BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Dr. Ashwini Kumar Nanda, Founder and CEO of HPC Links, he has been involved in research and development of high performance computer systems and applications in both India and the US. As the head of TATA CRL, India, he led the development of the Eka system, Asia's fastest supercomputer in 2007, and India's fastest till date. Prior to that, at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, NY, he conceptualized and led the development of Cell processor based system and software technologies for a new line of server product offerings from IBM, and the world's first Petaflop machine, Roadrunner, at Los Alamos National Labs. He also established the shared memory systems group at IBM Research, NY, worked on the Amazon superscalar processor architecture at Texas Instrument, Dallas, and developed parallel computers for India's missile defense systems at Wipro, Bangalore. Dr Nanda was co-General Chair of the International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-7), served on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He holds eleven US patents and has published over 50 papers in the area of parallel computer systems and applications. Dr Nanda is a Fellow of IEEE.

Dr. M.P. Rajan, School of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research. Previously he has been an Associate Professor with the Dept. of Mathematics, IIT-Guwahati. He had worked with Goldman Sachs as Quant Analyst.