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Past Core Committee
Honouring those who built and led INYAS in earlier terms.
Past term
February 2023 – February 2024
Every Core Committee that has steered INYAS since its founding in 2015, term by term.
Rajendra S Dhaka
Chairperson
IIT Delhi
Pooja Devi
Core Committee Member
CSIR-CSIO
Kiran Bala
Core Committee Member
IIT Indore
Pankaj Barah
Core Committee Member
Tezpur University
Arnab Dutta
Core Committee Member
IIT Bombay
Veerendra Sharma
Core Committee Member
BARC
Dwijendra N Pandey
Core Committee Member
IIT Roorkee
Veda Krishnan
Core Committee Member
ICAR-IARI
Nishant Chakravorty
Core Committee Member
IIT KGP
Past term
February 2022 – February 2023
Rajendra S Dhaka
Chairperson
IIT Delhi
Pooja Devi
Core Committee Member
CSIR-CSIO
M B Rajani
Core Committee Member
NIAS
Rohini Garg
Core Committee Member
SNU
Sriparna Chatterjee
Core Committee Member
CSIR-IMMT
Veerendra Sharma
Core Committee Member
BARC
Dwijendra N Pandey
Core Committee Member
IIT Roorkee
Sugandha Maheswary
Core Committee Member
IIT Roorkee
Nishant Chakravorty
Core Committee Member
IIT KGP
Past term
February 2021 – February 2022
Chandra S Sharma
Chairperson
IIT Hyderabad
Mithun Palit
Core Committee Member
DMRL
M B Rajani
Core Committee Member
NIAS
Rohini Garg
Core Committee Member
SNU
Sriparna Chatterjee
Core Committee Member
CSIR-IMMT
Rajendra S Dhaka
Core Committee Member
IIT Delhi
Syed Abbas
Core Committee Member
IIT Mandi
Sugandha Maheswary
Core Committee Member
IIT Roorkee
Pooja Devi
Core Committee Member
CSIR-CSIO
Past term
February 2020 – February 2021
Chandra S Sharma
Chairperson
IIT Hyderabad
Mithun Palit
Core Committee Member
DMRL
Jitendra Patnaik
Core Committee Member
CU Punjab
Rohit Sharma
Core Committee Member
PU
Rajendra S Dhaka
Core Committee Member
IIT Delhi
Syed Abbas
Core Committee Member
IIT Mandi
Paramdeep Singh
Core Committee Member
AIIMS
Felix Bast
Core Committee Member
CU Punjab
Mudrika Khandelwal
Core Committee Member
IIT Hyderabad
Riffat John
Core Committee Member
Kashmir University
Past term
February 2019 – February 2020
Chandra S Sharma
Chairperson
IIT Hyderabad
Mahesh Kumar
Core Committee Member
IIT Jodhpur
Rajan Jha
Core Committee Member
IIT BBS
Gitanjali Yadav
Core Committee Member
NIPGER
V Ramanathan
Core Committee Member
IIT (BHU)
Jitendra Patnaik
Core Committee Member
CU Punjab
Rohit Sharma
Core Committee Member
PU
Past term
February 2018 – February 2019
Chandra S Sharma
Chairperson
IIT Hyderabad
Mahesh Kumar
Core Committee Member
IIT Jodhpur
Pankaj Kumar
Core Committee Member
IUAC
Rajan Jha
Core Committee Member
IIT BBS
Ranjith Kumar Sinha
Core Committee Member
DEI
Gitanjali Yadav
Core Committee Member
NIPGER
V Ramanathan
Core Committee Member
IIT (BHU)
Past term
February 2017 – February 2018
Anindita Bhadra
Chairperson
IISER Kolkata
Vijay Pal Yadav
Core Committee Member
JNU
Ranjani Viswanatha
Core Committee Member
JNCASR
Mahesh Kumar
Core Committee Member
IIT Jodhpur
V Ramanathan
Core Committee Member
IIT (BHU)
Pankaj Kumar Baghel
Core Committee Member
IUAC
Ranjith Kumar Sinha
Core Committee Member
DEI
Founding term
June 2015 – February 2017
Anindita Bhadra
Chairperson
IISER Kolkata
Saptarshi Mukherjee
Core Committee Member
IISER Bhopal
Vijay Pal Yadav
Core Committee Member
JNU
U K Anandavardhanan
Core Committee Member
IIT Bombay
Rajeev Saraswat
Core Committee Member
CSIR-NIO
Ranjani Viswanatha
Core Committee Member
JNCASR
Sudarsanan Ananth
Core Committee Member
IISER Pune
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