Prof. Manish Gaur
Director,
Indian Institute of Information
Technology,
Una H.P. – 177 209
Email: director@iiitu.ac.in
Our Institute was established in the year 2014-15 as an Institute of National Importance under the MoE, GoI, by an IIIT (PPP) Act of Parliament No. 23 of 2017.
Dr Manish Gaur has recently joined as the Director of Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Una (Himachal Pradesh). He is a Professor in Computer Science at Institute of Engineering and Technology Lucknow (a constituent college of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam University Lucknow (AKTU)) and was serving as Pro Vice Chancellor of AKTU. He has also served as Adjunct Professor at IIT Jammu as well as Eminent Faculty at Rastriya Raksha University Gandhinagar, both are institutions of national importance.
His research area can be broadly classified as Formal Methods and Verification of Large Systems; Semantics of Concurrent Programming Languages. His recent work interest includes formal modelling of stochastic behaviour of processes in a distributed network and formal behavioural modeling of AI. Prof Gaur is an Honorary Research Fellow of University of Glasgow, UK. He obtained his doctorate degree in computer science from University of Sussex, UK; M.Tech. in Computer Sc. from IIT Delhi and Bachelor in Engineering from NIT, Surat (then SV Regional Engineering College Surat). Prof Gaur’s academic track has been extraordinary throughout. He is a recipient of Commonwealth Academic Fellowship in 2012 and Commonwealth Scholarship in 2005 from the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission UK. Dr Gaur was awarded the Young Scientist Award of Government of Uttar Pradesh in the Year 2003 for his contributions to the academics and research. His M.Tech. Project was awarded best project during the academic year 2001-02 at department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi leading to the conferment of prestigious Suresh Chandra Memorial Award. All his publications are in widely acclaimed journals and conference proceedings.
Many research, consultancy and projects from reputed organizations such as Google, Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Service Commission (UPSSC), SERB- DST are in his credit. He has held various academic and administrative positions at the university. He has widely travelled both within India and abroad, primarily in Western Europe and Middle East, for various academic purposes such as invited talks, conferences, short courses and project collaborations.
He has worked as founder director of newly created institution, Center for Advanced Studies at AKTU from July 2017 to March 2021. The center has come up with state of art laboratories, post graduate academic programs in the fields of Cyber Security, Mechatronics, Nano Technology, Energy Sc and Technology and Manufacturing & Automation under his leadership. He has served as member of various statutory bodies of the university for long.
His academic administrative acumen include policy and planning in the field of higher education. Prof Gaur has been contributing in the area for last 29 years.