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Board Members
Board Members
Guiding our mission with expertise, integrity, and a shared commitment to advancing global research standards.
Dr Margaret Davitt Maughan holds an Ed.D. in Leadership from the University of San Francisco and brings 35 years of experience in teaching, curriculum development, and interdisciplinary studies. Her expertise spans educational leadership, instructional design, curriculum and pedagogy, educational psychology, and diversity in education.
Committed to student-centred learning and innovative teaching practices, she has received several professional honours, scholarships, and grants. Her academic contributions include research on institutional values and faculty demographics, along with numerous professional presentations and publications.
Prof. Dr Sanjib Chakraborty, Thailand
eastbridgeuniversity@gmail.com
Prof. Dr. Sanjib Chakraborty (Dr. Neil) is a distinguished academic mentor and research advisor, widely recognized for guiding doctoral scholars and early-career researchers across diverse disciplines. Holding a PhD in Management Science, a Doctor of Education (Ed.D), and Master’s degrees in both Education and Business Administration, he brings a rare blend of scholarly rigor and practical industry insight to research supervision.
Dr. Neil is the Founder and President of East Bridge University and the Founder of the Asian College of Teachers, and he leads multiple education and training initiatives across Asia and the Middle East. He currently serves as a doctoral advisor for several universities, supporting scholars in designing robust methodologies, refining conceptual frameworks, and producing high-quality, impactful dissertations.
Beyond research supervision, Dr. Neil has delivered advanced seminars, leadership programs, and capacity-building workshops globally. Having worked and traveled in over 45 countries, and collaborated with leading academic and professional bodies, he brings an international and industry-relevant perspective that enables scholars to position their research within a global context.
Dr. Somnath Chaudhuri
som.worldpop@gmail.com
Dr. Somnath Chaudhuri is a spatial statistician and data scientist. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the WorldPop Research Group at the University of Southampton, UK and a senior research scientist at the University of Girona, Spain. He is also a researcher with CIBERESP, Spain and a training leader for the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), UK.
His research interests include Bayesian models and spatiotemporal modelling across various domains such as socio-demographics, health, urban and environmental areas.
Dr. Chaudhuri has more than 15 years of experience in academic and research roles across various countries, including India, Bhutan, Maldives, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. His contributions have been recognized through prestigious honours, including the British Academy Global Talent endorsement and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the University of Girona.
Dr Sandipan Sikdar
sandipan.sikdar@l3s.de
Sandipan Sikdar is an Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover, where he leads research on interpretable and trustworthy machine learning. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2018, with a thesis on temporal networks. Before joining Leibniz University Hannover, he spent four years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at RWTH Aachen University, and held visiting fellowships at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste.
His research focuses on interpretable AI, natural language processing, and the responsible development of large language models, with recent work spanning temporal knowledge conflicts in LLMs, sensitivity-aware language models, and machine unlearning. He has authored 41 peer-reviewed publications, including papers at ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, and other leading venues. He is a Principal Investigator on the BMBF-funded HybrInt project on hybrid intelligence through interpretable AI, and co-leads Leibniz University's team in the Soofi project on sovereign open-source foundation models.
Alongside his research, regularly serves as Area Chair for ACL and (Senior) Program Committee member for AAAI, NeurIPS, WebConf, and WSDM.
Dr. Sohini Basu
sbasu@edgewood.edu
Dr. Sohini Basu holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Tata Institute of Social
Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, and is a Teaching Associate in Qualitative Research at
Edgewood University, USA. She has also served as Visiting Faculty at several reputed
institutions in India. Her research focuses on women’s labour and workplace rights,
work participation, social protection, gender, and women’s empowerment. Her peer-
reviewed publications include work published in SAGE Open, the Journal of
Workplace Rights, and an IIM Indore publication. She has presented research at
national and international conferences, including the University of Kassel, Germany,
and has delivered invited lectures and training on qualitative research, social policy,
gender studies, and community development. Dr. Basu is the Convenor of the
Qualitative Research Network (QRN), promoting research mentoring, professional
training, and knowledge exchange. She is a recipient of ICSSR and DAAD
scholarships and has also contributed to academic and public discourse through media
engagements, including Doordarshan Kolkata.
