Alumni in Focus
Dr. Rakesh K. Jain
(BT/CHE/1972)
was selected for the prestigious 2022 Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research.
Mr. Amit Kumar
(BT/ CSE/1997)
was appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of (South) Korea. Mr. Kumar (IFS: 1995) currently serves as Consul General, Consulate General of India, Chicago.
Dr. Krishnamurthy Subramanian
(BT/EE/1994)
was appointed as the Executive Director (India) at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Prof. Arnab Rai Choudhuri
(MSC2/PHY/1980)
got selected for the prestigious Subrahmanyan Chandrashekhar Prize of the Division of the Plasma Physics of the Asia-Pacific Physical Societies 2022.
Prof. Ratnesh Kumar
(BT/EE/1987)
was awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Research by Iowa State University for exemplary national and international reputation for contribution in research and dedication for guiding and influencing research of students.
Prof. Rajat Moona
(BT/EE/1985)
got appointed as the next Director of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. Prof. Moona did his B.Tech. from IITKanpur in Electrical Engineering in 1985. He later joined IITK as a faculty in the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering.
Prof. K. K. Pant
(PhD/CHE/1997)
was appointed as the Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He has earlier served as the Dean of Faculty at IIT Delhi.
Mr Amit Choudhary
(BT/EE/1995)
was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of Wipro. He leads several critical business areas, including business operations, delivery excellence, IT, information security, and enterprise risk management.
Dr. Deepak Pathak
(BT/CSE/2014)
was awarded the 2022 Okawa Research Grant. He was recognized for his work “Towards Continually Improving Robots in the Wild.”
Dr. Girish Pahwa
(Phd/EE/2020)
got selected for the 2022 IEEE Electron Devices Society Early Career Award. He currently serves as the Executive Director at Berkeley Device Modelling Center, UC Berkeley.