Committee members
IASTA 2026 Leadership & Programme Committee
Patrons
- Suman Chakraborty, Director, IIT Kharagpur
- V. Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras
- Pratim Biswas, Professor, University of Miami, United States
- Vivek Bhasin, Director, BARC
National Advisory Committee
- Anil Bharadwaj, Director, PRL
- Probal Chaudhury, Associate Director, HS&EG, BARC
- Srinivas Kumar Tummala, Secretary, MoES
- Tanmay Kumar, Secretary, MoEFCC
- Kaustuv Sanyal, Director, Bose Institute, Kolkata
- A. Suryachandra Rao, Director, IITM
- A. P. Dimri, Director, IIG
- Y. S. Mayya, IIT Bombay
- D. K. Aswal, Member, NDMA
- N. Kalaiselvi, Secretary, DSIR
- V. Narayanan, Chairman, ISRO
- B. Chandraekhar, Executive Director, MoE
- Swagata Dasgupta, IIT Kharagpur
- Haimanti Banerji, IIT Kharagpur
- Tamal Das, IIT Kharagpur
- Kamal Lochan Panigrahi, IIT Kharagpur
- Damodar Maity, IIT Kharagpur
- D.J. Sen, IIT Kharagpur
- Sirshendu De, IIT Kharagpur
Technical Programme Committee
- Neeraj Rastogi, PRL Ahmedabad (Chair)
- Harish Gadhavi, PRL Ahmedabad
- Anubha Goel, IIT Kanpur
- Sunita Verma, BHU, Varanasi
- Abhijit Chatterji, Bose Institute, Kolkata
- S. Anand, BARC Mumbai
- V. Vinoj, IIT Bhubaneshwar
- Harish Phuleria, IIT Bombay
- Ashwini Kumar, CSIR-NIO, Goa
- Atul Srivastava, IITM Delhi
- Dilip Ganguly, IIT Delhi
- S.K. Mishra, NPL, Delhi
- B. Padmakumari, IITM Pune
- Amit Patel, IGCAR Kalpakkam
- Arshad Khan, BARC Mumbai
- G. Pandithurai, IIT Madras
- Sanat Das, Bose Institute Kolkata
- Manoranjan Sahu, IIT Bombay
- Sameer Patel, IIT Gandhinagar
- Vijay Kanawade, The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
- Ravi Kiran, NARL Gadanki
- Mukunda Gogoi, Space Physics Laboratory, Trivandrum
- Sayantan Sarkar, IIT Mandi
- P. R. Sinha, IIST Thiruvananthapuram
- Manish Joshi, BARC Mumbai
- Sachin Gunthe, IIT Madras
- Shubha Verma, IIT Kharagpur
Local Organising Committee
- Abhijit Chatterjee, Bose Institute Kolkata (Chair)
- Dipanjali Majumdar, NEERI, Kolkata
- Sayantan Sarkar, IIT Mandi
- B. Padmakumari, IITM Pune
- Ashwini Kumar, CSIR-NIO, Goa
- Umesh Chandra Dumka, ARIES Nainital
- Dipankar Saha, Ex-CPCB, Delhi
- Shweta Yadav, Central University, Jammu
- Sunita Verma, BHU, Varanasi
- Archana Shukla, IIT Kharagpur
- Prashant Anand, IIT Kharagpur
- A.K. Gupta, IIT Kharagpur
- Rajib Maity, IIT Kharagpur
- Manish Pandey, IIT Kharagpur
- A.K. Patra, IIT Kharagpur
- K. Jayanaraynan, IIT Kharagpur
- Sudha Goel, IIT Kharagpur
- B.K. Dubey, IIT Kharagpur
- Amit Passi, IIT Kharagpur
- V.V. Kulkarni, IIT Kharagpur
- Satyabrat Tiwari, IIT Kharagpur
- Reshma Mohan T., IIT Kharagpur
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| Category | Status |
|---|---|
| Lifetime membership | Open — apply via the IASTA membership form |
| Student membership | Details to be confirmed |
| Institutional membership | Details to be confirmed |