V. Ramgopal Rao

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V Ramgopal Rao (born 1965) is an Indian Academic serving as the Vice Chancellor of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani from February 2023 onwards . He was previously the director of IIT, Delhi for six years during 2016-2021. [1] [2]

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He was the P.K.Kelkar Chair Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay before joining IIT Delhi as the Director. Rao has more than 500 publications in various journals, and over 50 patents in the areas of Electron devices and Nanoelectronics. [3] Rao was the first elected chairman for the Indian Section of the American Nano Society. [4] He is also the recipient of over 35 honors and awards in the country and abroad including the Swarnajayanti Fellowship, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Infosys Prize, Techno-Visionary award from the Indian Semiconductor Association in 2020, the IBM faculty award in 2007 and the IEEE EDS Education award in 2020 besides many others. [5] [6] [7] [8]

He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), National Academy of Sciences (NASI) and the Indian National Science Academy (INSA). [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) director

During Rao's tenure as Director, IIT Delhi has seen an unprecedented growth. IIT Delhi received the Institution of Eminence (IoE) status in 2018 under his leadership, one of the first three Govt institutions to be selected for this recognition following a tough selection process. [14]

IIT Delhi's Endowment fund initiative launched under his leadership on 31 October 2019 by the Hon'ble President, Govt of India set a new benchmark for all other academic institutions in the country to follow. [15] [16] This is the first ever endowment created by any institution in India. Ministry of Education has also issued a directive to all other educational institutions in the country to follow the IIT Delhi model. [17]

Early life and education

Rao was born in a remote village Kollapur (Telangana) and he completed his schooling from Govt Upper Primary School Kollapur from 1st to 10th Std and then completed his Intermediate from Govt RID Junior College Kollapur. [18] Also, Mr.Rao completed all his education in Telugu Medium right from his 1st Std to 12th Std. Rao obtained his B.Tech degree in "Electronics and Instrumentation" from Kakatiya University in 1986 with distinction and his M.Tech from IIT Bombay in 1991. He obtained his Doctorate in Nanoelectronics from Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany in 1997 (in a short span of two years) and was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of California Los Angeles from 1997 to 1998. [19]

Career

Rao spent 18 years as a faculty member at IIT Bombay before moving to IIT Delhi as the Director. Rao has also held short term visiting positions in University of California, Los Angeles in May–July 2001 in the USA. After this, he worked for short periods of times at several universities all over the world, including Tokyo Institute of Technology, Monash University, The University of Calabria in Italy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Nanyang Technological University, University of Alberta, and McGill University. [20] He was the Head of the Centre for Nanotechnology and Science at IIT Bombay between December 2005 and January 2007. [21] He was P.K.Kelkar Chair Professor for Nanotechnology at IIT Bombay before moving to IIT Delhi as Director. [22]

Awards

The Infosys Prize 2013 was awarded for Rao's "wide-ranging contributions to nanoscale electronics, for insightfully integrating chemistry with mechanics and electronics to invent new functional devices, and for innovation and entrepreneurship in creating technologies and products of societal value."

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