B.Tech. Electronics Engineering

Prof. Ravi Reosekar

Dr. Ravi S. Reosekar is working as Associate Professor with Work Integrated LearningProgrammes (WILPD), Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani. Receivedhis M.E Mechanical and Ph.D. degree from BITS, Pilani. He is based out of Pune. He has more than 22 years of teaching experience at graduate and under graduate level and has published papers at national and international level.During these years, he has been associated with wide range of industries like Tata Motors, Mahindra, Cummins, Tata Auto components, Kirloskar, Wipro, Capgemini,Tolani as in-charge of Work Integrated Learning Programs.He has mentored many industrial projects carried out by first degree and higher degree students of Practice School and WILP in manufacturing and service industries. He is presently working as Technology Group Lead (TGL) for B Tech Manufacturing Technology programs. He is core team member for B.Tech. Engineering Technology,M Tech Manufacturing Management and M Tech Quality management programmes.His research interest includes Manufacturing systems, Six sigma, Total Quality Management, PPC, Lean manufacturing and World class manufacturing

Prof. K. Gopala Krishna

Prof. K. Gopala Krishna is currently Associate Professor in BITS-Pilani WILP Division. He has been teaching working professionals in Indian IT organizations since 2009. Prior to his current position as faculty member, he has had over 35 years of experience in the IT industry in the design and delivery of products and services for global clients in Embedded Systems and Enterprise Software arena. He is passionate about Science and Electronics and in his spare time loves to dirty his hands building physical models and run thought- experiments on paper when run out of resources. His interests include Teaching-Learning, Design Thinking, Internet-of-Things, Developmental Economics, eGovernance and Digital Organizations. Krishna started his career with typing lines of Fortran code on a punch-card machine after graduating with M.Tech from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Prof. Sandeep Kayastha

Prof. Sandeep Kayastha is an Associate Professor in off-campus programs. He completed his MTech from IIT Kharagpur. Prof Sandeep teaches MBA level courses in Operations Management and allied areas, and conducts Management Development Programs for senior executives in the manufacturing industry. Before joining BITS he worked as a faculty member in several leading educational and research institutes of the country.

Sandeep Kayastha is an active researcher. His current areas of research are marketing and contract law, workload reduction, simulation, and history of technology.

Prof. Satya Sudhakar Yedlapalli

Prof. Satya Sudhakar Yedlapalli is an Associate Professor with the Work Integrated Learning Programmes(WILP) offered by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus. He is based out of the BITS-Pilani Off-Campus Center at Bangalore since August-2014. He also serves as a Group Leader for the EEE-WILP-OffCampus group since July-2021. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communications Engg. from the College of Engg., Andhra University, Visakhapatnam; a Master of Technology(M.Tech) in Communications from the Indian Institute of Technology(IIT)-Madras and a PhD in Signal Processing from the Indian Institute of Science(IISc) -Bangalore. He has about 20 years of technical work experience with the Bangalore based companies (1) Centre for Development of Telematics, (2) Motorola India Electronic Ltd, (3) Texas Instruments Pvt Ltd, (4) Samsung India R & D, (5) Saankhya Labs and (6) Aureole Technologies Pvt. Ltd. He has a passion to design and optimize computationally intensive signal processing algorithms for embedded systems and teach courses which require analytical and computational skills in the electrical engineering domain.

Dr. Naga Vamsi Krishna Jasti

Dr.Naga Vamsi Krishna Jasti is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Group under Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division (WILPD) of Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani. He received his Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, 2004.  He received his Master of Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. in Lean Manufacturing from BITS Pilani in the year 2006 and 2015 respectively.

He has twelve years’ experience of teaching for industry professionals and handling industry academic projects. He has involved in post-graduation and undergraduate curriculum and content development. He has conducted industrial training programs on manufacturing systems. He has a research experience of 10 years and published twenty research papers in international reputed journals and conferences. He involved in teaching various courses like Lean Manufacturing, Total Quality Management, Manufacturing excellence and World Class Manufacturing at graduate and undergraduate level.  His expertise includes design, delivery and administration of Experiential Learning Initiatives apart from course design and delivery, programme design and administration. In administrative responsibility, he is faculty In-Charge and technology lead for B. Tech (Engineering Technology), M. Tech (Manufacturing Management) and M. Tech (Quality Management) and program committee core team member for B. Tech Engineering Technology, B. Tech Manufacturing Technology and M. Tech Quality Management.

Prof. Srinivas Kota

Prof. Srinivas Kota is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Group under Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division (WILPD) of Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani. He has a PhD from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India in Design. He also had Post-Doctoral experience at Indian Institute of Science, India and G-SCOP Laboratory, INP Grenoble, France.

He has developed a software to help designers in estimating product lifecycle environmental impact and the associated uncertainty while designing. He has a research experience of 15 years and published papers in reputed journals and international conferences. His research interests are Product Design, Product Lifecycle Design, Sustainability, Uncertainty in Design and Virtual Reality for Design. He has a joint patent and reviewer of articles for several international reputed journals. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers and a member of several technical societies in India and abroad. His expertise includes design, delivery and administration of Experiential Learning Initiatives apart from course design and delivery, programme design and administration.

Prof. Manoj Kakade

Prof. Manoj Kakade is an Assistant Professor in the Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division of BITS Pilani. He holds Masters of Engineering in VLSI & Embedded systems. He is based out of Pune. His area of expertise is Embedded system design, IoT and has been engaged with research and teaching in the field of Embedded systems for the last 15 years. He has spent more than over four years in industry in Embedded hardware domain where in, he was involved in design and development of various embedded systems based product for process, consumer electronics, and healthcare industries. He guides undergraduate and graduate level students pursuing dissertations and research in areas such as Embedded Systems Design and IoT. Presently he is involved in curriculum design, development and delivery for various corporate industries for upgrading the skill set required as per industry needs.

Prof. Pavan Kumar Potdar

Prof. Pavan Kumar Potdar is working as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of BITS Pilani – Mumbai Off-Campus Center. He joined BITS Pilani in 2005. Before joining BITS Pilani, he was working as Assistant Professor and HOD of Mechanical Engineering Department at Jatipita College of Engineering, Adilabad (Telangana) affiliated to JNTU Hyderabad from 2002 to 2005. He has seven years of Industrial experience as a Plant Head in an EOT crane manufacturing company at Hyderabad. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Ananathpur AP, Masters in CAD/CAM from JNTU Hyderabad and PhD from BITS Pilani on “Development of Agility Enhancement Strategies for Agile Manufacturing”. His areas of interest are Operations Management, FMS and Agile Manufacturing Systems.

Dr. Arun Maity

Prof. Shashank Tiwari

Prof. Shashank Tiwari is an Associate Professor in Core Engineering Dept. of Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division at Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering from NIT Raipur in 2002 and Master’s degree in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2004.
He has over 15 years of experience of research and product development in automotive industry. He has worked with General Motors R&D Bangalore and Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. Chennai before joining BITS Pilani in 2019. He teaches WILP courses related to Engineering Materials, Advanced Materials, Composites and Plastics, Materials Technology and Testing, Metal Forming and Machining and Advanced Composites. His research interests include automotive materials, structure property correlation, microstructure development during deformation, texture analysis, corrosion engineering etc. He has published over 21 research papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences and have more than 15 conference publications and presentations. He also has one US patent grant and 6 patent applications to his name.

Dr. Samir Kale

Dr. Samir Kale is an Assistant Professor with Work Integrated Learning Programmes, BITS Pilani. Dr Samir has 21 years of academic experience at BITS, Pilani teaching process engineering courses at collaborating organizations such as Grasim Industries Ltd, Nagda, Hindustan Zinc, Chambal Fertilizers and Dr. Reddy’s Lab.
He teaches process engineering courses such as chemical process calculations, process design principles, process safety and other related core courses. His specialization is in process safety and process simulation field in which he has published his research papers. He did his B. Tech (Chemical Technology) from Amravati University, Maharashtra and pursued his M.E(Chemical Engineering) and Ph.D. from BITS, Pilani.
He was faculty In-charge of Experiential Learning from Jan 2019- May 2021 for core engineering group. Currently, he focuses on curriculum review for process engineering program.

Dr. Anjani Srikanth Koka

Dr. Anjani Srikanth Koka is an Assistant Professor of the Management Group, Off Campus Programs at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He is based out of Hyderabad. Dr. Srikanth did his M.Sc (Hons.) Mathematics and Master of Management Studies from BITS, Pilani – Pilani Campus and PhD from BITS, Pilani – K.K.Birla Goa Campus. He has over 2 years of experience in the IT industry. He is very passionate about teaching and joined BITS, Pilani in July 2009. He teaches courses in the areas of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Marketing, Soft Skills, and Professional Communication.

Prof. Samata Mujumdar

Prof. Samata Satish Mujumdar is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Group under Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division (WILPD) of Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani. She received her Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from COEP, Pune University, in 2001. She received her Master of Industrial Engineering in the year 2010 from COEP, Pune University.
She has nine years’ industrial experience in automotive and design sector and 11+ years teaching experience and handling industry academic projects. She is involved in post-graduation and undergraduate curriculum and content development. She involved in teaching various courses like Mechatronic and automation, Machine Design, Product Design and tribology at graduate and undergraduate level. Her expertise includes design, delivery and administration of Experiential Learning Initiatives apart from course design and delivery, programme design and administration. In administrative responsibility, She is faculty In-Charge for M. Tech (Design Engineering- Cluster Pune) and program committee core team member for M. Tech Design Engineering.

Prof. Swapna Kulkarni

Prof. Swapna Kulkarni is an Assistant Professor with Work Integrated Learning Programmes, BITS Pilani. Swapna received her B.E. degree in Instrumentation and control from Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University and M.Tech. degree in Instrumentation engineering from Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology ,Maharashtra, India. She has over 14 years of teaching experience in the field of Electronics and Communications. She teaches courses in the areas of electronics, control systems, networking and IoT.

Prof. Ankur Pachauri

Prof. Ankur Pachauri, is appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Science, in WILP, Off-Campus center, Pune, since August 2015 and has teaching experience of over 9 years. He had done his schooling from a missionary school, then higher secondary from Kendriya Vidyalaya in the year 2000. He is a Mathematics Honors Graduate of the year 2003, Masters of 2006 and completed doctorate from Department of Mathematics, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra in January 2013. He had also worked as Assistant Professor from June 2012 till July 2015 in Rajiv Academy for Technology and Management, Mathura. He had taught various courses on Algorithms, and Applied Mathematics courses. He has published a number of research papers in various reputed Journals and National & International Conferences Proceedings and they are cited by a large number of Researchers, from various countries. His area of research is Nature Inspired Algorithms, Evolutionary Algorithm, Search Based Software Engineering, Soft Computing and Graph Mining

Prof. M K Hamirwasia

Prof. M K Hamirwasia is a Faculty Member at Birla institute of Technology & Science, Pilani since August 1996. Since 2013, he is serving as off-campus resident Faculty at Delhi/NCR. Besides guiding and monitoring students on projects in the PS-II and PS-I programmes of BITS, Pilani which are a part of the student’s close interaction with Industry and a mainstay of the BITS pedagogy, he has been involved in initiating and delivering the Work Integrated Learning Programmes of BITS, Pilani at various Organizations like Indian Rayon, Veraval, Saurashtra Chemicals, Porbandar, Digjam Woollen Mills, Jamnagar, Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, DSL, Bangalore, Dell, Bangalore, JSW Steel, Vijayanagar, TCS, Delhi, Aricent Technologies, Gurgaon and Maruti Suzuki India Limited, Gurgaon. As an ambassador of the highly prestigious Institute that BITS Pilani is, he has contributed to the advancement of University-Industry linkages and collaboration with Industry. His major interests include online education for working professionals. M K Hamirwasia received his Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from BITS, Pilani and B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from NIT, Calicut (erstwhile REC, Calicut). He delivers courses in Project Management, Environmental Pollution Control Engineering, Mechanics of Solids and Principles of Management under the purview of the Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division of BITS Pilani.

Dr. Sudeep Kumar Pradhan

Dr. Sudeep Kumar Pradhan is working as Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering department of BITS Pilani, Pilani campus and stationed at Pune Off-campus center. He received his Bachelor in Engineering from Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT), Odisha in 2006. He received his Master of Engineering in Manufacturing System Engineering and Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from BITS Pilani in the year 2009 and 2014 respectively. His research interest lies in supply management integration, supplier development, and supply chain visibility and operation research. He involved in teaching various courses like Supply Chain Management, Quality Control Assurance & Reliability, Production Planning and Control, Statistical Process Control etc.at graduate and undergraduate level. In administrative responsibility, he is faculty In-Charge and program Coordinator for B.Tech Manufacturing Technology and M.Tech Automotive Engineering program at Cummins India Ltd. and Tata Motors Ltd. respectively. He is core member for B. Tech Engineering Technology, B. Tech Manufacturing Technology, M. Tech Quality Management and M. Tech Manufacturing Management.

Dr. Annapoorna Gopal

Dr. Annapoorna Gopal is an MCA graduate from Bangalore University and PhD in Management from SIBM, with over 25 years of experience in the academia and IT Services industry, spanning multiple roles. She has worked with Christ University, Bangalore, Wipro Ltd and BITS, Pilani. An output oriented faculty, with a thirst for facilitating learning by leveraging on innovative methods, so as to enable her students to apply the learning at the workplace. In her current role, she facilitates courses on subjects related to Strategy, HRM, Consultancy Practice and Change Management, to work integrated learning professionals, as part of their MBA program.  Certified Trainer for OOAD/UML/ROSE, Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst and Insync Certified Faculty for ‘Online Synchronous Training’. She is a recipient of several awards and accolades such as ‘Feather in My Cap Award for outstanding work’, ‘Dear Boss Award from the team’ and 3 rd place in ’Doctoral Paper Competition at AIMS-5‘

Prof. Pawan Sharma

Prof. Pawan Sharma is an Assistant Professor with Work Integrated Learning Programmes, BITS Pilani. Pawan joined Pilani campus in 2001 and has over two decades of academic experience with BITS Pilani. He led the project of establishing state of the art VLSI design facilities at Pilani campus. He taught courses in the areas of VLSI design, microelectronics, analog and digital electronics, system specifications and modeling and microprocessor design. He participated in organizing national and international conferences organized by EEE department at Pilani campus. He has 6 years of industrial experience handling automation tasks involving DCS, Siemens PLC, HVAC control in manufacturing sector. Pawan shifted from on-campus to off campus programme of the Institute in 2014. He played a key role in establishing remote and virtual laboratories for students enrolled in various WILP programmes. He teaches courses in the areas of VLSI Architecture, Reconfigurable computing, computer architectures and system specifications, modeling and co-design. He also leads the PS-1 and PS-2 activities of EEE group of WILP. Pawan did his BTech from Nagpur University and MTech from BITS Pilani in 1995 and 2005 respectively.

Prof. Anil Jindal

Dr. Anil Jindal is an Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmacy at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani Pilani Campus. His research is focused on developing innovative drug delivery systems to treat infectious diseases in both humans and animals. Dr. Jindal holds a PhD from the Institute of Chemical Technology Mumbai and worked with leading pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and IPCA Laboratories before joining BITS Pilani. He is the author of numerous publications and book chapters and the inventor of three patent applications, including one PCT application in nano-drug delivery systems. He is also an editor of the book “Pharmaceutical Process Engineering and Scale-up Principles”, published by Springer as a part of AAPS Introduction in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series. Dr. Jindal's contributions to the field of pharmacy earned him several prestigious academic awards, including the Prof. M.L. Khorona Memorial Award in 2010, the Eudragit Award in 2018, and the Early Career Research Award in 2019, presented by SERB, Government of India, for his significant contribution to research. Dr. Jindal's interview was recently featured in Voices Editorial of Molecular Pharmaceutics, demonstrating his recognition as a thought leader in his field. Additionally, he has been appointed as a managing theme editor for Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, a highly respected journal with an impact factor of 17.87.