Eleventh Academic Advisory Council
Academic Advisory Council Meetings
The Academic Advisory Council comprises of eminent leaders from academia and other allied domains, and meets every year to discuss the academic priorities of IIT Gandhinagar. The Academic Advisory Council provides strategic external inputs on issues of key importance as the Institute grows in academics and other spheres.
On January 8, 2024, the eleventh Council meeting will discuss faculty evaluation and growth, fostering industry-academia partnership, holistic staff development, promoting student well-being, and new academic programmes.
Expected Participants
Prof Rajendra Kumar Bordia
George J. Bishop, III Chair Professor of Ceramics and Materials Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Clemson University, USA
Prof Ashish Garg
Professor, Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Dr Yogesh Goyal
Assistant Professor, Feinberg School of Medicine and McCormick School of Engineering
Northwestern University, USA
Prof Nuno Guimarães
Professor, Department of Information Science and Technology (ISTA)
University Institute of Lisbon, (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal
Prof Robert Lund
Professor and Chair Department of Statistics
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Prof Shekhar C Mande
Honorary Distinguished Faculty National Centre for Cell Science Complex and former Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Prof Govidan Parayil
Dean and Professor, Patel College of Global Sustainability and Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies
University of South Florida, USA
Prof Deepak Phatak
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Prof Supreet Saini
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Prof Chandrima Shaha
Former Professor of Eminence and Former Director
National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi
Prof Jayant Singh
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Prof Nitish V Thakor
Professor of Biomedical Eng, Electrical Eng, Neurology
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Prof. Nitin Kumar Tripathi
Director, Special Degree Programs
Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand