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Thapar University
Bhadson Road
Patiala, Punjab, 147004
India

Abhijeet Satani

Brainwaves

Being fascinated by the mysteries of the human mind, Abhijeet Satani started to link diversified subject matters like mathematics, philosophy and design, principles of physics into medical sciences and tried to incorporate these links into his robotics and brain–computer interface (BCI) experiments. Over 7 years of research, Satani successfully created a brain–computer interface (BCI). Satani also worked on solving brain related diseases such as –Paralysis by developing and successfully testing an exoskeleton that works on the principle of Electromyography. For Polio – he is in the process of recording EEG wave pattern to develop a solution.

Charnita Arora

Education, Happines Coach

Ms. Charnita Arora has transformed 10,000+ lives into being more happy. She uses her insights on mindfulness and emotional intelligence to facilitate individuals into emotional stability and courage. She is the founder-bird of Perfect Life Spot (The Well-Being Nest), that nurtures individuals and institutions towards effective self-management. A former DU Assistant Professor of English, an Erasmus Mundus Scholar (Germany), DU Gold Medalist, Science Slam Winner (2014), Ms Charnita Arora is also a voracious writer. Her articles can be read on Elephant journal, Elite Daily, Yahoo, TheHealthSite, Business world and so on. Her book Mindfulness for Beginners in Plain English e-published this year, has received world-wide recognition. She is also a candid youtuber. And, a mentor with SHEROES, a network of 500+ women entrepreneurs.

GopiKrishan Bali

Education, Leadership

An Electrical Engineer from YMCA Institute of Engineering and a Certified Master Trainer from British Council Delhi, Bali is currently Project Head for ‘Train the Teacher’ initiative (T3I) of Times Group. He co-created 3HS.India, a Consortium of Professionals from Learning and Development domain and enjoy developing and delivering sessions for Youth Leadership Skills, Social Mentoring and Executive Performance Improvement workshops along with Happiness Coaching. Bali has trained many batches of youth leaders in Shri Ram College of Commerce of Delhi University and IIITD (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi). He also presented workshops in Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. He has presented workshops and papers in TEC12, TEC13, TEC15 Hyderabad and tenth AsiaTEFL International Conference, Delhi. His Flagship programme for Mentoring and Guiding Youth “Shift from AFT to TFA” is a huge hit among youth and professionals.

Himanshu Sharma

Ethical Hacker, Security Analyst

Hacking, unlike other jobs, is an art. Hacking requires a different mindset and intelligence from the rest hence, there are just a few of them who really are capable of hacking. Himanshu Sharma is one of them. Aged just 22, Himanshu – popularly known as нα¢кєя, has already achieved fame for finding security loopholes and vulnerabilities in Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook. He has gained worldwide recognition through his hacking skills. *Listed in Google Hall of Fame (2 times); *Listed in Apple's Hall of Fame (8 times); *Listed in Microsoft's Hall of Fame (9 times); *Listed in Facebook's Hall of Fame (2 times); *Listed in Adobe's Hall of Fame; *Listed in Blackberry's Hall of Fame; *Listed in AT&T's Hall of Fame; He was a speaker at International conference Botconf'13 held in Nantes, France. He also spoke at IEEE Conference in California and Malaysia. He was invited for Infiltrate conference held in Miami, USA.

Rakesh Tandon

Public Sector

Awarded the "Best CEO - Public Sector" by Forbes India, Rakesh Tandon is known for fighting the odds and bringing IRCTC back from the brink, and taking his team along with him by encouraging them to take ownership. In just two years, then, Mr. Tandon has rebuilt the catering business to the scale where it was at the end of financial year 2010-11. Today, IRCTC sells 4.7 lakh tickets a day on an average. At a turnover of Rs 704 crore in FY13, IRCTC is back to where it was in 2011 (Rs 760 crore). What is remarkable is that Mr. Tandon has achieved these numbers without a bulk of the railway catering business, which is valued at Rs 400 crore.

Vimlendu Jha

Social Entrepreneur

Vimlendu Jha is a dynamic youth leader who currently heads Swechha, a Delhi-based youth and environment organization. Since founding the organization in 2000, Vimlendu has successfully turned Swechha into one of India’s leading youth-run and youth-focused NGOs. With an outreach of 10 million members, 10000 volunteers and over 300 associated organizations across India each year, Swechha is widely recognized as one of the country’s most influential organizations on youth matters. Vimlendu was profiled as one of the top 25 youth leaders of the world by International Youth Foundation through the international publication ‘Our Time is Now’. He has considerable international experience including association with Civicus World Assembly, British Council, IVLP (Dept of State, USA), UNV, UNDP – offering his expertise and services at these forums over a decade. In 2011, Vimlendu was invited to speak at the UN General Assembly on issues of the Youth in global south.