By By American Kahani
Six Indian Americans are among 180 scientists, writers, scholars, and artists who have been named Guggenheim Fellows. They were chosen from a rigorous application and peer review process out of almost 2500 applicants, “on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise,” the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation said.
Indian American fellows include Prashant K. Jain, Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Chemistry); Shrikanth Narayanan, University Professor and Nikias Chair in Engineering, University of Southern California (Computer Science); Manjul Bhargava, Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University (Mathematics); Suparna Rajaram, Distinguished Professor in Cognitive Science, Stony Brook University, SUNY (Psychology); Jyoti Puri, Hazel Dick Leonard Chair and Professor of Sociology, Simmons University (Sociology): and Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History, University of Connecticut.
Prashant K. Jain received his B.Tech. from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Georgia Tech. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley, following which he joined the University of Illinois faculty. He has affiliations with the Materials Research Lab, the Department of Physics and the Beckman Institute. His research focuses on the understanding and control of light-matter interactions on the nanoscale and the use of confined light for artificial photosynthesis and imaging atomistic dynamics of complex solids and catalysts.
Shrikanth Narayanan has an M.S., and Ph.D., all in electrical engineering, from UCLA in 1990, 1992, and 1995, respectively, and his bachelor of engineering in electrical engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy in Chennai. He has previously worked with AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park and AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, first as a senior member and later as a principal member of its Technical Staff. He is also a professor in the Signal and Image Processing Institute of USC’s Ming Hsieh Electrical & Computer Engineering department with joint appointments as a Professor in Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience, Pediatrics and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He is the inaugural director of the Ming Hsieh Institute and a research director for the Information Sciences Institute at USC. Additionally, he is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
They are among 180 recipients, chosen from a rigorous application and peer review process out of almost 2500 applicants.
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