Course Instructors
Prof. Craig Callender
University of California, USA
Prof. Craig Callender is a Professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diago, USA. He is also the Founding Faculty and Co- Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1997 from Rutgers University with a thesis entitled “Time’s Arrow” under Prof. Robert Weingard. From 1996 to 2000, he worked in the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. His main area of research is the philosophy of science, with special emphasis on physics, time, and the environment.
For his outstanding book in philosophy of science, “What Makes Time Special?” honoured with the 2018 Lakatos Award by Latsis Foundation and the 2022 Suppes Prize by
American Philosophical Society. He has won the Chancellor’s Associates Excellence Award twice. He is also the author of popular books like “Time, Reality and Experience” and “Physics meets philosophy at the Planck scale: contemporary theories in quantum gravity”.
Prof. Ramgopal Uppaluri
IIT Guwahati, India
Prof. Ramagopal Uppaluri obtained B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, M.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) from IIT Kanpur and Ph.D. (Process Integration) from University of Manchester, England. After a brief post-doctoral research at Robert Gordon University, Scotland, he joined IIT Guwahati and became the youngest Professor of IIT Guwahati in a very short span of time. He has diversified research profile in areas of chemical engineering, petroleum science and technology, computational mathematics and food science and technology.
He has published 115 international journal publications and has filed three Indian patents in the fields of surfactant enhanced oil recovery and palladium composite membranes. For about two decades, Prof. Uppaluri served in various capacities to assist and promote the activities of the Bhaktivedanta Institute, Kolkata. He received training and guidance from Dr. T. D. Singh to imbibe holistic aptitude towards the synthesis of science, philosophy and spirituality. He served the organization of the AISSQ conference series in several capacities as well as contributed several articles ranging from wider topics such as time dimension, origin of life, death, embryology and consciousness, consciousness studies etc. He has been instrumental in evolving Diploma and Certificate Courses in Science-Spirituality. Presently, he is serving as the Honorary Director of the Department of Education of the Bhaktivedanta Institute, Kolkata.
Dr. Viknish Krishanan Kutty
Cellivate Technology, Singapore
Dr. Viknish Krishnan-Kutty is a scientific entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Cellivate Technologies and also a Biomedical researcher in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute at National university of Singapore (NUS). He obtained his B.Eng (Biomedical Engineering) from the State University of New York, Stony Brook in 2006 and then completed his PhD in Bioengineering at the National University of Singapore in 2011. He is a bio-engineer with expertise in oncology, neuroscience & stem cells.
His research interests include modelling methods and creating technologies to control mammalian cells and promote clean- meat revolution. He is a recipient of NUS Graduate Research Innovation Programme (GRIP) Fellowship in 2016. He is also currently the president of the Society for Bhagavata Culture, Singapore and has a keen interest in understanding the synthesis of science and spirituality.
Prof. Manoranjan Sinha
IIT Kharagpur, India
Dr. Manoranjan Sinha is a Professor at IIT Kharagpur in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. He received his B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1993 and subsequently obtained M. Tech and Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He pursued his Post Doctoral research in neural networks at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada under the supervision of Prof. Madan M. Gupta. Later he served as an Assistant Professor at Birla Institute of Technology (BITS), Pilani and IIT Mumbai. He joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kharagpur in 2004. (Since then he is continuing there with escalating positions)
His research interests include neural networks, flight dynamics and attitude dynamics. He is involved with the lunar satellite orbit determination, lunar gravity and topography modeling for Chandrayan Mission – I of ISRO. He is also working on reconfigurable flight control. He was awarded the President of India Gold Medal, Institution of Engineers India in 2013 and Vikram Award for Systems (2010). He is also interested in integrative cosmology from Scientific and Vedantic perspectives and their connections to the origin of life in the cosmos.
Prof. Hare Krishna Mohanta
BITS Pilani, India
Dr. Hare Krishna Mohanta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering in BITS Pilani, Rajasthan. He obtained his B.E. (Chemical Engineering) in 1995 from NIT Rourkela, M.Tech (Chemical Engineering) in 1998 from IIT Kanpur, and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2006 from BITS Pilani. He has been teaching in BITS pilani since 1998. He worked in Indian Rare Earths Ltd (A Govt of India Undertaking) during 1995-1996. He is a Member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers(IIChE). He has several publications in internationally renowned journals.
His areas of research include Advanced Process Control, Process Monitoring and Control, Sensors and Microreactors, Catalysis and Pyrolysis, Applied Wavelet Analysis, Reactive Distillation, Modeling, Simulation and Consciousness Studies. His interests also expand over vedantic studies of Consciousness.