Prof. Ambrish Chandra (1977 - B.E. - Electrical Engineering)
Prof. Ambrish Chandra is Full Professor of Electrical Engineering with the École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal, QC, Canada, since 1999. He did M. Tech. from IIT Delhi, and Ph.D. from University of Calgary, Canada, in 1980, and 1987, respectively, all in electrical power area. Before joining ÉTS as an Associate Professor in 1994, he worked as a Faculty Member at IIT Roorkee. From 2012 to 2015, he was the Director of multidisciplinary graduate program on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency with ÉTS. He is currently the Director of master program in electrical engineering.
The most distinctive work of Prof. Chandra is related to the advancement of new theory and control algorithms for power electronics converters in the following two areas: 1) power quality improvement in distribution systems, and 2) integration of renewable energy sources to distribution systems with improved power quality features. His work has had a significant impact and is now extensively referred by engineers and researchers around the world, as evident by total Google citations more than 21 400, h-index 59, and i10-index 246. Prof. Chandra, being a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Power and Energy Society (2015-2020), as well as Distinguished/Prominent Lecturer of IEEE Industry Applications Society (2017-2021) on ‘Power-Quality and Renewable-Energy’, is invited around the world to deliver distinguished lectures. He has already delivered lectures/keynote speeches in many countries.

Dr. Amit K. Gupta (2000- B.E. - Electrical Engineering)
Dr. Amit K. Gupta is Head of Rolls-Royce Electrical at Rolls-Royce Singapore Pte Ltd. He is Director of the Electrical Programme at Rolls-Royce at NTU Corporate lab and Rolls-Royce Director for the Electrical Power System Integration Lab at NTU.
Dr. Gupta has driven electrification and made significant technological contributions over last two decades. Through his industrial, research and academic work, he has advanced the technologies and innovation in the following areas: Power Electronics Converters, Electrical Drives, Electrical Equipment Health Management, Energy Storage [Cell Testing, Mechanical and thermal, Battery Management System], Microgrid, Energy & Power Management, Electrical Actuation. He holds 50 patents/patent applications and published more than 150 papers in international conferences and journals. He has been Adjunct Professor with a few universities including IIT-Roorkee. He holds a six sigma Green Belt Certificate from Delphi Automotive Systems and trained in six sigma Black Belt techniques through Vestas Wind Systems.
He is a recipient of 2021 IEEE McMurray Award for Industry Achievements in Power Electronics, The IET Premium Awards 2019 – for the paper titled 'Aircraft batteries: current trend towards more electric aircraft’. He also received several Rolls-Royce Engineering & Technology (E&T) Awards for Engineering Excellence and Vestas Innovation excellence award 2009 for being top 5 innovators of Vestas Global Research. He is an IEEE IAS distinguished lecturer for 2022-23. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transitions on Power Electronics and plays an active role in organizing electrical power engineering conferences in Asia. He is Fellow of IEEE USA, IET - UK, IES - Singapore, and a Chartered Engineer - Engineering Council (UK).

Prof. Bharat Bhasker (1980 - B.E. – Electronics & Communication Engineering)
Prof. Bharat Bhasker is presently Director at IIM Ahmedabad. He obtained his Ph.D. and master’s degree in Computer Science at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA.
Prior to accepting the position of Director, IIM Ahmedabad, he served as a Professor of Information Technology and Systems at IIM Lucknow. He has also served as Director of IIM Raipur from March 2017 to March 2022, Acting-Director of IIM Lucknow during July 2015 to November 2015, as a Mentor Director/Convener (Nodal Prof) at IIM Sirmaur in 2015. He was honoured with ‘Best Director of Business Schools’ award for transforming IIM Raipur to a great place to work and its exponential growth.
Prof. Bhasker has held various visiting academic positions such as International Expert Advisor at the University of Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia, International Expert, Research Grants,, at the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Visiting Professor at the ESSEC Business School, Paris, France, Distinguished Professor at the Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, Research Professor at the University of California, USA, Visiting Professor at the University of Texas, USA and Adjunct Faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Prof. Bhasker has acquired rich industry experience in addition to his academic experience. He has held senior positions at multiple organizations such as Connectix Corp., USA, SYBASE Inc., USA, MDL Information Systems Inc., USA, Hughes STX Inc., USA, and Tata Steel Ltd., India. He has also been associated as the Chairman at the Services Sector Development Council, Bureau of Indian Standards, President at the Indian Sub-continent Decision Science Institute, USA, Chairman at the Computer Society of India, Lucknow and as a Member of the Board of Governors at various organizations.

Shri Vinay Kumar Tripathi (1982 - B.E. – Electrical Engineering)
Shri Vinay Kumar Tripathi, Former Chairman, Railway Board, Ministry of Railways (from 01-01-2022 to 31-12-2022). Shri Tripathi joined Railways through Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE) in 1983 Batch. In his distinguished career, Shri Tripathi has successfully discharged the duties of important post of Electrical Department on Northern, Central & Western Railways as well as held key posts of Divisional Railway Manager, North Central Railway, Allahabad, Chief Electrical Locomotive Engineer, Additional General Manager of Western Railway, Additional Member/Traction in Railway Board and GM/NER.
Shri Tripathi played a key role in successfully commissioning the State-of-the-art three-phase locomotives and its indigenization, which are the main workhorse of Indian Railways now. He was instrumental in making the Mumbai Central station fit to run 24-Coach trains. As DRM/Prayagraj, he was instrumental in decongesting the rail network of the Division drastically to make it suitable to meet the IR requirements. At that time, ALD division was a major bottleneck for Indian Railways. As AGM/WR, he was instrumental in achieving record electrification on Indian Railway in that year.
During his tenure as GM/NER, the North East Railway transformed from Meter Gauge & Diesel Railway to Broad Gauge & Electrified Railway. The mobility of NER also improved by 100%. NER received First prize of National Energy Conservation Award in transport category and many other awards at U.P. State level. Under his guidance as GM/NER Railway, railway manpower was trained and skilled up suitably under ‘Skill India Mission’, which resulted into reduction of annual maintenance contracts, thus ensuring saving of railway revenue. Seeing his vast experience of Railway management and administrations, he has been elevated to the post of Chairman & CEO, Railway Board.

Shri Kamal Bali (1981 - B.E. – Electrical Engineering)
Shri Kamal Bali, President & Managing Director at Volvo Group, India. Kamal Bali has been spearheading reputed Indian & multi-national organizations as President & CEO for two decades. Since April 2014, he has served as the President & Managing Director of the Volvo Group, India.
Earlier, he served as President & CEO of LeeBoy India (2009-2014), the India subsidiary of the S$6 billion ST Engineering Group in Singapore; CEO & Executive Director of Escorts Construction Equipment (2007-2009), a subsidiary of the Escorts Group; and as CEO & Managing Director of the Indian subsidiary of the Italian Same Deutz-Fah r Group (SDF) (2002-2007). Shri Bali had an illustrious career spanning 40 years, largely in the automotive and engineering industry. In December 2019, he was Knighted and awarded one of Sweden’s highest honors with the Royal Order of the “Polar Star: Commander” by Their Majesties, the King and Queen of Sweden, for his contributions to Swedish commerce & industry in India. In recognition of his values-based leadership and strong ethos, the Times of India Group awarded him the prestigious “2019 Machinist Lifetime Achievement Award” for outstanding contributions in the field of Manufacturing. He was featured in the “2021 Star List” by The Machinist publication and felicitated as one of the Top Industry Leaders in India earlier this year.
Over the past two decades, Shri Bali has successfully led and driven the India strategy for three large MNCs and a renowned Indian company, with complete P&L responsibilities, as CEO & Managing Director. In these leadership roles, he has built the India business case, attracted and hired the right talent, built the organization ethos & values, driving market share growth strategy and tactics, engaging & building relationships with key customers and supply chain partners, and deployment of operating plans.

Mr. Rajat Shikhar (2001-B.Tech.-Civil)
Mr. Rajat Shikhar, Co-Founder & CPTO at Dealshare, has been part of the Indian e-commerce ecosystem for more than 15 years and contributed to building products and technology from e-com 1.0 to social commerce. In this exciting journey he has been associated with brands like Myntra, Jabong, Foodpanda. His deep understanding and expertise in ecommerce business and tech has culminated in him co-founding Dealshare, a 3.5-year startup which is now a unicorn at 1.7 bn valuation.
Dealshare is aimed at solving mass market e-commerce problems from first principles. He has been building technology and product experience for Dealshare since its inception. Launched in September 2018 in Jaipur, e-retail startup DealShare became a household name in less than three years. DealShare joined the coveted unicorn club in January 2022. Mr. Rajat and other founders were determined to take the e-commerce experience to India’s low-and mid-income population. The founders wanted to create a tech-enabled model for the Indian mass market that would allow customers to buy together, save money and at the same time have fun.
To fulfil their vision, they targeted customers who were still getting used to the Internet for commerce and for whom big e- commerce players were not an ideal option. After its success in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, DealShare expanded its geographic reach. It first ventured into four more neighbouring states and then extended its operations to cities and towns in a few more distant states. Currently, it is present in 12 states and ~120 locations.

Ms. Rashmi Verma (1977 - B.E. - Chemical Engineering)
Ms. Rashmi Verma, Co-Founder & Director, MapmyIndia. She is one of India’s first woman tech entrepreneurs. Armed with the problem-solving capability offered by the rigorous engineering education offered at IIT Roorkee (then University of Roorkee) and subsequent MS at Eastern Washington University, USA, she was able to garner and chalk out a coveted career in software arena at IBM, USA, where she rapidly grew to become a consultant to the IBM Global Business Services during a time when IBM’s pioneering foray into professional software technology consulting had made such careers even within IBM highly prized.
After 12 years of successful career and a settled life, Rashmi and her husband headed for India to fulfil their destiny, and found MapmyIndia, India’s first and only Digital Map Product Company and one of India’s most successful tech companies.
While navigating a whole slew of challenges in a country where organizations and citizens did not consider digital maps at all, she persevered getting the entire country mapped digitally until comprehensive map and data of India was created. Again, at a time when IT sector in India mainly meant internationally packaged software sales and custom software and data services, she took a leadership position of charting MapmyIndia into a product company and launched MapmyIndia Maps as a packaged product.

Shri. Harish Kumar (1993 - MSc. - Physics)
Shri. Harish Kumar, Founder- Ability on Wheels, is a differently abled person with a passion for driving. In 2012 he became the first physically challenged person in the country to successfully complete an All India Driving Expedition thereby creating a new National Records in Limca Book of Records. As on date he has on his name 2 National Records in Limca Book of Records.
After working in Telecom Sector for ~ 20 years he quit the corporate world in 2015 and decided to work on providing mobility services and solutions to the differently abled people of the country. For this purpose, he floated an NGO Ability on Wheels Charitable Trust. The people with disabilities do face lots of challenges and hurdles in mobility. There is not even a single driving school for the differently abled, there are no wheel chair accessible vehicles and also the public transport, in general, is not disability friendly. Since Shri. Harish himself experienced these hurdles, he decided to work on this cause and be a contributor to the society. According to him, there are an estimated 7 million people in the country who are physically challenged with mobility restrictions and every year ~ 1 lakh people get added in the list.
ABILITY ON WHEELS, the NGO founded by Shri. Harish, is an effort to encourage the differently abled people to take a big leap towards leading a normal life by providing mobility and accessibility services and solutions. As a first step in this direction Ability on Wheels has launched a first of its kind in the country driving school exclusively for the differently abled using customized cars in Ahmedabad. Today the physically challenged people have to first buy a car, get it modified and only then they are provided with a learner’s license. This deprives them of the right to first learn and then buy a car. Also, since there is no such driving school they have to learn on their own. Due to this big stumbling block many physically challenged people hesitate in buying a car and hence are deprived of the freedom and independence. Thousands of people with disabilities have availed the services of Wheelchair Accessible Cab Service including Ms. Deepa Malik, a Padma awardee Para Olympian. Shri. Harish has also penned a book on disability & driving titled Ability on Wheels. This book is an attempt to raise the awareness levels for both people with disabilities and also the Transport department officials / policy makers in the government. The efforts of Shri. Harish towards the cause of differently abled people of the country were very much appreciated by the then Defence Minister Sh. Manohar Parikkar.

Shri. Mohinder L. Nayyar (1966 - B.E. - Mechanical Engineering)
Shri. Mohinder L. Nayyar is ASME Life Fellow and recipient of 2016 Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT Roorkee. Shri Mohinder Nayyar is an internationally recognized specialist in piping, valves, materials and codes and standards. As a senior principal engineer at Bechtel Power Corp, his work spanned all phases of design, construction, operation, maintenance and in-service inspection at more than 100 major power plants. Working with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and ASME, he helped develop new codes and standards following the accident at Three Mile Island. Mr. Nayyar is author and editor-in-chief of Piping Handbook (6th and 7th editions, 1992) and Piping Databook (2002).
Earlier many US-based alumni were facing difficulty in donating to IIT Roorkee as there was no Foundation in the US that could transfer the full amount of the donation to be made to the alma mater. Further, there was an urgent need for a simple and speedy process. To fill this serious gap, Shri Mohinder Nayyar initiated the establishment of IIT Roorkee Foundation in the US. Shri Nayyar, one of the top donors of IITR who has donated more than Rs. 2.50 Crores, gladly invested a significant amount of personal time and effort to undertake this important task. Shri Nayyar single-handedly made arduous efforts for several months and eventually succeeded in establishing IIT Roorkee Foundation, Inc. in September 2019.
The Foundation has tax exemption status in USA which means donations to the Foundation can avail tax benefit. Soon after the establishment of IITRF, which assured to transfer the full amount of donations to the alma mater, a constant flow of donations started from the US to IIT Roorkee through IITRF. It is a matter of great satisfaction that despite the economic hardships due to Covid-19 and the lack of alumni reunions during this period, IIT Roorkee has received more than Rs. 7.38 Crores of donations through IITRF during the last 2 years and 9 months i.e. since its establishment. This has helped in creating around 15 corpora in the names of donors to support several schemes for promoting excellence among students, faculty, and departments of the institute. These schemes include attractive scholarships for students, e.g., complete tuition fees support, fellowships and awards for students and faculty, Chair Professorships, and also a pathbreaking industry outreach and R&D activities.

Shri. Pradeep Kumar Kapse (1972 - B.E. - Mechanical Engineering)
Shri. Pradeep Kumar Kapse, Technical Advisor Eicher Motors Ltd. Started his career from Tata Motors Ltd as Graduate apprentice Trainee in 1972 and impressed the organization to select him as executive assistant to the Director and GM. While working there he was introduced to the chairman of Tata motors as a young engineer. He was elevated to the managerial position on a fast track for transforming production processes and delivering consistently high production performance.
He was pulled by Eicher group as they received the permission to manufacture LCV. He joined them in January 1982 as a senior Manager means HOD production and moved to set up Manufacturing Division for producing Light commercial vehicle under a new Eicher Motors Ltd (A collaboration with Mitsubishi Japan) in 1985 as the DGM. He was sent to japan to learn the Japanese method of working and their manufacturing processes. Armed with their training and new knowledge, he set up a completely new way of highly productive manufacturing system there at Pithampur. He was elevated to GM in 1989 to transform another organization of Eicher Ltd at Parwanoo (H P). After amazing performance there he was elevated as Director and moved to Alwar to Transform (Improve Quality, productivity, Engineering processes and labour relations Exponentially). The performance there made company to elevate he as an Executive director on the board of Eicher Ltd and also gave him a greenfield project to set up a tractor manufacturing plant at Bhopal (MP). He created a very cost effective and wonderful plant there and was Rewarded to Managing Director level to make transformation into a new Gear Business unit. he remained there to increase its output to 20 times through its expansion and also looked after a new acquired Car design unit in the USA. he expanded that business also and finally took superannuation in 2011 at the age of 63 years. But his organization wanted to help them into new collaborations, expansion and setting up many new plants which he did as a technical advisor till 2017 before taking final retirement. During this whole period Eicher’s revenue growth has gone up from Rs 100 Crs tp Rs 6000 crs and its share price moved from Rs20 to Rs 30,000. For him it was a memorable performance that had my share of substantial contribution. In these periods he received many Awards including One from the President of India for Productivity award

Mr. Saurabh Sancheti (2007 - B.Tech. - Electronics and Communication Engineering)
Mr. Saurabh Sancheti, Jio Platforms, is an accomplished business leader with a successful track record of scaling multiple businesses across media, internet, and digital platforms. Mr. Saurabh has expertise in driving growth, turning around operations, and corporate development. Saurabh currently holds two full-time jobs.
He is the group chief financial officer at Jio Platforms, the digital services arm of Reliance Industries Limited. Also, he is the nominee director on the boards of Reliance cable businesses, Den Networks and Hathway Cable & Datacom. As the CFO of Jio, he is responsible for finance activities across Jio and keenly contributing to the vision of building a global tech giant out of India. Mr. Saurabh led the turnaround of the cable business by making the business cash flow positive and self-sustainable. In addition to this, he has also been involved in other key projects including Jio Launch, Pricing & Tariff strategy, and forging relationships with key global partners.
Mr. Saurabh holds multiple accolades like Economic Times 40 under forty, Fortune 40 under forty and Young Distinguished Alumni award from IIM, Ahmedabad. Saurabh is a techie at heart and has been part of prestigious "Young Scientist Research Program" by Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India and has a few technical publications to his name. Saurabh did his B. Tech. from IIT Roorkee and PGDM from IIM Ahmedabad.

Mr. Nishant Chandra (2014 - B.Tech. - Production and Industrial Engineering)
Mr. Nishant Chandra, Co-Founder, Newton School, actively explored the depths of building democratic educational models. After his stint at Unacademy, having experienced the dynamics of ed-tech in India, he co-founded Bolo, a video-based Q&A startup in 2019. Bolo facilitated video-based answers from experts in various professions regarding any queries the user would have. As Bolo saw the advent of users who were tech professionals or were passionate about getting into the field of technology. Mr. Nishant discovered a large gap between the skills of software engineers and the need for skilled professionals by hundreds of companies in the country. With an aim to bridge this gap, Mr. Nishant and Mr. Siddharth founded Newton School in 2019, which empowered its candidates to become highly-proficient software developers through an industry-relevant and outcome-oriented course taught by experts working in the industry.
From starting out of a 3BHK apartment in Koramangala, Bengaluru with a team of 8 people, to building a team of 150+ incredibly talented and passionate folks, he has been instrumental in building Newton School into a premier ed-tech company in India. Under Mr. Nishant leadership, Newton School is on the track to becoming the most revolutionary neo-university in the world! Today, Mr. Nishant vision not only enables thousands of people to become high-quality software developers but also empowers Indian families. Since its inception in 2019, Newton School has raised more than $30 million from investors and angels like Steadview Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, RTP Global, Unacademy cofounders Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini and Hemesh Singh, Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamoorthy, CRED Kunal Shah, Freshworks Girish Mathrubootham, Udaanâ Sujeet Kumar and Razorpay founders Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar. Mr. Nishant Chandra has been awarded: Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 Forbes India 30 under 30.

Mr. Siddharth Maheshwari (2014 - B.Tech. - Computer Science Engineering)
Mr. Siddharth Maheshwari, Founder, Newton School Through its unique pay-after-placement model it is democratizing access to software development education and allowing people to cross financial and geographic barriers to achieving their dream of becoming a software developer. Backed by some of the who’s who of the Indian startup ecosystem and VCs, Newton School’s alumni are working in more than 200 companies. It currently has over 1000 students studying in parallel and to scale it to a million learners in the next 3 years. Newton School envisions itself playing a major role in solving unemployment and the lack of skills among Indian youth. The real-life impact of Newton School on the lives of its students has been tremendous and is best captured by The Better India.
Mr. Siddharth has been passionate about education and technology since his school days, where he used to run websites and projects to promote open source and technology. His websites gathered millions of visitors every year. During his college days, he was part of a voluntary group - SOPAN, where he was involved in teaching underprivileged school students from nearby villages. Mr. Siddharth is becoming a significant voice of the ed-tech industry - setting pioneering views on the trends in employment focused education. One of such interviews with NewsX where he discusses details about Newton School. Mr. Siddharth has also been a mentor to many tech startup founders including those of IITR alumni like Vernacular.ai, Rephrase.ai, Avail Finance, and others.

The Selection Committee was comprised of the following:

1. Prof. K.K. Pant, Director IIT Roorkee (Chairperson)
2. Prof. V Ramgopal Rao, former Director of IIT Delhi (BOG Nominee)
3. Dr. SSV Ramakumar, Director (R&D) at Indian Oil Corporation Limited (BOG Nominee)
4. Prof. CSP Ojha, AS Arya Institute Chair Professor (Director’s Nominee)
5. Prof. Partha Roy, Dean Of Resources & Alumni Affairs, IIT Roorkee