Executive Leadership

Dr Rohitash Chandra

Chairman
Google Scholar Web

Ratneel Vikash Deo

Research Theme Leader: Environmental Modelling and Climate Extremes. Administrative Director

Dr Avinash Karpe

Research Theme Leader: Ayurveda and Health. Administrative Director

Kush Singh

Administrative Director (Fiji)

Elvin Prasad

Administrative Director (Fiji)

Dr John Hawkins

Research Director: Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Innovation
Google Scholar
Research Profile
Github

Dr Rodney Beard

Research Theme Leader: Finance and Economics
Google Scholar
Github, Orcid

Dr Ehsan Farahbakhsh

Research Theme Leader: Earth Science Google Scholar Web

Prof. Christian Omlin

Research Director: Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Innovation

Sushrut Badhe

Research Director: Centre for Hindu Studies

Professional Staff

  • 2025: Tanay Panat (Research Engineer, part-time)

Research Interns

  • 2025: Jimmy Cheung, Omkar Kulkarni, Jiaming Yang, Fangli Chen
  • 2024: Ashutosh Singh, Vamshika Sutar, Omkar Kulkarni, Ayran Chaudhari, Jahnavi Lande

Council of Experts

  • Prof. Bibhya Sharma, University of the South Pacific (Fiji)
  • Dr Kavitesh Bali (Singapore)
  • Saman Forouzandeh, RMIT Melbourne

Collaborators

We are looking for new researchers to join the team.