learn and remember he is also at the helm of the neurosciences ecosystem at mit geared towards excellence in research and teachingwe aim to understand disorders of the brain and how to treat them neuroscience is an extremely exciting field with new discoveries being made every day fuelled by new ideas and technologies i am privileged to have outstanding students and colleagues who share with me the excitement of our field says sur who was born in fatehgarh uttar pradesh an alumnus of iitkanpur 1974 batch sur is now associated with the center for computational brain research at iitmadras this is an important start in building a neuroscience division at the iits it aims to bring new computational and theoretical ideas from engineering into neuroscience and ideas from brain science to build the next generation of intelligent systems he is collaborating with several faculty members at iitmadras to build a successful group of students and faculty members working on neuroscience and machine learninghello retail meet techsuresh kumar 54global chief technology officer and chief development officer walmartsilicon valley usas walmart goes for a technology push in its attempt to take on amazon the man for the mission is suresh kumar the iitmadras alumnus has been appointed in the dual role of global chief technology officer and chief development officer and will be reporting directly to ceo doug mcmillonkumar has worked with american tech giants for over 25 years he was most recently at google as vicepresident and general manager of display video app ads and analytics earlier he was corporate vicepresident of microsofts cloud infrastructure and operations most interestingly he was at walmarts rival amazon for over 15 years eventually becoming vicepresident of technology for retail systems and operations leading the retail supply chain and inventory management systemsmc millon acknowledged this in his message announcing kumars appointment suresh has a unique understanding of the intersection of technology and retail including supply chain and has deep experience in advertising cloud and machine learning and he has a track record of working in partnership with business teams to drive resultskumar who lives in cupertino will continue to work out of silicon valley at the sunyvale office of the arkansasheadquartered retail behemoth as global cto he will devise the worlds biggest retailers technical strategy combining advances in computing with walmarts strengths to deliver the best customer experiencetrue callingrajeev suri 51ceo nokiaespoo finlandsuri the indiaborn ceo of finnish telecom giant nokia has something in common with microsoft ceo satya nadella both studied engineering at manipal institute of technology suri who is a citizen of singapore has been the nokia boss since 2014 and was earlier the ceo of nokia solutions and networks he is described by the company as the driving force behind nokias acquisition of alcatellucent its successful expansion into enterprise markets the creation of a standalone software business and the return of the nokia brand to mobile phone marketin his previous role suri was credited with delivering a turnaround increasing the