65 Notable alumni of
Indian Institute of Science
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Indian Institute of Science is 895th in the world, 186th in Asia, and 18th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 65 notable alumni from Indian Institute of Science sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Sudha Murthy
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- writercomputer scientistscience fiction writerphilanthropist
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Sudha Murty is an Indian educator, author, and philanthropist. She is married to the co-founder of Infosys, N. R. Narayana Murthy. She is the Founder-Chairperson of the non-profit charitable organization Infosys Foundation. In 2024, Murty was nominated as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha on 8 March 2024 for her contribution to social work and education. Murty was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, for social work by the Government of India in 2006. In 2023, she was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in India.
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S. Somanath
- Born in
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India - Occupations
- military flight engineer
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Dr. Sreedhara Panicker Somanath is an Indian aerospace engineer served as the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Under his chairmanship, ISRO carried out the third Indian lunar exploration mission named Chandrayaan-3. The lander named Vikram and the rover named Pragyan landed near the lunar south pole region on 23 August 2023 at 18:04 IST, making India the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the lunar south pole and the fourth country to demonstrate soft landing on the Moon.
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Sivan Kailasavadivoo
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Science
- 1980-1982 graduated with Master of Engineering in aerospace engineering
- Occupations
- military flight engineeraerospace engineerscientist
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Sivan Kailasavadivu is an Indian aerospace engineer who served as the Secretary of the Department of Space and Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) and Space Commission. He has previously served as the Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center and the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre.
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A. S. Kiran Kumar
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- military flight engineer
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Aluru Seelin Kiran Kumar is an Indian space scientist and former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, having assumed office on 14 January 2015. He is credited with the development of key scientific instruments aboard the Chandrayaan-1 and Mangalyaan space crafts. In 2014, he was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the fields of science and technology. Kiran Kumar previously served as Director of Ahmedabad Space Applications Centre.
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Harish-Chandra
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Science
- Studied in 1943-1944
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teachermathematician
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Harish-Chandra Mehrotra FRS was an Indian-American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.
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Ritu Karidhal
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- physicist
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Ritu Karidhal Srivastava is an Indian scientist and aerospace engineer working in the Indian Space Research Organisation. She was a Deputy Operations Director to India's Mars orbital mission, Mangalyaan.
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H. G. Dattatreya
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- actorfilm actor
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Harihar Gundurao Dattatreya, popularly known as Dattanna, is an Indian actor who has appeared in more than 204 films and several plays. Alongside his career as an actor, he served in the Indian Air Force as an Aeronautical Engineer for over 20 years and also occupied academic positions with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). He is best known for his work in Kannada cinema, in which he appears in mostly supporting roles. In a film career of almost three decades, he has won two National Film Award – Special Jury Awards, one National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor and two Karnataka State Film Awards. He is known for his performances in Munnudi (2000), Bettada Jeeva (2011) and Bharath Stores (2012). In 2022, he was awarded the Rajyotsava Prashasti by the Government of Karnataka.
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Rajagopala Chidambaram
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- engineernuclear physicistmetallurgist
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Rajagopala Chidambaram was an Indian physicist who is known for his integral role in India's nuclear weapons program; he coordinated test preparation for the Pokhran-I (1974) and Pokhran-II (1998).
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V. K. Saraswat
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- scientist
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Vijay Kumar Saraswat is an Indian scientist who formerly served as the Director General of the Defence Research and Development Organisation and the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Indian Minister of Defence. He retired as the Director General of the DRDO on 31 May 2013. Saraswat is presently a member of NITI Aayog, the Indian Government's apex public policy think tank Saraswat is also a former Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University. and former President of Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum.
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Roddam Narasimha
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- military flight engineer
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Roddam Narasimha FRS was an Indian aerospace scientist and fluid dynamicist. He was a professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (1962–1999), director of the National Aerospace Laboratories (1984–1993) and the chairman of the Engineering Mechanics Unit at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR, 2000–2014). He was the DST Year-of-Science Chair Professor at JNCASR and concurrently held the Pratt & Whitney Chair in Science and Engineering at the University of Hyderabad. Narasimha was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, in 2013 for his contributions to advance India's aerospace technology.
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Rajeshwari Chatterjee
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- writerphysicistuniversity teacher
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Rajeshwari Chatterjee was an Indian scientist and an academic. She was the first woman engineer from Karnataka and described herself as an engineering-scientist. During her tenure at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, Chatterjee was a professor and later chairperson of the department of Electrical Communication Engineering.
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Sethuraman Panchanathan
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Science
- Studied in 1981-1984
- Occupations
- university teachercivil servantcomputer scientistacademic administrator
- Biography
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Sethuraman Panchanathan is an Indian–American computer scientist and academic administrator, and, since June 2020, the 15th Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation.
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Shatavadhani Ganesh
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- writer
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R. Ganesh is a practitioner of the art of avadhana, a polyglot, an author in Sanskrit and Kannada and an extempore poet in multiple languages. He has performed more than 1300 avadhanas, in Kannada, Sanskrit, Telugu and Prakrit. He is known for extempore composition of poetry (āśukavita) during these performances, and even of chitrakavya. He is the only Śatāvadhāni from Karnataka. He once set a record by composing poetry for twenty-four hours continuously. From 30 November 2012 to 2 December 2012, he performed the first ever Shatavadhana entirely in Kannada. On 16 February 2014, in Bangalore, he performed his 1000th avadhāna.
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Anil Sahasrabudhe
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- mechanical engineer
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Anil Sahasrabudhe is the present Chairman of National Educational Technology Forum, chairman of EC National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and Chairman NBA.
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Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan
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- mathematician
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Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan FRS is an Indian mathematician. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences in Mumbai, India. Previously, he was the Head of the National Centre for Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. Formerly Professor of eminence at TIFR in Homi Bhabha Chair. Raghunathan received his PhD in Mathematics from (TIFR), University of Mumbai; his advisor was M. S. Narasimhan. Raghunathan is a Fellow of the Royal Society, of the Third World Academy of Sciences, and of the American Mathematical Society and a recipient of the civilian honour of Padma Bhushan. He has also been on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2016.
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Agha Shahi
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- politicianteacherphysicistdiplomatmathematician
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Agha Shahi, NI, was a Pakistani career Foreign service officer who was the leading civilian figure in the military government of former President General Zia-ul-Haq from 1977 to 1982. A diplomat and technocrat by profession, he joined Foreign Services in 1951 and held important diplomatic assignments in the United States, China, and the United Nations. He served as the Foreign secretary— the leading bureaucratic position in Pakistan Government— in 1973 until 1977, after Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's government was dismissed (see Codename Fair Play).
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Shekhar C. Mande
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Science
- 1984-1991 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- executivebiologistcrystallographerscientist
- Biography
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Shekhar C. Mande is Structural and Computational Biologist. He was the Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, and the Secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science and Technology. Prior to this, he was the Director of National Centre for Cell Science, Pune.
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Veerabhadran Ramanathan
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- climatologistmeteorologist
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Veerabhadran "Ram" Ramanathan is Edward A. Frieman Endowed Presidential Chair in Climate Sustainability Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He has contributed to many areas of the atmospheric and climate sciences including developments to general circulation models, atmospheric chemistry, and radiative transfer. He has been a part of major projects such as the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) and the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), and is known for his contributions to the areas of climate physics, Climate Change and atmospheric aerosols research. He is now the Chair of Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions education project of University of California. He has received numerous awards, and is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He has spoken about the topic of global warming, and written that "the effect of greenhouse gases on global warming is, in my opinion, the most important environmental issue facing the world today."
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Yamuna Krishnan
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- 1974-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- researcherchemist
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Yamuna Krishnan is a professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, where she has worked since August 2014. She was born to P.T. Krishnan and Mini in Parappanangadi, in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India. She was earlier a Reader in National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India. Krishnan won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology, the highest science award in India in the year 2013 in the Chemical Science category.
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Thalappil Pradeep
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- 1963-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Thalappil Pradeep is an institute professor and professor of chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He is also the Deepak Parekh Chair Professor. In 2020 he received the Padma Shri award for his distinguished work in the field of Science and Technology. He has received the Nikkei Asia Prize, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) prize (2018), and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2008 by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
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H. R. Nagendra
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- mechanical engineer
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H. R. Nagendra is an Indian mechanical engineer, Yoga therapist, academic, writer and the founder vice chancellor of Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, a deemed university located in Bengaluru. He is best known as the personal yoga consultant of Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India and is a recipient of Yoga Shri title from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. He has authored 35 books and over 100 research papers on Yoga. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for his contributions to society.
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Purnima Sinha
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- physicist
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Dr. Purnima Sinha was an Indian physicist and was one of the first Bengali women to earn a doctorate in physics. She did work in the field of x-ray crystallography of clay minerals. She was raised by a progressive family in a traditional era. She was able to further her education and led a life where she was able to pursue her passion of physics and engage in an artistic activities such as singing, painting, and writing.
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Govindarajan Padmanabhan
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- biochemist
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Govindarajan Padmanaban is an Indian biochemist and biotechnologist. He was the former director of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and presently serves as honorary professor in the department of biochemistry at IISc and Chancellor of Central University of Tamil Nadu.
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S. K. Shivakumar
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- engineerscientist
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Dr. S. K. Shivakumar was an Indian Distinguished Scientist from Karnataka state who worked at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) centres. He was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India, in 2015.
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Saraju Mohanty
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- computer scientist
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Saraju Mohanty is an Indian-American professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the director of the Smart Electronic Systems Laboratory, at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. Mohanty received a Glorious India Award – Rich and Famous NRIs of America in 2017 for his contributions to the discipline. Mohanty is a researcher in the areas of "smart electronics for smart cities/villages", "smart healthcare", "application-Specific things for efficient edge computing", and "methodologies for digital and mixed-signal hardware". He has made significant research contributions to security by design for electronic systems, hardware-assisted security (HAS) and protection, high-level synthesis of digital signal processing (DSP) hardware, and mixed-signal integrated circuit computer-aided design and electronic design automation. Mohanty has been the editor-in-chief (EiC) of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine during 2016-2021. He has held the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Very Large Scale Integration during 2014-2018. He holds 4 US patents in the areas of his research, and has published 500 research articles and 5 books. He is ranked among top 2% faculty around the world in Computer Science and Engineering discipline as per the standardized citation metric adopted by the Public Library of Science Biology journal.
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Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
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- 1947-.. (age 78)
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Science
- In 1970 graduated with Master of Engineering in aerospace engineering
- In 1975 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in aerospace engineering
- Occupations
- physicistengineer
- Biography
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Katepalli Raju Sreenivasan is an aerospace scientist, fluid dynamicist, and applied physicist whose research includes physics and applied mathematics. He studies turbulence, nonlinear and statistical physics, astrophysical fluid mechanics, and cryogenic helium. He was the dean of engineering and executive vice provost for science and technology of New York University. Sreenivasan is also the Eugene Kleiner Professor for Innovation in Mechanical Engineering at New York University Tandon School of Engineering and a professor of physics and mathematics professor at the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
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Mirza Faizan
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Mirza Faizan is an Indian-American aerospace scientist who developed the Ground Reality Information Processing System.
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Manchanahalli Rangaswamy Satyanarayana Rao
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- university teacherbiochemistscientist
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Manchanahalli Rangaswamy Satyanarayana Rao was an Indian scientist. He was awarded the fourth-highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, for Science and Engineering in 2010. From 2003 to 2013 he was president of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) in Bangalore, India.
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Raj Jain
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- inventorcomputer scientisttechnology evangelist
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Raj Jain is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
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M. Vijayan
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- biologist
- Biography
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Mamannamana Vijayan was an Indian structural biologist.
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P. K. Kelkar
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- academic
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Purushottam Kashinath Kelkar was an Indian scientist who is best remembered for being the founding director of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, which was established in 1959. He was also involved in the planning process for the establishment of the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai and served as its third director, for a period of 4 years. Kelkar was instrumental in securing USA's technical collaboration in the establishment of IIT Kanpur, by persuading the then USA ambassador, John Kenneth Galbraith to locate the fledgeling institution on the outskirts of Kanpur, in North India. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of Padma Bhushan in 1970.
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Michael Lobo
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- historianauthor
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Michael Lobo is an Indian scientist, writer, and genealogist. He is the author of three self-published books on the Catholic community in Mangalore, India.
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Siva S. Banda
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- military flight engineer
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Siva Subrahmanyam Banda is an Indian-American aerospace engineer. He was Director of the Control Science Center of Excellence and Chief Scientist for the Aerospace Systems Directorate at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He has taught at Wright State University, the University of Dayton, and the Air Force Institute of Technology.
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Janardhana Swamy
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- politiciancartoonist
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Janardhana Swamy served as a Member of Parliament in 15th Lok Sabha representing the Chitradurga Lok Sabha Constituency in the Parliament of India.
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Ramesh Datla
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- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Ramesh Datla is an Indian industrialist and the Chairman of Elico Limited, India's first analytical instruments company, established in 1960. He also serves as Chairman of Elico Healthcare Services, a leading player in the healthcare IT and ITES sector.
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Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan is an Indian aerospace and computer scientist. He is a Professor of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Supercomputer Education Research Centre of Indian Institute of Science and a visiting professor of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. Balakrishnan was honored by the Government of India, in 2002, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman
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- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman is an Indian engineer, academic and writer, known for his pioneering efforts in the field of Computer Science Education in India. He is credited with the establishment of the first academic program in computer science in India, which he helped initiate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1965. An elected fellow of all the Indian science academies, he is a recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian award in Science and Technology category for young scientists and several other honors including Om Prakash Bhasin Award and Homi Bhabha Prize. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honor of the Padma Bhushan, in 1998, for his contributions to science.
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K. Chidananda Gowda
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- 1942-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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K. Chidananda Gowda is an Indian academic who served as the Vice-Chancellor of the Kuvempu University, which is located in the state of Karnataka, India. He is also the son-in-law of the Kannada Poet, Kuvempu, after whom the Kuvempu University is named. He has published many papers, mainly in the field of pattern recognition.
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Uma Chowdhry
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- chemist
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Uma Chowdhry was an American chemist whose career was spent in research and management positions with E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. She specialized in the science of ceramic materials, including catalysts, proton conductors, superconductors and ceramic packaging for microelectronics.
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Ganapathy Baskaran
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Ganapathy Baskaran is an Indian theoretical physicist, known for his work on condensed matter physics and strongly correlated quantum materials. Baskaran is an Emeritus Professor of physics at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai, India and holds a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Recently he became a Distinguished Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
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Rangasami L. Kashyap
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- 1938-.. (age 87)
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Rangasami Lakshminarayan Kashyap was an Indian applied mathematician and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University.
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Mulugeta Bekele
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Mulugeta Bekele is an Ethiopian scientist and academic. He is an associate Professor of Physics at Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia. He completed his PhD in Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1997. He has been awarded the Andrei Sakharov Prize by the American Physical Society (APS) "For tireless efforts in defense of human rights and freedom of expression and education anywhere in the world, and for inspiring students, colleagues and others to do the same." He is the president of Ethiopian Physical Society since October 1998 and an Associate Member of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy since May 1999.
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Dipankar Chatterji
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Dipankar Chatterji is an Indian molecular biologist and the Honorary Professor at Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, a multidisciplinary research institute under the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India. He is known for his pioneering research on bacterial transcription. He is a recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize and is an elected fellow of all the major Indian science academies. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for his contributions to science and engineering.
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Pinaki Majumdar
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Pinaki Majumdar is an Indian condensed matter physicist and the director of the Harish-Chandra Research Institute. Known for his research on correlated quantum systems, Majumdar is a recipient of the Global Indus Technovator Award of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2007.
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Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty
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- 1909-2002 (aged 93)
- Occupations
- physicistmeteorologist
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Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty was an Indian physicist and meteorologist, and is considered to be the father of remote sensing in India.
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Prahlada
- Occupations
- mechanical engineermilitary flight engineer
- Biography
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Prahlada Rama Rao is an Indian missile scientist and former director of Defence Research and Development Laboratory, the largest of the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) laboratories in India, known for his contributions to the Indian space programme. He was honoured by the Government of India in 2015 with the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest Indian civilian award. He was vice chancellor of the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology from 2011 to 2014.
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Imran Siddiqi
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- 1957-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- botanist
- Biography
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Imran Siddiqi is an Indian geneticist. Currently, he is a group leader at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and heads a research group.
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Jagdish Chandra Kapur
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- ecologist
- Biography
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Jagdish Chandra Kapur was an Indian social scientist, entrepreneur and the founder of Kapur Surya Foundation and Kapur Solar Farms. He was also the Editor of World Affairs Journal, a publication aiming at and providing a platform for better interaction between the developed and the developing nations. The Government of India honoured him in 2010, with the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award, for his services to the fields of science and technology.
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Prem Shanker Goel
- Occupations
- military flight engineer
- Biography
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Prem Shanker Goel is an Indian space scientist, former secretary at the Department of Ocean Development, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India and a former director of Indian Space Research Organization. He was honored by the Government of India, in 2001, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.
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Sajal K. Das
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Science
- 1983-1984 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- engineeruniversity teachercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Dr. Sajal K. Das is currently a professor of Computer Science and the Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair at Missouri University of Science and Technology, where he was the Chair of Computer Science Department during 2013–2017. Prior to that he was a University Distinguished Scholar Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the founding director of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) at the University of Texas at Arlington. During 2008-2011 he served the US National Science Foundation as a Program Director in Computer Networks and Systems division of the CISE Directorate. During 1988-1999 he was a faculty at the University of North Texas. His research interests include wireless and sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing, parallel and cloud computing, smart and connected communities (smart city, smart home, smart grid, smart health, smart transportation, and smart agriculture), cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things (IoT), cyber-physical security, machine learning and data analytics, biological and social networking, applied graph theory and game theory. He has partaken in research related to wireless sensor networks and pervasive and mobile computing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
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Dinakar Mashnu Salunke
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- immunologist
- Biography
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Dinakar Masanu Salunke is an immunologist and structural biologist. Presently, he is the Director of International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology New Delhi. Earlier he was the Executive Director of newly established Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), an institution jointly set up by Department of Biotechnology (India) and UNESCO at Faridabad. He is the recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in the category of biological sciences (year 2000) and Fellow of all major science academies in India.
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Samir Das
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Samir R. Das is an Indian-American Stony Brook University professor who attended Jadavpur University and Indian Institute of Science. He was also associated with Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was former faculty in University of Texas at San Antonio and University of Cincinnati where he conducted research in computer science particularly in wireless networking. As of 2017 his work Ad hoc on-demand distance vector was cited over 26,000+ times. Many of his research works are highly cited, giving him an h-index of 54.
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Rangachar Narayana Iyengar
- Occupations
- engineercivil engineer
- Biography
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Rangachar Narayana Iyengar, also known as RNI, is a civil engineer and professor from India. He was with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for about four decades. He has been the director of Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee (1994–2000). He is currently a Raja Ramanna Fellow, and the Director for the Center for Ancient History and Culture (CAHC) at the Jain University, Bangalore. He also setup the Center for Disaster Mitigation (CDM) at the Jain University.
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Sanjeev Das
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Sanjeev Das is an Indian cancer biologist and a scientist at National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India. He is well regarded for his studies on tumor suppressor proteins. He is a recipient of the National Bioscience Award for Career Development of the Department of Biotechnology. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biological sciences in 2017.
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Subramaniam Ramadorai
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- businesspersonengineer
- Biography
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Subramanian Ramadorai is an Indian executive who was former CEO and MD of Tata Consultancy Services. He was also the Adviser to the Prime Minister of India in the National Council on Skill Development, Government of India.. He held the rank equivalent to an Indian Cabinet Minister and was the Chairman of National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) and the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). As the Chairman of NSDA/NSDC, he initiated the process of standardization of skilling effort, quality benchmarking, inclusive collaboration, and commonality of purpose and outcomes in India by leveraging technology. Currently, he is the Chairperson of Mission ‘Karmayogi Bharat’, the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB) that aims to transform Indian bureaucracy and prepare civil servants for the future, through comprehensive reform of the capacity building apparatus at individual, institutional and process levels.
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Bhagavatula Dattaguru
- Years
- 1942-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Bhagavatula Dattaguru is an Indian engineer and academic. He has received several awards, including the Padma Shri Award, India's fourth highest civilian honour in 2005 in the field of science and engineering.
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Prasad V. Tetali
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- computer scientist
- Biography
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Prasad V. Tetali is an Indian-American mathematician and computer scientist who works as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His research concerns probability theory, discrete mathematics, and approximation algorithms.
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Amiya Pujari
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Amiya Kumar Pujari was an Indian computer scientist and information technology pioneer and leader.
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Renuka Ravindran
- Years
- 1943-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianacademic
- Biography
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Renuka Ravindran was the first woman to be the Dean of the Indian Institute of Science.
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Upadrasta Ramamurty
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Upadrasta Ramamurty is the President's Chair Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Prior to joining NTU, he was a professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, from 2000 to 2018.
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Tamal Dey
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- computer scientistmathematician
- Biography
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Tamal Krishna Dey is an Indian mathematician and computer scientist specializing in computational geometry and computational topology. He is a professor at Purdue University.
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Yogesh Shouche
- Occupations
- microbiologistscientist
- Biography
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Yogesh S. Shouche is an Indian microbiologist. Currently, he is Principal Investigator of National Centre for Microbial Resource at the National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India.
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Chittaranjan Mitra
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Chittaranjan Mitra, popularly known as CR Mitra and CRM, was an Indian scientist who is best remembered as the second Director of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani. He played a pivotal role in the transformation of the institute from a local engineering college to a reputed university.
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Suddhasatwa Basu
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 62)
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Science
- 1987-1993 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Sudhhasatwa Basu is an Indian chemical engineer. He is a former director of Council of Scientific Industrial Research - Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT) in Bhubaneswar, India, and is professor of chemical engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, adjunct professor, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai and professor of AcSIR. His research interests include electrokinetic and electrochemical phenomena in fuel cells.
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Sendurai A. Mani
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Science
- 1993-1998 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in biology
- Occupations
- professor
- Biography
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Sendurai A. Mani is an Indian-American oncologist and a Molecular Biologist. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, and Dean's Chair for Translational Oncology at Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School. He is also the associate director for Translational Oncology at the Legorreta Cancer Center at Alpert Medical School, Brown University. Previously, he was a co-director of Metastasis Research Center and co-director, the Center for Stem Cell & Developmental Biology, and a professor of Translational Molecular Pathology at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
