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11 Indian Americans Among Sloan Research Fellows List
Eleven Indian Americans have made it to the list to receive a 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship. The fellowships honor extraordinary US and Canadian researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders.
The Sloan Research Fellowships are open to scholars in seven scientific and technical fields—chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. Winners receive a two-year, $75,000 fellowship which can be used flexibly to advance the fellow’s research. This years’ 13 Indian American Sloan Research Fellows are:
Shaama Mallikarjun Sharada: A WiSE
Gabilan Assistant Professor in the
US cuts visa delays in India, vows to do more
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California. She researches on developing catalysts and photocatalysts to meet energy efficiency and sustainability goals.
Eshan Chattopadhyay: An assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University, his research area is computational complexity theory.
Anirudha Majumdar: An assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University, he works on building autonomous robotic systems.
Rashmi Vinayak: An assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also a part of the Parallel Data Lab (PDL).
Tripti Bhattacharya: A Thonis Family Professor and a member of the Earth and environmental sciences faculty at Syracuse University.
Manasi Deshpande is an assistant professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. Her research focusses on empirical public finance and labor economics.
Bhargav Narayanan: An assistant professor of Mathematics at New Jersey’s Rutgers University is studying combinatorics, probability theory and related areas in statistical physics and theoretical computer science.
Mubarak Hussain Syed: An assistant professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico. He and his team investigates the genetic and molecular mechanics
Debanjan Chowdhury: A theoretical physicist at Cornell University, he studies the fundamental principles that govern the emergence of new collective phenomena involving trillions of interacting electrons in solid-state materials.
Tejaswi Venumadhav Nerella: An assistant professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a theoretical astrophysicist.
Sagar Vijay: An assistant professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he is a theorist in condensed matter physics. Saurabh Chitnis: An Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, he describes himself as an “inorganic chemist,” who “explores the part of the periodic table that doesn’t get a lot of attention.”
Sushant Sachdeva: An assistant professor of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, and a faculty affiliate at the Vector Institute.
Canada welcomes record 226,450 Indian students in 2022
Washington: (IANS) The US said that it had issued 36 per cent more visas to Indians so far this year than in preCovid-19 pandemic times because of “number one priority” being accorded to cutting of wait-time that has included unprecedented steps such as remote processing of applications from India, sometimes all the way in Washington D.C.
The longest wait-time, typically for first-time visitors, is down from over 1,000 days to about 580, as a result of such measures that also include interview waiver for repeat visitors, additional staffing at consular operations in Indian missions and “Super Saturdays” when mission staff just process visas all day.
Indians are also being encouraged to apply for visas at US missions in other countries, the officials said, who acknowledged this was far from an ideal situation.
More than 100 US missions around the world have processed Indian applications.
Indian-American wins National Geographic ‘Pictures of the Year’
Indian-American Karthik Subramaniam, a San Francisco-based software engineer, has won the 2023 National Geographic ‘Pictures of the Year’ award, beating over 5,000 entries.
Indian-American Karthik Subramaniam, a San Francisco-based software engineer, has won the 2023 National Geographic ‘Pictures of the Year’ award, beating over 5,000 entries.
Subramaniam’s photo, which is titled ‘Dance of the Eagles’, shows a trio of bald eagles battling for a spot on a branch in Alaska’s Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve, a press release by the magazine said.
He titled the image as a homage to a fictional dragon war in George R.R. Martin’s novel, ‘A Dance with Dragons’.
“Wherever there’s salmon there’s going to be chaos,” Subramaniam told the magazine that this was his motto as he camped out near the shore of the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve, waiting for action. The engineer-turned-hobbyist photographer said he stayed, watching as bald eagles swooped in and out of the fishing grounds in Haines, Alaska. The area hosts the largest congregations of bald eagles in the world every fall, when around 3,000 arrive in time for the salmon run.
Toronto,: (IANS) With 226,450 students, India has become the top source of new international students entering Canada in 2022, according to data released by the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
The North American nation set an immigration record by welcoming 551,405 international students from 184 countries in 2022.
India was closely followed by China and the Philippines with 52,165 and 23,380 students, respectively.
In 2021, a total of 444,260 new study permits took effect, an increase from the 400,600 in 2019. In 2019, there were 637,860 international students in Canada -- a number which decreased in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and rebounded in 2021 to a total 617,315. India was also among the top 10 source countries of international students already living and studying in Canada as of December 31, 2022, with 319,130 students.
