Professors of Eminence

Prof. P. Ishwara Bhat

Honorary Distinguished Professor

Ph.D., Mysore University

Former Vice-Chancellor, KSLU
Prof. G. Raghuram

Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., Northwestern University, USA

Former Director, IIM Bangalore
Prof. K. V. Raju

Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., Sardar Patel University, Gujarat

Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister

Professors

Shobana Padmanabhan

Director (Academics), School of Engineering

Rajendra Bandi

Professor and Dean, School of Management Sciences

Ph.D., Georgia State University, USA

Former Dean and Professor, IIM Bangalore
Dileep Prabhakar Jatkar

Professor & Dean, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Ph.D. (1992), Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar

Faculty member at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj
Shrinivas S. Balli

Dean, Student Affairs

Ph.D.

Founding Vice-Chancellor, Nrupathunga University, Bengaluru
Maruthi R. Suresh

Professor, School of Management Sciences

Ph.D., M. S. University of Baroda

H.S. Subramanya

Pro Vice-Chancellor, Professor & Dean, School of Biosciences

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; Post-doc, Oxford University, UK

Former Director, IBAB, Bengaluru
Yashavantha Dongre

Hon'ble Vice-Chancellor

Ph.D., Mysore University

Chair - APRRC, International Cooperative Alliance
H. S. Ashok

Professor of Psychology, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Bangalore University

Honorary Professor at Centre of Education Social Sciences
Anilkumar Gopal Garag

Professor, School of Management Sciences

Ph.D., Goa University

Former Director of Global Business School Hubli
Former Director of Bapuji B-Schools, Davangere
MIMA, AMIE, FIV
Ajay Rawul

Professor, School of Management Studies

M.B.A., Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai

Mentor Start-up India and Serial Entrepreneur
Sandeep Nair

Professor & Dean, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A. In Economics and PhD in Management

Member, State Advisory Committee, RTE GoK.
Sushant T. Joshi

Registrar & Professor of Management, School of Management Sciences

Ph.D., Rani Channamma University, Belagavi

Former Director, Nebulous Automation
Bhavani M. R.

Registrar (Evaluation) and Professor, School of Management Sciences

Ph.D., Shivaji University

Former Vice-Chair of Karnataka-Kerala Chapter, AIMS
Ramakrishna Pejathaya

Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Director, Centre for IKS

Ph.D., National Sanskrit University, Tirupati

Dasha Avadhani-Poet
Ashwin Kumar A. P.

Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Dean, Academic Affairs, Chanakya University, Bangalore

Ph.D., Manipal University

Former Director, Centre for Learning Futures, Ahmedabad University
Chetan Basavaraj Singai

Professor & Dean, School of Law, Governance, and Public Policy

Ph.D., National Institute of Advanced Studies, IISc, Bengaluru

Chief Consultant and Convenor, Technical Secretariat, National Steering Committee, NCF

Associate Professors

Sudeshna Mukherjee

Associate Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Rajashree. K

Associate Professor, School of Law, Governance and Public Policy

Ph.D., CHRIST University

Sanjukta Mukherjee

Associate Professor, School of Bioscience

Ph.D., CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (CSIR-IICB), Kolkata; Post-doc, SANKEN (or ISIR), Osaka University, Japan

Former Assistant Professor at ISIR, Osaka university, Japan
Sritha Sandon

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Martin Luther Christian University, Shillong.

Sumi S

Associate Professor, School of Biosciences

Ph.D., Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology

Former faculty fellow, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram
Rajesh Kumar Prasad

Associate Professor, School of Engineering

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Former Associate Professor & Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur
Poonam Purohit

Associate Professor, School of Mangement Sciences

Ph.D., Banasthali University, Rajasthan; Post-doc, IIMB

Former Faculty, IIM, Nagpur
Shubhada Hegde

Associate Professor, School of Biosciences

Ph.D., CDFD Hyderabad; Post-doc, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Former DST-Inspire Faculty Scientist, IBAB, Bangalore
Naveen Bhat

Associate Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Central Sanskrit University, Delhi

Author, Researcher
Rajesh Aruchamy

Associate Professor, School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Bharathiar University, Coimbatore

Pradeep Kumar

Associate Professor, School of Law, Governance, and Public Policy

Ph.D., Mewar University, Chittorgarh

Former Dean Academic Affairs, NLU, Sonipat
Krishna Kurthkoti

Associate Professor, School of Biosciences

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; Post-doc, Rutgers University

DBT Ramalingasawmi Faculty fellow, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram
Bharath Setturu

Associate Professor, School of Engineering

Ph.D., IIIT Hyderabad

Geospatial Scientist
Priyanka Dwivedi

Associate Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Bangalore University

Speaker & Faculty Trainer

Assistant Professors

Durga Prasad Ayyagari‬

Assistant Professor, School of Management Sciences

Post Doc, IISc Bengaluru, Ph.D., BITS Pilani, Goa

Ranjan Tiwari

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

Ph.D., IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand

Nishit Kumar

Assistant Professor, Subhas Chandra Bose Chair of International Relations

Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Visiting Fellow, Harvard University (2019-2020). Senior Visiting Student, Peking University (2018-2019). Consultant, CCCS, Ministry of External Affairs (2021-2025).
Ritwik Pal 

Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Rashmiranjan Mohapatra

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

Ph.D., IIT, Hyderabad

Krishnendu Das

Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Chitransh Atre

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

Ph.D., IIT Madras

Sahil Bharti

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

Ph.D., IIT Madras

Rakshit Kweera

Assistant Professor, School of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., University of Hyderabad

Varsha Gupta

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

(Ph.D.) Tumkur University

Anusree Mahanta

Assistant Professor, School of Biosciences

Ph.D., Tezpur Central University, Assam, India

Kingshuk Chatterjee

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

Ph.D., IIT Kanpur

Sandeep Kumar

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

Ph.D., (Thesis Submitted), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Neethu S Kumar 

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D.,(pursuing), Christ University, Bangalore

Arpit Agrawal 

Assistant Professor, School of Law, Governance and Public Policy

LL.M. (Hons.), National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi 

Abrar Rizvi

Research Scientist, School of Bioscience

Ph.D., FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, University of Milan

Shilpa. R 

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences  

Ph.D., Bangalore University

Amal Vijay

Assistant Professor, School of Biosciences

Ph.D., IISER Pune

Former Postdoctoral Researcher, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Basavaraj Kumasi

Assistant Professor, School of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Kuvempu University, Shivamogga

Kumaraswamy T. R.

Assistant Professor, School of Biosciences

Ph.D. Bangalore University

Rachana K

Assistant professor, School of Engineering

(Ph.D.), Reva University

Rinki Shrivastava

Assistant Professor, School of Management Sciences

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, India

K.V. Ajaygopal

Assistant Professor, School of Management Sciences

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai

Anupam Sharma

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

M.E., Goa University

Anusha Sabhahit

Assistant Professor, School of Management Sciences

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Chari Kanakavalli Santhanam

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

(Ph.D.), University of Mumbai,

Shruti Kanitkar

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., IIT Bombay

Amogh S Raj

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

M.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, University of Leicester

Sandhya R

Assistant Professor, School of Management Sciences

Ph.D., Tumkur University

Tukaram Badiger

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Central University of Karnataka

NFSC Awardee
Mulla Arshiya

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

M.C.A., BMSCE, Bengaluru

Sangeeta Ramesh

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D.

Aarti Nagpal Mehta

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., University of Hyderabad.

Isha Sharma 

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A., Centre for Development Studies, JNU, Thiruvananthapuram

Renjith Raj

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., BITS Pilani

Swaraj Kumar Dey

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., in economics from IIM Kozhikode

Deepak Kumar Tripathi

Assistant Professor, School of Management Sciences

Ph.D. (Finance) BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, India.

Bhagirathi T

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

M.C.A, BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru

Deepthi Hebbale

Assistant Professor, School of Biosciences

Ph.D., IISc, Bengaluru

Sirshendu Ghosh

Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Ph.D., Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata (Jadavpur University)

Preethi Vijayaraghavareddy

Assistant Professor, School of Biosciences

Ph.D., Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands

Former DST-INSPIRE Faculty Scientist, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore
Bhagyashri Devaru Bhat

Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Ph.D.

Harshita Kulkarni

Assistant Professor, School of Law, Governance and Public Policy

Ph.D., Karnatak University, Dharwad

Banu Priya M.

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

M. Tech., Ph.D.(Pursuing)

Banashankari Hosur

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

M.Tech, RVCE, Bengaluru

Former faculty of NMIT Banagalore & MCOE Pune
Shubhashri Gopalkrishna Kamalapur

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.S.W., KSET

Hariprasad Manjunath Hegde

Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru

Sindhu D. M.

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Central University of Karnataka

Shreehari H. S.

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

M.S., Bremen University of Applied Sciences, Germany

P. Susmitha

Assistant Professor, School of Law, Governance and Public Policy

L.L.M., Azim Premji University

Madhuri Mukhopadhyay

Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Ph.D., IACS, Kolkata

Researcher, Lund University Sweden, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, University of Exeter, UK
Mahesh Krishna K.

Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Ph.D., NIT Karnataka, Surathkal; Post-doc, Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru

Ashish Kumar Shukla

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

Ph.D., IIITDM, Jabalpur

Vijay V.

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

Ph.D., IIT Madras

Priyadarshan Kinatukara

Assistant Professor, School of Biosciences

Ph.D., CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB)

Shilpee Jain

Assistant Professor, School of Biosciences

Ph.D., IIT Kanpur

Former Faculty Fellow at the Center for Biosystems Science and Engineering, IISc
Sowmya G. S.

Assistant Professor, School of Management Sciences

Ph.D., Tumkur University

Shreaya K. H.

Assistant Professor, Physical Education and Sports

M.P.Ed., Mangalore University

Deepak Raj Pandaya

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Saurav Sarmah

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Charu Ratna Dubey

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Researcher, Taipei University, Taiwan
Ajay Chandra

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.Sc., Bangalore University

Praphulla Chandra N.

Assistant Registrar and Assistant Professor, School of Management Sciences

Ph.D., Karnataka University, Dharwad

Founder Principal, Sadhana PU College
Chaitanya Ramesh

Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

M.Phil., Periyar University

Young Scientist Awardee, 'Guinness World and Limca National Record holder'
Hemanth N. V.

Assistant Professor, Physical Education and Sports

M.P.Ed., Mangalore University

Naresh Dixit P. S.

Assistant Professor and Convener, Institutions Innovation Council

M.Tech., VTU, Belagavi

Former Research Associate, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Anusha M. Virupannavar

Assistant Professor, School of Law, Governance and Public Policy

LL.M., Karnataka State Law University

Heddari Ravikumar

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A., University of Mysore

Keshava Chandra

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A.

Author and Poet

Professor of Practice

Pradeep Kumar Gopalakrishnan

Professor of Practice, School of Engineering

Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Adjunct/Visiting Professors

R. Sowdhamini

Visiting Faculty, School of Biosciences

Ph.D., IISc, Bangalore

Senior Professor, NCBS; Adjunct faculty, MBU, IISc; Distinguished Professor and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Chair, IBAB
Arun Prasad Pandurangan

Visiting Faculty, School of Biosciences

Ph.D., Computer Science, Crystallography and Biophysics, University of Madras.

Teaching Fellow, Gonville and Caius College; Assistant Research Professor, University of Cambridge
M R N Murthy

Visiting Faculty, School of Biosciences

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; Post-doc, Purdue University, USA

Former Professor and J.C. Bose fellow, IISc; Distinguished Professor and AstraZeneca Chair, IBAB
Abhishek Kumar Singh

Visiting Faculty, School of Biosciences

Ph.D., Delhi University; Post Doc, Freie Universität Berlin

Current Designation & Affiliation: Senior Scientist and Subgroup Leader, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Arjun Bharadwaj

Visiting Faculty, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Siddarth Rai Mahendra

Visiting Faculty, School of Engineering

Ph.D., Oregon State University

SRC, GlobalFoundries, Qorvo
Sandoche Balakrichenan

Visiting Faculty, School of Engineering

Ph.D., Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

Head of Research & Development Partnerships at AFNIC, the French Network Information Center
Morris Altman

Adjunct/Visiting Professors, School of Management Sciences

Dean & Chair Research Professor of Behavioural & Institutional Economics, & Co-operatives at University of Dundee, Scotland
Paul A. Barresi

Visiting Faculty, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Boston University

Professor, Southern New Hampshire University (U.S.A.)
Habil Narahari Rao

Visiting Faculty, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Universität des Saarlandes, Germany

Former Privatdozent (Adj. Professor), Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
Shritha K. Vasudevan

Visiting Faculty, School of Law, Governance and Public Policy

M.A., University of Florida, USA

Visiting faculty, National Law School of India University
Krishnan Venkataraman

Visiting Faculty, School of Law, Governance and Public Policy

M.S., Harvard University

Trustee, Sadvidya Paripalana Trust
Akash Gupta

Visiting Faculty, School of Law, Governance and Public Policy

Ph.D., GD Goenka University

Assistant Professor & Assistant Director, Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution, Jindal Global Law School
M. Sivakumar

Adjunct Professor, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Ph.D., Madras University

Former Faculty, University of Hyderabad
Disha Sharma

Visiting Faculty, School of Law, Governance and Public Policy

Ph.D., JNU; Post-Doc Fellow, SPIA, Princeton University

Air Pollution Expert, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Omkar Joshi​

Visiting Faculty, School of Law, Governance and Public Policy

Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park

Researcher, Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland
Nikolai Wenzel

Visiting Faculty, School of Law, Governance and Public Policy

L.V. Hackley Chair for the Study of Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Distinguished Professor of Economics, Fayetteville State University
Jean-Louis Arcand​

Visiting Faculty, School of Law, Governance and Public Policy

Professor of International Economics, Geneva Graduate Institute

President — Global Development Network
Y. N. Srikant

Visiting Faculty, School of Engineering

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science

Former Faculty, IISc Bengaluru
P. V. Venkitakrishnan

Visiting Faculty, School of Engineering

Ph.D., IIT Madras

Former Director, CBPO and Prof. Satish Dhawan Chair Scientist at ISRO
Dr. Vinayachandra Banavathy

Consultant, Strategic Initiatives

Ph.D., Pondicherry University

Director Indica Yoga, Guest Faculty at University of Ghent, Belgium
Rajendrakumar Joshi

Adjunct Faculty, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., IIT Mumbai

Faculty Trainer- Philosopher
Satyavolu Srinivas Rau

Adjunct Professor, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Ph.D., University of Hyderabad

Former Professor, Gar Younis University, Benghazi, Libya
Meena Nair

Adjunct Faculty, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., JNU, New Delhi

Research Trainer
Tanujay Saha

Visiting Faculty, School of Engineering

Ph.D., Princeton University

ML Engineer, Intel Corporation, USA
Siddhartha Visveswara Jayanti

Visiting Faculty, School of Engineering

Ph.D., MIT, USA

Research Scientist, Google Research
Shishir Shukla

Visiting Faculty, School of Engineering

M.S. Arizona State University Renesas Electronics

3 US patents and author of 2 IEEE publications
Ritesh Jain

Visiting Faculty, School of Engineering

Ph.D., University of Wuppertal, Germany Renesas Electronics

Kowshik Thopalli

Visiting Faculty, School of Engineering

Ph.D., Arizona State University

Post-doc Researcher Machine Intelligence Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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