Prof. Michael Henry received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington (Seattle, USA) in 2005, and his PhD in Civil Engineering from The University of Tokyo (Tokyo Japan) in 2010. After obtaining his doctorate, he worked at The University of Tokyo as a researcher for almost two years before moving to Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan), where he worked for eight years as an assistant and then associate professor. He is currently a professor in the College of Engineering at the Shibaura Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan), where he is carrying out research on infrastructure sustainability, road asset management, and sustainable social systems.

Dr. Kavi Arya is Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay). He did his B.Sc.(Hons.) in Computing Science from Imperial College and M.Sc.(Hons.)/Ph.D. in Computation from University of Oxford. In 1988-90 he worked at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Labs (New York) before joining IIT Bombay in 2000.

Prof. Arya is convener of the Embedded & Real time Systems Lab (ERTS) and Principal Investigator of the e-Yantra Project, which focuses on popularizing "Project Based Learning" using robotics in engineering colleges, training over 250,000 young engineers. He has served on high-level committees such as the Technology Development Board (DST) and CDAC, and worked with the Mahindra & Mahindra Group on business sustainability strategy.