Professor RK Mittal took over charge as the vice-chancellor of KR Mangalam University, Gurgaon. An academic leader, who has championed higher education issues on national and international platforms, Mittal is an able educational administrator with over 40 years of experience. He received BE (honours) and ME degrees in mechanical engineering, and a PhD degree in software engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani. He obtained highest rank in order of merit in ME degree programme and was awarded institute’s gold medal for coming first three. He joined academics at BITS and had been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses for the last four decades. He has guided several MTech dissertation and PhD students. He is the founding member of the Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems at BITS Pilani.
He has attended national and international conferences, presented/published numerous papers in reputed journals and authored several books on robotics. After his appointment, Mittal interacted with teaching and non-teaching staff of the university. KK Aggarwal, university chancellor, in his introduction speech, described Mittal as, “a learned academician and able administrator.”
Aggarwal welcomed him to the university with a hope to build on the university’s academic momentum and lead it to greater achievements. After the brief introduction by the faculty members, Mittal said that he was delighted to be a part of the university. He said that he is looking forward with great eagerness to work with the faculty, students, administrators and staff.