About IITK Foundation
About us
The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Foundation (henceforth referred to as “Foundation“ / “IIT Kanpur Foundation” / “IITK Foundation” / “IITKF”) was established “to mobilize alumni, enhance IIT Kanpur branding, provide alumni services and raise funds for the betterment of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India”. The exact definition of the purpose can be refined by the IIT Kanpur Foundation Board by a Board Resolution so long as the PURPOSE is ONLY in the context of betterment of IIT Kanpur or alumni located worldwide. The Foundation received its status as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization from the IRS in January 2001 (EIN#: 94-3370645)
Mission and Objectives
The Foundation was established as a non-profit public benefit corporation and received its status as a tax-exempt organization from the IRS. It is organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for charitable purposes. The specific purposes for which the Foundation is organized are to fund and promote overall betterment of students, faculty and alumni body of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Examples of fundraising include, but not limited to -- faculty chair funds, scholarships, equipment, research center, hostel improvement, etc. In addition, the Foundation will also assist in improving the IIT Kanpur branding through faculty recruitment, facilitate research through academic and corporate relationships. The organization will achieve its goals by providing financial and other resources towards these Initiatives.
IIT Kanpur Foundation (IITKF), IIT Kanpur Alumni Association (IITKAA),
and IIT Kanpur Development Foundation (IITKDF) through various initiatives
are continuing to work closely together to strengthen and grow the
global network of IIT Kanpur alumni. The objective of these initiatives
to bring IIT Kanpur faculty members, alumn and industry leaders together
in assisting IIT Kanpur realize its vision of becoming one of the world’s leading research and teaching universities.
Charitable Purpose
- Post-graduate students who stayed beyond their specified dates of assistantships for research related reasons.
- Students & faculty attended conferences for paper presentations - Partial support to students and faculty members were provided to assist them in their travel to attend national/international conferences.
- Increasing student-faculty, and faculty-faculty interactions.
Alumni Service Purpose
To foster fellowship among alumni through local chapters, provide a forum for communication among alumni, disseminate continuing education about IIT Kanpur, and, provide the means for involving alumni in support of IIT Kanpur and the mission of the Foundation
Prof. S. Ganesh
Officiating Director IITK
Advisory Board
Smita G BaglaMSc/Math/1984
Member of The Board of Advisors Career CNX
She is an Executive Product and Business Strategy expert, Growth Advisor, Interim CXO, and Board Member with a background in Design Thinking Prog UCR, she also serve as an Advisor, Mentor, and Angel Investor, while holding additional roles as a Board Member at TiE SoCal and Co-Chair at TiE Women Global.
Adesh JainBT/ME/1987
Federal Government Services Business Leader
Adesh is a seasoned, hands-on leader with over 30 years of progressive experience in leading an information technology services business for the federal government. Adesh enjoys reading business books, running, badminton and volunteering in various organizations including IDRF, Capital IIT and Girls Scouts. He lives in Herndon, VA with his wife and two kids.
Atul MathurB.Tech/AE/1988
Principal and CIO Credence Management Solutions LLC
Senior executive with experience in managing projects to improve business processes and build & integrate software systems for Public Sector and Commercial clients.
Ankur Rastogi (B.Tech/CE/1995)
Senior Director-Digital Energy
An Experienced Business Operations and Customer Success professional with a demonstrated history of working in the Energy Industry..
Saurabh SrivastavaB.Tech./ CHE/ 1995
founder at the holistic wellness organization Vayu Shakti
He has over two decades of experience working for major banks and consulting companies in US, UK, Japan and India. He is also an angel investor and a passionate student of Indic knowledge systems.
Jitesh Jain B.Tech/EE/2002
Senior Software Engineer
Jitesh is currently software architect at Roku working on back end and frontend infrastructure of RokuOS. He has previously worked on developing high performance software at Synopsys and Intel.
Shloke Hajela B.Tech/EE/2002
Senior Engineering Manager, CPU Design at Apple
He has delivered various high performance, low power x86/ARM CPU processor designs across multiple technology nodes.
Dr. Swati Saxena BT/AE/2006
Senior Aerospace Engineer ,
NASA Ames Research Center
As a skilled Aerospace Engineer and Technical Lead, she has served as the Co-President of the IITK Silicon Valley Chapter. Additionally, she holds positions as a Council Member and Honors & Awards Director in the AIAA San Francisco Section. Furthermore, she has been entrusted with the role of Technical Director in Aerospace and Defense at Ansys Inc,she had the privilege of being the Lead Engineer & Project Manager at GE Global Research.
Dhruv SinghBT/ME/2006
SoC Power and Design at Apple
He focused primarily on technology definition, reliability and thermal management at large. Specifically he led projects on SoC design flows (Synthesis, P&R) for PPA optimization, design technology co-optimization at advanced nodes and FinFET/interconnect self-heating,TCAD, statistical reliability modeling (device and product scale), EM/IR design flows and competitive technology benchmarking.