IIT Delhi establishes new chair in data analytics

IIT Delhi chair for data analytics has been endowed by an IIT Delhi alumnus, Jaswinder Chadha who pursued BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the institute in 1990.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has formed a new chair in the field of data analytics. IIT Delhi chair for data analytics has been endowed by an IIT Delhi alumnus, Jaswinder Chadha who pursued BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the institute in 1990. According to the reports, the institute has established the chair with a goal to attract researchers and practitioners in the area of data analytics and data science, which is fast becoming a key driver of business productivity and economic growth.

Talking about the decision taken regarding the establishment of the chair, Sanjiva Prasad, Head, Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Delhi said, “Data drives many of today’s decision-making processes and the establishment of this chair is both timely and of strategic importance to research in analytics at the institute.”

Jaswinder’s mother, Tarvinder Kaur Chadha was the first woman to get a PhD in Mathematics from IIT Delhi in 1968. Tarvinder and Jassi are the first parent-child graduates of IIT Delhi. Tarvinder Kaur had a distinguished career in academics and is a widely recognised scholar in fluid dynamics. Reports suggest that she was, formerly, also the Head of the Mathematics Department and Dean of Sciences at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. IIT Delhi has named the Chair after the mother-son duo, i.e. ‘Jaswinder and Tarvinder Chadha Chair in Data Analytics’. Jassi is a serial entrepreneur who currently serves as founder & CEO of Axtria, analytics & AI software company that recently acquired the status of a unicorn.

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