Dr. Karunakar A Kotegar (KK)

Karunakar A Kotegar is working as a Professor & Head in Department of Computer Application, Manipal Institute of Technology of Manipal Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal India. He finished his Ph.D. in 2009 in the area of "Scalable Video Coding" and Post-doctoral fellowship (16 months) at AIT Ireland on "Scalable Video Streaming over Peer-to-peer Networks". His research interest includes image/video processing and communication, Scalable Video Coding, Media Aware Network Elements, Multi-view Video Coding, Scalable video over Peer-to-Peer Networks, Error resilient and concealment for scalable video, stereo vision, image & video forensics.

Dr. KK has been associated with IAESTE India since it's inception in 2013 as a President, Advisory Board https://iaeste.in/ and has served as the Deputy Director, International Collaborations at Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) for five years from 2013. He is a faculty adviser for IAESTE in MAHE and AIESEC in MAHE.

In Jan 2019 Annual Conference at Cyprus he is elected to the Board of IAESTE A.s.b.l. (https://iaeste.org/) and serving as a Secretary.

In July 2020, Governor of Karnataka nominated him to Mangalore University Syndicate for three years.