Bhattacharya is a Professor, Dept. of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. He obtained his PhD from Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, in bio-organic chemistry. He then worked as NIH Postdoctoral Research Associate at MIT, with Nobel laureate H. Gobind Khorana, focusing on the biology and chemistry of signal transduction involving membrane proteins. He subsequently moved to IISc Bangalore where he ultimately became full professor. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Sciences (INSA) and the Indian Academy of Sciences. He has won numerous awards including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Sciences, the TWAS Prize in Chemical Sciences in 2010, AV Rama Rao Endowment Lecture 2010, a J C Bose fellowship and GD Birla Award.

Majumder is the founding director of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics in India, and concurrently holds professorships at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, and the John C. Martin Center for Liver Research & Innovations, Kolkata, India. He has made significant contributions to human-, statistical- and population genetics and genomics; developed statistical methodologies for mapping human disease genes, identified genomic factors underlying many diseases notably oral cancer, and reconstructed the evolution of Indian and Asian populations using genomics. Was a National Science Chair in India for 5 years until 30 June 2025. Fellow of all three science academies of India, served as President of Indian Academy of Sciences. Executive Board member of the Human Genome Organisation. Chairs of Working Groups of WHO. Selected awards and honours: G.N. Ramachandran Gold Medal (2021) of the Government of India; Barclay Memorial Medal (2020) of The Asiatic Society; Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal (2018) of the Indian National Science Academy; Centenary Medal for Excellence (2014), School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata; TWAS Prize in Biology (2009).

Chopra (PhD, Delhi School of Economics,1969). She was formerly director, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, where she was professor (1980-2009). She has been on the editorial and policy boards of several international journals including Environment and Development Economics, and Ecological Economics, and was Senior Associate of the Ecological and Environmental Economics Programme hosted by the ICTP, Trieste, Italy (2002-2006). She was member, Assessment Panel of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2001-2005) and co-chair of its Working Group on Response Options. She is a fellow of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm and of the South Asia Network of Development and Environmental Economics. She was President of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (2010-2012 and 1998-2000) and President of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (2004). Currently, she co-edits " Ecology, Economy and Society: the Journal of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics

Kumar is a Regents Prof, University Distinguished Prof, holds the O’Donnell Foundation Chair I, and is a Prof in the Dept of Elect and Comp Engg., Texas A and M Univ. He obtained his BTech from IIT Madras (1973) and DSc from Washington U., St. Louis, (1977). He has worked on game theory, adaptive control, simulated annealing, machine learning, queueing networks, security, information theory, wireless networks, cyberphysical systems, manufacturing systems, power systems, and UAV systems. He was awarded an hon. doctorate from ETH, Zürich; was guest chair prof., Tsinghua U., Beijing; is a hon. prof., IIT Hyderabad; and was dist. vis. prof., IIT Bombay. His awards include: Eckman Award, Am. Automatic Control Council; IEEE Field Award in Control Systems; Ellersick Prize of IEEE Communications Soc. Alexander Graham Bell Medal of IEEE, Infocom Achievement Award, SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award; ACM SIGMOBILE Outst. Contrib. Award; Dist. Alumnus Award of IIT Madras; Alumni Achv. Award, Washington U., St. Louis; Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, U. of Illinois. He is Fellow, IEEE, member, US National Academy of Engineering, and Indian National Academy of Engineering.

Chakravarty is professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He obtained his PhD in 1982 from Calcutta University working at IACS (Kolkata) and did his postdoctoral studies at Texas A and M University prior to joining IISc in 1985 as assistant professor. He has made important contributions in bioinorganic chemistry towards developing the chemistry of bio-essential first-row transition metal-based synthetic photo-chemotherapeutic agents that are active in visible light in different types of cancer cells. His awards include: SS Bhatnagar Prize in 1998; CSIR, New Delhi; CRSI Silver Medal in 2007; JC Bose national fellowship of DST, Govt. of India; and Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, Germany, in 1994. His membership includes: Indian National Science Academy (FNA) in 2006 and Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc) in 1995.