Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Vice-Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar has been appointed as Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC). This is for the second time that he has been anointed as the Chairman of UGC.
JNU VC appointed as UGC Chairman
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Vice-Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar has been appointed as Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC). This is for the second time that he has been anointed as the Chairman of UGC. Kumar has held the charge of Chairman, UGC from January 14, 2017 to February 2, 2017. He was also a member of UG for three years, i.e., from June 24, 2016 to June 23, 2019.
Kumar is an academician, administrator and author who is currently the Vice-Chancellor of JNU and a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi. In 2016, Kumar was appointed as the JNU VC and he took over from Sudhir Kumar Sopory.
He holds a Masters's and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He also has done his post doctoral research from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has done exemplary work in the area of nanoscience and nanotechnology (nano-electronic devices, nanoscale devices, device design and power semiconductor devices. He is currently a fellow at Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, National Academy of Sciences, India and Indian National Academy of Engineering among others. He is Chairman of the governing body of National Council of Science Museums. He has received the "ISA-VSI TechnoMentor Award", with the award being presented by Dr. R. Chidambaram (Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India
He was selected as JNU VC from among four others including Rameshwar Nath Koul Bamezai, Virander Singh Chauhan and Ramakrishna Ramaswamy.
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