Two IIT-Gandhinagar professors among 50 women education leaders

Two professors of the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn), have been named among the 50 women education leaders for 2018. Professors Uttama Lahiri and Prachi Thareja will receive the 'Prof. Indira Parikh 50 Women in Education Leaders' Award at the World Education Congress on 'Sustainable Development Goals, Quality Education for All' to be held in Mumbai on July 5.

The award is given to 50 illustrious women after a meticulous process of selection.

Prof Uttama Lahiri is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and has worked extensively on automated techniques for stroke rehabilitation and autism intervention. One of her ideas may soon find commercial application.

She said: "This award will help encourage my endeavours in carrying out cutting-edge research to deliver tangible technological devices beneficial to mankind."

Her research interests include virtual reality-based human-computer interaction used in effective computing, eye tracking, and physiology-based modeling techniques, human-robot interaction used in cognitive studies, and the like.

Prachi Thareja is an associate professor of Chemical Engineering and her research seeks to answer how underlying microstructure influences the flow properties of soft materials.