Dr. Rajnish Sharma
Dean Academics
CHITKARA UNIVERSITY

Having completed his research work at National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi and obtaining his Ph.D. in Electronic Science from Kurukshetra University in 2002, Dr. Rajnish Sharma served Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani for almost 6 years of duration. At BITS, along with teaching, he handled a large number of academic and administrative responsibilities like holding position of Secretary, Birla Institutions Community Center (BICC, Pilani), Warden, Bhagirath Bhawan, Incharge, Test Scheduling and President, BITS Staff Association etc. He also co convened two national level workshops for academicians and industry professionals sponsored by DST, CSIR, AICTE, IEEE and Genesis Microchip as well during his tenure at BITS in year 2005 and 2006 respectively.

His main area of research and teaching has been oriented towards electronic devices and possible exploration of technology for further scaling of MOS devices. In totality, he has got 12 years of teaching and research experience. He has got 14 research papers in International and national journals and conferences along with one book by Oxford University Press to his credit. He has presented a part of his research work at Materials Research Society Symposium held at San Francisco, CA, USA in March, 2005 and also at Risoe National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark. Currently, he is also handling a research project sanctioned by Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. In past, he has been a member of professional societies like IEEE, Materials Research Society (MRS), USA, ISTE and Indian Carbon Society.

With an ardent desire to excel in academics and to make a commendable contribution towards education, he has been guiding students for their right career paths and enjoys each and every element of responsibility assigned to him. He believes in giving more than 100 % to any tasks the he undertakes and always strives hard to achieve excellence. A strong believer of the dictum that, “A Teacher’s task is not only to teach students, but also to make them useful citizens of this society”, he owes a lot of this kind of sense developed in him to his teachers.

He has been instrumental in planning and implementation of a unique kind of academic system at School of Engineering and Technology.