Month: August 2021

Prof. Vishal Misra is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (CS and EE) at Columbia University and a Visiting Scientist at Google. He obtained his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1992, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Umass Amherst in 1996 and 2000, respectively.nnAfter completing his Ph.D., Prof. Misra joined the Computer Science Department at Columbia University in 2001 and is a (full) Professor of CS and EE. He also co-founded (ESPN) Cricinfo as a graduate student in the early 90s. In 2011, Prof. Misra founded a data center company called Infinio, and have held visiting professorships at INRIA (Sophia Antipolis, 2009), Technicolor (Paris, 2009), Telefonica (Barcelona, 2009) and Google (2017-18). He continues as a visiting scientist at Google.

Prof. Nikhil Ashok Koratkar is the John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Endowed Chair Professor of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in USA.nnProf. Koratkar obtained his B.Tech. degree in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1995, his M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland, USA in 1998 and 2000, respectively.nnProf. Koratkar joined the faculty of Mechanical Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in January 2001 as an Assistant Professor. In 2006, he was promoted to Associate Professor and to Full Professor in 2009. In 2011, Prof. Koratkar was also appointed a Full Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer. In 2012, he was appointed the John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Chair Professor in Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also serves as an Editor of the Elsevier Journal Carbon since 2010.

Prof. Das Narayandas is Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean at External Relations and Publishing, Harvard Business School (HBS).nnProf. Narayandas earned his B.Tech. Degree in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1982, postgraduate diploma in management from IIM Bangalore and a Ph.D. degree from Purdue University. He has been a faculty member at the Harvard Business School for the last 25 years.

Prof. Amol Dighe is currently a Professor and Dean of Graduate Studies at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai. He obtained his B.Tech. degree in Engineering Physics from IIT Bombay in 1992, and M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1994 and 1997, respectively.nnAfter completing his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Prof. Dighe did his post-doctoral research at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy (1997-99); European Centre for Particle Physics (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland (1999-2001); and Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPI), Munich, Germany (2001-03). He has been working in TIFR for the last 15 years.

Mr. Rizwan Koita is Co-Founder and CEO of CitiusTech. He obtained his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1992 and post-graduation in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SM), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1995.nn 

Mr. Raj Nair is the Chairman of four companies – Avalon Consulting, AGR Knowledge Services, Ugam Solutions, and Germinait Solutions. He is also the President of IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry.nnAfter graduating from IIT Bombay in Metallurgical Engineering in 1971, Mr. Nair completed his postgraduate diploma in Business Administration from IIM Ahmedabad and LLB (Gen) from The University of Bombay. He has won merit scholarship awards at IIM Ahmedabad.

Mr. Kaizad Mistry is a Corporate Vice President and Co- Director of the Logic Technology Development group at Intel Corporation. He earned his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1984 and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 1986.nn 

Dr. U. Kamachi Mudali is a Distinguished Scientist, Chairman, and Chief Executive, Heavy Water Board, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India.nnDr. Mudali obtained his M.Tech. degree in Corrosion Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1984 (awarded 2nd Rank) and Ph.D. in Metallurgy/Corrosion from Madras University in 1993.nn 

Dr. Lalitesh Katragadda is the Founder of Indihood.com (Hyperlocal crowdsourcing activating communities), Founder – Swaja Labs (Affordable Smart Devices for internet access); CPO of Avanti Finance (Improving Credit Access for the neediest); and Advisor to the Ministry of Electronics & IT MEITY, Ministry of Finance and the Department of Telecommunication (DOT). He is also the Investor/ Advisor in startups impacting India with transformative technology.nn 

Dr. Ajei Gopal is the President and CEO of ANSYS Inc., Pennsylvania, US. He obtained his B.Tech. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1982, his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.nnDr. Gopal began his career initially as a researcher with Bell Communications Research and later joined IBM Research, where he conducted and managed projects in distributed and clustered systems. He became a Founding Member and Chief Technology Officer of IBM’s Pervasive Computing Division.nn