Alumni in the News - June 12
Dr. Subu Iyer honored with IBM's highest technical award as an IBM Fellow | Rahul Dash on WSJ India Debate page | Saurabh Vyas and Gaurav Rathore, graduates of IIT Bombay, have founded PoliticalEDGE, a consultancy that uses statistical modeling to help politicians forecast their chances of winning an election | Saumil Majmudar at the helm of EduSports which provides fitness-management programs for children | University of Toronto hosting undergraduate IITBian Ashwin Raghavan for a summer research project | Dr. Bhatia appointed Director of Trinity Institute of Technology in Bhopal
IBM Honors Six Employees with Highest Technical Award ... Company's Top Innovators of Smarter Systems and Analytics Named as IBM Fellows: Dr. Subramanian (Subu) Iyer is recognized for his sustained innovations in semiconductor technology. He led the development and implementation of embedded DRAM technology - a dense memory that can be fabricated on high performance Logic chips - used today in IBM systems ranging from high-end servers to BlueGene supercomputers to game chips ... more.
WSJ INDIA DEBATE: Has Europe Benefited from a Common Currency? In the last 4 years at IIT Bombay where he is majoring in Microelectronics, Rahul Dash has founded the IIT Bombay Debating Society, interned with two investment banks, won multiple awards for writing & debating and made short films ... "We the people jump to rather rash conclusions. Historically, any form of crisis in any sphere of human activity has usually been followed by large-scale panic without much thought. And each time, the cure is perceived to be the death of an erstwhile darling of the masses and the media ... more.
Rashmi Bansal’s book "Connect The Dots" is about 20 entrepreneurs who did not go to IIM Ahmedabad. Compared to English-speaking MBAs, the non-MBAs are more open, and in some ways, it makes the stories in this volume sound more genuine than those of the MBAs featured in the earlier book. There is also the interesting story of Saurabh Vyas and Gaurav Rathore, graduates of IIT Bombay, who have founded PoliticalEDGE, a consultancy that uses statistical modeling to help politicians forecast their chances of winning an election ... more.
Saumil Majmudar, an IIT Bombay alumnus, is at the helm of an innovative new venture called EduSports, which is a first-of-its-kind concept in India. India's poor performance in world sports is well known. The standard reasons cited are a lack of facilities, coaches and financing at the professional level. EduSports has been set up to address precisely this problem. Majmudar saw the opportunity in addressing the children's fitness issue, while building a robust business based on fitness-management programmes in schools all over India ... more.
The University of Toronto is hosting 22 of the sharpest young scientific minds from India this summer and introducing them to leading Canadian researchers and their laboratories, ideally enticing them to pursue future graduate studies and opportunities to work in Canada. Ashwin Raghavan, a 21-year-old mechanical and industrial engineering student from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, said he was "thrilled" when he found out he was selected to study at the University of Toronto. "The research here is really impressive and the professors are so involved with their students," he added. "I will certainly apply here for my graduate studies" ... more.
Dr. S M Bhatia, Retd. Director, Technical Education Madhya Pradesh has joined Trinity Institute of Technology & Research, Bhopal as a new Director. Dr. Bhatia is M. Tech degree holder from IIT, Bombay 1991, in Mechanical Engg. ... more.
