IIT Kanpur’s Prof. Laxmidhar Behera is the New Director of IIT Mandi: The Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT Mandi) has appointed Prof. Laxmidhar Behera as the new director of the institute. He will be succeeding Prof Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi who is stepping down after completing two terms, an official release here said.
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Directors for Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in Delhi, Madras, Mandi, and Indore were appointed on Monday, according to officials. While IIT-Bombay professor Rangan Banerjee has been appointed as the next director of IIT-Delhi, IIT-Madras professor V Kamakoti has been appointed as director of IIT-Madras, they said.
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Laxmidhar Behera, an electrical engineering professor at IIT-Kanpur, has been appointed the director of IIT-Mandi, and Suhas Joshi, a mechanical engineering professor and the dean of alumni and corporate relations at IIT-Bombay, has been appointed the next director of IIT-Indore, the officials said.
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About Prof. Laxmidhar Behera: Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology – Kanpur. Area of Specialization – Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Intelligent Systems and Control, Cognitive Robotics, Nano-robotics, Vision based Control, Soft Computing, Information Retrieval in music and language, Semantic Information Processing, Physics of Complex Systems, Cyber Physical Systems, Formation Control of UAVs, Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), Sanskrit Computational Linguistics.
