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Akash Pallath

Akash Pallath

Akash Pallath is a senior undergraduate in chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. Having conducted research in computational materials science at universities in India, Japan and the United States, he is interested in understanding and conceptualizing solutions to the economic and systemic problems of higher education and research, particularly in India. In his free time, Pallath reads books and articles on diverse topics such as Indian politics, Asian culture, and economic history.

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