Adjunct/Visiting Professors
Dr. P. V. Venkitakrishnan
Dr. P.V. Venkitakrishnan graduated with a Master’s and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras in 1989 and 2006, respectively. He obtained his B.Tech. from Cochin University in 1983. He also holds an MBA & Post-Graduate Diploma in Production Management to his credit from Annamalai University. He started his career as Grade Scientist in 1983
Sri Ajay Rawul
Prior to joining Chanakya University, Ajay was an entrepreneur, a business mentor, an innovation & management consultant, and an investor. He possesses in-depth and highly specialized knowledge of products/services and has wide exposure to nurturing innovation-led growth. In addition to providing his services in the field of IT Solutions/ products in India, Ajay has worked
Dr. Meena Nair
Dr. Meena Nair is a Geographer by academic training having done her graduation in Geography Hons from Miranda House, Delhi University, and her M.A, M. Phil and PhD from the Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). After being awarded her Ph.D in 1997, she joined
Dr. Kowshik Thopalli
Kowshik Thopalli is a Machine Learning Scientist and a postdoctoral researcher with the Machine Intelligence Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research focus lies in developing robust and adaptable machine learning models capable of performing consistently well under varying test conditions, including shifts in data distribution. Kowshik’s work has been published in prestigious machine learning
Dr. Ritesh Jain
Ritesh Jain is a staff engineer at Renesas Electronics, Bengaluru, India. Previously, he was with Astrome Technologies, a deep-tech startup, where he was leading the hardware development. Ritesh received his PhD from University of Wuppertal, Germany in 2021 and M.Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India, in 2014, where he was awarded the
Shishir Shukla
Shishir Shukla is a Staff RF Design Engineer at Renesas Electronics and based in San Diego, California, USA. He received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, USA in 2015 and Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from University of Mumbai in 2013. Shishir worked as R&D RF Design Engineer at NXP Semiconductors, Arizona, USA
Dr. Siddhartha Visveswara Jayanti
Siddhartha Jayanti is a Research Scientist at Google Research and AI in the United States. His research spans distributed computing, algorithms, machine learning, security, economics and computing, and formal verification. Siddhartha earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science with a minor in Machine Learning from MIT, where he was advised by Professor Julian Shun. He received his Master of
Dr. Tanujay Saha
Tanujay Saha is a Machine Learning (ML) Engineer at Intel Corporation, USA. He has a Ph.D. and an M.A. from Princeton University in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to that, he graduated with B.Tech(Hons.) in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. Tanujay Saha is a distinguished scholar in the field of Electrical and Computer
Prof. Y. N. Srikant
Y. N. Srikant received his B.E in Electronics from Bangalore University, and M.E and Ph.D in Computer Science from the Computer Science and Automation department of the Indian Institute of Science. He was the recipient of Young Scientist medal of the Indian National Science Academy in 1988. His areas of interest are compiler design and