Dr. Ravindra Munje

Biography

Dr. Ravindra Munje acquired B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees respectively from Mumbai University in 2005, Pune University in 2009, and Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University in 2015. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai from June 2017 to May 2019. During his post-doc, he received research funds of around 15 lakh rupees from the National Natural Science Foundation of China as an International Young Scientist.

Currently, he is a Professor and in-charge head of the Electrical Engineering Department, K. K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education and Research, Nashik, India. He is also the Dean (R&D) of the K. K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education and Research. Additionally, he holds the position of the AICTE IDEA Lab coordinator of the prestigious project of AICTE and the Convener of the Institution’s Innovation Council of the Institute. He has written a book and about 65 refereed papers. His research interests include modeling and control of large-scale systems using sliding mode and multirate output feedback. He has guided 9 PG students and currently guiding 4 PhD scholars.

Dr. Munje received the Promising Engineer Award in 2016, the Outstanding Researcher Award in 2018, and the Best Faculty Award in 2019. He has been awarded Senior IEEE Membership for his significant contribution to the profession. Very recently, he has been awarded the prestigious ‘Best Teacher Award’ of Savitribai Phule Pune University (formerly Pune University) with the hands of Hon. Vice Chancellor Shri. Suresh Gosavi on 10th Feb 2024 i.e. the Foundation Day of the University. He is actively involved in the volunteering work of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET-UK). He was the Chairman of the IET Nashik Local Network from January 2021 to December 2023. Currently, he is a member of the Communities Committee South Asia (CCSA) of IET.

He also writes articles and poems in Marathi. He has written around 30 poems and 10 articles on various subjects and published on social media and in newspapers. Besides writing he loves drawing pencil sketches in his leisure time.