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The names of the Distinguished Alumnus Awardees for 2014 were announced in the Republic Day address of Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director, IIT-Madras. Ten alumni, working in diverse fields, have been selected for the prestigious award, which will be presented on the ‘Institute Day’ in April.
Prof. Nagarajan, Dean of International and Alumni Relations, said, “The Selection Committee, drawn from academia and industry, alumni and non-alumni, has again done a tremendous job”. Only 110 alumni out of nearly 40,000 alumni have so far been conferred with this prestigious award. The awardees were Lalgudi V. Ramanathan , Head, Energy and Nuclear Research Institute, Brazil; Krishna Raghavachari , Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Indiana University, US; Tirumalai S. Sudarshan , President and CEO, Materials Modification Inc, US; Venkatraman Sadanand , Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Lomo Linda University Medical Center, US; Raju Venkatraman , Founder, MD & CEO, Medall Healthcare Pvt Ltd, Chennai; Ananth Agarwal , Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, and President, edX, US; Anil Ananthaswamy , Science Writer, Consultant, New Scientist Magazine, Author of The Edge of Physics , Bangalore; Ramesh Govindan , Professor in Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, US; Kannan Lakshminarayan , Founder & CTO, Vortex Engineering Pvt Ltd, Chennai; and Sridhar Ramaswamy , Senior Vice-President, Search Advertising, Google Inc, US.
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