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Two Indian Americans win top engineering honors
Arun Majumdar and Indradeep Ghosh recognized for leadership in science, sustainability and technology.
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Malvika Choudhary - Wed, 01, Jul 2026
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Arun Majumdar/ Indradeep Ghosh / LinkedIn
Two Indian American technology leaders have been named among the 2025–2026 recipients of the Asian American Engineer of the Year (AAEOY) Awards.
The AAEOY executive committee announced that Arun Majumdar, dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University, will receive the Distinguished Leadership in Science and Technology Award, while Indradeep Ghosh, chief executive officer of Fujitsu Research of America, has been selected for the Executive of the Year Award.
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Majumdar is the inaugural dean of Stanford's Doerr School of Sustainability and serves as the Jay Precourt Professor, a professor of mechanical engineering, energy science and engineering, and photon science. He is also a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and the Hoover Institution.
Before joining Stanford, Majumdar served as the founding director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), after being nominated by then-President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2009. During his tenure from 2009 to 2012, he helped establish ARPA-E as a leading federal agency supporting high-risk energy innovation.
He also served as acting under secretary of energy and senior adviser to then-Energy Secretary Steven Chu, overseeing programs across energy efficiency, electricity, nuclear energy and fossil energy. In 2010, he was part of the Department of Energy science team that assisted in efforts to stop the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Following his government service, Majumdar joined Google as vice president for energy, where he led initiatives focused on technologies at the intersection of data, computing and the electricity grid before returning to academia.
A member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Majumdar's current research focuses on sustainable energy systems, nanoscale imaging and the use of artificial intelligence to accelerate energy and climate solutions. He earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ghosh was recognized with the Executive of the Year Award for his leadership at Fujitsu Research of America, where he has served as CEO since January 2023. Based in Sunnyvale, California, he oversees the company's U.S. research operations and coordinates North American research with Fujitsu's global research teams.
Prior to becoming CEO, Ghosh spent more than 20 years at Fujitsu Laboratories of America, holding positions including member of research staff, research manager, director of research and senior director of research. His work has focused on software validation, software security, reliability and privacy.
In addition to his corporate role, Ghosh has served as an adjunct faculty member at Santa Clara University since 2015, teaching a course on smart grids. He also advised climate technology startup YellowTin on residential building decarbonization initiatives.
Ghosh holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and a Ph.D. in electrical and communications engineering from Princeton University.
The honorees will be recognized during the 2025–2026 Asian American Engineer of the Year Award and Conference, scheduled for Sept. 18–19 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
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