Team - LEAP

LEAP was founded by Prof. Timothy A Gonsalves (Founding Director, IIT Mandi 2010-2020, Retd. from CS&E Dept, IIT Madras) in April 2021, with co-founders including,

Hema Rani (Sr. Technology & Product Leader, Formerly with C-DOT, Aricent)
Prof. L. Kannan (Professor of Practice, IIT Madras, Founder, Vortex Engineering)
Rolland J. Enoch (Founder, Rishon Comm. Tech Pvt Ltd, Tirunelveli)
Prof. S. C. Jain (Emeritus Prof., School of Engineering, IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh)
Prof. Hitesh Shirmali (Associate Prof, School of Computing & EE, IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh)
Jagadheesh Kanna (Founder, Vaayusastra Aerospace Pvt Ltd, IITM Research Park)

LEAP Team

Prof. Timothy A Gonsalves

Founder LEAP
Founding Director, IIT Mandi
(2010-2020) Retd. from CS&E
Dept, IIT Madras

Hema Rani

Co-Founder, LEAP
Sr. Technology & Product Leader
Formerly with C-DOT, Aricent

Prof. L. Kannan

Co-Founder, LEAP
Professor of Practice, IIT Madras
Founder, Vortex Engineering

Prof. S. C. Jain

Co-Founder, LEAP
Emiretus Prof., School of Engineering, IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh

Prof. Hitesh Shrimali

Co-Founder, LEAP
Prof, Ahemadabad University, Formerly, Associate Prof, IIT Mandi, HP

Usha Rani

Principal Consultant, LEAP
IITM RP
Formerly at DRDL, TCS, NMS Works

S Lakshminarasimhan

Senior Manager, LEAP, IITM RP
Formerly Products & Customer Accounts in IT Companies

Dr. A S Ramana

Senior Manager LEAP Program Operations, LEAP, IITM RP

Nilofar Nisha

Assistant Manager, LEAP
IITM RP

Praveen Kumar

Project Consultant, LEAP
IITM RP

and Others Mentors from IITs, and Industry

Vaayusastra Aerospace is an Ed-Tech and Research startup under IIT Madras Incubation cell and IITM's RTBi trying to enable Aeronautical and Aerospace Education for school and college students. Vaayusastra has a mission of taking the aeronautical education through out India and building future of space industry for India.

Rishon Communication Technologies Private Limited provides automation software solutions. embedded software, design services, networking problem analysis, challenging troubleshooting, and software development consultancy. As part of LEAP, Rishon provides internship to the students, conduct FDP sessions, project evaluation for Open house events, offers project mentorship to the students, etc...