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Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi

Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi
29th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University
Assumed office
1 August 2025
Appointed byPresident of India
Preceded bySudhir K. Jain
Director (Acting) at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
In office
1 July 2020 – 31 January 2022
Preceded byTimothy A. Gonsalves
Succeeded byLaxmidhar Behera
Director at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
In office
1 January 2017 [1] – 11 Oct 2022
Preceded byPradipta Banerji
Succeeded byProf.Kamal Kishore Pant[2]
Lecturer at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi
In office
1994–1996[3]
Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
In office
1996–1999[3]
Professor,Dean of Research & Development and Deputy Director at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
In office
1999–2016
In office
2022–2025 [4]
Personal details
Born1964
(India)
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur
ProfessionProfessor
Dean
Researcher
Known forMIMO systems applications
WebsiteOfficial website

Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi (born 1964) is an Indian Professor, education administrator, currently serving as the 29th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University.[5] He has previously served as the Director of IIT Roorkee. He has largely contributed to waveform shaping and sequence design,[6] MIMO systems.[7]

Chaturvedi was appointed as the 29th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University in July 2025.[8]

Awards, honors and fellowships

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  • Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship of Nanyang Technical University, Singapore (2008).[9]
  • INSA Teacher award (2017)[10]

Education

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  • PhD, Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1995[11]
  • M. Tech., Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1988[11]
  • B. Tech., Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1986[11]

Selected bibliography

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Articles

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  • Singh, Vindheshwari P.; Chaturvedi, Ajit Kumar (22 June 2017). "Max–min fairness based linear transceiver–relay design for MIMO interference relay channel". IET Communications. 11 (9): 1485–1496. doi:10.1049/iet-com.2017.0034. S2CID 206185133.
  • Manglani, G.; Chaturvedi, A.K. (February 2006). "Application of computational geometry to multiuser detection in CDMA". IEEE Transactions on Communications. 54 (2): 204–207. Bibcode:2006ITCom..54..204M. doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2005.863793. S2CID 9792284.
  • Chaturvedi, A.K.; Sharma, G. (1999). "A new family of concurrent algorithms for adaptive Volterra and linear filters". IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 47 (9): 2547–2551. Bibcode:1999ITSP...47.2547C. doi:10.1109/78.782201.
  • S Chandan, P Sandeep, and AK Chaturvedi, "A family of ISI-free polynomial pulses," Communications Letters, IEEE 9 (6), 496-498 (2005)[11]
  • P Sandeep, S Chandan, and AK Chaturvedi, "ISI-free pulses with reduced sensitivity to timing errors," Communications Letters, IEEE 9 (4), 292-294 (2005)[11]
  • R Appuswamy and AK Chaturvedi, "A new framework for constructing mutually orthogonal complementary sets and ZCZ sequences," Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on 52 (8), 3817-3826 (2006)[11]
  • G Manglani and AK Chaturvedi, "Application of computational geometry to multiuser detection in CDMA," Communications, IEEE Transactions on 54 (2), 204-207 (2006)[11]
  • RU Mahesh and AK Chaturvedi, "Closed form BER expressions for BPSK OFDM systems with frequency offset," Communications Letters, IEEE 14 (8), 731-733 (2010)[11]

Conference proceedings

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References

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  1. ^ Susheel, Tapan (8 December 2016). "ajit kumar chaturvedi: IIT Roorkee gets new director | Dehradun News - Times of India". The Times of India.
  2. ^ "IIT Delhi Professor appointed as the new Director for IIT Roorkee, all about Prof. KK Pant". 29 September 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Director IIT Roorkee, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee". www.iitr.ac.in.
  4. ^ "A K Chaturvedi". home.iitk.ac.in. IIT Kanpur. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  5. ^ "IIT Veteran Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi Sworn in as BHU Vice Chancellor". Jagranjosh.com. 5 August 2025. Retrieved 18 August 2025.
  6. ^ Chakrabati, S.; Chaturvedi, A.K. (December 2000). "Application of Steiner design for capacity enhancement of frequency hopping spread spectrum wireless systems". 2000 IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.00TH8488). pp. 198–202. doi:10.1109/ICPWC.2000.905802. ISBN 0-7803-5893-7. S2CID 19501210.
  7. ^ Sah, Abhay Kumar; Chaturvedi, A. K. (February 2018). "Sequential and Global Likelihood Ascent Search-Based Detection in Large MIMO Systems". IEEE Transactions on Communications. 66 (2): 713–725. Bibcode:2018ITCom..66..713S. doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2761383. ISSN 1558-0857. S2CID 3706683.
  8. ^ "BHU Vice-Chancellor : आइआइटी कानपुर के प्रो. अजीत कुमार चतुर्वेदी बने बीएचयू के नए कुलपति - IIT Kanpurs Professor Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi Appointed as New BHU Vice Chancellor". Jagran (in Hindi). Retrieved 31 July 2025.
  9. ^ "A. K. Chaturvedi". IEEE.
  10. ^ "INSA :: INSA Teachers Award List". insaindia.res.in.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h "Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi".