The Satya N. Atluri Award
The Satya N. Atluri Award is a Medal awarded by ICCES (International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences) and the Tech Science Press to an individual who has had a significant impact on the world of engineering, the sciences, and commerce, and the well-being of the society at large as a result.
Award Recipients
2020
Professor Sudhir K. Jain
Director (President) of the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhi Nagar
ICCES Citation: For his efforts in nation-building in India through knowledge and science, and for his role in building IITGN into a world-class research university.
Prof Sudhir Jain is currently serving his third term as director of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, which he joined as founder director in June 2009. He was on the faculty of IIT Kanpur for 35 years from 1984-2019. Dr. Jain is an internationally reputed scholar of earthquake engineering and a passionate academic administrator. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Roorkee, and Masters and Doctoral degrees from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. He served as President of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering from 2014-18. He was elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2003, and conferred Life Membership by the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering (NZSEE) in 2013.
Previous Recipients
Professor Anurag Kumar
The Director ( i.e., the President) of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
ICCES Citation: For his widely acclaimed seminal work on communications networks and distributed systems, and for his efforts in bringing India’s premier university, the Indian Institute of Science to world-wide recognition.
Chancellor
Henry Yang
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (The longest serving Chancellor (25 years) of the UC System)
Chancellor John A White
University of Arkansas, USA (who put University of Arkansas on the map, with his $300 Millions fundraising from a single family)
Ratan Tata
Chairman, Tata Sons, Mumbai, India
Prof Subra Suresh
President, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Guangjing Cao
President, China Three Gorges Project Corporation (CTGPC), China
Prof Demosthenes Polyzos
Vice Rector, University of Patras, Greece
