Twelveth 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 10, 2025, the twelveth Council meeting will discuss The Rise of Women Leaders in Higher Education: Breaking Barriers and Shaping Futures; Bridging the Gap: Advancing Translational Research in Academia; AI Intervention in Teaching and Research: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Way Forward; and The New Frontier of Faculty Hiring: Balancing Excellence, Diversity, and Institutional Goals.
Expected Participants
Mr Michael A. Alvarez
Board Member, Hospital de la Familia Foundation and Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley, USA
Prof Rajendra Kumar Bordia
George J. Bishop, III Chair Professor of Ceramics and Materials Engineering
Clemson University, USA
Prof Frederick L Coolidge
Professor
Co-Director of Undergraduate Education, Psychology Department, University of Colorado, USA
Prof Ashish Garg
Professor and Head
Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering and Kotak School of Sustainability, 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
Mr Prabal Gupta
Executive Director
US-India Initiatives & Innovation, University of California, San Diego, USA
Prof Ashok Kumar
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nanotechnology Research and Education Center and Clean Energy Research Center, University of South Florida, USA
Prof Robert Lund
Professor and Chair
Department of Statistics, Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Prof Shekhar C Mande
Distinguished Professor
Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University and JC Bose Fellow, National Centre for Cell Science. Former Director General, CSIR & Secretary, DSIR, Govt of India.
Prof Richard K Miller
President Emeritus
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, USA
Prof Prabhat Munshi
Senior Professor
Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu
Prof Govidan Parayil
Dean and Professor
Patel College of Global Sustainability and Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida, USA
Prof Mythily Ramaswamy
Professor, Professor (Retd.)
School of Mathematics
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore
Prof Supreet Saini
Professor, Chemical Engineering & Fellow, Wellcome Trust/DBT (India Alliance)
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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
Vice President of Academic Affairs, Executive Director-Special Degree Program
Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand