Committees

FOP 2026

Organizing Committee

Patrons
Director, IIT Delhi and DG, CSIR
Ajoy K. Ghatak, Kehar Singh and R.S. Sirohi
Symposium Chairs
Anurag Sharma and Venu Gopal Achanta
Convenors
Kedar Khare and Mukesh Jewariya
Local Organizing Committee
A. Aadhi
Abhishek Dixit
Aloka Sinha
Amol Choudhary
Awanish Pandey
Bhaskar Kanseri
Bodhaditya Santra
D.S. Mehta
Deepak Jain
Dheeraj Pratap
G.V. Prakash
Gayathri Bharthan
Govind Gupta
Gufran S. Khan
Jasleen Lugani
Joby Joseph
Jolly Xavier P.
Joyee Ghosh
Kaushalya Jhuria
Manish Kumar
Navendu Mondal
P. Senthilkumaran
Parag Sharma
Parvendra Kumar
Poonam Arora
R.K. Varshney
Ravi Elangovan
Ritwick Das
S.M. Tripathi
Satish K. Dubey
Saurabh Raj
Shibu Saha
Subashish Panja
Sunil Kumar
Surya Kumar Gautam
Vamsi Krishna
Virendra Jaiswal

FOP 2026

International Advisory Committee

A.K. Gupta (India)
A.R. Ganesan (India)
Ajay Kumar (India)
Ajoy K. Kar (UK)
Anand Srivastava (Delhi)
Arun Kumar (India)
B.D. Gupta (India)
B.P. Pal (India)
Balpreet S. Ahluwalia (Norway)
C.S. Narayanamurthy (India)
Chandra Shakher (India)
Chennupati Jagadish (Australia)
D. Narayana Rao (India)
E.K. Sharma (India)
G. Ravindra Kumar (India)
Govind P. Agrawal (USA)
H.C. Kandpal (India)
Hitesh Mehta (India)
Hypolito J. Kalinowski (Brazil)
Jagannath Nayak (India)
Jorge Ojeda-Castaneda (Mexico)
K. Thyagarajan (India)
K.R. Suresh Nair (India)
K.V. Sriram (India)
L.N. Hazra (India)
M. Senthil Kumar (India)
Murukeshan V. M. (Singapore)
P. Chavel (France)
P.K. Rastogi (Switzerland)
P.K. Gupta (India)
P.K. Panigrahi (India)
R.K. Thareja (India)
R.K. Sinha (India)
R.P. Singh (India)
R. Vijaya (India)
Ramanand Tewari (Canada)
Ranjan Singh (USA)
Rupamanjari Ghosh (India)
S. Anantha Ramakrishna (India)
S. Asokan (India)
S. Dutta Gupta (India)
Shyamal Bhadra
Siddharth Ramachandran (USA)
T.K. Alex (India)
T. Sasaki (Japan)
T. Yatagai (Japan)
Thomas Krauss (UK)
V. Lakshminarayanan (Canada)
W. Freude (Germany)

FOP 2026

Technical Programme Committee

A. Aadhi (IIT Delhi) Abhishek Dixit (IIT Delhi) Ajay Wasan (IIT Roorkee) Ajeet Kumar (DTU) Akhilesh Mishra (IIT Roorkee) Alika Khare (IIT Guwahati) Aloka Sinha (IIT Delhi) Amarendra K Sarma (IIT Guwahati) Amit Agrawal (IRDE) Amit Agrawal (Univ. Cambridge, UK) Amol Choudhary (IIT Delhi) Anand Kumar Jha (IIT Kanpur) Anirban Dhar (CSIR-CGCRI) Anirban Pathak (JIIT Noida) Arup Lal Chakraborty (IIT Gandhinagar) Ashok Kumar (IIST) Ashwini Kumar Sharma (IIT Guwahati) Awanish Pandey (IIT Delhi) Ayan Banerjee (IISER Kolkata) B.N. Upadhyay (RRCAT) Balaji Srinivasan (IIT Madras) Basant Boruah (IIT Guwahati) Bhargab Das (CSIR-CSIO) Bhaskar Kanseri (IIT Delhi) Bijoy Krishna Das (IIT Madras) Biswanath Chakraborty (IIT Jammu) Bodhaditya Santra (IIT Delhi) Brijesh K. Singh (CURAJ) C.M. Chandrashekhar (IISc) Chaitanya Kumar Suddapalli (TIFR Hyderabad) Chitra Mishra (IRDE) D. Udupa (BARC) D.S. Mehta (IIT Delhi) Debabrata Goswami (IIT Kanpur) Debjani Bhattacharya (Lightera) Deepa Venkitesh (IIT Madras) Deepak Jain (IIT Delhi) Dheeraj Pratap (IIT Delhi) Dibakar Roychowdhury (Anurag Univ.) Dinesh N. Naik (IIST) G. Unnikrishnan (IRDE) G.V. Pavan Kumar (IISER Pune) G.V. Prakash (IIT Delhi) Gayathri Bharathan (IIT Delhi) Goutam K Samanta (PRL) Govind Gupta (CSIR-NPL) Gufran S. Khan (IIT Delhi) Hari M. Varma (IIT Bombay) Harshawardhan Wanare (IIT Kanpur) Hukam Singh (Univ. Tejpur) Jasleen Lugani (IIT Delhi) Joby Joseph (IIT Delhi) Jolly Xavier P (IIT Delhi) Joyee Ghosh (IIT Delhi) K.P. Singh (IISER Mohali) Kanik Palodhi (Univ. Calcutta) Kasturi Saha (IIT Bombay) Kaushalya Jhuria (IIT Delhi) Kavita Devi (IIT Dharwad) Kedar Khare (IIT Delhi) Manmohan S. Shishodia (GBU) M Krishnamurty (TIFR Mumbai) M. Kailash Nath (CUSAT) M.M. Brindavanam (IIT Kharagpur) M.R. Shenoy (IIT Delhi) Manish Kumar (IIT Delhi) Mukesh Jewariya (CSIR-NPL) Mukul Chandra Paul (CSIR-CGCRI) Nandan S. Bisht (Kumaun Univ.) Naveen Kumar (IIITDM Kanchipuram) Naveen Nishchal (IIT Patna) Navendu Mondal (IIT Delhi) Nimish Dixit (IRDE) Nirmal Viswanathan (Univ. Hyderabad) Nirmalya Ghosh (IISER Kolkata) Nithyanandan Kanagaraj (IIT Hyderabad) P. Senthilkumaran (IIT Delhi) P.P. Sahu (Univ. Tejpur) Parag Sharma (CSIR-NPL) Parinda Vasa (IIT Bombay) Partha Roy Chaudhuri (IIT KGP) Parvendra Kumar (IIT Delhi) Poonam Arora (CSIR-NPL) Pramod Gopinath (CUSAT) Praveen Kumar (IIT Bhilai) Prem B. Bisht (IIT Madras) R. K. Varshney (IIT Delhi) Raj Kumar (CSIR-CSIO) Rajan Jha (IIT Bhubaneswar) Rajesh Kumar (IIT Roorkee) Rajesh Nair (IIT Ropar) Rajneesh K. Verma (Univ. Allahabad) Rakesh K Singh (IIT BHU) Ranabir Mandal (IRDE) Ravi Elangovan (IIT Delhi) Ravi Pant (IISER Thiruvananthapuram) Rajib Chakraborty (Univ. Calcutta) Renu John (IIT Hyderabad) Ritwick Das (IIT Delhi) Roli Verma (Univ. of Delhi) S. Prabhu (TIFR Mumbai) S. R. K. Chaitanya Indukuri (IIT Jammu) Sachin K. Srivastava (IIT Roorkee) Sai Santosh Kumar Raavi (IIT Hyderabad) Saikat Ghosh (IIT Kanpur) Sameer K. Mondal (CSIR-CSIO) Sanjay K. Mishra (IRDE) Santhosh Chidangil (MAHE Manipal) Satish K Dubey (IIT Delhi) Saurabh Mani Tripathi (IIT Delhi) Saurabh Raj (IIT Delhi) Sebabrata Mukherjee (IISc) Shailendra K. Varshney (IIT Kharagpur) Shanti Bhattacharya (IIT Madras) Shibu Saha (CSIR-NPL) Shivakiran Bhaktha B.N (IIT Kharagpur) Shovan K Majumder (RRCAT) Shivakiran Bhaktha B.N (IIT Kharagpur) S.K. Selvaraja (IISc) Soma Venugopal Rao (Univ. Hyderabad) Somnath Ghosh (Mahindra University) Sooraj Ravindran (IIST) Srikanth Sugavanam (IIT Mandi) Subhadeep De (IUCAA) Sudipta Sarkar Pal (CSIR-CSIO) Sudipto Maiti (BITS Pilani Hyderabad) Sukhdev Roy (DEI Dayalbagh) Sunil Kumar (IIT Delhi) T. Srinivas (IISc) Tapajyoti Das Gupta (IISc) Triranjita Srivastava (Univ. Allahabad) Umesh Tiwari (CSIR-CSIO) V. Janyani (NIT Jaipur) V. R. Supradeepa (IISc) Vamsi Krishna (IIT Delhi) Varun Raghunathan (IISc) Vipul Rastogi (IIT Roorkee) Virendra Jaiswal (CSIR-NPL) Vishnu Priye (IIIT Ranchi) Vishwa Pal (IIT Ropar) Vyas Akondi (IISER Berhampur)