User:Prof Lalit K Awasthi

Prof. Lalit Kumar Awasthi, Director, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar is a known researcher, renowned faculty and established academic leader.

He joined NITJ in October 2016 and initiated many reforms in academic, research, Teaching, recruitment, Internationalization of institute, MoU with International and National Institutes and Alumni interactions which led to 52nd  rank in NIRF ranking currently in 2020 out of 12000 + institutions.

He is founder faculty member of Computer Science and Engineering Department at Regional Engineering College (Now National Institute of Engineering and Technology) Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India 1988.

He planned and designed the current CSED of NIT Hamirpur and has contributed in various positions for 25 years at NIT Hamirpur

He contributed as Head of CSE Department, Head Computer Centre and Dean (Students and Alumni) at the institute.

He was entrusted with responsibility of establishing a new Government Engineering College, now known as Atal Bihari Vajpayee Govt. Institute of Engineering and Technology, Pragtinagar, INDIA by Govt. of Himachal Pradesh.

He was also the Founder Director of Mahatma Gandhi Govt. Engineering College, Jeori, Rampur, Shimla, Himachal.

He also contributed as Dean of Academics at HP Technical University Hamirpur and Director of J N Govt. Engineering College, Sundernagar (HP).

His research interests include Mobile distributed systems, Fault tolerance, Sensor Networks, P2P networks, Network Security. He has guided 10 Ph D scholars and now guiding six candidates. Prof Awasthi has over 160 publications in reputed Journals and International Conferences.

He has been working as Director at various technical institutions since July 2012 and now he has officiating charge of Director,National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur from August 14th, 2020 ,and has established himself as a visionary academic leader.

He has visited University of California Berkley, Stanford University, University of Newcastle upon Tyne UK, University of Technology Sydney, University of Melbourne Australia, University of Missouri Kansas and University of Florence Italy besides being alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIT Roorkee.