Professor ECED & Former Director,
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India
Prof. Rajeev Tripathi completed his B.Tech. in 1986, M.Tech. in 1992 and Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Allahabad. He joined MNNIT Allahabad as a faculty member in 1988 and served as Director of the Institute from 7th October 2016 to 6th Feb 2022. He was a faculty member at the University of The West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad (WI) from 2002 to 2004. He was a Visiting Faculty at the School of Engineering Liverpool John Moores University U.K. in the year 1998 and 1999. Besides vast teaching and research experience of around 35 years, he also has vast administrative experience at MNNIT Allahabad. He worked as Chairman CSAB and C0-Chirman of JoSAA in 2020 for all India admissions in IITs NITs, IIITs and other CFTIs. He was Coordinator of, the Quality Improvement Program (QIP) from 2005 to 2016, Chairman, Senate Post Graduate Committee from 2005 to 2009, Dean, Academic Affairs from 2009 to 2011, Head, the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering from 2011 to 2013, and Professor in charge, Training and Placement from 2011 to 2016. He has also worked as BoM member of Delhi Technical University, MMMUT Gorakhpur and many other institutions. Prof. Tripathi has made pioneering research contributions and has solved several open problems. He has published more than 110 papers in international journals of repute(SCI) and 100 papers in conferences of repute and supervised 24 Ph.D. students. He has 03 patents. He has worked closely with the Government as well as industry on various problems and has successfully led and completed 11 research projects worth more than Rs 13 Crs. at national and international levels. Important among them include a sponsored project by Govt. of India and the British Govt. under the Indo-UK Science and Technology Research Fund and a project sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. He is a well-known teacher and mentor who has not only graduated a large number of students and developed well-appreciated teaching modules but has also motivated and mentored many student innovation and entrepreneurial activities which have achieved unique successes. His has more than 2500 citations with I10 index of 55. Prof. Tripathi has pioneered personnel and institute-level research collaboration with foreign universities and visited several countries in this regard. Important among them include Liverpool John Moore University, Liverpool, U.K., Barbados campus of the University of West Indies, Moncton New Brunswick, Canada, University of Waterloo (UoW), Waterloo, Canada, Spain, USA, etc., he has also taught for a couple of years in The University of The West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad (WI). Prof. Tripathi worked as a reviewer of many international journals including IEEE Communication Letters, Adhoc Networks, Elsevier, Wireless Personal Communication Springer, International Journal of Electronics, Taylor and Francis, IETE Journal of Research, Taylor and Francis and West Indian Journal of Engineering. He has organized many international conferences in the capacity of conference chair and co-chair and served as a program committee of several international conferences of repute in the area of wireless communication and networking. Prof. Tripathi is a Senior member of IEEE, USA, a Life Fellow of the Institution of Electronics &Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India, a Life Member of the Institution of Engineers (IE), India, Life Member of Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE), India and Life Member of Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), India.
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