Mr. Susai founded his first company, NetScaler, in 1997. NetScaler makes application appliances to handle tasks like load balancing, content caching and remote access functionality, along with optimizing delivery of custom web applications. It’s been estimated that around 75% of Internet users have interacted with NetScaler’s applications every day. In 2005, NetScaler was sold to…

Dr Rajagopal, a native of Madras, India received his Bachelor of Dental Surgery from Saveetha University, Chennai, India in 1999. At the University of Alabama at Birmingham, he first completed a 2 year Graduate Research Program in Dental Biomaterials in the Department of Prosthodontics and Dental Materials in 2002. Following that he completed a two-year…

Dr. Nambi Seshadri is among of the top ten engineers in the wireless technology worldwide and probably one of five most well recognized engineers of Tamil origin in the US. Dr. Seshadri obtained a Bachelor of Engineering in telecommunications from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli in 1982. Following that, he immigrated to US where…

Palani Kumanan Category: Technology in Journalism Palani Kumanan is Senior Technical Consultant, Full Stack Software Engineer and Technical Lead at The Wall Street Journal.He shared 2015 Year Pulitzer Prize for graphics team of investigative journalism, in growing recognition of the importance of using IT tools in reporting. He won the prize along with members of…

Clarence Jey Category: Music Clarence Ranjith Jeyaretnam better known as Clarence Jey is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter of Sri Lankan Tamil heritage who has had music chart on the US Billboard Hot 100, a Grammy-winning record and worked on various award-winning US television shows including an Emmy-nominated show. In 2011, Jey…

Raja Krishnamoorthi Category: Public Service Krishnamoorthi attended Princeton University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He then received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. Krishnamoorthi served as a partner at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis, as a special assistant attorney general under Lisa Madigan, the Illinois Attorney General, and as…

Dr. Sundaresan Sambandam : Category: Medicine Dr. Sundaresan Sambandam is an Oncologist/ Hematologist in Cranston, Rhode Island and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Kent County Memorial Hospital and Miriam Hospital. He received his medical degree from Thanjavur Medical College and has been in practice for more than 47 years. He has…

Mr. Kavi Alexander : Category: Audio Engineering Kavichandran Alexander is an audio engineer and record producer. He is a Sri Lankan Tamil. In 1984, he started the Water Lily Acoustics record label based in Santa Barbara, California.Recordings released by Water Lily Acoustics have been nominated twice for Grammy Awards. Alexander was the producer and engineer…

Ms. Gouzia Sivarajah : Category: Youth Entrepreneurship Gouzia Sivarajah is the Founder and CEO of SIINNO. She was a Freshmen at Heritage High School when the company was created. Gouzia participated in BPA where she won 1st place at state level and went to nationals for entrepreneurship. She also participated in the Young Entrepreneurs Academy…

Prof. Ganapathy Shanmugam : Category: Academic Excellence G.Shanmugam emigrated to the U.S. in 1970. He is a pragmatic and and an iconoclastic deep-water process sedimentologist. His primary contributions are aimed at documenting the volumetric importance of sandy mass-transport deposits and bottom-current reworked sands in deep-water petroleum reservoirs worldwide and at dispelling the popular myth that…