Bala Brahmanandam Madaparthi:
Bala Brahmanandam Madaparthi was previously an assistant professor at IIT, Kharagpur. He worked in the areas of Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Multimedia Communications. After IIT, he was with Nortel Networks working on the design & development of the IN platform. He was an architect at Sedona Networks, a telecom start up company in VoIP and managed the Engineering team in Taral Networks. Recently, he was the president of Prasiddha Inc., a software consulting company. Bala received his Ph. D. from IIT, Kharagpur.