Pandit Girish Ranjan & Sushma Rani Pathak Chair
Mr. Kamalesh Dwivedi (BT/EE/1979) is the President and General Partner at 3 Lines Venture Capital based out of Denver, USA. His current investment interests span over a broad spectrum of technology in early stage Startup companies in USA and India. Mr. Dwivedi has been CIO of several major corporations such as Computer Vision, Scientific Atlanta, ADC Telecommunications, TeleTech Holdings in the US and Bellsystem24 in Japan in their transformative phases. As a CIO, he has been a member of C-Level teams which enabled multi-billion dollar return in portfolio companies of global Private Equity firms.
Mr. Dwivedi holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT Kanpur, an M.Eng. from Carleton University and has completed the Program for Management Development (PMD) from Harvard Business School.
Current Occupant
Prof. Anish Upadhyay
(Jun. 2024 - Jun. 2027)
Prof. Anish Upadhyaya from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, has research interests in powder metallurgical processing of materials, with an emphasis on sintering. He is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the Metallurgist of the Year Award, P. K. Kelkar Research Fellowship, INSA Young Scientist Award, Young Metallurgist of the Year Award, and INAE Young Engineer Award. He completed his B.Tech. from IIT (BHU) and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Penn State University.
Former Occupant
Prof. Yogesh M. Joshi
(Feb. 2021 - Jan. 2024)
Prof. Yogesh M. Joshi, Department of Chemical Engineering, research interests are in the fields of structure and dynamics of colloidal glasses and gels, soft matter, Rheology of complex fluids and polymer nanocomposites. His research team engages in multidisciplinary research on "molecular phenomena that is responsible for the flow behavior," specifically the rheological behavior of discotic nematic suspensions. He earned his doctorate from IIT Bombay in 2001.