Honorary Members

Prof. Paras N. Prasad

Professor Prasad currently holds at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) , the unique multidisciplinary position of SUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Medicine (four departments spanning three schools), as well as the Samuel P. Capen Chair of Chemistry, and Executive Director of the multidisciplinary Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, which he founded in 1999.

Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao

Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao is currently the Director, IIT Delhi. Before joining IIT Delhi as the Director in April 2016, Dr. Rao served as a P. K. Kelkar Chair Professor for Nanotechnology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and as the Chief Investigator for the Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics project at IIT Bombay. Dr. Rao has over 450 research publications in the area of nano-scale devices & Nanoelectronics and is an inventor on 43 patents and patent applications, which include 15 issued US patents.

Prof. Randeep Guleria

Prof. Randeep Guleria is an Indian pulmonologist and the Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He is the head of the Department of Pulmonology and Sleep Disorders at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and credited with the establishment of India's first center for pulmonary medicines and sleep disorders at AIIMS. The Government of India honored him in 2015 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.

Prof. M Jagadesh Kumar

Born in Mamidala, Nalgonda Dist, Telangana. Prof. Jagadeesh Kumar is currently the Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and is on lien from IIT Delhi (Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT – Delhi).
He obtained his MS(EE) and PhD(EE) degrees from the Dept of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and did his Post-Doctoral Research at at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.