Bio: Rijurekha is an assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Her research interests are in problems at the intersection of information technology and society, and in particular on building distributed, networked and privacy aware systems. This includes work on building systems for road traffic monitoring, human mobility measurements, public policy audit and privacy enhancement in ubiquitous systems, among others. Before moving to IIT Delhi, Rijurekha did her PhD at IIT Bombay and was a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems at Saarbrucken in Germany.
Prabha Mandayam
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Madras
Bio: Prabha is an associate professor in the department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Prior to this, she was an Inspire faculty fellow at the Chennai Mathematical Institute and a Post-doctoral Fellow with the Optics and Quantum Information Group at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences. She obtained her PhD in Physics from the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech. Her research interests are broadly in the area of quantum computing and quantum information theory, and in particular in quantum error correction, and understanding the interplay between quantum foundations and quantum cryptography, and using quantum information as a tool to explore fundamental questions in theoretical physics.
Jyothi Krishnan
Assistant Teaching Professor, Center for creative learning, IIT Gandhinagar
Bio: Jyothi Krishnan grew up solving puzzles and reading Martin Gardner’s books. Not realising that recreational mathematics provided any scope for a career, she pursued her other love of mechanics and collected a BTech from NIT Calicut, an MS from IIT Madras and a PhD from UC Berkeley. She has worked as a programmer, a bridge engineer, a research mathematician and a school teacher. Having been introduced to the world of modern board games during her PhD, she realised that it was a way to make fairly complicated mathematical reasoning accessible to a large number of children so she created a job playing games with kids in an alternative school in Bangalore. After running her game lab for 4 years she discovered like-minded people at CCL where she is thrilled to be making a living playing games and solving puzzles. At CCL she creates games and looks after math content.
STCS Vigyan Vidushi 2025
