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Biography
After obtaining her bachelor’s degree from Lucknow University in India, Nivruti Rai earned a master’s degree in industrial engineering at Oregon State University, completing her graduate research under the direction of Sabah Randhawa. Now the senior most woman executive at Intel India in Bangalore, she serves as technical manager for research and development pertaining to mobile platform technologies.
Rai’s work to improve the functionality and efficiency of high-performance computers is consistent with her commitment to technology development efforts that help the Indian economy.
Rai has five U.S. and international patents and has authored more than ten technical papers on integrated circuit design methodologies and operation research. In January 2006, Rai became the first individual ever to be named an “Overseas Citizen of India,” an honor that grants Indians holding foreign passports many of the rights of full citizenship, including access to areas of the country typically off limits to foreigners.
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- MSIE 1993 - MIME