famous indian scientists

Narendra Krishna Karmarkar (born 1957) is an Indian mathematician, who developed Karmarkars algorithm He is listed as an ISI highly cited researcherNarendra Karmarkar was born in Gwalior After securing an All India Rank 1 in the Joint Entrance Examination conducted by the prestigious IITs (IITJEE), he took admission in the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Karmarkar received his BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1978, MS from the California Institute of Technology and PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley[citation needed] He invented a polynomial algorithm for linear programming also known as the interior point method The algorithm is a cornerstone in the field of Linear Programming He published his famous result in 1984 while he was working for Bell Laboratories in New Jersey Karmarkar was a professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai He is currently working on a new architecture for supercomputing Some of the ideas are published at the IEEE website Fab5 conference organised by MIT center for bits and atoms

Padmanabhan Balaram is an Indian biochemist and the director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, IndiaBalaram received his Bachelors degree in Chemistry from Fergusson College, University of Pune followed by a Masters degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and his PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University with Aksel A BothnerBy After a postdoctoral stint at Harvard University with Nobel laureate Robert Burns Woodward, he returned to the Indian Institute of Science, where he has been ever since as a faculty member in the Molecular Biophysics Unit During his PhD, Balaram studied the use of negative Nuclear Overhauser effect signals as probes of macromolecular conformations As a postdoc with Woodword, Balaram worked on the synthesis of the antibiotic erythromycinBalarams main area of research has been the investigation of the structure, conformation, and biological activity of designed and natural peptides To do this, he has extensively used techniques such as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy, Infrared spectroscopy, and Circular Dichroism, along with Xray crystallography He has been a major contributor to the evaluation of factors influencing the folding and conformations of designed peptides, and has investigated structural elements playing a key role in the formation of secondary structural motifs such as helices, beta turns, and sheets Along with Isabella Karle, a frequent collaborator, he has also pioneered the use of alphaamino isobutyric acid to induce and retain helicity and constrain peptide conformations Balaram has authored more than 400 research papers, and is a fellow of the Indian National Science AcademyHe was also a colleague of late Prof G N Ramachandran at the Molecular Biophysics Unit of IISc He is presently the director of the Indian Institute of Science and is also the editor of the journal Current Science

Pamposh Bhat (born September 19, Bhopal, India) is a New Delhi based environmentalist and award winning writer Bhat has been awarded the prestigious Rajbhasha Award for Poetry in 1995 for her work Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein (In search of the Horizon) Active in public life, she serves as the chairperson of the board of trustees for Jwala, a civil society group that seeks to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in India She is a former member of the governing council of the [Solar Energy Society of India]At present member of Central Electricity Regulatory Commission advisory committee
Bhat studied at St Josephs Convent at Bhopal and attended the University of Bhopal (now Barkatullah University) where she studied Science as an undergraduate student and was awarded an MSc in Chemistry by the University She began her career at the University of Kashmir as a research scholar engaged by the University Grants Commission on a Phytochemistry research Project She developed a strong interest in environmental policy during her tenure as a researcher and joined the United Nations Asia and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (UNAPCTT) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific At UNAPCTT she worked to promote the use of renewable energy and environmentally sound technologies in the country During her time at UNAPCTT she also edited VATIS Update a journal of technological developments and events in the field of Nonconventional Energy She is married to a prominent IAS officer of J&K SL Bhat who is currently the chief of JK Public Service Commission Bhat joined GTZIndia, a German bilateral development agency in 2003 Her mandate at GTZIndia was to promote the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in the country and help build a sustainable carbon market in India An expert on climate change and renewable energy policy, she also held position of the country manager of the BMU CMD/JI Initiative in India As an expert on the CDM, she has been retained as a climate policy advisor by the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and West BengalShe is currently working as an advisor,climate change adaptation Programme,International Finance Corporation,world bank group and is a member of International advisory board of Abengoa,a company in the energy and environment sectors, generating energy from the sun, producing biofuels, desalinating sea water and recycling industrial waste

Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty was an Indian physicist and meteorologist, and is considered to be the father of remote sensing in IndiaP R Pisharoty was born on February 10, 1909 in the town of Kollengode in the Indian state of KeralaHis parents were Sivaramakrishnan alias Gopala Vadhyar and Lakshmi Pisharassiar He had two brothers: Balakrishnan and Rajagopal, and three half brothers: Vaidyanathan, Rose Vadhyar and Gopalakrishnan He completed his early education in Kerala Having done his Physics BA honours from St Josephs College, Trichinopoly, Madras state, he went on to do his MA (Physics) from Madras University He then worked as a college lecturer in Physics at Loyola College at Chennai during 19321941 During the summer vacations he used to work under Prof C V Raman at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore On the recommendation of Raman, Pisharoty joined the India Meteorological Department in 1942, where he carried out research on thunderstorms, western disturbances, movement of monsoon depressions, orographic rain, etc He then joined the University of California for further studies where he worked under meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes His published two reports titled Some aspects of geostrophic poleward sensible heat and The kinetic energy of the atmosphere He obtained his MS (in Meteorology) and PhD degrees by 1954

Pranav Mistry (born 1981) is an Indian computer scientist and Inventor At present, he is the head of Think Tank Team and Vice President of Research at Samsung He is best known for his work on SixthSense and Samsung Galaxy Gear His research interests include Wearable Computing, Augmented reality, Ubiquitous computing, Gestural interaction, AI, Machine vision, Collective intelligence and Robotics World Economic Forum honored Mistry as one of the Young Global Leader 2013He is from Palanpur, which is situated in northern Gujarat in India He has completed Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Nirma Institute of Technology in Gujarat Pranav holds a Masters degree in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and Master of Design from Industrial Design Center, IIT Mumbai Later he was a research assistant and a PhD candidate at MIT Media LabHe joined Samsung electronics as the Director of Research in 2012, and now serves as the Vice President of Research and leads the Think Tank Team He introduced Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch in September 2013 Before joining MIT, Pranav worked as a UX Researcher with Microsoft

Prem Chand Pandey is an Indian scientist and academic in the fields of Satellite Oceanography, Remote Sensing, Atmospheric Science, Antarctic and Climate ChangePandey obtained his Masters and Bachelors degrees in Electronics and science respectively from Allahabad University, Allahabad He completed his DPhil degree from the same university(on microwaves) in 1972 In 1966, Pandey became a lecturer in DAV Degree college, Azamgarh From 1968 to 1972 he was Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Research Fellow at the microwave research laboratory of the Department of Physics, University of Allahabad, and from 1973 to 1977 a research officer at the Central Water and Power Research Station, Khadakwasla In 1977 he joined the Space Applications Centre(SAC)/ ISRO, Ahmedabad and became the founder head of the Oceanic Sciences Division/ Meteorology and Oceanography Group/ Remote Sensing Applications Area (OSD/ MOG/ RESA) He worked for the next twenty years at SAC In the 1980s he was also a research associate at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, where he worked on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite and SEASAT programs During 19972005, he was the founding director of the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR)/Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Goa At the initiative of Murali Manohar Joshi he founded the K Banerjee Centre of Atmospheric and Ocean Studies (KBCAOS) to initiate the Atmospheric and Ocean Science Studies in Allahabad University which is now full fledged faculty academic centre of Allahabad University He was Visiting Professor at Center for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL), IIT Kharagpur (IITKgp) since 2005 to 2007 and also he was an Emeritus Professor at IITKgps same center since 2007 to August, 2011, where he played key role in establishment of the CORAL Currently he joined as a Professor at School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar with effect from 1 September 2011

Raghunath Anant Mashelkar is also known as Ramesh MashelkarHe is the former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), a chain of 38 publicly funded industrial research and development institutions in IndiaMashelkar studied at the University of Bombays Department of Chemical Technology (now the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai) where he obtained a Bachelors degree in Chemical engineering in 1966, later on a PhD degree in 1969Mashelkar is presently the President of Global Research Alliance, a network of publicly funded research and development institutes from AsiaPacific, South Africa, Europe and USA with over 60,000 scientists He is also the Chairperson of Indias National Innovation Foundation He is also appointed as the first Chairperson of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR)Mashelkar is the former President of the Indian National Science Academy and the UK Institution of Chemical Engineers (2007

Dabbala Rajagopal Raj Reddy (born June 13, 1937) is a IndianAmerican computer scientist and winner of the Turing Award, is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for over 40 years He was the founding Director of the Robotics Institute at CMU He was instrumental in helping to create Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies in India, to cater to the educational needs of the lowincome, gifted rural youth He is also the Chairman of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad He is the first person of Asian origin to receive the ACM Turing Award, in 1994, the highest award in Computer Science, for his work in the field of artificial intelligence
Reddy is the Moza Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University From 1960, Reddy worked for IBM in Australia He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University from 1966

Roddam Narasimha (born 20 July 1933) is an Indian aerospace scientist and fluid dynamicist He was a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Director of National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) and the Chairman of Engineering Mechanics Unit at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India He is now an Honorary Professor at JNCASR and concurrently holds the Pratt & Whitney Chair in Science and Engineering at the University of Hyderabad Narasimha has been awarded the Padma Vibushan, Indias second highest civilian award, in 2013
He obtained his BE from Mysore University in 1953 and his ME from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1955 He worked with Satish Dhawan during his time at IISc He then worked with Hans Liepmann at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States to obtain his PhD degree in 1961 (PhD thesis) He joined the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 1962 and was associated with the Department of Aerospace Engineering in various capacities from that date till 1999 In 1982, he founded the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (now Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences), which he headed till 1989 He was the Director of the NAL from 1984 till 1993 For many years he held a visiting position at Caltech as the Clark B Millikan Professor and Sherman Fairchild distinguished scholar Between 1989 and 1990 he was the Jawaharlal Nehru professor of Engineering at Cambridge University in England He had also held visiting positions at NASA Langley, University of Strathclyde, University of Brussels, and Adelaide University From 1990 to 1994 he was INSA Golden Jubilee Research Professor, and from 1994 to 1999 the ISRO K R Ramanathan distinguished Professor at IISc and JNCASR He was the Director of the NIAS during 19972004 Narasimhas research has been chiefly concerned with Aerospace Fluid Dynamics and certain related problems in the atmosphere He has made extensive studies of transitions between laminar and turbulent flow (going in either direction), the structure of shock waves, various characteristics of fully developed turbulent flow (eg their memory, the bursting phenomenon in boundary layers), the fluid dynamics of clouds, nearsurface temperature distributions and eddy fluxes in atmospheric boundary layers He has been closely associated with Aerospace technology development in India at both technical and policymaking levels During 197779, he was the Chief Project Coordinator at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

Somya Ranjan Mahapatra is an Indian Computer Scientist At present, he is Software Developer of Microsoft He is best known for his work on Development New Software His research interests include Wearable Computing, Augmented reality, Ubiquitous computing, Gestural interaction, AI, Machine vision, Collective intelligence and RoboticsWorld Economic Forum honored Somya as one of the Young Global Leader 2013
He is from Cuttack, which is situated in Odisha in India He has Completed 12 Science from the DAV Public School in OdishaSomya Studing a Diploma Engineering in Electronics and TeleCommunication from Institute of Textile Technology and Diploma of Certified Ethical Hacker from National Cyber Security Institute, NIC India Later he was a research assistantHe joined Nokia Research center as the Application Developer in 2010 He introduced Nokia 888 Design Graphin Led Mobile Watch in March 2011Somya worked as a UX Researcher with Microsoft