Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar (born 8 April 1960) is an Indian academic, electrical engineer and education administrator. He is the former

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of University Grants Commission, serving from February 2022 to April 2025. He served as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at

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. Kumar was the

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Jawaharlal Nehru University Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU; ISO: Javāharalāla Neharū Viśvavidyālaya) is a public research university located in Delhi, India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. The university ...

from January 2016 till 2022.

Life, education and career

Kumar was born in Mamidala village in Tipparthi mandal,

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. He did his Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from

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, followed by post doctoral research at

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. He works in the area of nanoscience and nanotechnology (nano-electronic devices, nanoscale devices, device design and power semiconductor devices). He is currently a fellow at

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National Academy of Sciences, India The National Academy of Sciences, India, also known as NASI, was established in 1930 and is the oldest science academy of India. It is located in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. Prof. Meghnad Saha was the founder president. Fellows * Suddhasatwa Bas ...

and

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among others. He is Chairman of the governing body of

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. He has received the "ISA-VSI TechnoMentor Award", with the award being presented by Dr. R. Chidambaram ( Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India). He was selected as the

from among four others including Rameshwar Nath Koul Bamezai,

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and Ramakrishna Ramaswamy. During his tenure as VC, he has often been in the news for many controversies happening on his watch such as the 2016 JNU sedition row, the disappearance of a student Najeeb Ahmad and the 2020 JNU attacks. Critics say that he is "implementing the agenda of the

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", the reason why he has been made VC in the first place. JNU Students' Unions called for his resignation following the attacks on JNU in January 2020.

Bibliography

Co-Authored three books with research students: * Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar, Pratyush Pandey, and Rajat Vishnoi (November 2016). ''Tunnel Field-effect Transistors (TFET): Modelling and Simulation.'' Wiley, UK * Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar and Sneh Saurabh (November 2016). ''Fundamentals of Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors.''

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(

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) * Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar and Shubham Sahay (February 2019). ''Junctionless Field-Effect Transistors: Design, Modeling, and Simulation.'' Wiley-IEEE Press, USA

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kumar, M Jagadesh Academic staff of Jawaharlal Nehru University Heads of universities and colleges in India Fellows of the National Academy of Sciences, India Living people IIT Madras alumni