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Meet the Team

Proven Builders Scaling Bioleaching

Two IIT classmates reunited by a shared conviction: that biology and AI can solve the critical minerals crisis. Between them — decades of deep-tech execution from Hawaii to Rajasthan to Bangalore.

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Meet The Team

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Tom Scott Memorial Award -
University of Florida

Naveen Margankunte received this award as a senior graduate student in Experimental Physics for outstanding research. The award honors the memory of Professor Tom Scott, a distinguished researcher and former Chair of the Department. Naveen conducted his research on condensed matter physics under David Tanner.

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Gave Up a French Fellowship to Help 1,500 Farmers

Before NuMarg, Ajay Tannirkulam — PhD Astrophysics, University of Michigan — walked away from a prestigious European research fellowship to co-found Magasool, a technology-driven organization that increased incomes for over 1,500 marginal farmers across nine districts of Tamil Nadu. Featured in The Better India.

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Led Android for a Billion Users
at Google

Aruna Rajan served as Director and Head of Android Platform Products for India at Google, and as Technical Director in Google Cloud's Office of the CTO. She holds a PhD in Theoretical & Mathematical Physics from UIUC and a B.Sc. from BITS Pilani. At Myntra, her team pioneered one of the world's first applications of GANs to machine-generate fashion designs. At NuMarg, she leads technology development and AI platform architecture.

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Connect With NuMarg

If you would like to learn more about NuMarg’s work or discuss potential collaboration, please reach out.

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We look forward to connecting.

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