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Please join us for a panel discussion with: Dr. Pallavi Jain Govil, MPP *04, Prof. Rudra Pratap, Plaksha University, Prof. Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University, Prof. Sharad Malik, Princeton University, (moderator)
Dr. Pallavi Jain Govil is Secretary of Youth Affairs in the Government of India. She is an officer with the Indian Administrative Service and an MPP alum of Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. She currently leads the Indian government’s youth affairs programs, designing initiatives to advance youth engagement with communities, for youth in educational institutions, and those out of school. Her department serves more than 18 million youth in the community, who are actively engaged with the ministry, and over 4.2 million youth in colleges and schools who participate in various community volunteering activities.
Dr. Rudra Pratap is the Founding Vice Chancellor of Plaksha University. Prior to joining Plaksha University, he served as the Deputy Director of Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Founding Chairperson of the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) and a Professor in the Centre, as well as of Mechanical Engineering at IISc, Bengaluru. A pioneer in the field of Micro and Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems, Dr. Pratap has been associated with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru for almost 25 years (1996- 2021) and is credited for establishing the globally recognized Centre for Nano Science and Engineering at IISc. He was also an invited Professor at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland in 2004-05. Prior to joining IISc in 1996, he taught at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, for 2.5 years. Dr. Pratap holds a BTech (Hons) degree from IIT Kharagpur, MS from the University of Arizona and PhD from Cornell University.
Sanjeev Arora is Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science and Director of Princeton Language and Intelligence, a unit devoted to research and applications of large AI models. He got his Phd from UC Berkeley in 1994 and has been a faculty member at Princeton since then. He has been awarded the ACM Prize in Computing (2011), Fulkerson Prize in Discrete Mathematics (2012), Packard Fellowship, Sloan Fellowship, and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Science, and was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018.
Sharad Malik is the George Van Ness Lothrop Professor of Engineering at Princeton University. He has served as the Director of the multi-university MARCO Gigascale Systems Research Center (GSRC, 2009-2012), and as the Associate Director of the Center for Future Architectures Research (C-FAR, 2013-2016). His current research focuses on design methodology for formal functional and security verification of hardware and hardware-software systems. His research in functional timing analysis and propositional satisfiability has been widely used in industrial electronic design automation tools. He has received the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) Award for the most cited paper in the 50-year history of the conference (2013) and the most Influential Paper Award (2024), the Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) Award for fundamental contributions to the development of high-performance Boolean satisfiability solvers (2009), the IEEE CEDA A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation (2017), the Princeton University President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching (2009), as well as several other research and teaching awards. He has also received the UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Distinguished Alumni Award (2019) and the IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award (2009). He is a fellow of the IEEE and ACM.
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