Dr Manas Fuloria endows “Ramchandran Jaikumar Chair for Decision Sciences”
IIT Delhi alum Dr Manas Fuloria (BTech Manufacturing Science and Engineering 1993 & PhD Mechanical Engineering 2004) has endowed the “Ramchandran Jaikumar Chair for Decision Sciences” at IIT Delhi.
The chair is being set up in the honour of Ramchandran “Jai” Jaikumar, who was an Indian-born, US-based decision scientist and the Daewoo Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Jai was an expert in computer-aided manufacturing, robots and operating systems and won several awards for his research, including the prestigious Frederick Winslow Taylor Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Jai taught that success was ultimately a matter of luck, which meant successful professionals were duty-bound to give back and help the less fortunate.
Manas Fuloria is a co-founder and Custodian of Entrepreneurship in the Organization at Nagarro, a digital engineering services company listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. He refers to himself as a lifelong entrepreneur with some successful and several failed ventures. He is also active in social topics like air pollution, walkable and cyclable cities, public transport, reducing road crash fatalities and higher education.
