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Caltech establishes fund in honor of Indian American professor Chandy
The fund supports innovative teaching, faculty, and student learning in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech.
Upper row: Steven Low, Rajiv Gupta, Roman Ginis, Peter Hofstee, Adam Wierman, Eve Schooler, Bob Felderman, Andrey Khorlin. Seated: Jean Chandy, Mani Chandy / Caltech
The California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) has established the Professor K. Mani Chandy Innovations in Education Fund to support excellence in teaching within the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences (CMS).
Named after Indian American professor Chandy, the endowed fund, backed by more than $100,000 in contributions from alumni and friends, will provide resources for teaching faculty, teaching assistants, and administrative staff contributing to the department’s educational mission.
Chandy, the Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, has mentored students for decades, earning the Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology (ASCIT) Teaching Award in 2004 and 2008.
Before joining Caltech, Chandy worked at Honeywell, and IBM, and chaired the computer science department twice at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been a professor at Caltech since 1989, serving as executive officer and chair of engineering and applied science.
The fund will support innovative teaching approaches, including AI integration in coursework. As technology continues to evolve, Chandy emphasized the need for education to adapt. "Teaching is not just communicating material but listening and getting to know somebody—and watching their life trajectory and being a part of that trajectory,” he said.
"Mani has been, in many ways, the soul of the department for many years," says Chris Umans, computer science professor and executive officer for CMS. "He has a humble, unassuming nature and is a very kind and generous person both intellectually and in his interactions with people, so we wanted to recognize what he had done for the department and create a legacy that would honor him.”
Chandy earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master’s from New York University, and a Bachelor’s from Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
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