Microsoft executive and IIT-Madras alumni to head India’s top research funding body

ANRF was acceptable up done an Act of Parliament successful 2023, with 2 wide objectives — summation the probe basal successful the country, peculiarly successful the universities and colleges, and guarantee greater availability of wealth for technological research.

Scientific research, arsenic of now, is confined chiefly successful the fewer centrally-funded probe institutions similar the laboratories of CSIR, IITs, IISERs, TIFR oregon the Indian Institute of Science. Very small probe happens successful the universities. According to 1 estimate, conscionable ab retired 1 per cent of the astir 40,000 higher acquisition institutions successful the state — the authorities universities and colleges — are presently engaged successful progressive research.

Similarly, the backing for probe and improvement has been stuck astatine astir 0.7 per cent of the GDP for respective years now, though it has seen a important summation successful implicit terms. This is good beneath the planetary mean of astir 1.8 per cent. Leading technological countries put good implicit 2 per cent of their GDP connected R&D.

The ANRF has been tasked to fortify the wide probe ecosystem successful the country, bringing unneurotic the probe laboratories, acquisition institutions, and backstage assemblage companies, and get them to collaborate connected the biggest questions of science, with a peculiar accent connected uncovering exertion solutions for India’s developmental problems. An important nonsubjective is to incentivise backstage assemblage backing for R&D.

The authorities had been looking for an extracurricular nonrecreational with a probe inheritance to caput ANRF to bring varying kinds of perspectives. Kalyanaraman, who did his B.Tech successful machine subject from IIT Madras, has antecedently worked with General Electric, and has acquisition successful areas similar vigor and utilities, artificial quality and telecom.

He has produced much than 200 peer-reviewed method papers, and has 35 patents successful his name, according to his illustration connected LinkedIn.