Parixit Davé

Parixit Davé currently serves as Sr. Director at CUIT for Emerging Technologies. In this role, he is responsible for the operations and projects related to new technologies and works directly with faculty and researchers in support of ETC grants. He provides a much-needed consulting role on emerging technologies to the entire university. He also liaisons with peer institutions and works closely with Educause. In 2018, Parixit co-founded CUIT's Emerging Technology Consortium (ETC), and was appointed as the director.

Prior to this, Parixit was a senior manager and led the group of Academic Technologies at CUIT. This group supported numerous services used by over 36,000 students and 4,000 faculty members. 

Before Columbia, Parixit led systems development and infrastructure engineering teams at Rutgers University for 15 years. There he spearheaded and supported technology projects used by over 70,000 students and 8,000 faculty and researchers. Parixit received his MBA and undergraduate degree in Information Technology from Rutgers University.