Shri Jagdeo Narain Gupta & Smt. Murti Devi Gupta Chair
Mr. Jitendra Nath Gupta (BT/EE/1977) instituted the Shri Jagdeo Narain Gupta & Smt. Murti Devi Gupta Chair in memory of his parents. The Chair is open to faculty members from all departments of Science and Engineering.
Mr. Gupta is a former Executive Director of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Mumbai. Prior to this, he served as the Group CFO of Kazstroy Service Group. Over the course of his career, he has held senior positions at the State Bank of India, Grasim Industries Limited, Indo Gulf Fertilisers, and Kazstroy Service Group, and previously worked with SEBI from July 1994 to July 1996. He received his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1977.
Current Occupant
Prof. Yogesh Singh Chauhan
(Jun. 2024 - Jun. 2027)
Prof. Yogesh Singh Chauhan from the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, has research interests in nanoelectronics, compact modeling and simulation of semiconductor devices, SPICE modeling of high-voltage and power devices, BSIM model development, and atomistic simulation of nanoscale devices. He is a recipient of the IBM Faculty Award (2013), Ramanujan Fellowship (2012), and an Honorable Mention at IEEE VLSI (2008). He earned his M.Tech. from IIT Kanpur and Ph.D. from EPFL, Switzerland, in 2007.
Former Occupant
Prof. Jitendra K. Bera
(Feb. 2021 - Jan. 2024)
Prof. Jitendra K. Bera, Department of Chemistry, specializes in the area of Organometallic Catalysis, and his research interests are in the fields of Bimetallic Synergism, Small Molecule Activation, Metal-Ligand Cooperativity, N-Heterocyclic Carbene, Green Chemistry. He earned his doctorate from IISc Bangalore in 1999.