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Prof. V Rajaraman was born in 1933 and graduated from St. Stephen's College of the University of Delhi with a BSC (Hon) in Physics in 1952. He continued his studies at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc) and received a Diploma of IISc (Electrical Communication Engineering) in 1955. He was then awarded an overseas scholarship by the government of India and joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, from which he obtained his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering in 1959. Thereafter, he enrolled himself at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and did research on Adaptive Control Systems, and obtained PhD in 1961.
Prof. V Rajaraman is a distinguished Computer Scientist from India. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for his contributions to the field of computer science. Prof. V Rajaraman also served as the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur in its infancy and played a vital role in setting up India's first computer science education programme at IIT Kanpur.
IITK Alumni and well wishers, have enthusiastically come together and have decided to contribute towards setting up an endowment fund at their alma mater in the name of their beloved Professor V. Rajaraman. He joined IITK on March 23, 1963, and taught computer science as part of the CS option for Electrical Engineering M Tech students. He wrote the original proposal for the creation of the B Tech in Computer Science programme in 1975, which was approved by the director, Dr. Jagdish Lal. Prof. Rajaraman played a significant role in the creation of the CSE Department and convinced other departments to give up the 20 seats before the programme was finally launched in 1978, which was later filled by students with All India Ranks under 40 in the CS BTech program.
He is one of the most respectable, distinguished, and renowned teachers of IIT Kanpur, who taught courses in analogue and digital computation, the logical design of computers, and software development. The many popular textbooks on programming languages that he wrote evolved from his class notes at IITK. The books made programming languages accessible not only to IIT students but to students all over India. India's success in software engineering owes a huge debt to his early efforts in this field.
One of the important ways we hope to attract and retain the finest faculty, nationally and internationally, is through the establishment of Faculty Chairs. The chair will honor outstanding, high performing teachers and scholars who are leaders in their fields and provide them with the support and resources they need to achieve their goals as researchers and educators. IITK is committed to ensuring that we retain, reward and recognize the distinguished and outstanding faculty who have created an immense impact on the career of their students through years of dedicated teaching and mentoring.
The chair will be perpetual in nature and will be awarded by IIT Kanpur as per their applicable policies. IIT Kanpur owes an everlasting debt to generations of dedicated faculty who have worked with students and alumni to create and sustain IIT Kanpur's unique combination of an intellectual community, which now draws top students from the entire country and attracts promising young teachers who seek our stimulating and supportive atmosphere.
Heartfelt Gratitude