Prof Ajit K Chaturvedi appointed as new director of IIT-Mandi

Professor Ajit K Chaturvedi has been appointed as the IIT Mandi new director.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi has appointed Professor Ajit K Chaturvedi as the acting director. He will be taking over the charge from Professor Timothy A Gonsalves, founding director, who completed over a decade at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi.

Prof Chaturvedi, an expert in wireless communication technology and is the current director of IIT-Roorkee. He completed his BTech, MTech, and PhD from IIT Kanpur in 1986, 1988, and 1995, respectively. His research interests include communication theory and wireless communications. He is known for his contributions to waveform shaping and sequence design.

He has also served the Department of Electronics Engineering at IIT-BHU from 1994 to 1996. He joined as faculty of the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering at IIT-Roorkee. In 1999, he moved to IIT-Kanpur where he also held the positions of Head Of the Department (HOD) Electrical Engineering, Dean of Research and Development, and deputy director.

He has been recognised for his exemplary work and has been awarded the Distinguished Teacher Award of IIT-Kanpur and Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship of Nanyang Technical University, Singapore. Prof Chaturvedi is a member of the Nomination and Election Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communication Society. He has also served on the Teaching Awards Committee of IEEE.

While commenting about his journey, Professor, Gonsalves, Director, IIT Mandi, said, “I am leaving IIT Mandi with strong foundations, with a very committed and capable leadership team of Deans, many other faculty and staff.  With them, I’m confident that IIT Mandi will not only weather the COVID storm but will emerge stronger to scale ever greater heights of academic achievement in the future!”

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