Add paragraph text. Click “Edit Text” to update the font, size and more. To change and reuse text themes, go to Site Styles. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Abhishek Chakravarty Assistant Professor of Law

Linda Jarvin , PhD, is the President of Paris College of Art (Paris, France), a private institution of higher education offering programs in English to prepare students from across the world for US-accredted Bachelors and Masters degrees in the arts and design fields. She received her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Paris V (France) and her postdoctoral training at Yale University (USA). She has held faculty positions at Yale University’s psychology department (1999-2006), Yale University’s School of Medicine (2006-2008), Tufts University’s Department of Education (2006-2011) and Tufts University’s School of Veterinary Medicine (since 2011). In addition to higher education management, she has extensive experience with higher education program development, curriculum planning and development, designing and implementing professional development opportunities for teachers and higher education faculty, and facilitating programmatic evaluation. She also has 20 years experience designing, implementing, and managing large-scale health and education programs in sub-Saharan Africa, including the development of new Master’s programs. Her research interests include the assessment, development and evaluation of human achievement in a variety of fields, including the arts as well as traditional academic domains. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Linda Jarvin President, Paris College of Art

Sudhir Jain is making a mark as one of the most innovative leaders of an IIT. He is the first IIT Director ever to be re-appointed for a third term. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2020 for his pioneering leadership in setting up IIT-Gandhinagar. Prior to that, he was at IIT-Kanpur, where he served in several leadership roles, including Dean of Resource Planning & Generation and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering. His research and development work has been in the fields of seismic design codes, dynamic of buildings, and post earthquake studies. Beside these, Sudhir has actively participated in teaching, research activities and development in Earthquake Engineering focused on developing countries He is an elected fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering and a member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering He has served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize. He has also served as the president of International Association of Earthquake engineering (IAEE). He earned Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Roorkee (now known as Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee), and Masters and Doctoral degrees from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Sudhir Jain Vice Chancellor, Banaras Hindu University - Varanasi

Professor Sadagopan is presently a member of the International advisory board of Sai University. He was formerly the Director (President) of IIIT-Bangalore (a Ph.D. granting University). IIIT’s represent a set of new generation universities started in India in the late 90’s with a special focus on IT; IIIT-Bangalore is one of the first such Institutes; as the first Director of IIIT-Bangalore, he is involved in the visioning, planning, and executing the growth of this Institute that is counted as one of the premier Institutes in India. He obtained his MS & Ph.D. Degree from Purdue University, USA in 1979 and BE (Hon) Degree from Madras University, India in 1973. He had taught at IIT Kanpur (1979 to 95) and IIM Bangalore (1995-99) His research interests include OR, Multi-criteria optimization, Simulation, and Enterprise computing. Sadagopan is a Fellow of the UK’s IET (formerly IEE), Computer Society of India, and Institution of Engineers (India). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM. Sadagopan’s research work has appeared in several international journals including IEEE Transactions, European J of Operational Research, J of Optimization Theory & Applications, Naval Research Logistics, Simulation, and Decision Support Systems. He has won numerous awards that include Fulbright Fellowship (1995), “Champion of humanity” Award of Hindustan Chamber of Commerce (2009), “Rotary Honor of Vocational Excellence” by Rotary Northwest Bangalore District 3190 (2013), Engineering Watch “Campus Preparedness” Award (2015), and Cisco NDTV “Digital Pioneer” Award (2016), BITES Lifetime Achievement Award (2018) and Distinguished Alumnus Award (2019) from the College of Engineering, Guindy, to name a few. Sadagopan consults extensively with some of the largest private & public sector corporations in India, in Computing, Communications, Software, Automotive, Oil, and Power industries as well as the social sector. He is a member of the Board of Directors of several private and public sector corporations; he is also a member of the Board of Studies of several Universities / Trusts. He is a Featured Columnist for Times of India (the world’s largest English Newspaper) and several magazines. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Sadagopan S Former Director, IIIT-Bangalore

Ruyinton Mehta is a serial entrepreneur. He started several plastic technology companies across the USA and Canada, ranging in size from 5 million to 34 million USD in sales. He served as General Manager at Combustion Engineering Environmental (now ABB) and was President of Andersen Engineering Services in Flemington, NJ. Ruyinton received a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering from IIT, Bombay, MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut, and in Engineering Administration from the University of Utah. He has served in several public leadership roles, including: Co-Chair of the Water initiative of WHEELS Global Foundation, a US non-profit started by IIT alumni residing in the US; Mentor of SCORE Central Jersey, a non-profit resource arm of the US Small Business Administration; President of IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation; President of IIT Bombay Alumni Association Greater New York; and President of IIT Gandhinagar Foundation. He has led several initiatives, including: Clean Drinking water projects in rural and remote villages of India; Chair Professorship, Student exchange program, Student Scholarship scheme at IIT Bombay; and Student Innovation program at IIT Gandhinagar. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Ruyinton Mehta President of IIT-Gandhinagar Foundation

Niranjan Bose is the Managing Director of Health & Life Sciences Strategy at Gates Ventures LLC, where he serves as the science advisor to Mr. Bill Gates. Prior to joining Gates Ventures in August 2014, he was the chief of staff to the president of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He received a BTech degree at BITS Pilani and then a PhD in Molecular Biology from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He joined the Gates Foundation, where he rose to the position of Chief of Staff to the President of the Global Health Program, and then joined Bill Gates at his private philanthropic foundation, Gates Ventures. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Niranjan Bose Managing Director, Health & Life Sciences, Gates Ventures

Rajini Srikanth is Professor of English and Dean of Faculty at UMass Boston. She is the author of the award-winning book The World Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America and Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in U.S. Literature and Law . Her publications have appeared in journals such as Pedagogy, The Comparatist, International Journal of Feminist Studies, and the Journal of Asian American Studies. Her research and teaching interests revolve around human rights and literature, American literature (including Asian American literature), diaspora studies, and comparative race and ethnic studies.She completed her PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Rajini Srikanth Dean of Faculty and Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Molly E. Smith was born in Chennai (formerly Madras) in India and received her BA (English, 1978) from Ethiraj College for Women and her MA (English, 1980) from Madras Christian College. She received her Ph.D. in Renaissance English drama from Auburn University in 1988. Dr. Smith has held tenure track and tenured faculty and leadership positions in universities in the USA and UK. She served as Director of University Honors at Saint Louis University, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Seton Hall University, Provost at Wheaton College (MA), and Saint Martin’s University. Dr. Smith also served as a permanent lecturer at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland for five years and as the eleventh President of Manhattanville College. She currently serves as Provost at Thomas More University. For over a decade, Dr. Smith was a member of the Board of Trustees of Fairleigh Dickinson University. She also served on the Educational Policy and Finance Committees of the Board of Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her other memberships include the board of the Keio Academy of Japan in New York; local business councils in Westchester(NY) and Lacey (WA); and the Foundation Board of W. V. S. Tubman University in Liberia (for a decade). As an Executive Committee member of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) between 2008 and 2011, Dr. Smith served as the organization’s representative to the United Nations; she continues as a member of IAUP. Upon invitation, Dr. Smith delivered the annual Cardinal Henry Newman Lecture at Manhattan College in 2011. Selected to participate in a Fulbright-Nehru Administrators Seminar in 2016, Dr. Smith visited several colleges and universities in India, including her alma mater, MCC. She has lectured on higher education, the liberal arts, women’s leadership, and Renaissance drama in several venues, including the University of Regensburg in Germany, the University of the West Indies in Trinidad, and Mastercard Worldwide in New York City. Dr. Smith has published two books on Shakespeare and his contemporaries and articles on Renaissance literature and drama. We are proud to have Dr. Smith as a member of our International Advisory Board. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Molly Smith Provost at Thomas More University, USA

Michael Gazzaniga widely regarded as having founded the interdisciplinary field of cognitive neuroscience. Early in his career he made a mark by being the first neuroscientist to comprehensively investigate differences between the left and right hemispheres of the human brain. Michael is the Director of the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1964 he received a PhD from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked under the guidance of Roger Sperry, with primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research. In his subsequent work he has made important advances in our understanding of functional lateralization in the brain and how the cerebral hemispheres communicate with one another. Michael’s teaching and mentoring career has included beginning and developing Centers for Cognitive Neuroscience at Cornell University Medical Center, University of California-Davis, and Dartmouth College. He founded the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute and the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, of which he is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus. Michael is also prominent as an advisor to various institutes involved in brain research, and was a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001-2009. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. He has published many books accessible to a lay audience, including: The Social Brain; Mind Matters ; Nature’s Mind ; The Ethical Brains ; Human and Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain ; and Tales from Both Sides of the Brain . School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Michael Gazzaniga Director of the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara

Manish Raghavan will be a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) from Fall 2021. He will also take over the position of assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science starting Fall 2022. His research interests are the societal impacts of algorithmic decision-making, incorporating legal, economic, and normative considerations into the study of algorithms and machine learning. In the past, he has studied algorithms used in the criminal justice system, credit scoring, and employment. He has also spent time working at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. He is supported by fellowships from Cornell University, the National Science Foundation, and Microsoft Research. He holds a BS in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Manish Raghavan Cornell University

Lt General Arun Ananthanarayan retired from the Indian Army in June 2024 after an illustrious career spanning nearly four decades. Throughout his tenure, he held various high-level positions involving a wide range of responsibilities, including: Analyzing Futures, Predicting Scenarios, Strategy Formulation and Implementation Planning and Execution of major Procurements Developing Doctrines and Policies Driving Efficiency Enhancement Providing Strategic Guidance Lt General Ananthanarayan was instrumental in Change and Process Transformation, Recruitment, and Training across diverse verticals, levels, locations, and jobs, overseeing around 1.2 million team members and managing substantial budgets in the range of thousands of Crores. As the Head of Strategy for the Army, he served as the primary Army liaison for the five Southern States, overseeing all deployed Land, Assets, and Manpower. He also supervised Training, Education, Legal, Medical Establishments, and provided Aid during Times of Need, such as Floods. Additionally, Lt General Ananthanarayan has international experience, having served with Multi-National Components in Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and the UN HQ in New York. In these roles, he contributed to Operations, Audit and Investigation, Forecasting, Monitoring of complex programs, and Leadership Development, impacting millions globally. Lt General Ananthanarayan is also an acclaimed Motivational Speaker across multiple Industries and audiences with over 1000 Sessions and he also conducts workshops and lectures on Development of Strategic Thought, Org Development, Personal Efficiency Enhancement, Leadership Building/Development and Branding/ ReBranding for senior leadership/small teams and large work forces. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Lt General Arun Ananthanarayan (Retd Post-Master’s Degree in International Relations, Deakin University in Canberra, Australia

Kavita Pandit is Senior Advisor to the Provost on matters involving academic affairs. In her previous leadership role at Georgia State, she led the Office of Faculty Affairs as Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, providing supportive infrastructure and programming to recruit, appoint, retain, and support faculty members. Under her leadership, the Office of Faculty Affairs expanded its work to help faculty achieve their full potential at the university, by assisting with policies and procedures such as those dealing with appointment to positions, leaves, and promotion and tenure; development programs, workshops, and fellowships; leadership programming for university administrators and department chairs; and management of Georgia State’s awards process to recognize outstanding faculty. Prior to her arrival at Georgia State, Kavita served as the Associate Provost for International Education at the University of Georgia. Her previous academic and administrative positions include Senior Vice Provost for the State University of New York, Associate Dean of University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and head of the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia. Her academic interests lie in the areas of population geography, migration and economic development, and she has a strong record of publications and funded research. She is a former president of the American Association of Geographers and a fellow of the Association. Her recognitions include the Ron F. Abler Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of Geographers, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southeastern Division of the AAG, and the Sandy Beaver Award for Outstanding Teaching, from the University of Georgia. She received her PhD from Ohio State University. School of Computing and Data Sciences Collapsible text is perfect for longer content like paragraphs and descriptions. It's a great way to give people more information while keeping your layout clean. Link your text to anything, including an external website or a different page. You can set your text box to expand and collapse when people click, so they can read more or less info. View School Kavita Pandit Senior Advisor to the Provost Georgia State University