Leadership Team
Dr. Bhavani Rao
Dean, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Director, AMMACHI Labs and CWEGE
UNESCO Chair for Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Ajay Balakrishnan
Associate Director
AMMACHI Labs
Dr. Sidney Strauss
Head of Research
AMMACHI Labs
Srividya Sheshadri
Associate Director
Center for Women’s Empowerment &
Gender Equality
Dr. Tarek Rashed
Head of Research
Center for Women’s Empowerment &
Gender Equality
Dr. Meltem Alkoyak-Yildiz
Vice Chair, Department of Social Work
School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
E. Gouri Kanthi Latha
PGP Program Coordinator
School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Faculty
AMMACHI Labs, Center for Women's Empowerment & School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (SSBS) listed in alphabetical order.
Dr. Meltem Alkoyak-Yildiz
Assistant Professor
SSBS
Dr. Ram Fishman
Adjunct Faculty
SSBS
Dr. Malini Frey
Assistant Professor
CWEGE & SSBS
Shashi Kant Shankar
Assistant Professor
AMMACHI Labs/CWEGE
Dr. Martha Miller
Adjunct Professor
SSBS
Ekaterina Muravevskaia
Assistant Professor
CWEGE/SSBS
Dr. Nimita Pandey
Assistant Professor
SSBS
Dr. Praveen Pankajakshan
Visiting Faculty
AMMACHI Labs
Dr. Padma Rao Sahib
Adjunct Faculty
SSBS
Dr. Tarek Rashed
Adjunct Professor
SSBS
Dr. Miriam Silverman
Visiting Faculty
SSBS
Dr. Sidney Strauss
Adjunct Professor
SSBS
Dr. J. Sophie von Lieres
Assistant Professor
SSBS
Skill E-Labs Team
Deepu D S
Haptics/VR Team Lead
Syamlal R
Sr. 3D Modeler
Reshmi V
Sr. 3D Modeler
Sreehari
QA Analyst
Naga Lekshmi Bollu
Sr. Software Analyst
Devi Priya Madhu
Software Developer
Arati B
Sr. Instructional Designer
Aghila A
3D Animator II
Geethu Thripathy
Sr. Unity Designer
Akhila Henry
Unity Programmer
Sneha P K
UI Designer
Meera Madhu
Production Associate
Selva Chellamuthu
Video Editor
Sudarsh Sudhakaran
Instructional Designer
Sidhi Vinayak s
UX Designer
Pavan Kumar
Scrum Lead
Prajwal Joseph
Laboratory Assistant
Ayyappan Ajayan
Electronic Design Engineer
Olexandr Ostrovik (Sasha)
PhD Scholar - Cognitive Sciences & Technology
Kavya Asok
Software Developer
IT Team
Hari Ajayan
Senior System Administrator
Ajayan Kumar
IT Administrator
Lakshmi Prabha
Senior Hardware Technician
Krishnaraj TR
System Administrator
Renjithkumar R
System Administrator
Vishnu S Nair
System Administrator
