Dr Sandeep Sancheti, Vice-Chancellor, SRMIST, Chennai, has more than 36 years of teaching, research and administrative experience.

He was also President of the Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi and President of Manipal University Jaipur, Director NIT Delhi and Director NITK Surathkal.

Dr Sancheti holds a PhD from Queens University of Belfast UK, an MSc in Engineering from DTU Delhi and a BTech in Electronics from NIT Warangal.

He also served as Director-in-Charge, NIT Tiruchirapally, NIT Calicut, School of Planning & Architecture, Delhi and Mentor Director, NIT Goa, NIT Puducherry and NIT Sikkim.

Dr Sancheti is the recipient of the Commonwealth Scholarship & Fellowship under Colombo Plan and was a Visiting Faculty at Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok.

He is also a Life Fellow of IETE, IE (I), ISTE, BES and a Member of IEEE, USA and has contributed more than 80 research papers in journals and conferences.