Fellow:Arjun Chakravarthi Pogaku
Arjun Pogaku is an Assistant Professor in the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at MITS. He is a doctoral candidate from Asia University, Taiwan and also a UI Fellow from MITS Spring 2018 Cohort. He organized various activities and workshops related to design thinking along with his faculty champions and other UI fellows. The team took up an initiative to introduce Design Thinking as an open elective course at the institution for post-grad students. Being an experienced UI Fellow and a responsible Professor, he is the course instructor of DT. Apart from this, he is a dedicated research fellow, having expertise in wireless communications, focused on a new-gen device called Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces. At present, he completed 2 years of his doctoral program and published 5 journal articles.
Awards and recognition:
- Ministry of Education (MoE) Scholarship for Ph.D. by Ministry of Education,
- Taiwan. Top Class Academic Performance, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, Taiwan.
- University Innovation Fellowship (UIF), Stanford University, USA. Spring-2018 Cohort
- Asia Pacific Innovation Academy Delegate, Shenzhen University, China.