People Powering AIDC

Dr. Sujata Pandey provides the strategic vision and institutional leadership for AIDC. She oversees innovation planning, interdisciplinary coordination, and alignment with University-level goals. Her role includes mentoring student innovators, guiding large-scale innovation initiatives, organizing hackathons and technical events, and ensuring that AIDC’s activities contribute to national innovation frameworks such as the Institution Innovation Council.

She plays a central role in shaping AIDC as a University-level innovation ecosystem rather than a departmental facility.

Dr. Ashish Mani serves as Professor at the Amity Innovation & Design Centre, where he guides interdisciplinary student and research projects, especially in quantum computing, quantum-inspired algorithms, IoT, embedded systems, AI/ML, and smart instrumentation. His role focuses on mentoring teams from idea to prototype, helping them apply emerging technologies to real-world problems in areas such as intelligent devices, sensing systems, routing optimization, and connected applications.

His responsibilities include:

• Prototype architecture planning and execution
• Component selection and integration
• Testing, validation, and demonstration preparation
• Patent identification and drafting support
• National-level competition mentoring
• Applied research guidance

As a DGCA-certified drone pilot, he also strengthens drone training and autonomous system development initiatives at AIDC .

Her contributions include:

• Assisting in prototype development and system modelling
• Supporting optical and wireless communication experiments
• Helping with IoT and embedded system integration
• Guiding signal processing simulations and documentation
• Assisting in research writing and patent documentation
• Supporting student teams in project execution and demonstrations

Through her academic and research background in Optical Communication, she contributes to strengthening AIDC’s learning and applied research environment.

Assists in mechanical fabrication, structural assembly, and prototype development activities.

Supports electronics prototyping, circuit testing, debugging, and hardware assembly.