Kallam Anji Reddy
Founder-chairman of Dr Reddy’s Group of Companies; Awarded with Padma Shri in 2001.
Dr. K. Anji Reddy is a pioneer in the pharmaceutical research in India and is founder-chairman of Dr Reddy’s Group of Companies.
Dr Kallam Anji Reddy did his B.Sc in Pharmaceuticals and Fine chemicals from Bombay University and subsequently completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering from National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, in 1969. Dr. K. Anji Reddy served in PSU Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited from 1969 to 1975. Dr. Reddy was the founder-Managing Director of Uniloids Ltd from 1976 to 1980 and Standard Organics Limited from 1980 to 1984.
In 1984, Dr. K. Anji Reddy founded Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories and soon the company established new benchmarks in the Indian Pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories transformed Indian bulk drug industry from import-dependent in mid-80s to self-reliant in mid-90s and finally into the export-oriented industry that it is presently. In 1993, Dr. Reddy’s became the first company to take up drug discovery research in India and in April 2001 it became the first non-Japanese Asian pharmaceutical company to list on NYSE. By the end of fiscal year 2005, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories was India’s second largest pharmaceutical company and the youngest among its peer group.
Presently, Dr. Reddy is a serving member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade & Industry, Government of India, and has been nominated to the Board of National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER).
Dr. K. Anji Reddy is also a philanthropist. He is the founder-Chairman of Dr. Reddy’s Foundation for Human & Social Development, a social arm of Dr. Reddy’s, which acts as a catalyst of change to achieve sustainable development.
Dr. K. Anji Reddy has received many awards and honors. These include Sir PC Ray award (conferred twice, in 1984 and 1992); Federation of Asian Pharmaceutical Associations (FAPA)’s FAPA-Ishidate Award for Pharmaceutical Research in 1998; leading business magazine Business India voted him Businessman of the Year in 2001; CHEMTECH Foundation bestowed on him the Achiever of the Year award in the year 2000 and the ”Hall of Fame” award in 2005, for his Entrepreneurship, Leadership and thrust on Innovation; and in 2001, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.
Raj Reddy
Dabbala Rajagopal “Raj” Reddy (born June 13, 1937) is one of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for over 40 years. He was the founding Director of the Robotics Institute and the Dean of the School of Computer Science (SCS) at CMU. He was instrumental in helping to create Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies in India, to cater to the educational needs of the low income, gifted rural youth.
Dr. Raj Reddy was born in Katur, Andhra Pradesh, India. He received a BE degree from the College of Engineering, Guindy (now part of Anna University), India in 1958 and a MTech degree in Civil Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1960. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1966. He was the first doctoral student to graduate at Stanford under Turing Award winner and AI pioneer, John McCarthy.
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence from 1987 to 89. Dr. Reddy was awarded the Legion of Honor by President Mitterand of France in 1984. He was awarded the ACM Turing Award in 1994, the Okawa Prize in 2004, the Honda Prize in 2005, and the Vannevar Bush Award in 2006. He served as co-chair of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1999 to 2001.
Amulya Kumar N. Reddy
Internationally renowned scientist and pioneer of appropriate technology in India. Born on October 21, 1930 in Bangalore, Amulya Reddy developed a passion for chemistry at St. Joseph’s School. He went on to do his B.Sc. (Honours) and MSc in Physical Chemistry from Central College. He was later at Imperial College, London, where he received his Ph.D in Applied Physical Chemistry.
Known primarily for his work as the father of Indian appropriate technology, a leading energy analyst and advocate, a prominent spokesperson for sustainable development, and a dedicated campaigner against nuclear energy for power or for weapons, Professor Reddy was also a highly respected teacher who inspired several generations of Indian scientists.
Dr. Reddy, who retired from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 1991, was widely known for his work in the field of energy. He stressed the importance of sustainable use of energy and energy security for the poor and the deprived, while focusing on technological solutions to meet these goals.
The prestigious Volvo Environment Prize 2000 was presented to him and three international colleagues for their path-breaking collaborative work towards making environmentally responsible global development possible through a fresh, policy-driven approach to the technical analysis of the world’s energy needs. He was the founder-president of the Bangalore-based International Energy Initiative (IEI), set up in 1991 to promote the efficient production and use of energy for sustainable development, particularly in developing countries.
Professor JN Reddy
Distinguished Professor and Holder of Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas A& M University. Professor Junuthula N. Reddy is an eminent and world renowned researcher and educator in the broad fields of mechanics, applied mathematics, and computational engineering science. Dr. Reddy’s outstanding research credentials have earned him wide national and international acclaim in the form of numerous awards, citations, and keynote and plenary lecture invitations at international conferences. Professor J.N. Reddy holds the special rank of Distinguished Professor (only 1% university may hold such a rank) and he was selected in a national search as the inaugural holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair since 1992. The extent of Dr. Reddy’s original and sustained contributions to education, research, and profession societies is substantial. He has earned a sterling national and international reputation for his research and education in composite materials and structures and computational methods (especially, theory and applications of the finite element method). There are very few researchers and educators in the world who have achieved so much in so many diverse fields of engineering (fluid mechanics, heat transfer and solid and structural mechanics) as well as applied mathematics as Professor Reddy.
Professor Reddy’s contributions in research and education, his professional impact, and honors and awards are listed in the following paragraphs. A more complete resume can be found at
http://authors.isihighlycited.com/ and http://www.tamu.edu/acml
jnreddy@tamu.edu
D. Bap Reddy
Dr. Dwaram Bap Reddy is an Indian entomologist who served at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
He received his Ph.D from University of California, Berkeley, United States in 1950. He served from 1978 to 1982 as the Deputy Regional Representative(Diplomatic status level position) of Asia and Pacific for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the primary world wide non-governmental organization responsible for food and agricultural issues. He was FAO Representative in Indonesia from 1982 to 1986 and also FAO Representative in Nepal in 1987. Prior to serving with the FAO, he was an active researcher with more than 200 papers and articles to his credit and was invited to present a Special Lecture on Food Production in 1965 at The Royal Society of London. His sustained contributions in his field were recognized with a Special Tribute paid to him during the Eleventh session of the Asia Pacific Plant Protection Commission. He was directly involved in the implementation of the plant protection counters evident at Indian ports of entry, a vital element in protecting India’s food supply. In his honor, the Plant Protection Association of India has instituted a national award, the Dr. D. Bap Reddy Award for Integrated pest management, which is awarded annually to entomologists.
Christopher Reddy
Associate Scientist, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Christopher Reddy is an associate scientist in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and an adjunct professor in biology at Boston University. He grew up on Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay and has always lived within a few miles of a coast. He earned a B.S. degree in chemistry in 1992 at Rhode Island College with a 2.8 GPA that was a five-year effort. After working one year in industry, Reddy returned to academia and received a Ph.D. degree in 1997 in chemical oceanography from the Graduate School of Oceanography of the University of Rhode Island and came to WHOI as a postdoctoral scholar. Reddy researches how the oceans respond to human-derived chemicals. He is a Fellow in the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, which trains scientists to effectively communicate science to the public. He often talks with some of the trailblazers who previously studied the effects of 1969 Florida oil spill in Falmouth: John Teal, Kathy Burns, George Hampson, and John Farrington. Unfortunately, two key scientists who were involved in earlier studies of this spill, Max Blumer and Howard Sanders, died before Reddy, to his great regret, had a chance to meet them.
Dr. G.R.S.Reddy
Scientist-E, Forestry
Education: B.Sc. Forestry (OU), M.Sc Forestry (HPKVV), Ph.D Forestry (Dr.YSPUHF)
Worked as Assistant Professor of Forestry at Dr.YSPUHF for three years. Presently working on development of agro forestry system for the past sixteen years with certain interests in Ecology and forest Genetics.
grsreddy@icfre.org
Dr E. Shyam Reddy
Dr Shyam Reddy carried out his Ph.D. work at the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India (Dr PM. Bhargava). Part of Ph.D. work was carried out at Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, West Germany (Prof. K.H. Scheit). His Ph.D. work was published as two papers in the prestigious Nature journal for which he was awarded National Young Scientist award by the Prime minister of India. Dr Reddy received First Margaret Memorial award, UK to carryout research at NIH. He obtained postdoctoral training in molecular biology at Yale University, CT (Dr Weissman’s laboratory) (National Academy member).
Gayatri Reddy
Gayatri Reddy is an anthropologist, feminist, writer, and teacher. She got her B.A. from the University of Delhi, and her M.A. and Ph.D in Anthropology from Emory University. She is currently an Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, and Anthropology at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her research, teaching and community engaged work lie at the intersections of sexuality, gender, race, and the politics of subject and community formation in India and the Indian diaspora.
She is the author of With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India (University of Chicago Press, 2006), an ethnography of hijras, the so-called “transgender” community in India. Like the larger corpus of her work, this book locates such figures of sexual difference, and the domain of sexuality more generally, within a broader field of social difference, exploring the intersections of gender and sexuality with religion, race, ethnicity, and class in South Asia and its diaspora. More recently, she has begun a research project exploring the contextual meanings of blackness in contemporary India through the lens of Indian Ocean world East African migrations to India in the wake of slavery’s abolition. Tracing these historical routes and geopolitical mappings through the prism of masculinity, this project historically and ethnographically explores the complex ways in which race, religion, and masculinity are constructed both through global as well as local contours of difference, to shape contemporary belonging. Along with Anna Guevarra, she has also co-founded a public history project exploring the long histories of displacement of migrant, poor, and working-class communities in the northside Chicago neighborhood of Uptown.
