Dr. D. S. Hur instituted Prof. Arakare Vasudev Fellowship. He is the former Chairman and CEO of GS Caltex (South Korea). He received his master's in chemical engineering from the American College in 1968, and his doctorate from the same college in 1971. He joined GS Caltex in 1973 and was instrumental in reaching the company to great heights. Under Dr. Hur's leadership in the 1990s, GS Caltex began to explore alternative energy technologies, and in the early 2000s, it launched two subsidiaries to advance eco-friendly materials and systems.
Dr. Hur has vast range of experience in production, demand and supply and planning. During the adverse time of 2nd oil crisis, Dr. Hur played a pivotal role in making Caltex the first Korean refinery to turn to toll processing and exporting by using idling refinery facilities. He has received the Manager of the year prize in 2018 Management Grand Awards from Korea Management Association.
Dr. Ketan Rajawat received his B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India, in 2007, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. His research interests are in the broad areas of signal processing, robotics, and communications networks, with particular emphasis on distributed optimization and online learning. His current research focuses on the development and analysis of distributed and asynchronous optimization algorithms, online convex optimization algorithms, stochastic optimization algorithms, and the application of these algorithms to problems in machine learning, communications, signal processing, and smart grid systems. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor with the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He is also the recipient of the 2018 INSA Medal for Young Scientists and the 2019 INAE Young Engineer Award. Gratitude Video
