About Us
Founder
Akhlesh Agarwal, MTech in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee. Akhlesh has more than 30 years of experience in IT industry, where last 20 years were dedicated to educational software, Learning management systems, assessment management and other software applications for educational institutes. Currently working as Director-Technology Alliances for NIIT University in addition to starting this initiative “I Love Science”, his passion project.
Mentor
Arvind Gupta - an alumnus of IIT Kanpur, worked as founder head of Children’s science centre in IUCAA Pune. He has received the National Award for Science Popularization among Children conferred by the DST, Government of India. Additionally he has also received dozens of other awards from government as well as many social organizations for his work in popularizing science for children. Arvind Gupta's Website
Inspiration
Prof Walter Lewin - former professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for teaching with passion with live demonstrations in his classroom. Videos of Lewin’s lectures on Videos on Teaching Excellence at MIT, YouTube and iTunes U have been viewed more than 12 million times by people all over the world.