Jio Institute appoints Guruswami Ravichandran as Provost

Jio Institute on Monday announced the appointment of Prof. Guruswami Ravichandran from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as the Provost to further strengthen its academic leadership.

Jio Institute is a multi-disciplinary higher education institute set up as a philanthropic initiative by Reliance Industries Ltd. and Reliance Foundation.

He will join Jio Institute as its founding Provost and professor of engineering from July 1.  Prof. Ravichandran has served as the Otis Booth Leadership Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech.

He holds  a Ph.D. in Engineering and M.S. in Engineering both from Brown University and a B.E. (honors) degree in