IIT Jodhpur set to get new director, Pilani Chaudhary to join soon

IIT Jodhpur: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur is all set to get a new director. Professor Pilani Santanu Chaudhary will soon take the rein of the institute from CVR Murthy. Professor Chaudhury is currently serving as the Director of Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI).

Professor CVR Murthy, who completed his tenure on September 10, 2018, will remain the director until Prof Pilani Chaudhary takes the charge of IIT Jodhpur.
Currently, Professor Prof Pilani Chaudhary is coordinating technology projects which involve nearly 11 institutes under Indian Digital Heritage Programme of DST. The programme is basically into the developing the digital techniques for the digital restoration and preservation of heritage sites at Hampi. He is also currently working as a faculty member in IIT Delhi and will be the third Director of IIT Jodhpur. Prof Pilani Chaudhary has also completed his Ph.D. degree in the area of Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1989.

According to some media report, Prof Chaudhary has an area of interest in image processing, machine learning, and embedded systems. With such interest, he has developed a scheme for a cloud-based image super-resolution scheme. This is a new technique of video compression based on parametric compression. Currently, he is working on various other projects which are ‘Development of robust document analysis and recognition system for printed Indian scripts (OCR)’, ‘Vision based activity monitoring for surveillance applications (NRB)’, ‘Design of an embedded processor for smart camera systems’ and others.

Prof Pilani Chaudhary is a B.Tech graduate in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. He has as many as 259 research papers published in various national and international journals and has 12 patents filed under his name.