#REDIRECT {| class="wikitable" style="border: 5px ridge grey; float:right;" |-|[[UserFile:Dr.Balaji.jpg|alt=|center|412x412px]]|-|'''Name:''' Dr. Balaji Ramanujam'''Faculty Champion:''' MITS chorts(2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018(both) '''Majored in:''' Chemistry ;<nowiki>Country: India</nowiki>;<nowiki>Email: </nowiki>[[Special:EmailUser/Drbalajir|balaji.ramanujam@qs.com]]|}'''Serving UIF(as Faculty Champion) Since:''' 2017<br />'''Organization:''' QS I-GAUGE (an active part of QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd.)<br />'''What he does now:''' External mentor for UIF, Faculty Innovation Fellow - 2022 Cohort, Senior Manager – Quality and Research<br />'''What that means:''' Imparting quality assessment methods and rating system for Higher Education Institutes and K-12 Schools in India to meet Global standards<br />'''Contact him about:''' How to be the better U, ideas you have; Challenges you face; networking with other Fellows you want; and ways you can give back to the UIF network<br />'''Email:''' balaji.ramanujam@qs.com '''Phone:''' +91-7598067232 Bala(ji) is a current holding the lead position in the QA-RA team of QS I-GAUGE, India and he stands responsible for making the quality assessment parameters for QS I-GAUGE rating of the HEI, SCHOOLS. He was a Chemistry faculty and UIF faculty champion, mentoring and guiding students to become potential change agent. <br />He facilitators and prunes the innovation among students to take part in the University Innovation Fellows program, an initiative of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford University. <br />Bala began this work after getting inspired by the TLS India program happened at Banglore in June 2017. <br />Bala holds a Doctorate degree from one of the Best Technology schools in India IIT Bombay and M.Sc(Ingtd) from Pondicherry University.<br /><br /><br /> ==Social media profiles==Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/scibala/ Balaji Ramanujam] <br />Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/scibala Balaji Ramanujam] <br />[[Category:Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science]][[Category:Faculty Champions]]{{CatTree|Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science}}