Prof. Bidyadhar Subudhi takes charge as NIT Warangal’s Director

Warangal (KCN)

Prof. Bidyadhar Subudhi has assumed office as the new Director of NIT Warangal. He took charge from Prof. N.V. Ramana Rao in the presence of Shri. S. Govardhan Rao, Registrar, NIT Warangal.
The new Director of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal Professor Bidyadhar Subudhi assumed office on Thursday, April 27, 2023. He will be succeeding Prof. N. V. Ramana Rao who was appointed as Director in October 2017. Prior to his appointment at NIT Warangal, he was working as Dean (Research and Consultancy) and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Goa.
The newly appointed Director said he aims to improve research and innovation with the help of faculty and students to make NIT Warangal a campus of first choice. He said, he would want NIT Warangal to focus on research that can solve societal problems, adapt to National Education Policy, and offer multidisciplinary courses. His vision is to see NIT Warangal to be one of the best research contributors in the nation. Later in the evening, he addressed the faculty and staff of the institute and said that we should all work hard in making NIT Warangal one of the best institutions in the country.
About the Director:
Before joining IIT Goa as Professor (HAG), he worked as professor of Electrical Engineering at NIT Rourkela for 13 years. He was a visiting professor at Bangkok and Canada. His research interests are system and control theory, control applications to power systems. He pursued his B.Tech from NIT Rourkela and M.Tech from IIT Delhi in Department of Electrical Engineering. He pursued his Ph.D in the area of Control Systems from University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He pursued his Post Doctoral Fellow from NUS Singapore. He has authored 6 books, 14 book chapters, published 3 patents, published over 160 papers in reputed journals with a H-index of 40. He is a Fellow, INAE(Indian National Academy of Engineering), IET(The Institution of Engineering and Technology), Senior Member (IEEE). He was awarded top 2% scientists in the world. He was awarded the Samanta Chandra Sekhar award in 2013, NIT Rourkela Alumni award for research, Newton Fellowship, Royal Academy of Engineering,Uk