Rishikesha Krishnan

A research paper on sustainable entrepreneurship, part of #IIMBPhD scholar Sonal Nayak’s dissertation, received the Second-Best Paper Award (Management track) at the TAPMI PhD and Early Career Research Colloquium, organized by TAPMI Bengaluru and Deakin University, Australia.

Early Childhood Education and Development (ECED) is one of India’s most consequential economic investments write Prof. Gopal Naik, JJM Chair Professor, Centre for Public Policy, IIMB, and Dr. Anjana Dube, Chief Policy Officer, CPP, in a new piece. 🔗Read:hindustantimes.com/ht-insight/gov…

@RasmusLema Good to see this

Check out our recent paper in Energy Policy: Seizing the green hydrogen opportunity? We compare how Brazil, Chile, China, and South Africa approach green hydrogen as a pathway for industrial transformation doi.org/10.1016/j.enpo…

Pragya 2026 brought together PGP & PGPBA students of the #ClassOf2026 and faculty, including Prof. Jitamitra Desai, Prof. Shubha Patvardhan, Prof. Apurva Sanaria and Prof. U Dinesh Kumar, Director In-charge, IIMB, for an evening of parting reflections. 🔗iimb.ac.in/pragya-2026

We are excited to share that IIMB, with the support of @nsrcel, has launched the 'IIMB B-Founders Program' – a structured fellowship designed to enable graduating students of #IIMB to pursue their entrepreneurial ambitions full-time. 🔗More on this here: iimb.ac.in/iimb-launches-…

Next on #Businesstalk: Prof. Gopal Naik - economist, public policy & rural development scholar, and a key voice on tech-enabled learning in India. Don’t miss his insights from a large-scale study on student learning outcomes. #Economics #EdTech #Research

@harishbijoor @iimb I was in the same room from 1996 to 2013!

iDO: Everytime I visit the IIMB campus, I make it a point to visit the room where my father sat for decades as a faculty member! I do it again today! In memory! #ProfSRBijoor #IIMB #Bengaluru @IIMB

EPGP at IIMB has strengthened its global standing with the release of the FT MBA Rankings 2026. The programme is now ranked #34 worldwide, rising significantly from #57 in 2025, and is placed among the country’s leading MBAs at #3 in India. 🔗Read more: iimb.ac.in/iimb-epgp-ft-m…

@iimb_official Good to see this @JayantKrishnaIN

Mr. Jayant Krishna, former CEO & COO, National Skill Development Corporation and former ED of PM Skill India Mission, delivered a guest lecture on ‘India’s Skill Development Ecosystem: A Policy Perspective’ co-hosted by #PGPPM and CPP, #IIMB, on 11th February 2026. #SkillIndia

“Indian innovators are deploying AI applications to solve social and economic problems that are immediate and contextual to India,” write Prof. @rishikesha, Strategy area, #IIMB, and Dayasindhu N, Co-founder & CEO, itihaasa Research & Digital, for the Indian Express. Read now👇

@mnwsth Great questions. Other fields are facing similar challenges!

Graduate research training in experimental CS has traditionally been personnel intensive — hands are needed to work out ideas, develop prototypes, run experiments and analyse data. Most advanced LLMs can do almost all of these things, including many other parts of research e.g. discussions between people to brainstorm ideas. You can chat with LLMs about your ideas and if you ask the right questions, it is quite easy to discard bad ideas and find holes in decent ones very quickly. In Indian CS academia, we have always complained about the lack of trained students who can quickly test ideas. Now, a lot of those things that we required an army of graduate students for can be done by models. This should result in increased research productivity (measured by speed of testing of ideas, not published papers). I find myself doing this all the time. Ideas that would have required one summer and a few interns can be tested out in less than a day, just by myself. Software prototypes that would have required months can now be generated in a couple of weeks. This raises many important questions: 1) What happens to the traditional model of graduate student training? 2) How can this model be leveraged to help experienced folks earn PhDs faster? Is that a reasonable route? 3) How can the funding agencies use this insight to turbo charge the productivity of experimental CS researchers? Should “personnel” costs in research grants allow for AI “personnel”? 4) Clearly, published research papers are not the model for evaluating research productivity anymore. How do we measure it then? I find myself excited and terrified at the same time about these questions. We are in for some very interesting times ahead. @DheerajSanghi @rishikesha @ANRFIndia @shivkuma_k @kvijayraghavan

@iimb_official Congratulations

PGPPM students Madhurya Tarafder and Shraddha J. secured the 1st Runner-Up position at the Brahmastra Public Policy Case Competition 2026, organised by the Public Policy and Opinion Cell at IIT Kanpur in collaboration with Samagra Governance. #CaseCompetition #PGPPM #IIMB

In her latest Deccan Herald article, ‘Reclaiming Bengaluru from its road to rage’, Prof. Dalhia Mani, Chairperson, Entrepreneurship, IIMB, examines a troubling shift in the city’s public temperament, in everyday urban life. Read full article: deccanherald.com/opinion/reclai…

@Ishaanmittal2 @peakxvpartners @dvbydt @tejeshwi_sharma All the best

After 13 extraordinary years, I am moving on from @peakxvpartners to start a new venture capital firm with my two partners who I have known for decades - @dvbydt (Ashish), a friend since middle school (28 years and counting), and @tejeshwi_sharma (TJ), my tennis partner from undergrad ~20 years ago. This decision comes with immense gratitude and excitement in equal measure. To my partners at Peak XV - @sjs_day1 @gvravishankar @mobhat @i_sakshichopra @RajanAnandan @rohitagar_wal - thank you for the partnership, the trust, and the shared ambition to back the best founders in India and Southeast Asia. I owe a lot to Sequoia Capital and its leadership, Michael Moritz and Douge Leone. Their vision and commitment to venture capital will continue to be an inspiration for what we wish to build. And to the founders and companies I have had the privilege to work with - @Razorpay, @mamaearthindia, @Onecard, @CarDekho, @heydigit, @FinovaCapital, @GoodScore_app and @myawfis - working alongside you and learning from you all has been the most rewarding part of this journey. Watching you build, scale, and create lasting impact has been phenomenal. We believe the next great investment firm in the world will come out of India. And we want to build that. India isn’t just growing, it’s exploding with opportunity. We’re the fastest-growing major economy in the world. We have the youngest, most ambitious population of any large country. And, technology is reaching every corner of India faster than anyone could have imagined, even a few years ago. The next 20 years in India will produce world-class companies across every sector - AI, consumer, fintech, healthcare, manufacturing, climate, and categories we haven’t even named yet. The founders building these companies will be world-class, and we want to be in the trenches with them from day one. TJ, Ashish and I are thrilled about the opportunity to build an investment firm that is entrepreneurial, ambitious, and maniacally focused on backing the founders who will define the next phase of innovation in India. We will do it with patience, partnership, and a long-term commitment to company building. I couldn’t be more excited about what’s ahead.

In Jan 2026, CTL at IIM Bangalore hosted the 11th & 12th cohorts of the Doctoral Consortium on Teaching, bringing together 58 senior doctoral scholars to reflect on pedagogy, inclusivity, course design, and the evolving role of academics as scholars and leaders. #IIMB #CTL

The study ‘From Emotion to Action: How Emotionally Resonant Triggers Shape Opportunity Individuation’ co-authored by #PhD student Charu Rastogi & Prof. Srivardhini Jha, Entrepreneurship area, was awarded the Best Research Paper at IIT Bombay’s DSSE Entrepreneurship Day Symposium.

@Ishwariya13 @aamaarkatha @Yogeshsahu2030 @Rutuja_P13 @AnishaSumith @Athulnarayanps @manoj290991 Congratulations

Every year during our Annual Research Council meeting, the Director highlights student achievements from the past year.. this year, we made up a whole slide with our lab wins 🏆 As a PI, crew recognition >>>>> all else! I feel so proud of the crew, Take a bow guys!

@ramgopal_rao Very nice. Congratulations and compliments

This is the story of three deep tech founders from IIT Delhi. 𝗧𝗮𝗻𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗻𝗸𝗮𝗿. 𝗔𝗻𝘂𝗷 𝗞𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗿 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗻𝘄𝗮𝗹. 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮 𝗔𝗵𝗹𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘁. About seven years ago, when they walked into my office at IIT Delhi, they had very little to show. No product. No revenues. Just an obsession with drones. They were playing, experimenting, breaking and rebuilding drones as part of their undergraduate projects. What they had was conviction. In 2019, I called them before Dussehra. Could we recreate the entire Ravan Dahan using drones? The idea was simple. As an IIT, demonstrate technology at scale using Ravan Dahan as a showcase. Their response was honest. They were not ready. It needed serious money. But they were confident that if resources were made available, they could deliver. We subsequently evaluated them for funding at IIT Delhi. They came in for a pitch. It was one of those rare pitches that is not about slides, but about belief. We decided to take a leap of faith and fund them as an equity investment. About ₹2.5 crore. At that time, they didn't have much to show. It was a big risk. After the pitch, I learnt that Tanmay’s father had passed away that very morning. Yet he stayed back to present. He was very close to his father. That moment told me everything about commitment, and it stays with me. The journey after that was not easy. There were challenges at every step. As an institution, until I was there, we never said no to anything they asked. Then came their defining moment. #Republic Day 2022. Beating Retreat. A thousand drones lighting up the sky. The Hon’ble Prime Minister tweeted about it as a world record. That night, their trajectory changed forever. @BotLabDynamics became a sensation. Today, they are major players in drone-based entertainment and defence manufacturing. They have gone global, with a Dubai office opened last year. They are on their way to becoming a unicorn, perhaps a soonicorn already. Yesterday, they invited me, Dr. Anil Wali to inaugurate their new 50,000 sq ft facility in Noida. Many who helped them in their journey at IIT Delhi were also present. Watching thier manufacturing plant come alive in Noida, it struck me how far a conviction can travel when it is backed by trust. They will be the Flipkart of deep-tech startups from IIT Delhi. More importantly, their success will spawn hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new deep tech founders. That is the real multiplication. Having played a small part in their journey, I feel deeply happy. 𝗜𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽-𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 PS: When my term as Director ended at IIT Delhi, they did a drone show as a farewell and recreated my picture in the sky. It was deeply touching. They later told me my moustache was particularly difficult for the drones to recreate. I told them I could have temporarily removed it, if that made life easier for their algorithms. 🥸 @BotLabDynamics @narendramodi @PMOIndia

@promila_agarwal Congratulations

Another feather in the cap ❤️.IIMA to establish the Krishnamurthy Tandon School of Artificial Intelligence, supported by a ₹100 crore endowment from Ms. Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon and Mr. Ranjan Tandon. The School will advance AI at the intersection of technology, management, and public impact. This is amazing and super @chandrikatandon @BhaskerBharat @dpradhanbjp @AmbVMKwatra and team. Great initiative 👏

@nirupamakotru Get well soon

An eventful & memorable day(even if for the wrong reasons),and a birthday I will not forget in a hurry😬 Excruciating pain in the left leg last night(possibly a pinched nerve or a cyst;being diagnosed currently) sent me scurrying to #BombayHospital this morning. Thank God for all the kind-hearted staff and officers from my four charges in the Dept who didn't let me feel I was alone. Hope to be back on my feet(literally)by tomorrow or day after,thanks to the team of Doctors and nurses at the hospital which has had a warm relationship with #AaykarBhavan since my first posting here in the 1990s. Cake takes the sting out of a painful situation ,and I have tasted two marvelously light&fruity cakes today 😋 #birthdays #hospitals #flowers #cake #healthiswealth #family #colleagues #cake #celebration