 Dr. S. Banerjee |
Prof. Narendra Kumar
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| Mr. Suhas S. Kakde |
Dr. Arun Netravali
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| Dr. Narendra K. Karmarkar |
Dr. S. Rama Iyer |
| Dr. Kota Harinarayana |
Prof. Sharad S. Sane |
| Dr. Romesh
Wadhwani |
Ph.D. IIT Bombay, 1966, Metallurgical EngineeringDirector, R & D Centre for Iron & Steel Steel Authortiy of India Ltd. Ranchi |
Dr. S. Banerjee’s contributions to metallurgy cover a wide spectrum of areasteaching, research, and above all organisational restructuring and management. Dr. Banerjee obtained his B.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, and Ph.D. from IIT Bombay, where he also served as a faculty member. Notable achievements at IIT Bombay besides the new courses developed in metallurgical engineering, included the pioneering work for setting up a School of Fracture Mechanics and several original and important contributions in theroy and application of fracture me chanics. Dr. Banerjee contributed original ideas in transformation, structure and properties of materials and new processes and procedures related to the technologies of Steel and Cast Iron. He concurrently worked as USAID Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, USA; Senior fellow at the NASA-Ames Research Centre, USA; Consultant to North-Western University, USA: Senior Visiting Scientist and also Consultant to Air Force Materials Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, USA; Consultant to Dayton Research Institute, USA in areas of transformation, structure properties and fracture of materials. Dr. Banerjee was on deputation as Director, National Metallurgical Laboratory at Jamshedpur from 1985-1992, where he reorganised, restructured, managed and administered an organisation of 240 scientists and officers and 1000 supporting staff in 15 different locations. His notable achievements were not only attracting for the organisation large external funds for R&D programmes but attracting to NML 65 excellent scientists and motivating scientists and staff to research excellence. Dr.Banerjee restructured R&D Programmes at NML and pursued three interaction programmes in collaboration with local industries. Dr. Banerjee is credited with having conceived, developed and proved at first in bench scale, and later in pilot plant scale an entirely new process of steel making ( Resiness Process). At RDCIS, Ranchi, Dr.Banerjee reorganised R&D programmes to respond to the new economic and industrial policy of the government and of SAIL. Dr. Banerjee substantially increased the additional monetary benefit produced by the R&D projects and supervised the implementation and certification of ISO 9001-1994 at RDCIS to improve service to both its internal and the external customers. Dr. Banerjee’s contributions have been recognised with a number of awards and distinctions including-Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engg., MRSI Award, FICCI Award, National Metallurgists Award. Prof. Banerjee has 43 international publications and 13 patents to his credit and is on several advisory and technical bodies in the country.
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M.Des., IIT Bombay, 1973, Industrial Design. President & Chief Executive Officer, U.S.Aeromotive Inc.,U.S.A |
Mr. Suhas Kakde is an entrepreneur who has started and developed a manufacturing firm which has gained national recognition in U.S.A. US Aeromotive Inc. supplies aircraft parts and ground-support equipment for the Air Force’s B-B bomber, F-15 and F-22 fighters, C-17 airlifter and other programmes. Under Mr. Kakde’s leadership, the company assessed the Air Force’s acquisition trends six or seven years ago and decided to focus on the programme most likely to endure. The company’s work for the C-17 prgramme won it the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Prime Contractor of the Year Award in 1995 for the Midwest region, a six-state area that includes about 90,000 small manufacturers. The award recognises contractors of all federal agencies for maintaining high industry standards. Mr. Kakde obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Mechnical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Karad in 1970 and his Diploma in Industrial Design from IIT Bombay in 1973. Before his move to USA to do an MBA and venture into manufacturing, Mr. Kakde was involved in a series of non-conformist activities. For two years he was a full-time organiser of a non-political youth organisation and took a relief team to Koyna earthquake affected area in 1967. He was involved in the initial survey and design of small, appropriate dams for area development in Chafal (Dist:Satara) and worked as a team leader. He was also the full-time field coordinator for a drough relief project and an area development programme for Patoda taluka (Bhir District) in 1973.
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B.Tech., IIT Bombay, 1978, Electrical Engineering. Mathematical Sciences Research Centre, AT & T Bell laboratories, U.S.A. |
Dr. Narendra Karmarkar is well-known for the Karmarkar algorithm for linear programming which was announced in 1984 and which made headlines not onlyu in scientific publications but also the mass media. His algorithm and its variations are preferredover simplex. The method used in his algorithm has revived interest in interior methods, which are currently an important area of research in mathematical programming. Dr. Karmarkar who has been a member of the Technical Staff, Mathematical Sciences Research Centre, AT & T Bell Labs since 1983, graduated from IIT in 1978. This was followed with an M.S. from California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He also taught briefly a course on advanced linear programming with Prof. Adler at University of California and a course on Interior-point Algorithms at IIT Bombay in 1988. Computational mathematics; linear and non-linear programming; integer programming and combinatorial optimisation; and numeric, symbolic and algebraic computation are his individual research interests. Collaborative research interests include software and hardware technology for scientific computation; parallel architectures; new high-level programming languages; applications of scientific computation to engineering design and operations research. Dr. Karmarkar had the distinction of receiving the Marconi International Young Scientis Award in 1985 and the Fulkerson Prize in discrete mathematics given jointly by the American Mathematical Society & Mathematical Programming Society in 1988. Other honours and awards include the National Science Talent Award in Mathematics, 1972, India; President of India Medal, IIT Bombay, 1978; Lanchester prize of the Operations Research Society of America for the best published contributions to operations research, 1984; Fellow of Bell Laboratories (1987-till now); Texas instruments Founders’ Prize, 1986; Ramanujan prize for Computing, given by Asian Institute Informatics, 1989; distinguished Alumnus Award computer science and engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1993. Over 30 publications in leading scientific journals have been contributed by Dr. Karmarkar and 6 patents filed for original invention in the field of linear programming algorithm and its implementation in USA. Dr. Karmarkar is regularly invited to make presentations in important international conference in his field of interest.
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Ph.D., IIT Bombay, 1982, Aerospace Engineering.Programme Directo-LCA, Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore |
Dr. Kota Harinarayana’s professional career of about three decades has been dedicated to the advancement of the science and technology capabilities in India in the field of aerospace engineering. As the Programme Director of the prestigious Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) project since 1985, he has been involved in directing the design and development, integration and ground testing of the LCA. The first test flight of the LCA is expected to take place in less than a year’s time. Dr. Kota obtained his Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1967 and began his career as an Aerospace engineer in the Flight Test group of the Aircraft Design Bureau of the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., Bangalore. After about three years, he joined the Directorate of Aeronautics of the Ministry of Defense, Govt. of India it was during this period that he joined IIT Bombay and carried out research leading to a Ph.D. degree, addressing some special issues related to fighter aircraft design. Dr. Kota rejoined the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. in 1982 as the Chief Designer of the Nasik division. He served as the Director of the Aeronautical Development Establishment of the Ministry of Defense for about a year during 1985086, during which period he also took over as the Director of the Aeronautical Development Agency and as Programme Director of the Light Combat Aircraft project. The LCA project is the biggest of its kind in the field of Aerospace engineering to be taken up in this county. Dr.Kota’s dynamism, personal charisma, and single-minded devotion to the success of the project have inspired and brought together many scientists ad professionals and has taken this project successfully from the design and development state, to production, integration ground testing, and to the successful completion leading to the roll-out of the LCA in October 1995. Dr. Kota has also been involved in the planning of education and directing research in aerospace engineering. He was the convenor of National Aeronautical Policy Committee of the Aeronautical Society examinations. He is the chairman of the Technical Committee of the Aeronautics Research. And Development Board, Ministry of Defense, Govt. of India. Dr. Kota has a number of publications related to various aspects of fighter aircraft performance and design. As an eminent scientist in the field of aerospace science and engineering he has delivered keynot addresses, special invited lectures, and chaired import ant conferences. He has been honoured for his contributions by several national bodies in India. He is a Fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Science in 1993. He has delivered the Nilakantan Memorial Lecture, the Ghatge Memorial Lecture and the ARDB lecture. He has recently been selected as a Distinguished Scientist by the Government of India.
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 Ph.D., IIT Bombay, 1971,
Physics.Director, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore |
Prof. Narendra Kumar is an electrical engineer-turned theoretical physicist. He has, in a distinguished academic and research career, made outstanding contributions to a wide rang of areas in condensed matter physics. Following B.Tech. and M.Tech. in electronics and elctrical communication engineering from IIT Kharagpur, Prof . Kumar undertook Ph.D. at IIT Bombay, in Physics, completing the degree in 1971. Prof. Kumar’s field of specialisation and research is Condensed Matter Physics; Quantum and Classical Transport in Disordered Systems; AndersonMott Localisation; Magnetism; High-Tc Superconductivity; Statistical Physics; General Relativity; Astrophysics; Complex Systems; Associative Memory, Neural Networks, Turbulence, Chaos. In about 120 original paper published during 1970-1993 in international journals of repute, Prof. Kumar has made wide ranging and substantial contributions in the field of Condensed Matter Physics (theory), specially in the area of (I) classical and quantum transport in disordered systems, (ii) phase transition, and (iii) superconductivity. In his early researches, he has also addressed problems of general relativistic evolutionary cosmology and of astrophysics. His current interest include high-temperature superconductivity, complex systems (neural networks and associative memory, chaos anturbulence) and astrophysics. In recognition of his scientific accomplishments, he was elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1983), Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (1986), Accociate (1970) and Senior Associate Member ICTP (1980), Honorary Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (1990). In 1985 he was awarded the prestigious Bhatnagar Prize for Physics by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. He was given the 1992 TWAS in Physics by the Third World Academy of Sciences. Before his appointment to his present position as Director, Raman Research Institute, Prof. Kumar was Professor at the IISc., Bangalore. He has also held visiting positions in eminent institutions abroad including Unversite de Liege, University of Warwich, Drex el University, ICTP Trieste.
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B.Tech., IIT Bombay, 1967, Electrical Engineering. Vice President, Research At & T bell Laboratories, U.S.A. |
Dr. Arun Netravali is Vice President, research at AT & T Bell Laboratories. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1972 as a Member of Technical Staff, become Head of the Visual Communications Research Department in 1978, Director of Computing Systems Research in 1983, Communication Sciences Research Vice President in 1992 with added responsibility as a project manager for HDTV in 1990. He became Vice President of Quality, Engineering, Software and Technologies (QUEST) in 1994, and in 1995 he assumed his present position as Vice President of Research. He was at NASA from 1970 to 1972, where he worked on problems related to filtering, guidance, and control for the space shuttle. Dr. Netravali received the B.Tech. (Honours) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1967 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University, Houston, texas in 1969 and 1970, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. In 1994, he received an honorary doctorate from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne, Switzeland. He has been an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1984, and has taught graduate courses at City college, Columbai University, MIT and Rutgers University. He served on the editorial board of the Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Inc., from 1980 to 1984, and is currently an editor of several journals. He has served on the Digital Television Committees of the IEEE and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. He is an advisor to the Center for Telecommunications Research of Columbia University, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland and the Beckman Institute of the University of Illinois. He has organised and chaired sessions at several technical conferences, and was the programme chairman of the 1981 picture coding symposium and the 1990 International Conference on Pattern Recognition. He has edited several special issues for the IEEE. Dr. Netravali is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE and AAAS and a member of the United State National Academy of Engineering. He is the author of more than 120 papers and hlds over 60 patents in the areas of Computer Networks, Human Interfaces to Machines, Picture Processing, and Digital Television. He is a co-author of two books : (a) Digital Picture Representation and Compression, (Plenum, 1987); and (b) Visual Communications Systems, IEEE Press, 1989). He has received several best papers awards for papers published in the Proceedings. He was awarded the Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 1991, the OCA National Corporate Exployee Achievement Award in 1991, and Engineer of the Year Award from the Association of Engineers from Indian in 1992.
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M.Tech., IIT Bombay, 1962, Chemical Engineering Ph.D., IIT Bombay 1964, Chemical Engineering.Chairman & Managing Director, Davy Powergas India Ltd., Mumbai |
Dr. S.Rama Iyer joined Powergas Corporation in 1965 as Project Engineer and worked his way up in the Company to reach his present position of Chairman and MD of Davy Powergas India Ltd. (DPGI). Davy Powergas India is one of the leading engineering and cosultancy organisation in India serving the Chemicals, Petrochemicals, Synthetic Fibres, Plymers, Biochemicals, Oil and Gas, Ferrous and Non-Ferrous metal Industries, both in India and Overseas. DPGI is a part of Trafalgar House plc., UK. After graduating from Jadavpur University, Calcutta in 1960, Rama Iyer joined IIT Bombay for the M.Tech., programme specialising in Chemical Plant Design. Having completed his M.Tech. in 1962, he continued his research work in IIT Bombay and obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 1964, but left in 1965 to join Powergas Corporation. Dr. Iyer became the Sales Manager in 1973 and the Director of Marketing in 1980. The Company has rapid growth under his leadership as head of marketing and began to provide engineering and Project managemtn services for overseas projects. Dr. Iyer was nominated by the Company to participate in the prestigious Senior Executive Programme at the London Business School in 1983. He became the Director and General manager in 1985 and the Managing Director of the Company in 1987. He was designated the Chairman and Managing Director in 1990. Davy Powergas India ranks among the topmost engineering and consultancy companies and earns substantial foreign exchange for design engineering and project management services in countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, Iran, Malaysia, etc. The Company’s Information Technology and CAD facilities can match the best in the world. Currently DPGI is providing design engineering and other project services for 25 projects both in India and overseas and the total installed cost of these projects is in excess of Rs.3500 crores. Dr. Iyer is also the Chairman of Xytel India, an associate company of Xytel Corporation, U.S.A. who are the world leaders in the design and supply of Pilot plant and mini plants. Xytel India has some prestigious orders for state of the art computer controlled pilot plants from companies such as India Oil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Cochin Refineries Ltd.
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M.Sc., IIT Bombay, 1974, Mathematics, Ph.D., IIT Bombay, 1979 Mathematics. Centre of Advanced Study in Mathematics, University of Bombay, Mumbai. |
Prof. Sharad Sane has achieved a position of eminence in the field of Combinatorics and Design Theory. After obtaining his Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Bombay, Prof. Sane was a post-doctoral Commonwealth Research Fellow at the University of London and visiting factually at Ohio State University and University of Florida, before joining the University of Bombay. Concurrently, Prof. Sane has also been a visiting faculty member at TIFR, University of Waterloo, Canada, ISI Bangalore, and Mehta Research Institute, Allahabad. Special honors include the Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship in 1985 and appointment as Research Professor, Central Michigan University, 1984-85. Prof Sane is also an elected Fellow of the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences. Prof. Sane has supervised 11 M.Phil and Ph.D. students. He has been an invited speaker at many national and international workshops and conference, and has been invited to deliver colloquia and seminar talks at a number of prestigious universities abroad. Prof. Sane’s prolific output of research publications includes over 39 papers in reviewed journals and a book on “Quasi-symmetric Designs” published by the Cambridge University Press. Important contributions have been made by Prof. Sane as a Referee for research papers for many prestigious journals and conferences. He was also an invited Reviewer for “Mathematical Reviews”. Prof. Sane’s present interest is also noteworthy. He is training the Indian Mathematics Olympiad team for the International Mathematics Olympiad to be hosted in New Delhi in July 1996.
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 B.Tech., IIT
Bombay, 1969, Electrical Engg. Chairman & Chief Executive Officer,
Aspect Development Inc. U.S.A. |
Dr. Romesh Wadhwani has been an outstanding entrepreneur in high-tech areas for over twenty years. Dr. Wadhwani is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Aspect Development, Inc…In just five years, under his leadership, Aspect has become the leading worldwide provider of enterprise-wide Component and Supplier Management Systems and Reference Databases for the Electronics and Mechanical Markets. Aspect’s customers include 50 of the world’s largest electronics and mechanical manufacturers in North America, Europe, Japan and Asia companies with combined annual revenue of $400 Billion. Dr. Wadhwani has established Aspect’s software and data product development activities on two continents, with 150 developers in development centers in Mountain View and Nashua in the U.S. and Bangalore, India. Before founding Aspect, Dr. Wadhwani was Chairman and CEO of Cimflex Teknowledge Corp., a provider of factor automation and robotic systems. He grew Cimflex from startup to about $ 40 million in annual revenue. He also led the development of the Merlin family of industrial robots which won the U.S. Industrial Design Award in 1984. Prior to this he founded and built a company specialising in information systems for energy management and building automation. Dr. Wadhwani has been on the Boards of several companies, including the Koppers Co., a public $2 Billion manufacturing company. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1972, after getting his Masters degree there in 1970.
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