Academic Advisory Board

James L. Frank Professor Emeritus of Accounting, Economics, and Finance at the Yale School of Management and Professor in the Department of Economics.

Prof. Shyam Sunder is a renowned accounting theorist and experimental economist. His research contributions include financial reporting, information in security markets, statistical theory of valuation, and design of electronic markets. He is a pioneer in the fields of experimental finance and experimental macroeconomics.

Dr. Sunder has won many awards for his research that includes ten books and more than 235 articles in the leading journals of accounting, economics and finance, as well as in popular media. His current research includes the problem of structuring U.S. and international accounting and auditing institutions.

He is a past president of the American Accounting Association and member of the International Academic Advisory Boards of IIT Gandhinagar and Jindal Global University.

National Science Chair, SERB, Govt. of India, and President of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI).

Sankar K Pal is a Distinguished Scientist and former Director of Indian Statistical Institute. He is a former Distinguished Professor of Indian National Science Academy and former Chair Professor of Indian National Academy of Engineering.

Currently, he is also an AICTE Distinguished Chair Professor and Scholar-in-Residence of IIT Jodhpur. He founded the Machine Intelligence Unit and the Center for Soft Computing Research in ISI Calcutta.

He received Ph.D. degrees in Radio Physics and Electronics (1979) and Electrical Engineering with DIC from Imperial College, University of London (1982). He was the first Computer scientist to become Director of ISI and the first Ex-employee to become President of ISI.

Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton and Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University, UK.

Her research focuses on the diaspora and postcolonial writing of the settler colonies of Australasia, as well as refugee writing, the global novel, transnationalism and transculturalism.

She has co-edited The Diaspora Studies Reader (Routledge, 2017) and other volumes including Katherine Mansfield: New Directions (2020). She is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and serves as chair of Challenging Precarity: A Global Network.

In 2022-23 she served as Fellow-in-Residence at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, UK.

Full Professor in Computer Engineering at the University of Milan, Italy.

Prof. Piuri has received his Ph.D. in computer engineering at Polytechnic of Milan (1989). His main research interests are in artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, intelligent systems, machine learning, pattern analysis and recognition, signal and image processing, biometrics, and IoT.

His original results have been published in 400+ papers in international journals and conferences. He is Fellow of IEEE, Distinguished Scientist of ACM, and Senior Member of INNS.

He has been IEEE Region 8 Director and IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award (2002).