1987 → present
Pro Vice-Chancellor · Lovely Professional University
Current role, following service as Acting Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean.
Vice-Chancellor (Acting) · LPU
Institutional leadership during the 2021–2022 period.
Executive Dean · LPU
Senior academic leadership and programme development.
Vice-Chancellor · Baddi University
University leadership role.
Senior Dean · LPU
Senior academic and institutional responsibilities.
Professor & Dean · LPU
Progressed into senior academic leadership.
Assistant Controller (Technical) · Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India
Technical deputation in a Government of India role.
Reader (Associate Professor) · MITS, Gwalior
Academic teaching and research.
Lecturer → Senior Lecturer · MITS, Gwalior
Academic career after industry R&D.
GET, R&D · Hero Honda Motors Ltd., Dharuhera
Beginning of the professional journey in industry research and development.
Moments that mark the journey.
AI & education
Invited Expert by the Embassy of India to Mongolia; keynote speaker at ASISC and CBSE regional workshop; distinguished panelist at the Economic Times Annual Education Summit; keynote at ARDOR Virtual Meet.
TeachGenie
Ideated, deployed and launched the first-of-its-kind Agentic AI Co-Instructor TeachGenie™.ai.
Stanford Code in Place
Second time Section Leader to teach Python programming in Stanford University Code in Place.
Technology & accreditation
Keynote speaker at NASSCOM Technology Confluence; GenAI roundtable with Economic Times; four engineering programmes accredited by NBA; selected as Stanford Code in Place Section Leader.
Academic leadership
As Acting Vice-Chancellor, achieved NAAC A++ with CGPA 3.68/4; appointed Leading Scientist in a Russian Federation mega project on neuroelectronics.
Institutional recognition
Recorded as India’s Most Impactful Vice Chancellor by Power Brands, Daily Indian Media; CII-MILCA Platinum Award at institutional level.
Stanford & national innovation
Visiting Research Collaborator at Stanford University; keynote at the Indian Science Congress engineering section; programme manager in ERASMUS EGEA; Smart India Hackathon nodal centre head.
InfyMakers & gamification
SitAby accepted for Kickstarter; won Infosys InfyMakers 2016 award; acted as course mentor for Coursera Gamification from Wharton, UPenn.
MIT Technology Review
Received the MIT Technology Review Grand Challenge Award and was featured in India Today Aspire.
Early scientific recognition
Young Scientist Award, MPCOST and Gwalior Ratna for scientific contribution.