Dr. T G Sitharam, has been appointed as the new Chairman- All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Dr Sitharam will take the charge from Jagadesh Kumar, who was holding interim charge of the AICTE chairman post since last year.
Dr. T G Sitharam is the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam since July 2019. He is the member of Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Established through an Act of Parliament: SERB Act 2008, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. He is a Senior Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and served IISc for more than 27 years. He was Chairman, Board of Governors at IIT Guwahati during 2019-2020 for more than a year. He was the former Chairman, Research Council, CSIR- CBRI (Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee).
He also holds the position of Director (additional charge) of Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar, Assam, since May 2021. He obtained his Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from Mysore University, Master’s in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (1986) and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (1991). He worked as a lecture at University of Waterloo soon after his PhD and did his post-doctoral at Center for earth sciences and engineering at University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA during 1991-94. He has served as a visiting or honorary professor at many universities in countries such as Japan, Canada, USA, Hongkong, Australia and Republic of China.
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