Faculty Chairs
Pandya-Shivpuri Chair in Population Dynamics
IIT Gandhinagar has setup this faculty chair through a donation by Dr. Darshan Pandya.
ABOUT THE DONORS
Dr. Darshan Pandya, an IT industry leader and philanthropist, along with his wife, Dr. Chandra Shivpuri, a neonatal medicine specialist, has provided generous support to establish the "Pandya-Shivpuri Chair in Population Dynamics" at IIT Gandhinagar. This chair aims to promote excellence and leadership in interdisciplinary research in the ground-breaking and specialised field of population dynamics through various collaborative and scholarly activities.
Endowment
Dr. Darshan V Pandya completed his BSc (Eng) (Hons) and PhD in Chemical Engineering and later an MSc in Operational Research and Management Studies from Imperial College, London. An avid traveller, he has visited forty-five countries and lived in five. After working in the British Petroleum in London, he taught Operational Research and Statistics at the National University of Singapore for three years before switching to the IT industry and working in the USA and Canada until his retirement in 2015.