2016, he received the Outstanding Service
Award from the International Council on Systems Engineering at Edinburgh, Scotland. He has also been
the Technical Program Chair for international conferences including 2016 & 2019 Asia Oceania
Systems Engineering Conference, and the 31st INCOSE International Symposium. He actively interacts
with various academic institutions, and is currently Guest Faculty at IIT Bombay Aerospace
Department, and Adjunct Faculty at Department of Instrumentation & Control Engineering at Manipal
Institute of Technology.

Krupal Aerpula is the engineering leader at Boeing India, where he is responsible for driving engineering excellence and ensuring the technical integrity and success of development and production programs.
He previously served as the senior manager of Boeing Test & Evaluation (BT&E) in India (2015-2017), where he was responsible for standing up and growing BT&E India operations.
Prior to Boeing, Krupal was with Eaton Corporation as Engineering Manager (2007-2015) managing cross functional teams involved in design of fluid conveyance and sensing products for both commercial and defense platforms. He led a global team on developing common design standards and processes at Eaton, Aerospace.
Before joining Eaton, he was with Bharat Dynamics Limited (Ministry of Defense), India (1997-2007), where he successfully developed products like missile simulators, missile launcher and test equipment for the Indian defense forces. Krupal was born in Hyderabad, India. He holds an Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering.