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Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi is the Director of IIT Roorkee. He was former Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) Shimla on additional charge and former Deputy Director of IIT Kanpur.

Education
He received B.Tech., M.Tech., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1986, 1988, and 1995, respectively.

Awards and honours
He is a recipient of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Teachers award, the Distinguished Teacher award of IIT Kanpur and Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship of Nanyang Technological University (N.T.U.), Singapore.

Professional career
He was Professor in Department of Electronics Engineering at IIT BHU, Varanasi from 1994 to 1996. Subsequently, he joined the faculty of the Electronics and Computer Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He moved to Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in year 1999 where he held the positions of Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Dean of Research & Development.