Prof Prabhat Ranjan is currently Vice Chancellor of D Y Patil International University(DYPIU), Akurdi, Pune. He is a Nuclear Fusion Scientist, a Futurist, an Educator, an Innovator and a Science Communicator.
From 2013-18, he was heading India's Technology Think Tank, TIFAC(Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council) in Delhi as its Executive Director. During his tenure, TIFAC developed Technology Vision 2035, which was released by Hon'ble PM in Jan 2016.
Prof. Ranjan has worked on Nuclear Fusion in National and International Labs in India and USA and made major contributions to this field for nearly two decades. He was Project Leader of ADITYA Tokamak and SST-1 Tokamak Control Group at Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar till 2002.
After this he served as Professor at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of ICT in Gandhinagar for 11 years. His remarkable innovative contributions include India’s Moon Mission, Wildlife and Agriculture sector. He is particularly known for his innovations in the field of assistive technology that has helped to put smiles on the faces of persons with severe disability.
He obtained his PhD from University of California, Berkeley and did college education from IIT Kharagpur and University of Delhi after schooling from famous Netarhat School near Ranchi. He has topped Bihar in entrance test for Netarhat School in 1970. He has received many awards and accolades for his contribution to Science, Technology and Society.
He created a flexible and futuristic multitrack B Tech(Comp Sci and Engg) program in 2019, which won appreciation from AICTE and has impacted Comp Sci curriculum across the country this year.
