Guru Krupa Foundation (GKF), a non-profit created by Mukund Padmanabhan, a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP), has awarded international internships for IITKGP students to attend top global universities.
OMAHA, Neb., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- For the second time the Guru Krupa Foundation (GKF), a non-profit created by Mukund Padmanabhan, a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP), has awarded international internships for IITKGP students to attend top global universities. This year's awards were bestowed on seven students and provided up to $5,000 in support for each student.
The selection of the scholars for these internships is overseen by IIT-Kharagpur and GKF, using a merit cum means based model. The students can be pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees, including PhD's and can be from any department, school, or center of IIT-Kharagpur.
The selected students and their institutes are listed below:
Aishik Mandal--Inria Paris Centre, Sesetty Shanmukha Sai Vardhan--Queen's University, Samik Mukhopadhyay--University of Tokyo, Yashvi Jain--University of Waterloo, Dhatri Raghunathan--Xiamen University, Malaysia, Apoorva Vashisth--National University of Singapore, and Raghav Aggarwal--City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Said Mukund, "Attending summer programs at renowned international universities is a wonderful opportunity for students to add to their skill sets, develop connections and explore future courses of study and careers. It makes the KGP experience all the more invaluable, and also improves the KGP brand name. I feel privileged to be able to give back to the institute by supporting this initiative."
The IITKGP Foundation USA would like to congratulate and wish the seven scholarship awardees the best of luck in their internships!
ABOUT GKF SUPPORT
GKF has been a generous supporter of many programs at IIT-KGP, including the Academy of Classical and Folks Arts (ACFA), which is a branch of the Science and Heritage Initiative (SandHI). SandHI aims to introduce IITKGP architecture and engineering students to the classical and folk arts and encourages use of such artistic talents to supplement the highly competitive technical education.
More recently, Mr. Padmanabhan provided a significant boost to the Nehru Hall Ka Tempo renovation project. His contribution will completely renovate, refurbish, and modernize all the rooms in D-Top West Wing of the Nehru Hall of Residence.
ABOUT MUKUND
After graduating from IIT KGP, Mukund got his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, in signal processing and circuits. Subsequently he worked in IBM's Research Division on speech recognition algorithms, before pivoting to Wall Street, where he is currently a Partner and Researcher at hedge fund Renaissance Technologies.
Mukund is a recipient of the "Distinguished Alumni Award" from IIT-Kharagpur and the "Professional Achievement Award" from the Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA.
Media Contact
Erin L. Moran, IITKGP Foundation, 1 4024034982, [email protected]
SOURCE IITKGP Foundation
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