MV Kartikeyan takes over as IIITDM Kancheepuram Director

Kartikeyan took over the charge from DVLN Somayajulu, who was appointed interim Director of IIITDM Kancheepuram in August 2021 by the Union Ministry of Education. 

MV Kartikeyan took charge as the new director of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM) Kancheepuram.  Kartikeyan took over the charge from DVLN Somayajulu, who was appointed interim Director of IIITDM Kancheepuram in August 2021 by the Union Ministry of Education.  

MV Kartikeyan, an alumnus of Banaras Hindu University, IIT-BHU

Kartikeyan said his efforts will be to improve the academic and research ambience of the institute. He emphasised the significance of securing more sponsored projects, quality publications and patents. Earlier, MV Kartikeyan was working as a professor of electronics and communication engineering at IIT Roorkee and was on deputation to IIT Tirupati. An alumnus of Banaras Hindu University and IIT-BHU, he received his master’s degree in 1985 and PhD in 1992. He was a research scientist with the Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani from 1989 to 2001. 

“Prior to joining IIT Roorkee in 2003, he was with Institute for Pulsed Power and Microwave Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany. Kartikeyan is a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and the Hildegard–Maier Research Fellowship for Electrical Sciences,” the institute said. 

He has authored five books and published more than 350 research papers in peer reviewed transactions/journals and conferences. His current research interests include high power millimeter wave and terahertz sources; RF Circuits, Antennas and Systems and Metamaterials and fractals. 

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