Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar is an academician, administrator and author and is the Chairman of University Grants Commission since February 2022. He is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at

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. M Jagadesh Kumar took over as VC of JNU from

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in January 2016. He became the chairperson of the University Grants Commission on 4 February 2022.

Background

Kumar was born in Mamidala village in Tipparthi mandal, Nalgonda district, Telangana. He did his Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from

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.followed by post doctoral research at University of Waterloo, Canada. 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 and Indian National Academy of Engineering among others. He is Chairman of the governing body of National Council of Science Museums. He has received the "ISA-VSI TechnoMentor Award", with the award being presented by Dr.

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( Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India). He was selected as the Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University from among four others including

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and

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

References

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