Probal Pratap Ghosh

Probal Pratap Ghosh is an economist with Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe), New Delhi. He was awarded his PhD in Economics from University of Mumbai, India, and specializes in applied economic research in energy, macroeconomics, international trade and developmental, using econometrics, time series and optimisation techniques. Currently, Dr. Ghosh is working on modelling the impact of energy policies like low carbon policies and energy pricing on energy demand and its impact on the economy. His work has been published as articles in international journals and chapters in edited volumes. 

Rajbans Talwar is an operations research practitioner. He has successfully applied optimization techniques for over 30 years to solve end-to-end business problems in a variety of industries such as supply chain planning and optimization, production planning and scheduling, and transportation & logistics.  In particular, he has a wide-ranging expertise in modeling and developing decision-support systems based on linear and integer programming. He is currently working on decision support systems for power stations that must operate under conditions of increasing penetration of variable renewable energy sources.

Sureshbabu Syamasundar Velagapudi is an independent researcher working in California, USA, and specializes in internet-scale mixed integer nonconvex global optimization techniques for machine learning. He has a BTech in Aeronautical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, a two-year research training in economics from Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Planning Unit, Delhi, and an MS and a PhD in Computer Science and Automation from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. His current interests include developing a computable general equilibrium model for India's transition to green economy