Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh,India. It was declared an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India under the Institutes of Technology Act. IIT Kanpur is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in India.
Neeraj Kayal is an Indian computer scientist and mathematician noted for development of the AKS primality test,along with Manindra Agrawal and Nitin Saxena. Kayal was born and raised in Guwahati,India.
Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi(IIT-BHU) is a public technical university located in Varanasi,Uttar Pradesh,India. Founded in 1919 as the Banaras Engineering College,it became the Institute of Technology,Banaras Hindu University in 1968. It was later designated an Indian Institute of Technology in 2012. IIT (BHU) Varanasi has 16 departments,3 inter-disciplinary schools and 1 Humanities &Social Sciences Section. It is located inside the Banaras Hindu University Campus.
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are the premier autonomous public technical and research universities located across India,founded under the leadership of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
Anil K. Rajvanshi is an academic from India,and is the current director of the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI).
The state of Uttar Pradesh had a small tradition of learning,although it had remained mostly confined to the elite class and the religious establishment.
The 1991 Uttarkashi earthquake occurred at 02:53:16 Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30) on 20 October with a moment magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). This thrust event was instrumentally recorded and occurred along the Main Central Thrust in the Uttarkashi and Gharwal regions of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. High intensity shaking resulted in the deaths of at least 768 people and the destruction of thousands of homes.
Uday B. Desai is an Indian academician and the founding director of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He is a Professor Emeritus in Electrical engineering Chancellor ICFAI Dehradun,Chancellor Anurag University,Hyderabad Honorary Distinguished Professor Plaksha University and a Strategic Consultant for TSDSI. He served as the director of IIT Hyderabad from June 2009 to July 2019,and is credited for taking it to rank among the top 10 engineering colleges in India in the NIRF engineering ranking. He was mentor director of IIT Bhilai from May 2016 to February 2017 and mentor director for IIIT Chittoor 2013–2018.
Inter IIT Sports Meet is the annual sports tournament of the Indian Institutes of Technology. It is organized in December,with the Aquatics events held separately in October. It is the longest-running Inter-collegiate meet where all IITs participate,having been held since 1961. This year (2023),the event was held at IIT Bombay and IIT Gandhinagar jointly.
Pankaj Jalote was the Director of Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology. Jalote is a Fellow of the IEEE and INAE.
Anand Swarup Arya (1931-2019) was an Indian structural engineer,known for his expertise in the soil and foundation engineering and earthquake disaster management. He is a former chairman of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Committee on Earthquake Engineering and a recipient of the United Nations Sasakawa Disaster Prevention Award of 1997. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2002.
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.
Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi is an Indian chemical engineer,rheologist and the Pandit Girish &Sushma Rani Pathak Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur. He is known for his studies on metastable soft matter and is an elected fellow of the Society of Rheology,Indian National Science Academy,Indian Academy of Sciences,and Indian National Academy of Engineering. In 2015,the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research,awarded Joshi the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for his contributions to Engineering Sciences. In 2023,he received prestigious J C Bose fellowship constituted by the Science and Engineering Research Board,Government of India.
Subramaniam Ganesh is an Indian geneticist,molecular biologist and a professor at the department of biological sciences and bio-engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur. Known for his pioneering studies on Lafora progressive myoclonic epilepsy and other neurodegenerative disorders,Ganesh is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences,India. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development,one of the highest Indian science awards,for his contributions to biosciences in 2008.
Arun Kumar Shukla is an Indian structural biologist and the Joy-Gill Chair professor at the department of biological sciences and bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur. Known for his studies on G protein-coupled receptor,Shukla is a Wellcome Trust-DBT Intermediate Fellow and a recipient of the SwarnaJayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development,one of the highest Indian science awards,for his contributions to biosciences,in 2017/18. He received the 2021 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Biological Science. He was awarded the Infosys Prize 2023 in Life Sciences his outstanding contributions to the biology of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs).
Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi is an Indian professor,education administrator and former director of IIT Roorkee. Previously,he has been the Dean (R&D),and former Deputy Director at IIT Kanpur. He has largely contributed to waveform shaping and sequence design,MIMO systems. Recently,he has been bestowed with additional charge of director (acting) of newly established IIT Mandi and served the office till January 2022.Thereafter,he was succeeded by Professor Laxmidhar Behera.
Rajat Moona is the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar from 2022 onwards. He is also serving as Director of Indian Institute of Information Technology,Vadodara on Additional Charge Basis from May 2023 onwards. He has served as director at Indian Institute of Technology,Bhilai from 2017 to 2022. He was also a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur from 1991 to 2011 and Director General of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing from 2009 to 2017.
Rajiv Shekhar is a professor at IIT Kanpur and he was the former director at IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. Prior to joining IIT(ISM) Dhanbad,he worked as a professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering,IIT Kanpur. In recent times,he has been actively working towards research related to Solar thermal energy and applications.
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