From the profile by Allison Elliott:
As part of his continued engagement with Columbia, Jain decided to create the Jain Family Fellowship Fund to provide fellowship support to graduate students enrolled at Columbia Engineering, with a preference for students who have lived, worked, or studied in India. He chose graduate education because that is where he believes deep research and breakthroughs will come from.
“At the graduate level, students start to think more deeply about what they want to do,” he says. “That is what is going to drive frontier innovations. And, of course, Columbia Engineering is at the forefront of a lot of areas, in terms of what’s happening.” Along with supporting innovation, Jain has a more personal reason for contributing. “Education is what makes us; that’s what really helps the next generation of students,” he says. “I think we should do our best for the institutions that have made us, that have created who we are and made us what we are.”
