Social Sciences
Prof. Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. His other awards include the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honor awarded by the President of India; the Senator Giovanni Agnelli International Prize in Ethics; the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Award; the Edinburgh Medal; the Brazilian Ordem do Merito Cientifico (Grã-Cruz); the Presidency of the Italian Republic Medal; the Eisenhower Medal; Honorary Companion of Honour (U.K.), and the George C. Marshall Award.
Physical Sciences
Prof. Shrinivas Kulkarni is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Prof. Kulkarni's primary interests are the study of compact objects (neutron stars and gamma-ray bursts) and the search for extra-solar planets through interferometric and adaptive techniques. He serves as the Interdisciplinary Scientist for the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) and is co-Principal Investigator of the Planet Search Key Project (also on SIM). He has been awarded the Alan T. Waterman Prize of the NSF, a fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, a Presidential Young Investigator award from the NSF and the Helen B. Warner award of the American Astronomical Society and the Janksy Prize of Associated Universities, Inc., Prof. Kulkarni was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994), Fellow of the Royal Society of London (2001) and Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (2003).
Engineering and Computer Science
Prof. Subra Suresh is the Dean of the
School of Engineering and Vannevar
Bush Professor of Engineering at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He has been elected to US National
Academy of Engineering, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences,
Indian National Academy of
Engineering, Indian Academy of
Sciences, Royal Spanish Academy of
Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the
Developing World, Italy, and German
National Academy of Sciences. He is a
recipient of the 2006 Acta Materialia
Gold Medal, 2007 European Materials
Medal, 2008 Eringen Medal of the
Society of Engineering Science, and a
Senior Humboldt Research Prize from
Germany. Suresh holds an honorary doctorate from Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology. In 2006, MIT’s Technology Review magazine selected Suresh as one of the top 10 researchers whose work in nanomechanics of biological systems will have “significant impact on business, medicine or culture”.
Mathematical Sciences
Prof. Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan
Professor of Mathematics and Frank J. Gould Professor of Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Prof. Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan is a winner of the Birkhoff Prize (1994), the Margaret and Herman Sokol Award of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University (1995), the Leroy Steele Prize (1996) and the Abel Prize (2007). He also has honorary degrees from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris (2003) and from the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, India (2004).
Life Sciences
Prof. Inder Verma is the American Cancer Society Professor, Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. One of the world's leading authorities on the development of viruses for gene therapy vectors, Dr. Verma uses genetically engineered viruses to insert new genes into cells that can then be returned to the body, where they produce the essential protein whose absence causes disease. In 2009, he became the first incumbent of the Irwin Mark Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Life Sciences. The Vilcek Foundation named Dr. Verma as the recipient of its 2008 prize in biomedical science. He has also been conferred the NIH Outstanding Investigator Award (1988).
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