(Jul 1, 2026) From growing up in Chennai to becoming MIT’s first Indian-American provost and now the only Indian-origin faculty member honoured in the Institute’s ‘Committed to Caring’ cohort, Dr. Anantha P. Chandrakasan’s journey has...
(Jun 20, 2026) In a field often dominated by texts, translations, and distance, Sravana Borkataky-Varma has chosen to step into the lived, breathing world of religion. A historian of South Asian religions, she has built a career that spans some of the most prestigious...
(December 18, 2025) Deblina Sarkar’s journey traces the extraordinary arc of upringing in rural West Bengal to engineering classrooms in IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, and eventually to the frontiers of brain science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Trained as an...
(Jun 5, 2025) From a quiet homecoming in 1981 to building India’s first university-based research park, Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala transformed how research meets reality. The Padma Shree awardee has left his mark across diverse domains, from wireless telephony and mobile...
(March 26, 2025) Priya Donti is an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she holds the Silverman Family Career Development Professorship. The Indian-origin professor is also the co-founder of Climate Change AI (CCAI), a...
