Chennai :

The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras will honour a science writer, an edupreneur, academics and industry leaders with the Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Lalgudi V Ramanathan, head, Energy and Nuclear Research Institute in Brazil; Krishnan Raghavachari, professor of theoretical chemistry, Indiana University, US; Tirumalai S Sudarshan, president and CEO, Materials Modification Inc, the US; Venkatraman Sadanand, associate professor of neurosurgery, Lomo Linda University Medical Center, US; Raju Venkatraman, founder, MD & CEO, Medall Healthcare Pvt. Ltd, Chennai; Ananth Agarwal, professor of electrical engineering, MIT, and president, edX, the US, are on the list of awardees.

Science writer and author of ‘The Edge of Physics’ Anil Ananthaswamy; Ramesh Govindan, professor in the department of computer science, University of Southern California; Kannan Lakshminarayan, founder and managing trustee, Fractal Foundation, Chennai; and Sridhar Ramaswamy, senior vice president, Search Advertising, Google Inc, the US, will also be honoured.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Chennai / TNN / April 17th, 2014