Dr. Vijay Bhatkar is the new Chancellor of Nalanda University. He will replace George Yeo, former Foreign Minister of Singapore, who quit after the Board of the University was reconstituted.
Dr. Bhatkar studied at the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) and the Maharaja Sayaji Rao University.
He received the Padma Bhushan in 2015 in the field of science and technology.
He is the man behind India’s first supercomputer, the Param series.