The Director

Prof. Sudarshan Tiwari joined as a Director of National Institute of Technology, Raipur on 25th July 2012. Prior to his present assignment, he was professor in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at MNNIT, Allahabad, where he has held several important administrative and academic positions namely, Head of the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Dean Research & consultancy, Dean Resource generation and International affairs, Chairman, GIS Cell, Head of the Mathematics Department, Deputy Project Coordinator INDO-UK REC Project.

Prof. Sudarshan Tiwari obtained his UG and PG degree in Electronics Engineering from I.T., B. H. U. and PhD degree from IIT Roorkee. He has more than 32 years of teaching and research experience in the area of Communication Engineering and Networking. He has supervised large number of M.Tech and PhD thesis. He has published over 127 research papers in the reputed International/National journals and conference proceedings. He has served in the programme committee of the several seminars, workshops and conferences and also worked as reviewer of several conferences and journals both nationally and internationally. He has successfully completed many research projects sponsored by various government agencies. He has been active member of several academic committees at the institute level as well as the member of Board of studies of several technical institutes in India. He has active research collaboration with Liverpool John moore's University, Liverpool, U.K. and completed joint research projects and worked as visiting professor. He has visited U.S.A. and U.K. for various academic and research interactions.

His areas of current research interest are WDM optical networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks and next generation networks.