Daily Archives: March 18, 2023

IIT Madras Research Park (IITMRP), India’s first university-based research park, today announced that Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala, President, IITMRP was conferred with the prestigious “Prof. Krishnaji Memorial Lecture Award (2022)” by The National Academy of Sciences (NASI) on the occasion of recently conducted National Science Day.

What does it take to establish and run a deep-tech haven that has given birth to some of India’s most notable start-up companies? Hear it first-hand from the visionary who laid the foundation for a novel innovation ecosystem that commercializes transformative deep-tech solutions for India and the world!

Hailing from a family that has produced businessmen over three generations, Kolkata-born Ankit Poddar terms himself as the ‘odd one out’ for choosing to study engineering, specifically computer engineering, in the early 2000s.