Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi

Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi
Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi
29th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 August 2025
Appointed by	President of India
Preceded by	Sudhir K. Jain
Director (Acting) at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
	In office; 1 July 2020 – 31 January 2022
Preceded by	Timothy A. Gonsalves
Succeeded by	Laxmidhar Behera
Director at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
	In office; 1 January 2017 – 11 Oct 2022
Preceded by	Pradipta Banerji
Succeeded by	Prof. Kamal Kishore Pant
Lecturer at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi
	In office; 1994–1996
Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
	In office; 1996–1999
Professor,Dean of Research & Development and Deputy Director at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
	In office; 1999–2016
	In office; 2022–2025
Personal details
Born	1964 (age 61–62); (India)
Education	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Profession	Professor; Dean; Researcher
Known for	MIMO systems applications
Website	Official website

Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi (born 1964) is an Indian Professor, education administrator, currently serving as the 29th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University. He has previously served as the Director of IIT Roorkee. He has largely contributed to waveform shaping and sequence design, MIMO systems.

Chaturvedi was appointed as the 29th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University in July 2025.

Awards, honors and fellowships

Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship of Nanyang Technical University, Singapore (2008).
INSA Teacher award (2017)

Education

PhD, Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1995
M. Tech., Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1988
B. Tech., Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1986

Selected bibliography

Articles

Singh, Vindheshwari P.; Chaturvedi, Ajit Kumar (22 June 2017). "Max–min fairness based linear transceiver–relay design for MIMO interference relay channel". IET Communications. 11 (9): 1485–1496. doi:10.1049/iet-com.2017.0034. S2CID 206185133.
Manglani, G.; Chaturvedi, A.K. (February 2006). "Application of computational geometry to multiuser detection in CDMA". IEEE Transactions on Communications. 54 (2): 204–207. Bibcode:2006ITCom..54..204M. doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2005.863793. S2CID 9792284.
Chaturvedi, A.K.; Sharma, G. (1999). "A new family of concurrent algorithms for adaptive Volterra and linear filters". IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 47 (9): 2547–2551. Bibcode:1999ITSP...47.2547C. doi:10.1109/78.782201.
S Chandan, P Sandeep, and AK Chaturvedi, "A family of ISI-free polynomial pulses," Communications Letters, IEEE 9 (6), 496-498 (2005)
P Sandeep, S Chandan, and AK Chaturvedi, "ISI-free pulses with reduced sensitivity to timing errors," Communications Letters, IEEE 9 (4), 292-294 (2005)
R Appuswamy and AK Chaturvedi, "A new framework for constructing mutually orthogonal complementary sets and ZCZ sequences," Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on 52 (8), 3817-3826 (2006)
G Manglani and AK Chaturvedi, "Application of computational geometry to multiuser detection in CDMA," Communications, IEEE Transactions on 54 (2), 204-207 (2006)
RU Mahesh and AK Chaturvedi, "Closed form BER expressions for BPSK OFDM systems with frequency offset," Communications Letters, IEEE 14 (8), 731-733 (2010)

Conference proceedings

Sah, Abhay Kumar; Chaturvedi, A. K. (December 2016). "Improved Sparsity Behaviour and Error Localization in Detectors for Large MIMO Systems". 2016 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC WKSHPS). IEEE. pp. 1–6. doi:10.1109/GLOCOMW.2016.7848930. ISBN 978-1-5090-2482-7. S2CID 25357090.
Sah, Abhay Kumar; Chaturvedi, A. K. (January 2016). "Improving the reliability of receivers for 5G networks". 2016 8th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS). IEEE. pp. 1–2. doi:10.1109/COMSNETS.2016.7439993. ISBN 978-1-4673-9622-6. S2CID 4908364.

References

↑ Susheel, Tapan (8 December 2016). "ajit kumar chaturvedi: IIT Roorkee gets new director | Dehradun News - Times of India". The Times of India.
↑ "IIT Delhi Professor appointed as the new Director for IIT Roorkee, all about Prof. KK Pant". 29 September 2022.
1 2 "Director IIT Roorkee, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee". www.iitr.ac.in.
↑ "A K Chaturvedi". home.iitk.ac.in. IIT Kanpur. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
↑ "IIT Veteran Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi Sworn in as BHU Vice Chancellor". Jagranjosh.com. 5 August 2025. Retrieved 18 August 2025.
↑ Chakrabati, S.; Chaturvedi, A.K. (December 2000). "Application of Steiner design for capacity enhancement of frequency hopping spread spectrum wireless systems". 2000 IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.00TH8488). pp. 198–202. doi:10.1109/ICPWC.2000.905802. ISBN 0-7803-5893-7. S2CID 19501210.
↑ Sah, Abhay Kumar; Chaturvedi, A. K. (February 2018). "Sequential and Global Likelihood Ascent Search-Based Detection in Large MIMO Systems". IEEE Transactions on Communications. 66 (2): 713–725. Bibcode:2018ITCom..66..713S. doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2761383. ISSN 1558-0857. S2CID 3706683.
↑ "BHU Vice-Chancellor : आइआइटी कानपुर के प्रो. अजीत कुमार चतुर्वेदी बने बीएचयू के नए कुलपति - IIT Kanpurs Professor Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi Appointed as New BHU Vice Chancellor". Jagran (in Hindi). Retrieved 31 July 2025.
↑ "A. K. Chaturvedi". IEEE.
↑ "INSA :: INSA Teachers Award List". insaindia.res.in.
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[1] Susheel, Tapan (8 December 2016). "ajit kumar chaturvedi: IIT Roorkee gets new director | Dehradun News - Times of India". The Times of India.

[2] "IIT Delhi Professor appointed as the new Director for IIT Roorkee, all about Prof. KK Pant". 29 September 2022.

[a-3] 1 2 "Director IIT Roorkee, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee". www.iitr.ac.in.

[b-4] "A K Chaturvedi". home.iitk.ac.in. IIT Kanpur. Retrieved 8 July 2020.

[5] "IIT Veteran Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi Sworn in as BHU Vice Chancellor". Jagranjosh.com. 5 August 2025. Retrieved 18 August 2025.

[6] Chakrabati, S.; Chaturvedi, A.K. (December 2000). "Application of Steiner design for capacity enhancement of frequency hopping spread spectrum wireless systems". 2000 IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.00TH8488). pp. 198–202. doi:10.1109/ICPWC.2000.905802. ISBN 0-7803-5893-7. S2CID 19501210.

[7] Sah, Abhay Kumar; Chaturvedi, A. K. (February 2018). "Sequential and Global Likelihood Ascent Search-Based Detection in Large MIMO Systems". IEEE Transactions on Communications. 66 (2): 713–725. Bibcode:2018ITCom..66..713S. doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2761383. ISSN 1558-0857. S2CID 3706683.

[8] "BHU Vice-Chancellor : आइआइटी कानपुर के प्रो. अजीत कुमार चतुर्वेदी बने बीएचयू के नए कुलपति - IIT Kanpurs Professor Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi Appointed as New BHU Vice Chancellor". Jagran (in Hindi). Retrieved 31 July 2025.

[9] "A. K. Chaturvedi". IEEE.

[10] "INSA :: INSA Teachers Award List". insaindia.res.in.

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Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi


29th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 August 2025
Appointed by	President of India
Preceded by	Sudhir K. Jain
Director (Acting) at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
In office 1 July 2020 – 31 January 2022
Preceded by	Timothy A. Gonsalves
Succeeded by	Laxmidhar Behera
Director at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
In office 1 January 2017 – 11 Oct 2022
Preceded by	Pradipta Banerji
Succeeded by	Prof. Kamal Kishore Pant
Lecturer at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi
In office 1994–1996
Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
In office 1996–1999
Professor,Dean of Research & Development and Deputy Director at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
In office 1999–2016
In office 2022–2025

Personal details
Born	1964 (age 61–62) (India)
Education	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Profession	Professor Dean Researcher
Known for	MIMO systems applications
Website	Official website