The nation celebrates the contributions of women on International Women’s Day. Prestigious IIT Guwahati has been a prominent flagbearer of women empowerment over the years. This is certainly remarkable and noteworthy. Let’s contribute a few paragraphs in the honour of female alumnus of IIT Guwahati, symbolic to our respects to the women fraternity at large.
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati is the sixth member of the IIT fraternity, was established in 1994. The academic programme of IIT Guwahati commenced in 1995. At present the Institute has eleven departments and five inter-disciplinary academic centres covering all the major engineering, science and humanities disciplines, offering BTech, BDes, MA, MDes, MTech, MSc and PhD programmes.
Many female Professors of IIT Guwahati have achieved excellence in various domains and made IITG very proud. In International Women’s we never forget their contributions.
Dr. Hemangee K. Kapoor Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering And Associate Dean, Alumni and External Relation is one such example.
Her Research Interests
Multiprocessor Computer Architecture, Formal Methods, Network-on-Chip design, Asynchronous systems.
Dr. Shakuntala Mahanta
She is Professor (Linguistics), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Chairperson, Internal Committee Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
Her Research Interests
OT (Optimality Theory)
Nature of exceptional patterns in langauge
Stress and intonation in South Asian languages
Tone and Intonation in Tibeto-Burman
Information Structure
Problems in Grapheme to Phoneme mapping in Indian languages
Endangered languages of Northeast India and their documentation
Dr. Chitralekha Mahanta Professor, EEE Department and Dean, Academic Affairs, IIT Guwahati.
Her Research Interests:
Control System Theory and Applications, Control of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems, Artificial Intelligence based Control, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems
Robust Control
Control of Nonlinear and Uncertain systems
Intelligent Control
Dr. Sanjukta Patra is a Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering And Head, Centre for Rural Technology (CRT) Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.
Her Research Interests in
Enzyme and Microbial Technology
Environmental Biotechnology
Biosensors
Dr. Bithiah Grace Jaganathan is a Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering and Associate Dean, Student’s Affairs Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
Her Research Interests in
Stem cells for cell therapy and tissue engineering
Cancer stem cells and metastasis
Cancer chemoresistance
Dr. Sukanya Sharma is a Professor and Head,Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
Her Research Interest:
Archaeology Cultural Studies.
