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Stanford clears Indian-origin academics for key faculty positions
The candidates were approved by the Advisory Board of the Academic Council before being signed off on by the President.
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Staff Reporter - Wed, 29, Apr 2026
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Saikat Chaudhuri, Anoop Rao, Vivek Subbiah and Akshay Chaudhari / Saikat Chaudhuri via Linkedin and Stanford
Multiple Indian-origin academics have been approved for appointment by Stanford University’s president in the university’s latest round of Academic Council Professoriate appointments, promotions, and reappointments.
Announced April 28, the candidates were reviewed by the Advisory Board of the Academic Council in January, February and March 2026 and were subsequently approved by the president.
Dr. Saikat Chaudhuri, professor of management science and engineering, was approved to join Stanford for the period May 31, 2026, through May 30, 2031.
Chaudhuri is currently the faculty director, Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology Program at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds degrees in management and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, the Wharton School, Stanford University and Harvard Business School.
The president has also approved the appointment of Anoop Rao as assistant professor of pediatrics for the period May 1, 2026, through April 30, 2030. Dr. Rao is a physician-innovator at Stanford’s neonatal ICU, where he combines clinical care with leading-edge research.
The Indian American physician holds an MBBS from Kasturba Medical College, India, in medicine and surgery, and an MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Dr. Vivek Subbiah was approved for appointment as professor of medicine and of pediatrics for the period April 1, 2026, through March 31, 2031.
Dr. Subbiah was recently appointed as the inaugural associate director for drug development and precision oncology at the Stanford Cancer Institute. In this role, he will lead the Early Drug Development Program to expand access to innovative treatments for Stanford cancer patients.
A board-certified oncologist, he completed his early medical education at the Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research in India, before moving to Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, for his residency.
Akshay Chaudhari, an associate professor of radiology at Stanford, has been promoted and also granted continued salary and research funding from sponsored projects.
His approval has been scheduled for the period March 1, 2026, through Feb. 28, 2031. He is also the interim division chief of the Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics section in radiology.
He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and a B.S. in bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego.
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