Description
IIT Madras has created an Institute Chair Professorship. These Chairs are to be occupied by Institute Professors who have distinguished themselves and been recognized by their peers for their research/technology development and who have excelled in teaching and service to the Institute/nation/profession.
About the Donor:
Venugopal Aravamudan is on the board of SinglePoint, Inc. and Senior Vice President & General Manager at F5 Networks, Inc.
He previously occupied the position of VP-Engineering & Product Management at Limelight Networks, Inc., Senior Director at VMware, Inc. and General Manager for Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Mr. Aravamudan received an undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Master degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
About the Chair Occupant:
Prof. Baskaran S, obtained Ph. D in synthetic organic chemistry from IIT Kanpur in 1990 and subsequently he held postdoctoral positions at the Duesseldorf University, Germany and Harvard University, USA. Prior to joining IIT Madras in 1998, he briefly held scientist position at the Dr. Reddy’s Research Foundation, Hyderabad. His research interests are mainly focused on the development of new strategies in organic synthesis, asymmetric synthesis and stereoselective synthesis of biologically active and pharmaceutically important molecules. He is a recipient of AvH fellowship, Germany and CRSI bronze medal. He is an elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Chemical Sciences (India).
How the money will be used:
The Chair will be operated by keeping the principal of the Endowment intact and deploying the annual returns towards operational expenses associated with the Chair.
Prof G. Aravamudan Chair
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