The People Behind AmritaKripa
Meet the Team
Our leadership and technical core combine deep academic rigour with operational execution to deliver life-saving, compassion-driven hazard intelligence.
11+
Years of field-deployed research
7
Core team members across research, engineering & deployment
Multi-domain
AI, IoT, geophysics, software & community science
Leadership
Our Principal Investigator
Leadership
Prof. Maneesha V Ramesh
Pro Vice Chancellor
Dean, School for Sustainable Futures | Dean, International Programs
| UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development
Expertise: Natural hazards (landslides, droughts, avalanches, floods); compassion-driven research for sustainable societies; collaborative, context-aware disaster response and recovery; mobile computing and wireless technologies; wireless sensor network algorithms for real-time monitoring of natural disasters.
Technical & Research Core
Core Team
A multidisciplinary team spanning AI research, geophysical sensor deployment, early warning systems, and software engineering — united by a single mission.
Dr. Hari Chandana Ekkirala
Assistant Professor
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA)
Integrated, Dynamic Modelling for Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment.
Dr. Hemalatha T.
Assistant Professor
Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (AmritaWNA)
AI for Disasters, Decision Making, Early Warning of Natural Hazards (especially
Landslides), and Forecasting.
Mr. Nitin Kumar M
Scientific Officer-II
Disaster Risk Reduction, AmritaWNA
Deployment of Deep Earth Probes consisting of an array of various geophysical
sensors for landslide detection.
Mr. Ramesh Guntha
Project Manager, Software Development
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA)
Computer Applications & Disaster Warning Systems.
Mr. Balmukund Singh
Research Associate
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA)
Landslide & Early Warning Systems.
Ms. Amrita Jayakumar
Senior Software Engineer
Amrita School for Sustainable Futures, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Senior Software Engineering and Systems Architecture for Sustainable Futures.