MaiYa SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME-2016
Launch of Talent Search Progam
and Inaguration of program for
Mentoring Awards
Please see the NOTIFICATION Section for further details of the programme.
We are delighted to have some of the most outstanding professionals in their fields as our mentors! Click on the pictures to see our mentors’ bios and mentoring specialties.
Professor S.S. Iyengar is the Chairman and Executive Director of the Iyengar Medical and Educational Foundation. He is also the Ryder Professor and Director of the School of Computing and Information Sciences in Florida International University’s College of Engineering and Computing.
Dr. Iyengar is a computer scientist of international repute and a pioneer in the field of distributed sensor networks, computational aspects of robotics, and oceanographic applications. Dr. Iyengar is the founding Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, and has been an associate editor for IEEE Transaction on Computers, and Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering.
He is a member of the European Academy of sciences, a fellow of the Institute of electrical and electronics engineers, a fellow of the Association of computing machinery, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Fellow of the Society for Design And Process Science he received the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Indian Institute of Science and, in 1998, was awarded the IEEE computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award and is an IEEE Gold Core Member.
Dr Baldev Raj has assumed responsibilities as the Director of the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, one of India’s leading multi-disciplinary institutions. A distinguished scientist and former Director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research in Kalapakkam, Dr Baldev Raj has helped advance several challenging technologies, especially those related to the Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) and the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR). He has also nurtured and grown excellent schools of global stature in nuclear materials and mechanics, non-destructive evaluation, nano science and technology, and robotics & automation. He is pursued his work in interdisciplinary domains of energy, cultural heritage, medical technologies, nano science and technology and education. He has been responsible for providing solutions to many unsolved problems in Strategic and Security sectors in the country.
The author of more than 970 academic papers in peer reviewed journals along with 70 books and special journal volumes, Dr Baldev Raj has been recognized by way of more than 100 awards, 380 honours, keynote, invited lectures and assignments in more than 30 countries. A recipient of the Padma Shri; the other awards include Life Time Achievement Award of the Indian Nuclear Society, the Homi Bhabha Gold Medal, Distinguished Materials Science Award, Materials Research Society of India, etc He is a distinguished alumni of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
A member of the Circle of Advisors, Cambridge University, UK, and a member of the Search Group for the Queen Elizabeth prize in engineering, Dr Baldev Raj is also a Fellow of all the Science and Engineering academies in India, German Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences. He is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT Gandhinagar, a member of the Court of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and President-Elect of the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technology Sources. He is Honorary Member, International Medical Sciences Academy.
Dr Baldev Raj is known to have mentored hundreds of children, students, scientists and technologists, inspiring them to pursue high levels of professionalism in the pursuit of science and technology without losing sight of the need for exemplary ethical practices.
Anitha Kurup is a Professor, School of Social Sciences and Anchor of the Education Programme. She is also leading the National Gifted Education Program in India anchored at NIAS. Her research interests span the broad disciplines of education and gender studies. Her recent publications “Trained Scientific Women Power: How much are we Losing and Why?” and “Trends Report: Creation and Analysis of Database of PhDs in India (1998-2007)” have been widely appreciated. As part of the Gifted Education research, she has developed an Indian based identification protocol to identify the gifted children in the age group 3-18 years. She has been working with her team on the standardisation of the identification protocol. Along the same lines she is developing a multi- level multi stage model for mentoring the gifted children in India. Her doctoral work on quality of primary education in rural India is one of the earliest often cited work on grounded research in class room processes and school–community relationship in rural India. Prof Anitha Kurup's expertise in the area of gender covers a wide spectrum, from examining conceptual and methodological strands of gender relations to political participation and decentralised governance. Prof. Anitha Kurup is a Member, Governing Board of ISEC, Bangalore, and Member, Academic Council, Christ University. She has several publications to her credit. Prof Anitha Kurup was awarded the Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Fellowship for the year 2011-2012 and was hosted at the University of California, Davis.
Dr. Sadananda Maiya was an alumnus of the National College Basavanagudi. He has an Electrical Engineering Degree to his credit. He has submitted his thesis for the Ph.D. degree to the University of Columbia, USA, for having worked in the field of application of NANO Technology in food processing. He has also been conferred with an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Tumkur.
Dr. Maiya is an entrepreneur and industrialist in the food industry, and a well-known restauranteur. He is credited to have made ‘MTR’ a world renowned brand. As an entrepreneur he has developed a wide assortment of innovations in the food processing industry, including development and application of nanotechnology to food preservation, which has gained worldwide recognition. He has received many awards in recognition of his significant contributions to various sections of society.
In 2006, he received the Rajyothsava Award from the Government of Karnataka. In addition, he has received; the Aryabhata Award, the Kempegowda Award, the Honest Tax Payer award from the Karnataka Commercial Taxes Department, and a “Lifetime Achievement” Award from the All India Food Processors’ Association.
He is a major donor to the National Education Society of Karnataka having donated crores of Rupees. The “Dr. P. Sadananda Maiya Pre-University Block” in the National College, Jayanagar, and “Dr. H. Narasimhaiah Multimedia Hall” in the National College, Basavanagudi, are testimonies of his munificent philanthropy. He has been a Governing Member and is at present the Honorary Secretary of the National Education Society of Karnataka.
Dr. A.H.Rama Rao is the President of the National Education Society of Karnataka. He was a student of the National College, Basavanagudi. He joined the Department of Physics in the year 1966. He was constantly associated with Dr. H.N., the President of The National Education Society of Karnataka, and continues to lead the institution’s growth from strength to strength. He has a Doctorate in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The State Government of Karnataka honoured Dr. A. H. R with the Rajyotsava Award in recognition of his service to the cause of education. Dr. A. H. Rama Rao has gone beyond the frontiers of education and has identified himself with problems of the poor in society. Hence, he has involved himself in many social services for uplifting the poor. He has taken up many outreach programmes in different villages, where his contributions to benefit women and primary education in rural areas are well known.
Dr. A. H. Rama Rao has donated several lakhs of rupees not only to the different programmes of the N.E.S of Karnataka, but also to several Cultural Organizations and Rural Development Programmes. His work in villages spans over a decade, where he has touched some of the needs of more than 30,000 students in different primary schools of Anekal Taluk. A special mention should be made of his contribution to the welfare of the 400 blind inmates of Sri. Ramana Maharishi Academy for the Blind.
Dr. A. H. Rama Rao has been associated with the Bangalore Science Forum since 1967 in different capacities, where he served as Treasurer, as Secretary and as Vice-President. He has contributed generously towards the development of the Computer Science Laboratories at the National College Basavanagudi and the National College Jayanagar. He was also the Head of the Departments of Computer Science in both the colleges for several years. He has been instrumental in Computerization of our Libraries. Since its inception, he has been the Vice-President of the Bangalore Lalithakala Parishath, an organization to promote Cultural Activities in the National College, Jayanagar campus.
Dr. A.H. Rama Rao has been the main inspiration behind the starting of P.G. courses in general and M.Sc, Computer Science in particular at the National Degree College Basavanagudi, Bangalore.
With his untiring enthusiasm, Dr. A. H. Rama Rao has many fruitful years to serve the society in its various aspects.
Leading our Board of Governors is Dr. Puneeth Iyengar. Dr. P. Iyengar, MD, PhD, is a member of the Iyengar Medical and Educational Foundation’s Board of Governors and one of the Founding members of the Iyengar Medical and Education Foundation.
Puneeth is a renowned radiation oncologist, currently serving as a physician and research scientist and Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Texas’ Southwest Medical Center. His medical caregiving and treatments to lung cancer patients have motivated his research work, in developing advanced treatments for patients.
He is an expert in stereotactic ablative radiation therapy (SABR), a form of radiation treatment for lung cancer that’s becoming more of a first-line, curative treatment. This type of noninvasive treatment involves high-dose radiation beams entering the body through various angles and intersecting at the desired target, allowing for a concentrated dose to reach the tumor while limiting the dose to surrounding healthy tissue.
He is dedicated to advancing medical science, creating opportunities for youth and providing care for the community.
Mr. Miller is CEO of The DelanoGroup Consulting with a background in Telecommunications and Computer Networking, Renewable Energy, Human Rights, Disaster Response, Human Resources/Relations, Leadership, and Business Management.
He is a former US Air Force Foreign Area Officer with service in Honduras and at the US Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay, as well as previous international experience working and living in Iceland, the Republic of the Philippines, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.
He has training in disaster management and experience as a disaster management on-scene crisis response commander, as well as training as a Disaster Assistance Response Team member for international crises.
He holds a BS in Basic Sciences from the US Force Academy, a dual MA in Business Management and Human Resources/Relations and an MS in Telecommunications and Computer Networking.
Prof Dinesha has a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and for the past 20 years, has been involved in teaching, research and consultancy in Information Technology. His expertise is in developing scientific and commercial software. Professor Dinesha’s areas of interest include; Software Engineering, Quality Systems (ISO and SEI CMM Models), Cryptography, Object Technology and Data Structures.
Dr. Pissinou is a Professor of Computer Science at Florida International University’s School of Computing and Information Sciences, and the Director of the Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.
Dr. Pissinou has published over two hundred and fifty research papers in peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings and books chapters on networking, telecommunications, distributed systems, mobile computing, security and aspects of nontraditional data management including co-editing over four texts in the area of mobile and wireless networking and systems and over fourteen IEEE and ACM conference volumes. Widely cited in books and research papers, her research has been funded by NSF, DHS, NASA, DOT, DoD, state governments and industry. She has graduated over nineteen Ph.D. students who now hold positions in academia, federal government and industry.
Dr. Pissinou has served as the general and technical program chair on a variety of ACM and IEEE conferences. She also served on hundreds of IEEE and ACM program committees, organizing committees, review panels, advisory boards, editorial boards etc. She has served as an editor of many journals including the IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering. She also has been the founder of many professional forums, including the ACM GIS.
Dr. Pissinou has given keynote talks at various events and served as consultant to industry. Her achievements have been recognized by her peers, who have given her several awards and honors, including best paper awards.
Debra Lee Davis is a senior executive with over 16 years of diverse experience in research, education and technology. She was a previous chief information officer and senior research and evaluation analyst for the children’s trust, where she provided vision, leadership strategic planning and management of information systems. Prior to this position, she was an Educational Specialist for the Miami-Dade County Public Schools in adult education and regional operations. She received her PhD in cognitive developmental psychology with a minor in statistics from the University of Texas at Austin, enter Master of science in computer science at Florida international University. She also has an MA in developmental psychology with a minor in statistics from the University of Texas at Austin and received her BA with academic and research honors in psychology and computer science from FIU. Throughout her career she has been a student oriented mentor with an interactive, hands-on approach where she has worked with students to enhance their strengths and overcome their weaknesses helping them to excel in both their studies and careers. Dr. Davis also has strong project management skills in behavioral science and the IT fields. She is an articulate speaker and author with proven communication skills able to communicate technical information to non-technical individuals and audiences. She’s authored a variety of peer-reviewed journal articles in both computer science and psychology. She been nominated to the Phi Kappa Phi national honor Society. She is currently a faculty member at Florida International University’s School of Computing and Information Sciences.
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