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Place of Birth: Akola district, Maharashtra, India
About Vijay P. Bhatkar
- Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar is an Indian computer scientist, IT leader and educationalist.
- He is best known as the architect of India's national initiative in supercomputing where he led the development of Param supercomputers.
- He is a Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri and Maharashtra Bhushan awardee.
- Indian computer magazine Dataquest placed him among the pioneers of India's IT industry.
- He was the founder executive director of C-DAC and is currently working on the developing Exascale supercomputing mission for India.Bhatkar has been chancellor of Nalanda University, India since January 2017.
- Prior to that, he served as the Chairman of Board of Governors of IIT Delhi from 2012 to 2017.
- Currently he is serving as the Chairman of Vijyana Bharti, a non profit organization of Indian scientists.
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