chairs contribution

“Jaswinder and Tarvinder Chadha Chair” in Data Analytics

IIT Delhi Alumnus Jaswinder (Jassi) Chadha, BTech Mechanical Engineering 1990, has endowed a Chair in Data Analytics. The goal of setting up this Chair is to attract the researchers and practitioners in the area of data analytics and data science, which is fast becoming a key driver of business productivity and economic growth.

Jaswinder’s mother, Dr Tarvinder Kaur Chadha was the first woman to get a Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Delhi in 1968 and Tarvinder and Jassi are the first parent-child graduates of IIT Delhi.  Dr Tarvinder Kaur had a distinguished career in academics and is a widely recognized scholar in fluid dynamics. She was, formerly, the Head of the Mathematics Department and Dean of Sciences at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. This Chair in Data Analytics is named after this accomplished mother-son duo.

Jassi is a serial entrepreneur and a highly regarded data scientist himself. He currently serves as Founder & CEO of Axtria, an Analytics & AI software company which recently acquired the status of a Unicorn. Since its founding in 2010, Axtria has become one of the most prominent global players in the Life Science industry, with customers in over fifty countries.

Jassi  has been recognized and awarded for his contributions as an entrepreneur and industry leader. He was named the regional winner of E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year in New Jersey twice in 2004 and 2018. Pharmaceutical Management Science Association (PMSA) awarded him the prestigious lifetime achievement award for his tremendous contributions to the Life Sciences industry in 2014. In 2009, PharmaVOICE 100 recognized Jassi as one of the 100 most influential people in the life sciences industry. He was honoured with the “Top Forty under Forty” award by NJBiz Magazine in 2003.

Jassi received an MS in Industrial Engineering from The University of Texas at El Paso in 1992, was a Doctoral candidate (ABD) in Operations Research at Texas A&M University until 1995 and graduated from the Owners President Program (OPM) of the Harvard Business School in 2017. Jassi had also endowed a Chair in Operations Research at IIT Delhi in 2008. He is proud to be a founder of the IIT Delhi Endowment Fund. In recognition of his achievements service to the Institute Jassi was awarded Distinguished Alumni Service Award by IIT Delhi in 2008.

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