About Anudaksh
Who we are
Our Initiative
Anudaksh is a national upskilling platform born from faculty deliberations across IITs and NITs to enable innovation, design, and indigenous production in future technology domains. Leadership and advisory governance are presented on this page.
Anudaksh is an advanced upskilling platform in AI/ML, Security, Blockchain, Semiconductors & VLSI, Quantum Computing, and allied future skills domains, accelerating research, design, and indigenous manufacturing across India's ESDM sector. It is mentored by the intellectuals from IITs and International Universities.
The name
What Anudaksh stands for
Four principles that shape everything the programme sets out to do.
Anusandhan
Research
Advancing enquiry and discovery in future technologies.
Niyojaniyata
Employability
Preparing learners for industry-ready careers.
Udyamita
Entrepreneurship
Turning ideas into ventures and indigenous products.
Dakshta
Competence
Building deep, applied skill across domains.
Purpose
Why This Platform
Globally, there is an acute need for domain-specific skilled talent to design low-cost, efficient, reliable, and sustainable products across both hardware and software. Anudaksh addresses this gap through university-integrated programmes, from microelectronics and embedded systems to AI-driven technologies, so that technology excellence can be achieved to reduce dependence on foreign technology and build a self-reliant India (Atmanirbhar Bharat) in the true sense. It is India’s first upskilling programme on indigenous product design and development, integrated with research internships at IITs/NITs or other technical institutes of national and international repute. Through Anudaksh, learners will not only work in close collaboration with the faculty members of these premier institutes but will also be able to publish in top-tier research journals from IEEE/ACM/Springer/Elsevier and top-rated international conferences, which may result in patents and even startups.
Vision & MissionDirectors
Dr. Nisha Dholakiya
Chief Operating Officer
Technology leader and researcher with 15+ years across computational modelling, machine learning, and technology innovation.
Prerna Bajpai
Chief Planning Officer
10 years in education management, contributing to programme execution across higher education institutions.
Advisors
Hanumant Singh Shekhawat
Associate Professor
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Researcher in system theory, applied mathematics, and signal processing, with machine-learning applications in speech and healthcare.
Prithwijit Guha
Associate Professor
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Computer-vision and machine-learning researcher working on video analytics, pattern recognition, and image processing.
Aryabartta Sahu
Associate Professor
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Computer scientist focused on multicore architecture, scheduling, and embedded and cyber-physical systems.
Gaurav Trivedi
Advisor
VLSI CAD and circuit-simulation researcher whose interests span embedded systems, hardware security, and high-performance computing.
Srinivasan Krishnaswamy
Advisor
Works at the intersection of control systems and cryptography, including post-quantum schemes and LFSR-based stream ciphers.
International Advisors
Jan Pidanic
University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Associate Professor at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, specialising in radar and passive-radar signal processing.
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