LEADERSHIP
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. Before joining the BITS Group in 2023, Prof. Rao had served as the Director of IIT Delhi for 6 years, 2016-2021 and as a Chair Professor for Nanoelectronics at both IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi.
Prof. Soumyo Mukherji
Director, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
Prof. Soumyo Mukherji was appointed as the Director of BITS Pilani,Hyderabad Campus with effect from January 1, 2024.
Prof Mukherji was serving in the Department of Biosciences & Bioengineering as the Madhuri Sinha Chair Professor in Biomedical Engineering at IIT Bombay. He is also an Associated Faculty Member at the Centre for Research in Nanotechnology and Sciences and the Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics.
He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, USA). He completed his B.Tech. in Instrumentation Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and did his M.S. from Colorado State University (Fort Collins, USA). He has been conferred the Fellowship of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE) and Fellowship of the National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc).
Professor Mukherji has served in several administrative positions at IIT Bombay. He served as the Dean Student Affairs (2015-2019), as the Head of the Centre for Research in Nanotechnology & Science as well as the Head of the Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility (2010-13). He has supervised more than 30 PhD scholars and more than 60 Masters students.