IIT Roorkee and Children's University
1. Mr. Rajnish Kumar, IRSME
Director (Digital Education), Department of School Education & Literacy
Rajnish Kumar, a Mechanical Engineer by qualification has worked with the Indian Railways since 1999. He has worked in various capacities for running of trains, manufacturing and maintenance of locomotives, vigilance functions etc. He was posted as Faculty for Information Technology at the National Academy of Indian Railways, Vadodara from 2012 till 2016. Then he took charge as Director, Vigilance in Ministry of Railways, New Delhi from 2016 till 2018. Currently he is on deputation to Ministry of Education as Director, Digital Education. In 2014, he was awarded PhD in Mechanical Engineering (Industrial Management). His keen interests are Astronomy, Puzzles and Mathematics.
2. Dr. Anunaya Chaubey
Provost, Anant National University
Dr Anunaya Chaubey is the Provost at Anant National University, India’s first Design University. He is a well-known artist and academic in the fields of literature and art history. A self-taught painter, his works explore the individual and communal worlds – mundane yet layered and subtly textured. Many of his paintings are to be found both in public and private collections all around the world. Over the past ten years, he has taught different courses on art appreciation, which gives an evolutionary account of arts. His courses have provided a converging ground for ideas and concerns drawn from multiple subject domains and disciplines. He has wide administrative experience in the education space and has contributed to several institution-building exercises in both India and abroad. In addition to serving at Anant National University, Dr Chaubey has been the principal of Art College at Patna University and the deputy dean of the post-graduate programme Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University.
3. Shri Harshad Shah
VC, Children’s University
Presently working as an In – charge Vice – Chancellor of Children’s University since June 2019. Established ‘Shree Saraswati Shishumandir’ a school from KG to Class XII at Bardoli, Dist. Surat wherein 1750 students are studying at present. Worked as a president of Vidyabharti – Gujarati Pradesh, a member of syndicate by Government of Gujarat in Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, a member of Granthalaya Samiti, Gujarat State Library Department for book selection in Raja Ram Mohanroy Library Foundation since 2003. Worked as a member in Gujarati Chalchitra Paritoshik Samiti for 3 Years, and as a President for 3 years.Worked as a Convener of Selection Committee formed by MHRD for selection of Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University (Central University) of Arunachal Pradesh in Nov, 2017 to 2018. As a President of Sarfaroshi Pustak Shreni, Under Yuva & Sanskrutik Vibhag from 2003, 40 books of Great Revolutionaries have been published till now and he himself has authored and published 15 books.
4. Prof. Avlokita Agarwal
Department of Architecture & Planning, IIT Roorkee
Professor Avlokita is an Associate Professor at IIT Roorkee who is a Gold medalist and the recipient of multiple awards in the field of Architecture who holds keen interest in Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Sustainability in Built Environment, Passive Design, , Sustainability Audits, Traditional Architecture, Thermal comfort , Life Cycle Analysis, Thermal comfort through passive features
5. Prof. (Dr.) Kumkum Bharti
IIM Kashipur
Dr. Kumkum Bharti holds a Doctorate Degree in Marketing from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand and post-graduation from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka (Silver Medalist). She has over three years of teaching experience in the marketing area. She has taught previously in National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana and FORE School of Management, New Delhi. She has taught various courses such as marketing management, sales and distribution management, strategic management etc. to postgraduate students in her previous work assignments.
Her research interest area includes the study of poor consumers, often called as Bottom (or Base) of the Pyramid (BOP), Service dominant (S-D) logic, co-creation, and qualitative research in marketing. Her work has been published in various journals and conferences such as Marketing Intelligence and Planning, International Journal of Market Research, Procedia, International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets, etc.She has attended more than 20 international and national conferences in India and abroad in the last five years.Her Ph.D. thesis focused on understanding value co-creation for the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) consumers. She has won Noel Doerr Gold Medal for the best paper presented in the 71st Sugar Technology Association of India (STAI), Hyderabad in 2013. She has worked on a project ‘Co-creation in Social Entrepreneurship’ in partnership with Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and FGV, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
6. Prof. (Dr.) Pawan Kumar Rakesh
Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Uttarakhand
Dr. Pawan Rakesh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the NIT Uttarakhand, where he has been faculty members since 2013. From 2013-16, he was the first Head of Department, Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Rakesh completed his PhD at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee under the supervision of Prof. Inderdeep Singh & Prof. Dinesh Kumar. His research interests lie in the area of composite materials, Primary and Secondary Processing of Polymer Matrix Composites, Finite Element Approach in Design and Analysis of Composite Materials, Green Composites.
