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WhyCosmos is India's first online space education platform for children. Built on trusted NASA resources and designed around interactive, hands-on learning, we make space science accessible, engaging, and inspiring for young minds.

Our mission is to educate, inspire, and empower the next generation of thinkers, innovators, and STEM leaders — bridging the gap between cutting-edge space research and curious young learners.

Board & Scientific Advisors

Gary Rubin
Gary Rubin
Board Advisor

Gary received a B.A in Mathematics from University of California at Berkeley and M.S in Computer Science from Stanford University. He programmed the on-orbit digital auto-pilot for the NASA space shuttle and created early computer network applications for IBM. He became one of the first technical instructors at Cisco Systems. He founded and managed Advanced Network Information Inc. (ANI), a Cisco computer network training company. He is an active member of Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) and MENSA.

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Dr. Trisha Bhowmik
Dr. Trisha Bhowmik
Scientific Advisor - Astronomy and Astrophysics

Trisha is a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Diego Portales, Chile. She is an observational astronomer with 9 years of experience, specializing in the study of protoplanetary and debris disks. She works with data from the Very Large Telescope and Atacama Large Millimeter Array to understand planet formation.

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Leadership Team

Dhruba Chakrabarti
Dhruba Chakrabarti
Chief Executive Officer

Dhruba has a BTech in Computer Engineering and a Global Executive MBA from TRIUM (New York University Stern School of Business, London School of Economics and Political Science, and HEC Paris School of Management). He has been a serial entrepreneur and business leader with extensive experience in sales and sales strategy across India, Singapore, and the US. He has won billion-dollar deals across enterprise and government sectors, expanded businesses into newer geographies and built digital transformation roadmaps for enterprise customers.

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Arun Reddy
Arun Reddy
Chief Technology Officer

Arun has a Masters in Software Engineering and a Global Executive MBA from TRIUM (New York University Stern School of Business, London School of Economics and Political Science, and HEC Paris School of Management). He has led technology and product organizations at multiple tech companies such as Amazon and Salesforce and worked on large-scale distributed systems and designed and implemented solutions using machine learning.

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