Narayana Prasad Padhy appointed new Director of MNIT Jaipur

Narayana Prasad Padhy from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, took over the charge from Udaykumar R Yaragatti who had been serving the institute since October 2016.

Narayana Prasad Padhy from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, has been appointed as the new Director of Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) Jaipur. 

He completed his PhD in Power Systems from Anna University/College of Engineering Guindy (CEG), Chennai, in 1997. He is also the head of the Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IIT Roorkee. He also served as Dean of Academic Affairs, IIT Roorkee, for four years. 

Padhy is known as an expert in power systems engineering and smart grid. He has supervised 16 PhDs and is currently guiding 27 research scholars. He has more than 200 research papers published to his credit in journals, books and patents. His overall citations are over 7,600. 

He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), The Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK (FIET), the Institution of Engineers, India (FIE) & FIETE. 

He received Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Research Fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2009), IEEE PES Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award from IEEE Power & Energy Society, the United States (2018), and BOYSCAST Research Fellow Award for Young Scientist elected from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2005). 

MNIT Jaipur took to Twitter to welcome the new Director. It wrote, “We are pleased to announce that Professor Narayana Prasad Padhy, Professor (HAG) from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, today joined as the Director, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur.” 

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