Dr. Jag Mohan Garg Chair
Mr. Sudhir M Mittal (BT/CHE/1970) worked with Union Carbide for 10 years. He switched from job to his own enterprise and set up a special wire manufacturing unit, Sukriti Vidyut Udyog making silver and nickel-plated copper wires that are largely exported to Europe, the USA, and the far east. Mr. Mittal pursues village and primary education. He is the President of Gram Bharati, near Pilakhua, a training school for teachers of village schools. He is presently actively associated with Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Ghaziabad.
Mr. Mittal instituted Dr. Jag Mohan Chair that is open to all the departments of sciences and engineering.
Current Occupant
Prof. Dattatraya H. Dethe
(Sep 2025-Sep28)
Prof. Dattatraya H. Dethe, from the Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur. His research focuses on developing new synthetic methods and strategies for the total synthesis of natural products and biologically important molecules. A key area of interest is the design of novel annulation strategies for constructing carbocyclic and heterocyclic systems. He also works on creating new reagents and approaches in organic synthesis, with a strong emphasis on asymmetric catalysis. His work integrates concepts from stereoselective synthesis, physical organic chemistry, and metal-based reactivity.
He received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore and his Postdoctoral research at Institute of chemical and Engineering Sciences, Singapore.
Former Occupant
Prof. Ashish Dutta
Aug. 2018 - Aug. 2021
Prof. Ashish Dutta, Department of Mechanical Engineering, research interests are in the fields of Robotics, Intelligent Control systems, Microsensors and actuators, and Bio-robotics. Prof. Dutta leads the Mechatronics Lab at IITK where students and associated professors actively pursue research and professors conduct courses on Machine Learning, AI & Robotics. He led a team at Mechatornics lab in creating a prototype of Chandrayan-2. Prof. Dutta earned his doctorate from Akita University, Japan in 2002.
Prof. Gautam Sengupta
April 2022 - April 2025
Prof. Gautam Sengupta, Department of Physics, specializes in String Theory. His research interests are in the fields of AdS-CFT Correspondence & Holographic Quantum Entanglement, Conformal Field Theories, AdS-CFT Condensed Matter Physics. He earned his doctorate from the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar in 1992.