Mr. Rajiv Batra (BT/EE/1982) instituted the Rajiv and Ritu Batra New Faculty Fellowship. Mr. Rajiv Batra is the Founder of Palo Alto Networks, where he was responsible for building and leading the engineering department from its inception. During his tenure, he held several key roles including Founder, Member of the Office of the CEO, and Senior Vice President of Engineering. Palo Alto Networks has since become the world's largest independent enterprise security company.
Before founding Palo Alto Networks, Mr. Batra served as Vice President of Engineering at Peribit Networks, a company known for developing industry-leading products in WAN optimization and acceleration. Peribit was acquired by Juniper Networks in July 2005. He was also the Founder and Vice President of Engineering at VitalSigns Networks, which was acquired by International Network Services in 1998.
Mr. Batra was honored with the Entrepreneurial Achievement Award by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012. He holds an M.S. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1983). In recognition of his exceptional accomplishments, IIT Kanpur conferred upon Mr. Batra the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2020.

Prof. Adithya Vadapalli

(Aug 2023- July 2026)

Prof. Adithya Vadapalli from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, has research interests in privacy-enhancing technologies and applied cryptography, with a focus on metadata protection, oblivious RAMs, secure multi-party computation, and secure machine learning. He completed his PhD from the Indiana University, Bloomington.

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