# GIAN

**Source**: https://www.iitk.ac.in/oir/gian
**Parent**: https://www.iitk.ac.in/oir/

### GIAN

**Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN)** is an initiative by the Government of India aimed at encouraging foreign scientists and entrepreneurs to engage with higher education institutes in India to improve the country's scientific and technological capacity.

For more details, [click here](https://gian.iitkgp.ac.in/)

**Foreign Faculty who visited IIT Kanpur under GIAN Project**

 

##### Prof. Xile Hu

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

 

##### Prof. Bulbul Chakraborty

Brandeis University Waltham MA, United States

 

##### Prof. Hans-Bernd Schäfer

Bucerius Law School Hochschule für Rechtswissenschaft Hamburg, Germany

 

##### Prof. Pramod K. Varshney

College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University, USA

 

##### Prof. Amitabh Narain

Michigan Technological University, USA

 

##### Prof. Ramon Codina

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain

 

##### Prof. Thierry Poinsot

Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, CNRS, France