Prof. Rajat Agrawal

Department of Management Studies
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Prof Rajat Agrawal is one of the few faculty members of the Institute, who teaches not only in his parent department, i.e. Management Studies but also in Centre of Disaster Mitigation and Management, Centre of Transportation System, Department of Design and Department of Biosciences and Bio engineering. He is not only popular among IIT Roorkee students but also popular across the country for his number of courses offered through NPTEL and other Edtech platforms. For his research contribution in the field of management, he was awarded ICCR Chair Professorship at Indonesia. He was also a visiting fellow at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He received ISOL research Award at Chicago for his research contribution, Dainik Bhaskar Excellence award for outstanding teaching and various other medals and recognition for his teaching and research contribution. He is also a fellow of Institution of Engineers. Prof Agrawal has completed different International collaborative research projects sponsored by Danish Innovation Council, Erasmus Mundus etc. He is handling projects sponsored by Ministry of Tribal affairs, IPR Chair of DPIIT, DBT, NHMS etc. He was also part of famous Environment Management Plan for Ganga River Basin. He has published extensively in peer reviewed journals. He has one patent to his credit which is successfully licensed to a manufacturer. He has also authored one book on Management Education and contributed book chapters in 8 books. He is a regular speaker at various national and international platforms. Prof Agrawal is credited with initiating and steering the proposal for a unique Master in Innovation Management program at IIT Roorkee.

Prof. Vipul Rastogi

Department of Physics
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Prof. Vipul Rastogi's passion for teaching has been recognised earlier also when he won the outstanding teacher award of IIT Roorkee and IAPT-DSM award of Indian Association of Physics Teachers. His teaching methodology includes explaining the concepts in the simplest possible manner, making students conversant with the topic using computer simulations and to provide students an environment which is conducive to developing critical and independent thinking. As a researcher, his notable scientific contributions are conceptualization and design of novel largemode-area optical fibers for high capacity DWDM optical communication systems, few-mode erbium doped optical amplifiers for futuristic SDM based optical communication system and designs for enhancement of the efficiency of organic light emitting diodes. His excellence in research is evident from his several patents and research papers in top journals. He has also developed and transferred the technology of two commercial softwares in the area of Fiber Optics. He has held visiting positions at the University of Nice, France and City University of Hong Kong. Prof. Rastogi had several international research collaborations including an Indo-French Network Project, UK-India Education and Research Initiative and DST-RSF IndoRussian Project. Dr. Rastogi has contributed and shown excellent performance in teaching, research and innovation