Vinod K. Singh is a Rahula and Namita Gautam Chair Professor of Chemistry at IIT Kanpur. He is also the Director's Chair Professor at IISER Bhopal &adjunct professor at NIPER Hyderabad. He is currently the President,Chemical Research Society of India and the Chairman,Governing Council of IACS Kolkata.
Satyajit Mayor (born 1963) is an Indian biologist. He serves as director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences,Bangalore. Mayor is the former director of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) at Bangalore,which has a focus on the study of stem cell and regenerative biology.
Kapil Hari Paranjape is an Indian mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. He is a Professor of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,Mohali.
V Ramgopal Rao is an Indian Academic serving as the Vice Chancellor of Birla Institute of Technology and Science,Pilani from February 2023 onwards. He was previously the director of IIT,Delhi for six years during 2016-2021.
Soumen Chakrabarti is an Indian computer scientist and professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. He is known for his work on
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay is an Indian scientist specializing in computational biology. A professor at the Indian Statistical Institute,Kolkata,she is a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winner in Engineering Science for 2010,IInfosys Prize 2017 laureate in the Engineering and Computer Science category and TWAS Prize winner for Engineering Sciences in 2018. Her research is mainly in the areas of evolutionary computation,pattern recognition,machine learning and bioinformatics. Since 1 August 2015,she has been the Director of the Indian Statistical Institute,and she would oversee the functioning of all five centres of Indian Statistical Institute located at Kolkata,Bangalore,Delhi,Chennai,and Tezpur besides several other Statistical Quality Control &Operation Research Units spread across India. She is the first woman Director of the Indian Statistical Institute. Currently she is on the Prime Ministers' Science,Technology and Innovation Advisory Council. In 2022 she was given the Padma Shri award for Science and Engineering by the Government of India.
Tushar Kanti Chakraborty is an Indian organic chemist and former professor at the Indian Institute of Science. He has served as a director of the Central Drug Research Institute and as a chief scientist at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology. He is known for the discovery of novel macrocyclic systems. He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy National Academy of Sciences,India and the Indian Academy of Sciences. 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,in 2002,for his contributions to chemical sciences.
Santanu Bhattacharya is an Indian chemical biologist and former professor at the Indian Institute of Science. At,present he is the Director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,Tirupati (IISER-Tirupati). He is known for his studies of unnatural amino acids,oligopeptides,designed and natural lipids,gene delivery vehicles,hydro- and organogels,molecular bioanalytic sensors,G-quadruplex DNA binding molecular therapeutics,and biologically active natural product mimics and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy The World Academy of Sciences and the Indian Academy of Sciences 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,in 2003,for his contributions to chemical sciences. He is also a recipient of the National Bioscience Award for Career Development of the Department of Biotechnology (2002) and the TWAS Prize (2010).
Amalendu Chandra is an Indian theoretical physical chemist,a professor and the head of the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur. He is known for his microscopic theories and simulations on liquids,interface and clusters. He is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy. 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,in 2007,for his contributions to chemical sciences.
Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy is an Indian organic photochemist and the Director of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,Thiruvananthapuram. He was a Dr. Jag Mohan Garg Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur. He is known for his studies on organic photochemistry and supramolecular chemistry. He is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Indian Academy of Sciences. 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,in 2008,for his contributions to chemical sciences.
Sandeep Verma is an Indian bioorganic chemist and chemical biologist,and a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur (IITK). At IITK,he heads Sandeep Verma's Research Group in the areas of ordered peptide assemblies,metal-mediated nanoscale systems,programmable soft matter for neuronal regeneration,novel antimicrobials,and small molecule-stem cell modulation. He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA),the Indian Academy of Sciences,the National Academy of Sciences,India,and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. 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,in 2010,for his contributions to Chemical Sciences.
Partha Sarathi Mukherjee is an Indian inorganic chemist and a professor at the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry department of the Indian Institute of Science. He is known for his studies on organic nano structures,molecular sensors and catalysis in nanocages. He is a recipient of the Swarnajayanthi Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology and the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India. 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,in 2016,for his contributions to chemical sciences.
Surendra Prasad is an Indian communications engineer,a former director and an Usha chair professor of the Indian Institute of Technology,Delhi. He is also an emeritus professor of Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology And Management,a joint venture of IIT Delhi and is known for developing new techniques,algorithms and hardware in signal processing. He is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences,Indian National Science Academy and the National Academy of Sciences,India. as well as the Indian National Academy of Engineering. 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 Engineering Sciences in 1988.
Devang Vipin Khakhar is an Indian chemical engineer and the former director of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He is known for his pioneering researches on polymerization and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences,Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences,India as well as Indian National Academy of Engineering. 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 Engineering Sciences in 1997.
Soumitro Banerjee is an Indian electrical engineer and former director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,Kolkata. He is known for his studies on bifurcation phenomena in power electronic circuits and is an elected fellow of all three major Indian science academies:the National Academy of Sciences,India,Indian Academy of Sciences,and Indian National Science Academy. He is also a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences,Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,West Bengal Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. 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 Engineering Sciences in 2003.
Yendluri Shanthi Pavan is an Indian electrical engineer and a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology,Madras. He is known for his studies on mixed signal VLSI circuits and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is also a fellow of IEEE. 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 Engineering Sciences in 2012.
The University College of Science,Technology and Agriculture are two of five main campuses of the University of Calcutta (CU). The college served as the cradle of Indian sciences by winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 and many fellowships of the Royal Society London.
Debdeep Mukhopadhyay is an Indian cryptographer and professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Science and Technology,the highest science award in India,in 2021 for his contributions to micro-architectural security and cryptographic engineering. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay's research interests include Hardware security,Cryptographic Engineering,Design Automation of Cryptosystems,VLSI of Cryptosystems,and Cryptography. He has authored several textbooks,including Cryptography and network security,which has been cited 1227 times,according to Google Scholar. He was elevated to the Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineers in 2021.
Subimal Ghosh is Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Convener of the Interdisciplinary Program in Climate Studies at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay with research interests in hydrology and hydro-climatology. He obtained PhD degree in 2007 from Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore on a thesis titled "Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change:Uncertainty Modelling",and ME degree in 2004 from the same institute.
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