US award for 4 young Indian-origin scientists

[Adnan Faruqi]

US award for 4 young Indian-origin scientists


WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has named four Indian-American scientists among 96 researchers as recipients of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

The awards bestowed on Sridevi Vedula Sarma, Pawan Sinha, Parag A Pathak and Biju Parekkadan is the highest honour given by the US government to science and engineering professionals in early stages of their independent research careers.

"Discoveries in science and technology not only strengthen our economy, they inspire us as a people," Obama said. "The impressive accomplishments of today's awardees so early in their careers promise even greater advances in the years ahead."

An associate professor of computational and visual neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sinha received his undergraduate degree in computer science from the IIT-New Delhi and his Masters and doctoral degrees from MIT.

Sarma is assistant professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Institute for Computational Medicine at the John Hopkins University.

Parekkadan is associated with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, whereas Parag A Pathak is from the MIT.


US award for 4 young Indian-origin scientists - The Times of India

 

[BelligerentPacifist]

Good for them and good for the US.

 

[IZVINITE]

We must appraise the USA Government for this work. American Gvernment really thinks for its country in the positive way. Their scintific thinking and approach only have made the country on the top. Now, if we compare that with Indian Govrnment, it is no where. Here, most of the peopIe in Indian Goverment and administration are looters, selfish, corrupted ....................... .My hearty congratulations to Biju Parekkadan, Pawan Sinha, Parag A. Pathak and Sridevi (from John Hopkins Unuversity).