Vijay P.

Bhatkar
Vijay Bhatkar is an Indian computer scientist and a
Padma Bhushan awardee. Indias computer magazine
Dataquest has placed him among the star pioneers who
shaped Indias IT industry.

Bhaktar received the Padmashri Award in 2000 from

the Government of India and the Maharashtra Bhushan
Award of 1999-2000, the highest recognition of the Government of Maharashtra. He was the recipient of the
Jindal Prize in 2012 for science and technology in the
service of society. He received with the Saint Jnaneshwar World Peace Prize in 2010 from the World Peace
Center for promoting synthesis of science and spirituality in the service of humanity. He was awarded Sitaram
Jindal Foundation Award-2012 for applying the science
and technology to grassroot level.[2] Vijay Bhatkar is the
Chairman of Board of Governors of IIT-Delhi, Chairman
of ETH (Education To Home) Research Lab, Chairman
of the Board of Management of Government College of
Engineering, Amravati, Founder Chancellor and Chief
Mentor of Multiversity, Chancellor of D. Y. Patil University, and National President of Vijnana Bharati, a Peoples Science Movement of over 6,000 scientists across
India.

Career & Contributions

Bhatkar is best known as the architect of Indias national

initiative in supercomputing where he led the development of Param supercomputers. He developed the rst
Indian supercomputer, the Param 8000, in 1991 and then
later the Param 10000 in 1998. Based on the Param series of supercomputers, he built the National Param Supercomputing Facility (NPSF) which has been now made
available as a grid computing facility through Garuda
grid on the National Knowledge Network (NKN) providing nationwide access to High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure. Currently, Bhatkar is working
on exascale supercomputing via the Capability, Capacity
and Infrastructure on National Knowledge Network.

3 References

Bhatkar has authored/edited over 12 books and 80 technical and research papers and addressed several university
convocations, international and national conferences and
conventions and public functions.

[1] Prole of Dr. Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar. Retrieved 3

June 2014.
[2] Yesterdays supercomputers are todays laptops:
Bhatkar. Live Mint. 21 November 2012. Retrieved 15
December 2012.

Awards & Recognitions

Padma Bhushan (2015)
Ramanuja Trust Award (2007)

4 External links
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Personal website

FICCI Award (1983) [1]

Petersburg Prize (2004) [1]
Priyadarshni Award (2000)[1]
National Research Development
(NRDC) Award (198485) [1]

Corporation

Gold Medal Award of Indian Geo-technical Society

(1976) [1]
Electronics Man of the Year (1992) [1]
Bhatkar received the Padma Bhushan Award in the area
of Science and Technology by the Honourable President
of India at ceremonial function held on April 8, 2015 at
Rashtrapati Bhawan.
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