Shreepad Karmalkar

Shreepad Karmalkar, a professor at IIT-Madras’ Electrical Engineering department, has been appointed as the director of IIT-Bhubaneswar for five years.
He is among the eight directors, whose appointment to the premier autonomous public technical and research universities located across India was approved by President Droupadi Murmu on Monday.

On April 4, IIT-Kharagpur director Virendra Kumar Tiwari had taken charge of IIT-Bhubaneswar from officiating Director RV Rajakumar. “Tiwari will hold the additional responsibility of IIT Bhubaneswar till a new/regular Director is appointed or till further orders, whichever is earlier,” said a statement from the institute. Rajakumar was on an indefinite extension after completing his five-year term in April 2020.

Karmalkar received the BTech and accelerated PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), in 1983 and 1989, respectively. He has held visiting research/teaching assignments at several US universities, namely, the University of California, Santa Barbara; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; and the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA.

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Shreepad Karmalkar, a professor at IIT-Madras’ Electrical Engineering department, has been appointed as the director of IIT-Bhubaneswar for five years.
He is among the eight directors, whose appointment to the premier autonomous public technical and research universities located across India was approved by President Droupadi Murmu on Monday.

On April 4, IIT-Kharagpur director Virendra Kumar Tiwari had taken charge of IIT-Bhubaneswar from officiating Director RV Rajakumar. “Tiwari will hold the additional responsibility of IIT Bhubaneswar till a new/regular Director is appointed or till further orders, whichever is earlier,” said a statement from the institute. Rajakumar was on an indefinite extension after completing his five-year term in April 2020.

Karmalkar received the BTech and accelerated PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), in 1983 and 1989, respectively. He has held visiting research/teaching assignments at several US universities, namely, the University of California, Santa Barbara; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; and the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA.

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