Prof. R V Raja Kumar
Vice-Chancellor
The primary objective of establishing RGUKT was to provide high quality educational opportunities for the aimed rural youth of Andhra Pradesh. The initial goal was that at least the top 1 % of the rural graduates would be given the opportunity to study at RGUKT.
The top 1% of rural graduates is around 6,000 to 7,000 per year. Thus, the three campuses would need residential accommodation for about 36,000 students for the six year integrated program.
At present, most universities in India and in Andhra Pradesh follow the affiliated college structure model where the main role of the university is to set the curriculum and conduct examinations to ensure that the students have indeed learned the material prescribed in the curriculum. Most colleges have an entering class of 100-300. Having an entry class of 6,000 students leads to issues of scale. This is unique to RGUKT and is being attempted for the first time in India. In the US, several of the larger universities do have enrolments of 20,000 to 30,000. However not all of them tend to be residential universities. Thus RGUKT, as a green field university, represents a unique experiment in the educational arena.
The assumption is that ICT (Information and Communication Technologies), will permit the scaling of the learning environments by one to two orders of magnitude is currently possible.
Another key educational objective of RGUKT is to use advances in learning sciences and explore the use of modern cognitive science tools in education and learning.
Phrases such as "Learning by Example", "Learning by Doing", "Problem-Based Learning", "Self-Paced Learning", etc become facilitated when every student can be assured to have a personal computer that does not have to be shared with anyone else.
Ratnam V. Raja Kumar was born in Machilipatnam, India. He received his BE degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, topping all branches of engineering in 1980, M.Tech., in Microwave & Radar Engineering and Ph.D. in Digital Signal Processing in 1982 and 1987 respectively from I.I.T.,Kharagpur.
He has been serving as a professor of Electronics and Communications engineering at IIT Kharagpur, starting his career as a member of the faculty in 1984. Presently, he is serving as the Vice-chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT), Hyderabad and actively engaged in meeting the challenges of building this new University into a model for quality Engineering education. He also served as the Dean of Academic Affairs of IIT, Kharagpur from 2003 to 2006, as the Chairman of the G S Sanyal School of Telecommunications, a school of excellence for research in Telecommunications till 2005 and headed the Vodafone Essar - IIT Center of Excellence in Telecommunications from 2007 to 2010 besides other assignments. He served as a member of several national level committees of MHRD, DRDO, MIT and DoD. He was also instrumental in the initiation of the INDEST Consortium. He made the perspective plan for the growth of IIT, Kharagpur and also was responsible in bringing some important academic reforms in the Undergraduate education at IIT, Kharagpur. He was visiting the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1988 on a visiting assignment.
His research areas include Digital Signal Processing, Wireless Communications, Detection and Estimation theory and VLSI systems for Communications. He has several research papers in reputed international journals and conferences and has supervised the theses of over 130 students at different levels including PhD, MS, M.Tech, and B.Tech. He authored three video courses, which were also telecasted nationwide, for undergraduate and Masters programmes in Engineering. He is presently engaged in active research on Green radio, Cognitive radio and GLRT based detection systems. Quality of technical education in India is of his concern and he made significant contributions through a number of articles on the same. Also, he served on the boards of studies of several sister institutions and contributed in the curricular design exercises of several institutions.
Dr. Raja Kumar made significant contributions to technology development through numerous industrial consultancy and sponsored research projects. Designing a sonar homing system for the first ever torpedo developed by India, designing a CDMA communication system and drawing the R&D plan for the development of Cognitive Radio for DRDO are a few of the many similar contributions made by him. The BOYS-CAST research grant from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India in 1987, the Baroda Chapter national award of ISTE in 2007 and the best student paper award in the 1984 IEEE Region 10 Graduate Paper Contest are a few of the numerous awards and distinctions held by him. He is a senior member of the IEEE and served as a member, general chair, TPC chair and other Committees of several National and International Conferences.
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: 040 - 23001831 |
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: vc@rgukt.in (Official)
rkumar@rgukt.in (Personal) |
Office Address
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: Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies,
Vindhya C4, Ground Floor,
Campus of IIIT-H, Gachibowli,
Hyderabad -500 032. |
VC's Peshi
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:Mr. K. Sai Kiran |
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: 040 - 23001831 |
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: 040 - 23001831 |
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: secytovc@rgukt.in |
