Connecting with IISc alumni in IIT Palakkad!

11 June 2024: Prof Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula and Prof Yadati Narahari met up with 12 faculty members of the Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad (IITPKD) who are PhD graduates from the EECS Division of IISc.

Here is the list of alumni (the first 8 are in the photo).

Name | Dept in IITPKD | Dept in IISc (PhD Advisor)

1. Nikhil Krishnan | DS + EE | ECE (Prof P Vijayakumar)
2. E Arun Rahul | EE | DSE (Prof Gopakumar)
3. Mrinal K Das | DS | CSA (Prof Chiranjib Bhattacharyya)
4. Deepak Rajendraprasad | CSE | CSA (Prof Sunil Chandran)
5. Revathy Padmanabhan | EE | ECE (Prof Navakanta Bhat)
6. Jasine Babu | CSE | CSA (Prof Sunil Chandran)
7. Jobin Francis | EE | ECE (Prof Neelesh B Mehta)
8. M Ashok Kumar | Math | ECE (Prof Rajesh Sundaresan)
9. Sahely Bhadra | DS + CSE | CSA (Prof Chiranjib Bhattacharyya)
10. Anirudh Guha | EE | EE (Prof G Narayanan)
11. Albert Sunny | CSE | DESE (Prof Joy Kuri)
12. Unnikrishnan C | CSE | CSA (Prof Y N Srikant)

Profs Seelamantula and Narahari also met the IIT-PKD Director Prof Seshadri Shekar, also an alumnus and an ME student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IISc during 1986-88. Profs Shekar and Narahari were together in the M-Block hostel and the A-mess.