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iit alumni council confers life

Fellowships to 4 eminent alumni for their

work in the area of operations Research,

Quantitative analysis and Data analytics

Our Bureau over the next thirty years, he
New Delhi this is the second domain for selection of went on to design, build, oper-
ate and optimize some of the
he IIT Alumni Council life Fellows after martech. whilst the Distin- largest grassroot petroleum
has announced institu- refineries in the world. “As en-
Ttional strengthening of guished Fellow program seeks to identify fu- gineers, we sometimes forget
PanIIT Institute, an indepen- ture nobel prize winners and researchers, the that tuning a refinery is about
dent and autonomous partner maximizing profit, not just
alumni organization engaged life Fellow program aspires to identify future maximizing output” he added.
in the development of an end- Satish Mehta started off as
to-end deeptech Research Eco- industry leaders in identified focus areas for a passionate amateur photog-
system in India – through the the Research india initiative under the india rapher and cinematographer –
appointment of Life Fellows in to finally evolve into a leading
the area of operations research, innovation network. photogrammetry expert.
quantitative analysis and data Over the last thirty-five
analytics. This domain comple- years – starting off with In-
ments emerging core areas like Ravi Sharma, President and gorithm for pool testing. Based dia’s first winning entry at the
big data, artificial intelligence Chief Volunteer of the IIT on his algorithm, it became Cannes Film Festival, he has
and data analytics. Alumni Council. possible to test 3 to 4X the gravitated to developing some
“Competence, long term Sanjay Nagi has been select- number of people in molecular of the most complex imaging
commitment, sharp domain ed by the jury for his profes- diagnostic testing systems such solutions – both equipment as
focus and a leading position sional excellence in the subject as RTPCR which have histori- well as processing software/ al-
among IIT alumni is the hall- of Decision Support Research cally used one sample per test. gorithms - in areas ranging from
mark of a Life Fellow. Unlike that is emerging as an im- “As an IT Services profession- satellite imaging to bio energy
other similar awards, the jury portant competency in an age al for over thirty years – I have field scanning to microscopic
here seeks to identify winners where data is the new oil. learnt the value of first princi- recognition. “Inspite of all the
based on their future poten- “One of my contributions ples-based analysis – and pre- advances in optics and elec-
tial rather than on the basis that I am proud of is a unique fer to start from scratch rather tronics, we don’t as yet have an
of their past laurels. The Life model for inter relationship of than be influenced by a sup- imaging system that can beat a
Fellow program of the PanIIT R&D and Innovation which is posed solution which may not pin hole camera or the human
Institute identifies, evaluates being used by the GOI for pol- be what it seems to be” he add- eye. However, computer vision
and awards the most distin- icy inputs on impacting higher ed. can now do things including
guished alumnus in each in- innovation through R&D” he Srinivas Rachakonda has multispectral scanning which is
dustry for a given umbrella added. been a thought leader in the beyond the range of the human
competence area such as Mar- Parag Shah is the winner area of petroleum refinery op- eye opening a whole new world
tech, QuantTech, AI, Heath- of the FundaMan Challenge timization. Starting off as a of things that we could never
Tech etc based on their future Competition that was held to hands-on shift engineer in the see” he added
potential and relevance.” said determine the most suitable al- Bharat Petroleum refinery –

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