SPEAKERS 6th INCET 2025
Mr. Karan Alang
Principal Software Engineer, Tech Lead, and Architect
Versa Networks Inc. United States
Karan Alang is a Principal Software Engineer, Tech Lead, and Architect with 25 years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and AI/ML solutions. Throughout his career, he has led innovation and engineering excellence at world-class organizations such as Apple, Versa Networks, 3M, Lenovo, and US Steel — driving impactful work in big data, real-time analytics, and intelligent automation.
He currently leads the Data Engineering team at Versa Networks Inc., where he architects scalable data pipelines and platforms that support advanced machine learning and security intelligence.
Beyond his technical contributions, he is deeply engaged with the global tech community. He is an IEEE Senior Member, ACM member, and a Member of the Forbes Technology Council, staying closely connected with emerging research and thought leadership in the field.
He is also an open-source contributor to the Apache Airflow community and actively supports innovation in data orchestration. In addition, he has served as a hackathon judge and technical speaker at multiple industry events.
Title of Speech :
Enhancing Network Security : Anomaly Detection using Generalized Isolation Forest and Explainable AI
Dr. Chengappa Munjandira
Vice Chair ., IEEE Bangalore Section
As a Senior Technologist with over 15 years in Telco, He have been passionate about driving innovation and delivering transformative solutions. He architected and deployed advanced NFV/vRAN systems, including Telco Core, vEPC, and vIMS, with a deep expertise in emerging technologies like Open RAN, AI/ML, and cloud-native environments. Beyond my professional pursuits, He deeply committed to leveraging technology for social good. As Vice Chair of Industry & Open/IEEE Standards and Leader of Technology for the IEEE MOVE Outreach India Emergency Response Program, He actively contributed to providing critical communication services to disaster-affected communities. He is strong advocate for open source technologies and actively contribute to the open-source community.
Dr. S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna
R. Mahadeva Prasanna is a recipient of the National Award for Teachers 2023 from the honorable President of India Smt. Droupadi Murmu. He is currently working as Director, IIIT Dharwad on leave from IIT Dharwad. He is Professor in the Dept. of Electrical, Electronics and Communication (EECE) at IIT Dharwad. He was Dean(Faculty Welfare) at IIT Dharwad before taking charge of Director at IIIT Dharwad. He was earlier Professor in the Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Engineering and Dean (Research & Development), IIT Guwahati. He earned his PhD from IIT Madras in 2004, MTech from NITK Surathkal (then KREC Surathkal) in 1997 and BE from SSIT Tumakuru in 1994. He teaches signal processing, speech processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning related courses. His research interests are in speech processing. He has supervised 28 PhD research scholars in the areas of speech and handwriting processing.
Currently 7 scholars are working for their PhD / MS degrees. He has published over 115 journal articles and 200 conference articles in reputed national and international journals and conferences. He has executed large volume externally funded projects from public and private funding agencies. He is also a consultant for many industries working in the niche technology areas, especially, speech technology. On the academic administration front, at IIT Guwahati he was faculty-in-charge, counseling cell, chairman, students’ welfare board, organizing vice-chairman, GATE 2010, Chairman, GATE 2011, Associate Dean (Research and Development) and Dean (Research & Development). At IIT Dharwad, he was Dean (Faculty Welfare) and Dean (Research & Development) from July 2017 till March 2023. From March 2023 till April 2024, he continued as Dean (Faculty Welfare). He also served IIT Dharwad on different committees towards setting up the institute of national importance in Dharwad, Karnataka
Mr. Suman De
SAP LABS
Suman is a Product Manager for S4 Product Insights & Experience, having joined SAP in 2015 as a Scholar and holds a Master’s degree in Software Engineering from BITS Pilani. He has previously worked as a Full-Stack cloud developer, Research Mentor, and Scrum Coach for several SAP solution areas. He is also a part of the Managing Director’s Office at SAP Labs India for various people and strategic topics while helping Early-stage growth startups to co-innovate with SAP as part of SAP Startup Studio. As a researcher, he has published over 30 works in International journals and conferences of IEEE, Springer, and Elsevier, including 4 book chapters, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur under the department of Computational and Data Science. Suman has been associated with multiple conferences and journals of International repute as a Reviewer, TPC Chair, and Session Chair while focusing his Guest Lectures at Academic Institutions on bridging gaps between Academia and Industry for the latest trends. Suman’s work has won Best paper awards and Pitching challenges, and he has also been a Thought Leadership Champion for his research contributions.