M Jagadesh Kumar Retires As UGC Chairman

Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar has formally retired as Chairman of the College Grants Fee (UGC), concluding a big tenure that started in February 2022. Throughout his time in workplace, he launched a number of student-centric reforms that reshaped the panorama of upper schooling in India.

The UGC, in an official assertion, expressed gratitude and greatest needs for his future endeavours. The assertion reads: “The College Grants Fee bids a heartfelt farewell to Chairman Prof. Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar. His tenure was marked by a collection of unprecedented student-centric reforms and far-reaching institutional adjustments throughout increased schooling within the nation. He additionally shifted many elements of the functioning of the regulatory physique.”

“His dedication to academia and his potential to attach with folks from all walks of life can be fondly remembered. Your entire UGC household needs him the easiest within the subsequent chapter of his life,” it additional added.

Born in Mamidala village in Telangana’s Nalgonda district, Mr Kumar holds an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras. He later performed post-doctoral analysis on the College of Waterloo, Canada, below the mentorship of famend bipolar gadgets professional Prof. David J. Roulston.

Earlier than main the UGC, Mr Kumar served because the twelfth Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru College (JNU) from 2016 to 2022. At IIT Delhi, the place he’s at present on lien, he held varied key educational and analysis positions, together with the NXP Chair Professorship, Chairman of the Electronics Group, and Coordinator of VLSI Design packages.

Mr Kumar is understood for his works in areas of Nano-electronic Units, Nanoscale Gadget modelling and simulation, Revolutionary Gadget Design and Energy semiconductor gadgets. He has revealed three books, 4 e-book chapters and greater than 250 publications in these areas.