Speakers

• Keynote 1: Development of End-to-End Low-Cost IoT System for Densely Deployed PM Monitoring Network: An Indian Case Study
  
  

  Speaker
  
  Prof. Sachin Chaudhuri, IIT Hyderabad
  
  Biography
  
  
  

• Keynote 2: Doing data in the “informal” city
  
  

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  Dr. Anant Maringanti, Director, Hyderabad Urban Lab
  
  Biography
  
  Dr. Anant Maringanti is executive director of Hyderabad Urban Lab, a multi disciplinary research programme. A geographer with a PhD from the University of Minnesota, he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the National University of Singapore, University of Hyderabad and the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, Hyderabad. His research and teaching interests centre on questions of urban innovations, big data, and globalization from the South Asian vantage point. He is widely published in international academic journals on these subjects. As an evolving experiment in urban research, design and pedagogy, Hyderabad Urban Lab collaborates with media professionals, planners, technologists, academic researchers and legal professionals to develop innovative solutions. Institutionally, its mandate is to create safe spaces to explore and develop responses to the challenges of contemporary cities namely mobility, housing and waste