# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vijay-p-bhatkar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:56:50.395Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vijay-p-bhatkar"
name: "Vijay P. Bhatkar"
slug: "vijay-p-bhatkar"
description: "Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar is an Indian computer scientist, IT leader and educationalist. He is best known as the architect of India's National Initiative in Supercomputing where he led the development of Param supercomputers. He is a Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, and Maharashtra Bhushan recipient. Indian computer magazine Dataquest placed him among the pioneers of India's IT industry. He was the founder and executive director of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and is currently working on developing exascale supercomputing for India."
tagline: "Indian computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vijay_Bhatkar_Portrait_Photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1946-10-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump