Women in Engineering Session Speakers

With 12+ years of experience in the United States, Divya has enjoyed leading and delivering delightful CVML/Robotics products in consumer electronics (mixed reality goggles, 3D scanners, multi camera frames, stereo camera solutions etc). Actively worked on disrupting agriculture and construction in North Americas by deploying autonomous vehicles/automation solutions and winning spotlights in CES, Las Vegas. She has thoroughly enjoyed her time in both established companies like IBM, HP, Samsung, Intel, John Deere while hustling a lot during startup stints at Vecna Robotics, Magic Leap, Blue River Technology and now at SatSure. She did her Masters from USC, LA (California) where she found her passion in Computer Vision and Robotics extending to Machine Learning and Data.

She has done PhD from VNIT, Nagpur, ME in Remote Sensing from University of Roorkee, BE from NIT, Raipur and MBA from Lucknow, India. She has many technical reports, papers and three atlas to her credit. On government deputation, she served as an ITEC expert on RS and GIS to Government of Mauritius and received appreciation for her work.  As a member of 35th Indian scientific expedition to Antarctica, she visited Antarctica to carry out research. She has received appreciations, ISRO team excellence award and many awards for paper presentations. She was one amongst 51 achievers in E-book on “Women in STEM” (2021) published by Confederation of  Indian Industry and received many women centric awards.

Dr Rajashree is author of two Hindi books “Antariksh – Ek khoj” and “Satellite Navigation – An introduction”. The book “Antariksh – Ek khoj” was awarded first prize by ISRO and Second Prize in Delhi Book fare 2020 under reference book in Hindi category by the Federation of Indian Publishers.   Her second book “Satellite Navigation – An introduction” was awarded “Hindi Sewa Puraslkaar” by Rajasthan Government.

Over her seven years of experience in the geospatial technology domain, Ananyaa is recognized for her result-oriented approach to exploring the impact of the cross-linkage of technology, economics, and policy using varied qualitative and quantitative tools and frameworks. With a forward-looking mindset, high motivation, and excellent team player and communication skills, Ananyaa’s professional expertise includes working with cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary stakeholders across technology, academia, and government stakeholders for market size and forecast assessment, socio-economic impact evaluation, developing national policy and governance frameworks, and initiating and contributing to global technology and policy dialogue and debates through research reports and articles, and conference convening.

She has been part of the Satellite team in her college who successfully launched Swayam, a 1-U picosatellite  launched by ISRO along with Cartosat-2C. She has a couple of technical papers and one paper co-authored by her received best paper presented award in – UASG 2021 conference. Her calm demeanor, resourcefulness and attention to detail has been a great asset to the organizations she has worked previously.