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Advisory Boards
Guiding lights
A multi-disciplinary university, NIIT University (NU) envisages a systemic, technology-driven overhaul of higher education in the country. Driven by the idea of education aligned to the needs of industry, which promotes research, discovery and entrepreneurship, the university has striven to stretch academic horizons, ably guided by its Advisory Boards.
Board of Advisors
Drawn from a pool of eminent thought leaders from diverse disciplines across the country, NU’s Board of Advisors helps leadership to perceive the interconnections and interplay between diverse domains and anticipate and harness the directions they are likely to take. Our students get the opportunity to interact with these opinion shapers, hear diverse perspectives that help awaken their latent ideas.
Hari S Bhartia
Co-Chairman & Managing Director,
Jubilant Organosys Ltd.
Dr Arun Kapur
Director,
Vasant Valley School,
Vasant Vihar
Dr Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Chairman & Managing Director,
Biocon Limited
Dr Gurcharan Das
Acclaimed Author & Former MD,
P&G Worldwide (Strategic Planning)
Prof Sugata Mitra
Professor of Educational Technology School of Education,
Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University
Harpal Singh
Educationist and Chairman, Impact Projects Pvt. Ltd.
Dr Omkar Goswami
Founder & Chairman,
CERG Advisory Pvt. Ltd.
Surendra Singh
Advisor, Observer Research Foundation
Former Cabinet Secretary (Retired),
Government of India
Arvind Thakur
CEO,
NIIT Technologies Ltd.
Syeda Imam
Writer and Activist & Former Member, National Commission of Minorities
Ravi Venkatesan
Independent Director,
Infosys
Dr Naresh Trehan
Chairman & Managing Director,
Medanta – The Medicity
Prof Sudhir Jain
Director,
IIT Gandhi Nagar
Leela Samson
Former Director,
Kalakshetra Foundation
Som Mittal
Former President,
NASSCOM
Prof Rajeev Sangal
Director,
IIT (BHU)
Industry Advisory Board
IABs are innovative forums that can create new mechanisms to help students have a deeper interaction with industry.
Industry Advisory Boards (IABs) ensure that industry is an equal partner in the university’s academic endeavours. The IABs advise the NU leadership on industry trends and directions. By involving industry in relevant processes and functions of the university, NU puts its core principle of providing an education aligned with industry trends and needs into action.
There are IABs for each academic programme, and its members participate in the entire spectrum of activities from admissions to placements. By participating in academic functions and working with faculty on research projects, IABs help in narrowing the gulf that exists between academia and industry.
IAB support for NU includes:
- Programme design
- Curriculum design and content
- Identifying adjunct faculty from industry
- Selection process for high-calibre students
- Identifying research projects
- Processes and facilitation for Industrial Practice and other internships
- Placements
- Establishing innovation centres
Members
Biotechnology
Dr VK Vinayak
President, Biopharmaceuticals R&D Panacea Biotec Ltd, New Delhi
Dr SV Ramakrishna
Group Advisor, Industrial Biotechnology Praj Industries Ltd,
Pune
Dr Dinesh K Paliwal
General Manager, Biologics USV Ltd, Navi Mumbai
Dr Suman PS Khanuja FNASc, FNAAS
(Former Director, CIMAP, Lucknow)
CEO, Mayar Biotech SEZ,
New Delhi
Computer Science & Engineering
Vivek Mansingh
Country Manager, R&D Centre Bagmane Parin, Bengaluru
K Nageshwara Rao
Senior Director, India Engineering Centre
Sun Microsystems
Bengaluru
Jaya Panvalkar
Director, Pune Design Center
NVIDIA Graphics Private Ltd.,
Pune
Dr Ajay Bakre
Netapp,
Bengaluru
Educational Technology
Vivek Agarwal
Chief Executive Officer, Liqvid e-Learning Services Private Limited, NOIDA
Vivek Bansal
Managing Director (India), LRN Corporation, Mumbai
Ganesh Krishnamurthy
Enterprise Learning Solutions,
NIIT Ltd., New Delhi
Nitin Nistane
Chief Operating Officer,
Infospectrum India Pvt. Ltd.,
Nagpur
Rohit Pandey
Founder,
Classteacher Learning Systems,
New Delhi
JPS Kohli
Group Manager,
Microsoft Learning – MSIDC
Microsoft Corporation (I) Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad
Research Advisory Board
The RAB helps strengthen NU’s research orientation, so it evolves into a leading hub of innovation.
NU’s Research Advisory Board (RAB) comprises renowned academic and industry researchers from across the world. These leading researchers bring to NU their deep knowledge, research and academic rigour in the technologies of the future such as robotics, cloud computing, mobile networking, high-performance computing, Internet of Things, and cyber security, etc.
The aim of the RAB is to help drive the university’s core principle of research-driven education. It advises and actively engages with NU on all research-related matters. It also enables the university to forge linkages and partnerships with reputed international schools of higher learning, as well as with leading research and development (R&D) labs in India and abroad.
RAB facilitates a two-way interaction between the labs and NU by encouraging leading researchers from these labs to accept visiting and adjunct faculty positions at NU. In turn, it also helps PhD students from the university to connect with researchers. At a broader level, the RAB helps NU outline its research agenda and priorities.
Members
Dr MYS Prasad
Former Director,
Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR,
Indian Space Research Organisation
Dr Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
Senior Manager, Next Gen Systems & Smarter Planet Solutions Department
IBM India Research Labs, Bengaluru
Prof Anurag Kumar
Professor (Dept. of Electrical Communication Engineering)
Chairman, Division of Electrical Sciences
Indian Institute of Science (IISc),
Bengaluru
Prof Jim Kurose
Department of Computer Science,
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA, USA