Previous Fora / 2011
CHANDRU, Vijay
CEO, Strand Life Sciences, India
Vijay Chandru is an alumnus of BITS Pilani where he trained in Electrical Engineering and went on to get a doctorate from MIT in USA. Vijay is an academic and an entrepreneur who was named in the 50 Pioneers of Change by India Today in 2008. He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Academies of Science and Engineering. He holds adjunct faculty appointments at the International Centre for Theoretical Studies (TIFR) and the National Institute for Advanced Studies in Bangalore.
As an inventor and co-founder of the open source handheld Simputer Project, and the leading computational biology company Strand Life Sciences, Vijay has been recognized as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. He currently serves as Chairman & CEO of Strand LS.
Vijay is the president of ABLE (the apex body of Indian biotechnology industry), an honorary elected post for a 3-year term 2009-2012. He was recently appointed to the “High Panel on Science and Technology for Development” to advise UNESCO in identifying emerging trends in international science and engineering. Vijay also serves on the Global Advisory Board of the MIT Enterprise Forum, an international forum for technology entrepreneurship managed by the Technology Review magazine at MIT.