Advisory Council & Executive Leadership
The Association is steered by distinguished scholars, university professors, and veteran data science leaders.
Dr. S. K. Ramanathan
President & Council Chair
Former Dean of Engineering, over 28 years of academic leadership and neural computing research.
Prof. Ananya Roy
Vice President (Academic Affairs)
Head of AI & Data Science Research at National Technology University, IEEE Senior Member.
Dr. Vikram Sethi
Director of Research & Publications
Principal AI Architect, DeepMind alum, specializing in Transformer fine-tuning and agent architectures.
Meera Krishnamurthy
Secretary & Student Chapters Chair
Directs collegiate chapter accreditations, national hackathon evaluations, and student project grants.
Board of Chapter Accreditation
An independent standing committee that reviews collegiate chapter applications according to strict statutory thresholds (Polytechnic: 50, Arts & Science: 50, Affiliated Engineering: 50, Autonomous: 100, University: 100 members).
Ethics & Scientific Review Panel
Oversees conference proceedings, technical paper peer-reviews, and ensures all research adheres to strict algorithmic accountability, data sovereignty, and reproducibility guidelines.