Scholars COHORT ONE
MEET OUR SCHOLARS | AUGUST 2020
MDI-ISAC SCHOLARS
Guest Speakers
Guest speakers for the MDI-ISAC Scholars Program, August 2020
Lt Gen Rajesh Pant
National Cyber Security Coordinator
Dr Ajeet Bajpai
DG - NCIIPC
Dr Emandi Sankara Rao
Former Chairman, IFCI and MDI
HH Yaduveer Chamaraja Wadiyar
National Cyber Security Coordinator
Pavan Duggal
Eminent Cyber Law Expert
Munish Sharma
Consultant, IDSA
Dr. Anjali Kaushik
Cybersecurity Professor, MDI
Dr. Manjari Khanna Kapoor
CPTED Specialist, President, ABSI
Tarun Wig
Founder, INNEFU
Prof Prageet Aaron
Professor, MDI
Usha Rengaraju
AI Expert, Kaggle Grandmaster 2020
Rajshekhar Pullabhatla
Director, ISAC
Karthik Varma
Primary Instructor | CTO, Cyberange
Prajitesh Singh
Lab Instructor | Researcher, Cyberange
MDI-ISAC SCHOLARS
Sanjay Kumar Das
Joint Secretary, IT&E and State
Information & Security Officer,
West Bengal Govt.
Information & Security Officer,
West Bengal Govt.
Sanjeev Chawla
Joint Secretary, NTRO
Santosh Khadsare
Scientist E , CERT-IN,
Ministry of Electronics and IT
Ministry of Electronics and IT
KDS Gill
Group Director, NCIIPC
Rakesh Kumar Gosain
Deputy Director-General – NCIIPC
Cdr Baidyanath Shukla (Retd)
Deputy Director-General – NCIIPC
Nishant Sharma
Scientist, NTRO
Deepak Shukla
CISO, Canara Bank
Chandrasekhar Buddha
Chief Coordinating Officer, AICTE, Ministry of Human Resource Development,
Government of India
Government of India
Mritunjay Bhattacharya
Executive Officer, NTRO
Palash Kumar Dutta
Research Software Developer, Webel,
West Bengal Govt.
West Bengal Govt.
Vinod Sagar Thatiparthi
NTRO
Arun Dixit
Director, NCIIPC
Anita Roy
DCP, Delhi Police
Ajay Lakra
Director, CERT-IN,
Ministry of Electronics and IT
Ministry of Electronics and IT
Mukund Mohan
Joint Director (Policy and Trg) – Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)
A.P. Singh
Joint Director (QC,OPS and Tech) – Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)
Harjeet Singh
CISO, Industrial Finance Corporation of India Limited
Ashish Nigam
CTO – PTC India Financial Services Ltd
Sheela Kothavle
Assistant Vice President – Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd.
Sanjay Madan
Assistant Vice President – Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd.
Sunder Kataria
Divisional Manager, Stockholding Corporation Limited of India Limited
Gaurav Pathak
Scientist E, CERT-IN, Ministry of Electronics and IT
Kanishk Nagpal
Senior Information Security Officer, Indian Oil Corporation Limited
KPS Malhotra
Assistant Vice President – Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd.
Venkateswara Rao
Scientist D, CERT-IN, Ministry of Electronics and IT
Navneet Gupta
Scientist D, CERT-IN, Ministry of Electronics and IT
Prakash Chandra Joshi
Assistant Director (Policy) – Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)
Capt. Ashutosh Vashist
Assistant Director & I/C RO – Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)
Krishan Kumar
Assistant Director (Tech), Bureau of Civil Aviation Security
Utpal Kanti Bandyopadhyay
Bureau of Civil Aviation Security
Pankaj Dwivedi
Assistant Director, Narcotics Control Bureau
Hitesh Lilhare
NCIIPC
Dileep Prajapati
Senior Manager, Indian Oil Corporation Limited
Sanjeev Kaushik
Senior Manager (IS) – Indian Oil Corporation Ltd
Rohit Shrivastava
Superintendent, Narcotics Control Bureau
Samiran Paul
Superintendent – Narcotics Control Bureau
Rizwan Kabir
Senior Security Consultant – Hewlett Packard Enterprise India Pvt. Ltd.
Kausik Halder
Assistant Manager – West Bengal Government
Mainak Sen
Assistant Manager – West Bengal Government
Amit Kumar
Assistant Manager (IS), Indian Oil Corporation Limited
Pranshul Garg
Assistant Manager (IS) – Indian Oil Corporation Ltd
Deepak Kaushik
IO, Narcotics Control Bureau
Tarak Nath Mondal
Research Software Developer, WEBEL
Kritika Goyal
SA, Narcotics Control Bureau
Mohit Kumar
Asst, Narcotics Control Bureau
Himanshi Bajaj
Asst, Narcotics Control Bureau
Ravi Prakash
Asst, Narcotics Control Bureau
Aneesh Kumar
Asst, Narcotics Control Bureau
Rahul Kumar
System Analyst, AICTE
