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Eulogy for a Discrete Polymath

Professor Mendu Rammohan Rao [6th August 1941 - 24th May 2025] My Dear Ram, When I was a PhD student and young researcher at the Operations Research Center at MIT, I had decided to work in combinatorial optimization and integer programming. It thrilled me to see the names of compatriots: Mendu Rammohan Rao, Katta G Murty, USR Murty, Ravi Kannan and R. Chandrasekharan spoken of as thought leaders in this field. It was then my great fortune

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Architect of Ideas at the Confluence of Math, Machines, and Medicine

In the intellectual landscape of modern India—where science meets society and innovation meets public purpose—Professor Vijay Chandru stands out as a rare polymath: a mathematician who became a technologist, a technologist who became an entrepreneur, and an entrepreneur who returned to academia to shape the future of health and digital public infrastructure. Origins: From Circuits to Complexity Born into an India on the cusp of technological awakening, Chandru’s early journ

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The democratization of genomics and the mission to have no disease orphan by 2030

"The history of genetics begins, not with Gregor Mendel’s pea experiments, but with people long ago noticing family resemblances and...

Vijay Chandru

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The Plenary by Nobel Laureate Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier @ Bengaluru Tech Summit 2022

Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2020 for her path breaking research on the revolutionary...

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Gather Historians of the Now

Eulogy for a Discrete Polymath

Architect of Ideas at the Confluence of Math, Machines, and Medicine

The democratization of genomics and the mission to have no disease orphan by 2030

The Plenary by Nobel Laureate Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier @ Bengaluru Tech Summit 2022

International Institute of Art Culture and Democracy

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