BITS Pilani Appoints New Director, Prof Soumyo Mukherji, For The Hyderabad Campus

Prof. Soumyo Mukherji was named director of BITS Pilani's Hyderabad campus for a period of five years today. He will succeed Prof. G. Sundar in leading the team. Mukherjee is currently employed at IIT Bombay as the Madhuri Sinha Chair Professor in Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering. Additionally, he holds an associate faculty position at the Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics and the Centre for Research in Nanotechnology and Sciences.

Mukherji has held a number of administrative roles at IIT Bombay in addition to this. He served as the Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility's head from 2010 to 2013, the Centre for Research in Nanotechnology & Science's head, and the Dean of Student Affairs from 2015 to 2019.

Professor Mukherji received his doctorate from Chapel Hill, USA's University of North Carolina. He obtained his MS degree from Colorado State University (Fort Collins, USA) and his BTech in Instrumentation Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. Both the Fellowship of the National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc) and the Fellowship of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE) have been awarded to him.