Ronak Sutaria

Ronak Sutaria has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from NJIT, USA and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Engineering from University of Mumbai, India. He worked in the Silicon Valley for ~5 years, and then joined Mindtree Research Labs and led their Internet of Things (IoT) research.
In 2015 and 2016, he led a sensor journalism project called #Breathe at IndiaSpend focused on air quality in India, and in 2017, he founded urbansciencesIN, formally registered as Respirer Living Sciences Pvt. Ltd. in Mumbai, India.
Ronak has worked in the research and development of IoT technologies involving Big Data platforms, Data Science and Machine Learning algorithms and low-cost Wireless Sensor Network based solutions. He has an active interest in citizen science projects and the use of open data and technology for governance, economics and democracy-focused initiatives.