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Prabodh V. Banavalkar
B.Tech., 1962, Civil Engineering
President, Ingenium Inc.
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Dr. Prabodh V. Banavalkar a well known structural engineer in the USA, has to his credit many of the famous tall buildings in that country. He followed up his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from IIT Bombay (1962) with an M.S. from the University of Illinois (1966) and a Ph.D. from Cornell University (1970).
He began his career as a Structural Engineer with M.N. Dastur and Company, Bombay (1962 – '63), Mahendra Raj (1963 – '65), Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chicago (1966 – '68). Mr. Banavalkar was Senior Project Engineer with Ellison Engineers Inc. (70 – 75). Later with CBM Engineer Inc. he held the posts of Chief Structural Engineer, Director of Analysis and Executive Vice President (1975 – 2000). After two years with Carter and Burgess Inc as Vice President, he has been President since 2002 with Ingenium Inc, Houstan.
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Banavalkar has extensive experience in design, analysis, and construction supervision of complex steel and concrete multistory building frames and structural components, with particular interest in theory and automated analysis. His projects include hotels, parking garages, and more than 60 office towers, ranging in size from 80 stories to 3 stories.
As one of the leading experts in his field, Banavalkar has authored more than 40 publications on subjects such as steel structures, seismic stress, and concrete. He has a thorough knowledge of the complexities of structures in many different environments. Banavalkar's designs have served as downtown landmarks for skylines across the United States, while withstanding the tests of time and nature. He is the recipient of several awards and honours including 1987 Professional Award, Indian Community in Houston, 1987, Outstanding Project Award, California Geotechnical Association, 1990, Those Who Made Marks in 1986 and 1989, Engineering News Record, in 1987 and 1990. |
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Bharat N. Desai
B.Tech 1975, Electrical Engineering
Chairman & CEO, Syntel Inc | |
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Bharat Desai is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and co-founder of Syntel, Inc. a worldwide provider of Applications Outsourcing and e-Business solutions to Global 2000 firms.
Under Desai's direction, Syntel has grown dramatically over the past 21 years to become a leading information technology services company. Syntel now employs more than 2,700 people in offices strategically located throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, as well as three fully-networked Global Development Centers in the US and India. Syntel has been profitable since its founding in 1980 and today, has revenues of approximately $ 165 million. Syntel has met or exceeded financial expectations all 17 quarters the company has been publicly-traded on NASDAQ.
Syntel was recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the "Best 200 Small Companies in America" in both 2001 and 1998; by Business Week as a "Hot Growth Company" in 1999 and 1998; and by Money Magazine as one of the "Top 50 Stocks" (#17). Syntel was also ranked in the UPSIDE TODAY list of the top 150 e-Business integrators (#13) as well as named in the VARBusiness 500 Architects of the New Economy (#157).
In addition to running a successful corporation, Desai has been appointed by the Governor of Michigan to serve on the Board of Directors of Cyberstate.org, which is dedicated to attracting high-tech businesses to the state. He has donated his time and Syntel resources to various charitable organizations, including Detroit's "Paint the Town", an effort which cleans troubled neighborhoods, as well as several United Way projects and global relief efforts (Sept. 11 Fund, Bosnia, and Bhuj, India). Desai is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) of Detroit.
Desai received the "1999 Michigan Entrepreneur Award" from the Harvard Business School and was recognized as "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 1996 by USA Today, NASDAQ, and Crain's Detroit Business. He holds a M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. |
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Rohini M. Godbole
M.Sc. 1974, Physics Professor, Centre for Theoretical Studies, IISc Bangalore. | |
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Prof. Rohini Godbole, a 1974 Silver medallist of IIT Bombay, has made outstanding contributions to fundamental scientific research, specifically the theory of elementary particle physics.
Following her Ph.D from SUNY, Stony Brook USA, she was visiting follow, TIFR 1979 – 82 and Lecturer and Reader at the Department of Physics, University of Bombay from 1982 to 1995. Godbole joined IISc Bangalore, Centre for Theoretical Studies as Associate Professor in 1995 and has been Professor since June 1998. She was the Chairperson at the Centre from August 1996 to March 2002.
Godbole has made significant contributions to many different aspects of the Standard Model and Beyond the Standard Model phenomenology. She has extensively worked on the structure of proton, photon and nucleus. The second focal point of her research has been theoretical models for production of new particles and devising search strategies for the same at high energy colliders.
She is the author of more than 150 research papers; many of which have some of the largest citation indices in her area.
She has been recognized by election to the Indian National Science Academy and the National Academy of Sciences. Recently she has been nominated to the Joint National Committee on IUPAP and IAU. Currently she is a participant and a key international organizer in the effort for envisioning the next generation of collider experiments, crucial for establishing several missing links in our understanding of the fundamental forces of nature. |
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Subramanian S. Iyer
B.Tech 1977, Elec. Engg.
Distinguished Engineer & Project Manager,
IBM Corp, Microelectronics Division | |
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Dr. Subramanian S. Iyer is acknowledged by his peers, as an engineer par excellence, responsible for some of the most outstanding innovations in semiconductor technology in the last two decades.
He has had a long and productive career at IBM, where he is currently Distinguished Engineer. He joined IBM at Yorktown Heights, NY, in 1981, after completing his Ph.D at UCLA. He has continued at IBM ever since, except for a three year stint to found a start-up company.
Dr. Iyer is well-known in the semiconductor technology area as the key person responsible for putting the compound silicon-germanium (SiGe) into the mainstream of semiconductor technology by pioneering work in the areas of SiGe technology, SiGe heterojunction transistors (HBTs), SiGe strained layers and use of SiGe in CMOS technology. Today, SiGe technology is seen as an essential ingredient for scaled CMOS transistors of the next several generations. Most of the important papers and patents in SiGe came from Dr. Iyer's group at IBM in the 1980's and 1990's. Dr. Iyer is personally recognized as the inventor of the SiGe HBT.
Another far-reaching contribution by Dr. Iyer was the development, at IBM, of the Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technology in the 1990's. This is also widely recognized as pioneering work, and the efforts of Dr. Iyer's group culminated in the world's first SOI microprocessor chips in the early 2000's. Both the SiGe and SOI efforts by Dr. Iyer at IBM have resulted in futuristic technologies, which are now starting to be used in advanced semiconductor technology.
Recently, Dr. Iyer has been leading a team working on high-performance embedded DRAMs, another pioneering effort from IBM, which is likely to change the scenario of incorporating high-performance memory into microprocessors.
Dr. Iyer has received several awards, including two IBM Outsanding Technical Achievement Awards, and the prestigious award of Fellow of IEEE in 1995 with the citation, "for contributions to SiGe heterjunction devices". He has over 150 publications and 30 patents. |
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