Kumud N. Srinivasan, president of Intel India, has been appointed Chairperson of the Board of Governors of National Institute of Technology-Tiruchi.
She is the first woman to hold the post since the inception of the institute in 1964, which was previously known as Regional Engineering College (REC). She will replace Rajaram Nityananda, Senior Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), and hold the office for three years.
Her appointment has been viewed as a major step by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government as four more NITs have got women Chairpersons. An order to that effect has been issued by President Pranab Mukherjee, a few days ago.
Ms. Srinivasan has been with Intel for over 25 years and has held several business and information systems positions within Intel’s manufacturing and information technology organisations. Prior to that, she was Vice-President and General Manager of IT for Silicon, Software and Services, where she led the delivery of IT solutions and service for Intel’s hardware and software engineers.
She is a member of the Board of Advisors of the School of Information Studies in Syracuse University and the member of the Governing Body of International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore. She got her bachelor’s degree in economics from Calcutta University in 1981 and master’s degree in information and library studies from Syracuse University in 1984.
S. Sundarrajan, Director, NIT-T, who met Ms. Srinivasan in New Delhi recently, told The Hindu on Thursday said he held detailed discussion with her on various subjects and briefed her about the academic programmes. She would visit the institute on November 26 and 27.
