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Khush, Gurdev Singh

Khush, Gurdev Singh

Current nationality
Philippines (the)
Current country of residence
United States of America (the)
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Khush is adjunct professor at UC Davis. He obtained his PhD at UC Davis in 1960. After serving as assistant geneticist at the same university for seven years, he joined the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines as plant breeder. He retired as principal plant breeder and head of the division of plant breeding, genetics and biotechnology in 2002. His honours include 14 honoris causa doctorates and several awards including the Japan Prize, World Food Prize, Rank Prize, Wolf Prize, Golden Sickle Award, Mahathir Science Award and the Padma Shri Award by the President of India. He is a member of 9 science academies including Indian National Science Academy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences.
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Last updated on 12/07/2023

Paulraj, Arogyaswami Joseph


Current nationality
United States of America (the)
Current country of residence
United States of America (the)
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Paulraj is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, USA. He obtained his PhD in 1973 at IIT (Delhi). He served in the Indian Navy from 1965 to 1991 where he led the development of military sonar systems. He also founded three national level research labs in India. He joined Stanford in 1992 where he pioneered MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) wireless technology that has revolutionized wireless performance and is incorporated into all Wi-Fi and mobile 4G./ 5G systems His recognition includes the 2024 RAE Prince Phillip Medal, the 2023 IET Faraday Medal, the 2011 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the 2014 Marconi Prize, the 2010 Padma Bhushan (Indian national award), the 2017 induction into the US Patent Office National Inventors Hall of Fame and the 2018 China Friendship Award. He is a member of nine academies, including the US National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering and several Indian S&T Academies . He is a fellow of IEEE and AAAS.
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Last updated on 25/09/2025

Gross, David

Gross, David

Current nationality
United States of America (the)
Current country of residence
United States of America (the)
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Gross (PhD 1966, UC Berkeley) is permanent member, Kavli Inst. for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, where he was director (1997-2012). He was Thomas Jones Prof. of Mathematical Physics, Princeton U. Gross has made important contributions to particle physics and string theory, incl. the discovery of asymptotic freedom and development of quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the nuclear, strong force; and the discovery and development of heterotic string theory. His awards include: MacArthur Prize; Dirac Medal; Oscar Klein Medal; Harvey Prize; EPS Particle Physics Prize; Grande Medaille d'Or; Nobel Prize in Physics, 2004. He holds hon. degrees from the US, Britain, France, Belgium, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Israel,Brazil and Argentina. He is a member of: US Natl. Academy of Science; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Philosophical Society; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Indian Academy of Science; Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Last updated on 02/05/2025

Verma, Inder Mohan

Verma, Inder Mohan

Current nationality
India
Current country of residence
United States of America (the)
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Verma obtained his MSc in 1966 from Lucknow University, India and his PhD in biochemistry at The Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. He is professor in the Laboratory of Genetics at The Salk Institute in La Jolla, California; adjunct professor in the department of biology at UC San Diego; Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). His honours include: Medal of Outstanding Scientist, North American Scientists of Indian Origin; NIH Merit Award; NIH Outstanding Investigator Award; and the American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology. His membership includes: National Academies of Sciences, USA; Institute of Medicine; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Indian National Science Academy; and the American Philosophical Society.
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Last updated on 13/03/2024

Sreenivasan, Katepalli Raju

Sreenivasan, Katepalli Raju

Current nationality
United States of America (the)
Current country of residence
United States of America (the)
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Sreenivasan is professor of physics, mathematical sciences and engineering at New York U. and pres. and dean of its Polytechnic School. He taught at Yale for 22 years where he was the Harold W. Cheel prof.; dist. u. prof. and dir., Inst. of Physical Science and Tech., U. Maryland; and Abdus Salam professor and dir. of the Intl. Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. He is a member of the US Natl. Acad. of Sci.; US Natl. Acad. of Eng.; Accademia dei Lincei; American Acad. of Arts and Sci.; Indian Acad. of Sciences; Indian Natl. Science Acad.; Indian National Acad. of Eng.; and African Acad. of Sciences. His honours include the Guggenheim Fellowship; Otto Laporte Award and Dwight, American Physical Society; Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Inst. of Science; Intl. Panetti-Ferrari Prize and Gold Medal, Torino Acad. of Sciences; and Natl. Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil.
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Last updated on 02/05/2025

Patel, Chandra Kumar Naranbhai

Patel, Chandra Kumar Naranbhai

Current nationality
United States of America (the)
Current country of residence
United States of America (the)
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Patel (PhD, Electr. Engg., Stanford, 1961) is Em. prof. of physics and astronomy, electrical engineering and chemistry, UC Los Angeles. University Distinguished Professor, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; He is also President and CEO of the Board, Pranalytica, Inc. In 1961, he joined Bell Laboratories where he managed all research in physics and materials science and engineering. In 1993 he joined UC Los Angeles as vice chancellor for research and assumed his present positions in 2000. He has received many scientific society prizes including the highest prizes of the IEEE (Medal of Honor) and the Optical Society of America (Ives Medal) and the Natl. Medal of Science awarded by the US President (1996). He was elected to the Natl. Acad. of Sciences, the American Acad. of Arts and Sciences and the Natl. Acad. of Engineering. In 2013, he was inducted into the Natl. Inventors Hall of Fame. He was pres., American Physical Society (1995) and Sigma Xi (1993-95).
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Last updated on 02/05/2025

Jamshidi, Mohammad Mo

Jamshidi, Mohammad Mo

Current nationality
United States of America (the)
Current country of residence
United States of America (the)
Biodata
Jamshidi is LB Endowed chaired prof. of ECE and dir., ACE Lab., U. of Texas, San Antonio, regents prof. em., U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque and hon. prof., Birmingham U. (UK) 2012-2017. He was adv., NASA, and sr. res. adv., US Air Force Res. Lab and US DOE. Awards include: IEEE's Norbert Wiener Res. Award; Centennial Medal; CSS Dist. Member Awd., and IEEE-USA Sys Engr. Awd.; member, 5 honor societies; Best Res. Awd., Min. of Sci. and Higher Ed., Iran; Edison Natl. Res. Awd., Min. of Energy, Iran; Dist. Res. of the Year, UNM College of Eng.; and 3 hon. doctorates from u. in Azerbaijan, Canada and Greece. NASA Natl. service awd.. His membership includes: fellow of IEEE, ASME, NYAS, AAAS; assoc. fellow, AIAA; Hungarian Acad. of Eng.; Russian Acad. Nonlinear Sci.; U. of Texas System Chancellor’s Council (2011-). He has published 730 pieces of work including 68 books, some translated into Russian, Mandarin among others.
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Last updated on 02/05/2025

Nasim, Anwar

Nasim, Anwar

Current nationality
Canada
Current country of residence
Canada
Biodata
Nasim was president of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He obtained his PhD (biochemical genetics, 1966) at the University of Edinburgh. He was science advisor to the COMSTECH Secretariat; chairman, National Commission on Biotechnology (NCB), Pakistan; and founding president of Federation of Asian Biotech Associations (FABA). His previous positions include senior research officer at the National Research Council of Canada and principal scientist of the Molecular Genetics Group at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudia Arabia. His awards include: Pride of Performance in Molecular Genetics, President of Pakistan, and Sitara-e-Imtiaz in Molecular Genetics, Pakistan. He is also fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences and Islamic Academy of Science.Nasim
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Last updated on 12/07/2023

Abdel-Massih, Roula

Abdel-Massih, Roula

Current nationality
Lebanon
Current country of residence
United States of America (the)
Biodata
Roula M. Abdel-Massih is a Community Educator at Central Michigan University (2022 to present) and former Director of Product Development at GBAC/ISSA (2023 to 2024), where she led programs in hygiene, biosafety and public health. From 2003 to 2021 she was faculty at the University of Balamand, became Full Professor in 2017 and Biology Department chair (2008 to 2011). She holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the American University of Beirut and a Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow (2001). Her research focuses on natural bioactive compounds (antibacterial and antiproliferative) and the genotoxic effects of environmental pollutants. She has over 50 peer reviewed papers, book chapters and over 50 international talks. Roles include TWAS Young Affiliate (2011 to 2015), Co chair of the TYAN Executive Committee (2021 to present), STS Forum Future Leader (2015) and US National Academies Education Fellow (2015 to 2016). She completed Harvard APLD (2016) and Harvard Global Public Health Leadership Program (2025), holds IFBA Biorisk certification (2019) and ISO 35001 training (2025), received the TCGA grant (Emory, 2019), is an ISC Fellow (2023) and serves on the TWAS Ethics Committee (2025).
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