Biographical note

Dr. Tanusree Dutta is presently working as Associate Professor in the Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi. Dr. Dutta obtained her Postgraduate and Doctorate degrees from Banaras Hindu University and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. She received the M.M. Sinha Endowment Scholarship in 1998-99, B.H.U. Merit and Prize Award in 1999, and a gold medal in Masters in Psychology in 2000. Dr. Dutta was Assistant Professor at Banaras Hindu University in the Psychology Section. She has also served on lien as Assistant Professor in the Management Department of B.I.T., Mesra, Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan. She has research publications in peer-reviewed national and international journals which have been cited in manuscripts and books of national and international repute. She has co-authored a book titled “Neuromarketing in India: Understanding the Indian Consumer” and has a co-edited book titled ”Bias in Human Behaviour”.

Anirban Bandyopadhyay is principal research scientist at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan. He has done Ph.D. in Supramolecular Electronics at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he was ICYS Research Fellow at the ICYS, NIMS, Japan, and worked on the brain-like bio-processor. In 2008, he joined as Permanent Scientist at NIMS, working on the time crystal model of human brain and design-synthesis of brain-like organic jelly, and he wrote a book “Nanobrain: The Making of an Artificial Brain from a Time Crystal”, 2020. From 2013 to 2014, he was Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. He received Hitachi Science and Technology award 2010, Inamori Foundation award 2011–2012, Kurata Foundation Award, Inamori Foundation Fellow (2011–), and Sewa Society international member, Japan.