Vinay Kumar Pathak is an

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(Computer Science) who has served as

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at Harcourt Butler Technical University

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, Project

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, and again as

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and Dean at Harcourt Butler Technical University Kanpur ''on lien''. He has served as

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(UOU) from 25 November 2009 till November 2012. He was then appointed

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of Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University (VMOU) in Rajasthan’s Kota on 1 February 2013 and served there till 31 July 2015 with additional charge as officiating

of the Rajasthan Technical University in Kota on 16 May 2015 till 31 July 2015. On 4 August 2015, he was appointed as

of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU) and served there till 9 August 2021 with additional charge as

of Harcourt Butler Technical University Kanpur and officiating

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’s Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Language University (KMCLU) till 9 August 2021. In, April 2021 he was appointed as

of Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University where he is currently serving with additional charge as

of the Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University in

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from January 2022 till September 2022. He has also served as

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of the

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(AIU) from 1 July 2024 till 30 June 2025. He has successfully organized many national and international conferences.

Education

Pathak did his

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in computer science from

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, Kanpur, in 1991; M.Tech. from

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in 1998; and Ph.D. in computer science from U.P. Technical University,

under the joint guidance of IIT

, November 2004. Research interests of Pathak include computational geometry and image processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning. Pathak was instrumental in the implementation of Vedic mathematics in 1992. He worked in Media Lab Asia and successfully did the work of info-sculpture.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pathak, Vinay Kumar Living people Scholars from Uttarakhand Rajasthani people Indian academic administrators 1969 births