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Leadership

Prof V Ramgopal Rao
Prof. V Ramgopal Rao

Vice Chancellor, BITS Pilani

Presently, Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao is the Group Vice-Chancellor for the Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani. The institute has five campuses, located in Pilani, Hyderabad, Goa, Dubai and Mumbai. Prior to joining the BITS Group in 2023, Prof. Rao had served as the Director of IIT Delhi for 6 years during 2016-2021 and as a Chair Professor for Nanoelectronics at both IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi.

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Prof. Sudhirkumar Barai
Prof. Sudhirkumar Barai

Director, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Sudhirkumar Barai is a Director and Senior Professor of Civil Engineering at BITS Pilani-Pilani campus, Rajasthan. He is also a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721 302, India availing lien for the current position .

He was Erskine Visiting Fellow at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand during May-June 2008. He was also visiting scientist at National University of Singapore during May-July 2003. He was recipient of BOYSCAST fellowship and visited Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA during May-November, 2000. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Department of Solid Mechanics, Materials and Structures, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel during February, 1997-July, 1998.

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