Kannan Moudgalya

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Kannan M. Moudgalya
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Born (1958-03-11) 11 March 1958 (age 63)
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsChemical Engineer
Institutions
  • Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai

Kannan M. Moudgalya (born March 11, 1958) is an Indian professor of Chemical Engineering, Systems and Control, and Education Technology at IIT Bombay.

Education[]

Moudgalya earned his Bachelor of Technology degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras with distinction in 1980 and master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University, Houston in 1985. He received his doctoral degree on same year in chemical engineering from Rice University, Houston.[1][2]

Research career and spoken tutorials[]

Kannan M. Moudgalya is a professor of chemical engineering, , and educational technology at IIT Bombay. He was a visiting professor at the University of Alberta.[1]

He has held the posts of associate dean (R&D), head of Application Software Cell and head of the Centre for Distance Engineering Education Programme, at IIT Bombay. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. He is a life member of International Society for Technology in Education and Computer Society of India, and a member of IEEE.[3]

He has also written two textbooks: (1) Digital Control, pub-lished by John Wiley & Sons, Chichester and (2) Optimization: theory and practice, jointly with Prof. Mohan C. Joshi, published by Narosa, New Delhi. He has published a large number of papers in refereed international journals and conferences in the areas of mathematical modelling, control and simulation.[4][5]

He is now devoting his time on spreading education on a massive scale. He has been focusing on spoken tutorials, open source software systems, virtual labs and the low cost tablet, Aakash. He believes that it is possible to provide high quality education to all our children through a combination of education, information and communication technologies, making India a developed country in the process.[6][7][8] He often emphasizes on the importance of teaching and mentioned in an interview that "Teachers who experiment should be appreciated because falling prey to routine is easier."[9]

Fellowships and awards[]

Moudgalya has been awarded as "Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Recognition for Re-Engineering India 2020" in the Farmer Welfare/Industry/Institutional Category for having paved the path for multi lingualism by envisaging and curating spoken tutorials in various Indian languages for education, employment and empowerment.[10][11][12]

The Spoken Tutorial project received Reimagine Education Award in 2015, by coming first in Nurturing Employability category sponsored by QS and Wharton School.[13] He has also received Google MOOCs Research Award for Extending the Offline Capability of Spoken Tutorial Methodology in 2015.[14]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Kannan M Moudgalya". www.che.iitb.ac.in. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  2. ^ "IIT Bombay has trained more than 4 lakh students using the Spoken Tutorials methodology". DATAQUEST. 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  3. ^ "kannan". sflc.in. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  4. ^ "Kannan Moudgalya". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  5. ^ "Kannan M. Moudgalya ReserachGate profile".
  6. ^ "India-Canada International Conference On OFDL – Dr. Kannan M. Moudgalya". sndt.ac.in. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  7. ^ "IIT Bombay has trained more than 4 lakh students using the Spoken Tutorials methodology". DATAQUEST. 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  8. ^ "DD 2017 Speaker: Dr. Kannan Moudgalya, IIT Bombay - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  9. ^ D'Monte, Leslie (2014-10-30). "IIT-B develops 10-inch netbook that costs less than $100". mint. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
  10. ^ cute766. "Spoken Tutorials For Education Employment And Empowerment Kannan Moudgalya Tedxnmimsshirpur - Cute766". cute766.info/. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  11. ^ ""Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Recognition for Re-Engineering India 2020" to Prof Kannan".
  12. ^ "Free Academy". m.facebook.com. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  13. ^ December 06, Shashi Sharma 92sc on; 2015. "Spoken Tutorial project bagged a first prize in the Reimagine Education Competition". WHEELS Global Foundation. Retrieved 2021-01-03.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "Announcing the Google MOOC Focused Research Awards". Google AI Blog. Retrieved 2021-01-03.

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