Prof Srikant Srinivasan currently serves as the Dean of Academics and Professor at Plaksha University. Prior to joining Plaksha, Prof Srinivasan was an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, where he also served as Associate Dean (Courses). He earned his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, USA, and received the Outstanding Dissertation in Magnetism Award from the American Physical Society, as well as a Student Innovator Award for developing nanomagnet-based computing devices as an alternative to traditional silicon transistors.
Subsequently, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher, Data Scientist, and later as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in interdisciplinary engineering domains such as materials informatics and high-throughput plant phenotyping at Iowa State University before joining IIT Mandi. At IIT Mandi, he worked on sponsored research projects related to precision agriculture and was also actively involved in interdisciplinary curriculum design and delivery for undergraduate students. Prof Srinivasan was the Principal Investigator (PI) for the multi-institution collaboration FarmerZone, which delivers agricultural advisories to farmers across multiple states in India.
Prof Srinivasan is a recipient of the Ramalingaswami Re-Entry Fellowship by the Department of Biotechnology, and currently serves as a program review committee member for DBT’s flagship program Biotech Kisan. He is also an advisor and equity holder in Arnetta Technologies Pvt Ltd, an incubatee of IIT Mandi.