Faculty Chairs
Kanchan and Harilal Doshi Chair
Mr Navin Doshi and Mrs Pratima Doshi of Los Angeles, California, have established a chair in water and sanitation in honour of Mr Navin Doshi’s parents, Smt Kanchan and Shri Harilal Doshi.
Smt Kanchan and Shri Harial Doshi
Mr Navin Doshi and Mrs Pratima Doshi of Los Angeles, California, have established a chair in water and sanitation in honour of Mr Navin Doshi’s parents, Smt Kanchan and Shri Harilal Doshi. The Kanchan & Harilal Doshi Chair supports research at IITGN on water purification and sanitation problems, including potential desalination solutions to harvest ocean water as the country has a vast coastline. The Chair is expected to identify and initiate research and develop cost-effective and sustainable technologies/solutions for water purification and sanitation.
Endowment
Navin Doshi, who grew up in Mumbai, is a graduate of Puna Engineering College and the LD Engineering College of Gujarat University, and holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Mr. Navin Doshi
Navin Doshi, who grew up in Mumbai, is a graduate of Puna Engineering College and the LD Engineering College of Gujarat University, and holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He worked as an Aerospace Engineer at TRW (now Northrop), where he was the recipient of NASA awards and US patents. He also ran highly successful businesses with his wife Pratima. Navin and Pratima are generous philanthropists who endowed the Doshi Chair of Indian History (now migrated to Indian Archaeology) at University of California at Los Angeles, a Professorship for Indic Traditions at Loyola Marymount University and contributed substantially toward the Haridas Chaudhuri Chair in Indian Philosophies and Cultures and a professorship in Asian Art at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. Navin Doshi is former chairman of the National Advisory Board of Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of America and has sponsored and participated in the promotion of several cultural and educational projects on South Asian spiritual traditions. He was conferred the Hindu Vibhusan Award from Pravisi Bharati in 2001 and the Doshis were honoured with the Exemplar award for philanthropy by South Asia Studies Association (SASA) in 2016.
Current Occupant
Dr. Gopinadhan Kalon
Kanchan and Harilal Doshi Chair
Associate Professor in Physics