New Delhi: Directors for Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in Delhi, Madras, Mandi and Indore were appointed Monday, according to officials.
Laxmidhar Behera, electrical engineering professor at IIT-Kanpur, has been appointed the director of IIT-Mandi and Suhas Joshi, mechanical engineering professor and the dean of alumni and corporate relations at IIT-Bombay, has been appointed the next director of IIT-Indore, the officials said.
IIT-Bombay professor Rangan Banerjee has been appointed as the next director of IIT-Delhi while IIT-Madras professor V Kamakoti has been appointed as director of IIT-Madras, the officials further stated. Kamakoti designed India’s first indigenously-developed microprocessor ‘SHAKTI’.