Mr. Sanjay Pradhan

Mr. Sanjay Pradhan (BT/ChE/86) and Mrs. Rachna Pradhan (BT/EE/85) have created a faculty chair at IIT Kanpur to be awarded to a faculty member working in the area of security in general in any department at IITK. Sanjay Pradhan is the Founder and CEO of Max Secure Software. He has held a successful International career for almost two decades starting in the U.S.A with companies pioneering in Real Time Dynamic Simulation, Artificial Intelligence, designing and deploying Control systems using Batch processes. He did his M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University, (C.M.U.) Pittsburgh in Artificial Intelligence and Optimization. Mrs. Rachna Pradhan (BT/EE/85) is the Co- Founder and Chief Technical Officer at Max Secure Software. She directs the technology vision behind Max Secure Software’s product development. She has successfully managed projects providing varied solutions in the field of R&D, Design, Manufacturing and QA/Testing in diverse technology sphere, right from manufacturing of Television sets, developing Power supplies for missile launchers, designing Photo Cameras, building Power distribution sub-stations, Quality Audit of Nuclear power plants to Managing Software Projects and Products.