Month: September 2021

Prof. Vikram Deshpande is a Professor of Materials Engineering at the Engineering Department of Cambridge University in the UK.nnHe obtained his B.  Tech.  degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1994, M. Phil. and Ph.D. degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge in 1995 and 1998 respectively.

Prof. Kavita Bala is the Dean of Computer and Information Science (CIS) and Professor of Computer Science, Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, Cornell University. Prof. Bala obtained her B. Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1992 and SM (Master of Science) and Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).nn 

Mr. Ramesh Mangaleswaran is a Senior Partner at McKinsey and Company Inc. He obtained his Tech. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT  Bombay in  1989  and  Masters in  Business   Management from  IIM Ahmedabad.nnIn his client work, Mr. Mangaleswaran supports top management of companies across sectors in shaping strategy, building operational excellence, and strengthening their organizations. He has developed 5-year growth strategies for several major businesses in the civil, infrastructure, concessions and heavy manufacturing sectors, designed and executed large-scale transformation efforts in breakthrough cost reduction and adoption of advanced analytics and digital technologies for performance improvement etc.nn 

Dr. Harrick Vin is a Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Fellow and Chief Services Innovation Officer at Tata Consultancy Services. He earned his B. Tech. degree from IIT Bombay and Ph.D. degree from University of California, San Diego in Computer Science and Engineering in 1987 and 1993, respectively.nn nn nn 

Dr. P. Pandurang Nayak is a Google Fellow and Vice President of Search at Google. Dr. Nayak earned his Tech. degree (awarded President of India Gold Medal) in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1985 and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1992. His Ph.D. dissertation was an ACM Distinguished Dissertation.nn nn 

Mr. Subramanian Sarma is the full-time Director (Energy) at Larsen & Toubro Limited. He is also the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director (MD) of L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro. He obtained his M.Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1981.nnMr. Sarma started his career as a process engineer and assumed the role of ‘Shift-in-Charge’ for operations of a large petrochemical plant at Patalganga (in Raigarh, Maharashtra)  at the young age of 26. Thereafter, while working for a renowned international design and consultancy firm, he grew from the rank of Senior Process Engineer to be the Deputy Chief of Process Engineering Department in less than three years. He became the first Asian to be put on par with Western nationals in terms of designations and remunerations at yet another EPC firm.nn nn 

Mr. Sunil Shenoy is Senior Vice President at the Design Engineering Group of Intel Corporation, United States. He earned his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1980, Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University in 1981 and MBA degree from the University of Oregon in 1995.nnMr. Shenoy worked on the world’s first superscalar microprocessor and first out of order microprocessor on a single chip – the P6 or Pentium Pro processor which came to the market in 1995. This breakthrough cemented the rise of Intel’s microprocessors in servers and consolidated their position in personal computers. It led to the era of market horizontalization, where chip vendors like Intel specialized in building advanced microprocessor components for all system vendors. Mr. Shenoy supervised the design of many generations of Intel’s microprocessors and SOCs and led teams across the world. He also led the development of graphics and high-performance computing processors. After leaving Intel, he worked on the open architecture RISC-V microprocessors. Mr. Shenoy was instrumental in developing broad and deep-design capability for Intel in Bangaluru, which is now a major design site for advanced microprocessors, SOC and IP.nnEarlier, Mr. Shenoy worked as Senior Vice President of SiFive (2017-20) and as Corporate Vice President at Intel Corporation (1981-14). He has 16 patents in the field of computer hardware to his credit.nn 

Prof. Yashodhan  Kanoria is the Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business  in  the  Decision,  Risk   and   Operations    division at Columbia  Business  School.  He received his B. Tech. degree (President of India Gold  Medal) in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2007 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2012.nnAfter completing his Ph.D., Prof. Kanoria spent a year at Microsoft Research New England during 2012-13 as a Schramm Postdoctoral Fellow. Later, he joined the University of Columbia in 2013 as an Assistant Professor.nnProf.  Kanoria  has  worked  on  the design and optimization of marketplaces, especially matching markets. He has worked extensively on centralized college and school admissions, the design of search and matching platforms for labor, dating, accommodation, etc., foundational questions regarding the nature of equilibria in matching markets, and algorithms for dynamic matching and resource allocation. Prof. Kanoria has designed and helped implement a centralized seat allocation process for all centrally-funded engineering colleges in India, which has been running successfully since 2015, administered by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA), preventing the wastage of hundreds of IIT seats each year.nn 

Mr.  Mohit  Soni  is   the   Diretor of Soni Hospitals. He is the Co- Founder and current President of IIT  Bombay  Alumni  Association – Jaipur Chapter. He received his dual degree (B.Tech.+ M.Tech.) in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2005, M.B.A. (exchange) from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in 2011 and M.B.A. from the Indian School of Business (ISB)-Hyderabad in 2011.nnImmediately after completing MBA, Mr. Soni joined nVidia Inc. in 2005 as ASIC Hardware Design Engineer and worked on NVIDIA MCP chipset division. He was involved in writing test cases in Verilog HDL with little bit of Perl development. Later, he joined as Director at the  Soni  Hospitals Pvt. Ltd. in 2006. Mr. Soni is involved in the Hospital’s group business development, strategy, financing and operations.nn nn 

Mr. Gaurav Porwal is the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), Global Mobility – Ola, Bengaluru. He received his dual degree (B. Tech.+ M. Tech.) in Chemical Engineering  from  IIT Bombay in 2005 and MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad in 2010.nnPrior  to  joining  Ola  in  2019, Mr. Porwal was the Director of Fresenius Medical Care in Gurgaon during  2016-19.  He  worked  as   a  Program  Manager  at  Procter  & Gamble in  Bengaluru  and  as  a Scientist at Procter & Gamble, Kobe, Japan.nn