An Associate Professor of Information Systems at University of South Florida, Dr Shivendu S. has created and taught courses in design of information systems, business analytics, econometrics, and fintech. He has also served as Principal Investigator (PI) of $600,000 TechHire grant of Whitehouse, and currently serves as PI of $6 million Cybersecurity grant of State of Florida. He is a prolific researcher with numerous premier publications, hundreds of conference presentations and has has won many Best Paper awards.

Prior to moving to academia, he served as an Indian Administrative Service Officer in Bihar & Jharkhand for over two decades and held positions such as Secretary Health and Chairman, Electricity Board.

Shivendu has earned a PhD and a Masters in Economics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad, and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from IIT-Kanpur.

Arun has over 7 years technology management experience in the USA and India. Most recently he worked as Senior Manager (consulting) with National Institute For Smart Government, and jointly run the Executive Programs on AI & ML Applications for Govt of India and various State Govt. Officers with Prof. Shivendu.

Arun has an M.S and B.S. in the Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh with University Honors and has MBA (Finance) from Hofstra University, New York for which he received Frank B. Zarb scholarship.

Mridula has worked in India as an IAS officer(India's highest level policy making body) where she worked as the Principal Secretary of Higher education as well as Technical Education besides many other assignments at the policy making level.She has attended the Columbia University,Emory University and the University of Southern California as a graduate student. She has taken number of policy initiatives in the higher education sector.She works as a public policy consultant for several organizations currently. Her experience of India and the United States of America enables her to understand the challenges faced by the students while aspiring to attend universities abroad for higher studies.