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A K Chaturvedi
Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi received B.Tech., M.Tech., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1986, 1988, and 1995 respectively.
He served the Department of Electronics Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi from 1994 to 1996. Subsequently, he joined as a faculty member in the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
In 1999, he moved to Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur where he also held the positions of Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Dean of Research & Development and Deputy Director.
He became Professor (HAG) in August 2012 and held the Sanjay and Rachna Pradhan Chair Professorship at IIT Kanpur from March 2015 before moving to IIT Roorkee in 2017.
Prof. Chaturvedi served IIT Roorkee as its Director from January 2017 to October 2022 and has now come back to his parent institute - IIT Kanpur. During this period he also served as the Director of IIAS Shimla (January 2017 to August 2018) and Director of IIT Mandi (July 2020 to January 2022).
Prof. Chaturvedi was Coordinator of BSNL-IITK Telecom Centre of Excellence which has done a large number of projects for the Indian telecom sector. He is a recipient of INSA Teachers award, Distinguished Teacher award of IIT Kanpur and Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship of Nanyang Technical University, Singapore. He is a founding member of the Telecom Standards Development Society of India (TSDSI). Prof. Chaturvedi was a member of the DoT committee which recommended criteria for spectrum allocation to telecom operators, in 2008. His research interests are in communication theory and wireless communications.