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iit alumni council confers life Fellowships to 4 eminent alumni

paRaG shah prOfiles Of fellOws President of India in 1987 for
designing the main reactor for
the gas-based urea plants. His
sRinivas and many in Asia Pacific and first cinematographic project –
RachakonDa Middle East. You can hardly an English feature film Nuclear

Srinivas’s experience spans find any person in any key po- Winter - won the Cannes Film
sition who is working in this
more than 32 years in the Oil space who had not interacted Festival award in the special
& Gas industry in key positions category in 1988.
with industry leaders in India with Srinivas.
like McKinsey, Essar, Reliance Known for interpersonal
& Bharat Petroleum, Dangote skills and building team, Sri-
nivas has set up supply chain
in Africa and global technolo- organization and business pro-
gy giant in Refinery space, As- cesses for multiple corporates.
pen Technology. He is renowned speaker in
He is pioneer in this in In-
Parag Shah holds a BTech in dia having been a key person various conferences on Supply
Mechanical Engineering from in establishing the Economic Chain Management. Srinivas
IIT Bombay 1987. He has been Planning & Scheduling for the is an avid trekker and regu-
larly hikes western Ghats over
a self-made entrepreneur in world’s biggest Refinery of Re- weekends.
the area of bespoke algorithm liance. He played an important He has also summitted
development, IT Services and role in coming with the most Mount Kilimanjaro and Ever-
database management. optimal configuration that Re-
He founded MechSoft liance adopted. Srinivas is cur- est base camp twice. Srinivas is
which was a pioneer in soft- rently Director, Business Strat- self-learned ornithologist and
regular visitor to migratory
ware for mechanical engineer- egy at Dangote Oil Refinery bird paradise across India for In 2002, he helped set up
ing and AutoCAD type soft- which is building World’s big- photography. He is an Envi- PanIIT India and was Chair-
ware working on client projects gest grassroots Refinery and ronmentalist at heart and was man of the participation com-
around the world. Parag shot Petrochemical complex. mittee of the first PanIIT Con-
into prominence in March 2020 instrumental in starting nature clave held in 2004. He has
when a self-learning algorithm club in Jamnagar and HOPE been an active volunteer with
developed by him for pool test- Nature Trust near Mumbai various PanIIT alumni initia-
which works on tree plantation,
ing was adjudged as the best in wildlife education, water con- tives including the IIT Alumni
the world by an eminent jury servation etc. He is currently Council and the PanIIT Fund.
led by Padma Sri Manvendra working on his dream project He has been actively in-
Agarwal. volved in creating the start-
This algorithm now known of building wildlife park for up ecosystem in India and
as the PSA algorithm drives flora and fauna conservation. has served on many working
robotic automation for pool satish mehta groups and committees includ-
testing in several high-capac- ing the BSE SME, Digital India
ity labs including MegaLab Satish Mehta holds a BTech and Make in India Investment
Mumbai. in Chemical Engineering from Boards.
The PSA Algorithm He played a pivotal role in IIT Bombay and an MMS in Satish is an amateur film
helped increase testing in doubling the capacity of Essar Operations Research from maker and an enthusiastic pho-
Mumbai by over 200% with- Oil with minimal investment. JBIMS, Mumbai Universi- tographer. Over the last three
out needing any test kits of He also played a critical role ty. From 1987 to 2002, Satish decades, he has emerged as
incremental machines. This in Refinery acquisition and worked with the accountancy one of the leading professional
quantum leap in testing was raising billion of $ from the Firm A.F.Ferguson & Co. Since practitioners in the area of pho-
primarily responsible for con- market. As a Senior Advisor in 2003, he has been working in togrammetry which involves us-
taining the Covid outbreak in McKinsey’s Oil & Gas Practice the Impact and Fund manage- ing imaging sensor outputs for
Dharavi and other slum clus- in India, he played a key role in ment space. He serves on the a variety of highly technology
ters. helping multiple refineries on Investment Committees and intensive applications in areas
This approach in addition margin maximization and sup- Boards of several Private Equi- like biofield sensing, 3D projec-
to increasing testing capacity ply chain transformation. Sri- ty Funds as the Compliance & tion, image enhancement, loss-
almost overnight, also led to nivas trained and implemented Regulatory head. less compression, parallax as-
a proportional reduction in Economic Planning, Sched- Right from his college days, sessment and computer vision.
testing costs as now three+ uling & Supply Chain Man- he has been very passionate He serves as a visiting faculty
individuals could be tested agement systems and worked about photography and indige- in the area of photogrammetry
for the cost of one RTqPCR for maximizing profitability of nization. He received the Acha- and has authored several stud-
test. almost all Refineries in India rya PC Ray award from the ies on the subject.

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