University Leadership
Mr. Shiv Nadar
- Founder and Former Chancellor
Mr. Shiv Nadar
- Founder and Former Chancellor
Shiv Nadar is the Founder of HCL Group and the Shiv Nadar Foundation. He is also the Chairman Emeritus & Strategic Advisor to the Board of HCLTech, a $11.8 billion global organization with over 211,000 professionals operating from 52 countries.
Nadar is credited with being one of the pioneers of the computing and IT industry in India. Under his guidance HCL has continued to ride the waves of the changing IT landscape for over 45 years and remain at the forefront of every technological revolution since 1976. While HCL started off as a hardware organization, manufacturing the country’s first indigenous computers and introducing them to the Indian consumer, it eventually evolved into a more comprehensive software services organization. HCL is in fact one of the few global IT companies founded in the 1970s that remains in existence to date.
Mr. Shikhar Malhotra
- Chancellor
Mr. Shikhar Malhotra
- Chancellor
Mr. Shikhar Malhotra is the Chancellor, Director and Board Member of HCL Corporation, the Holdco for HCL’s operating companies. HCL has a distinguished lineage as one of India’s original technology garage start-ups, founded by Shiv Nadar. He is also on the board of HCL Technologies, a $11.8 Billion global technology firm with over 211,000 professionals operating from 52 countries.
Shikhar serves as the Vice Chairman & CEO of HCL Healthcare, one of India’s largest corporate health solutions firms, providing end-to-end healthcare solutions with a vision to make corporate India a healthier place. Today, HCL Healthcare is delivering personalized, sustainable and managed care health solutions to organizations across sectors including technology and banking. It has eight world-class corporate health centers across the country serving over 70,000 families.
Dr. Ananya Mukherjee
- Vice-Chancellor
Dr. Ananya Mukherjee
- Vice-Chancellor
Dr. Ananya Mukherjee joined Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR on 31 January 2022, taking charge from Dr. Rupamanjari Ghosh.
Prior to joining the University, Dr. Mukherjee served as Provost and Vice-President Academic at University of British Columbia (UBC), Okanagan Canada and Professor in the Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science. In 2020, Dr. Mukherjee was appointed Co-executive lead for Anti-racism at UBC.
Dr. Mukherjee obtained her doctoral degree in Political Economy & Public Policy from the University of Southern California, USA and her BA and MA degrees in Economics from Jadavpur University, India. Her scholarly work, especially since 2008, has sought to contribute to theories of alternative development, with a focus on the theme of justice. She has contributed to discourses in the fields of Development, Public Policy, Transitional Justice, Corporate Governance and Gender Studies. Her work on development has appeared in books (single-authored and co-edited), journals, research reports and in popular media and in multiple languages.
Dr. Bibek Banerjee
- Dean, School of Management & Entrepreneurship
- Dean, Academy of Continuing Education
- University Professor of Marketing, Strategy and Economics
- Director, University Strategy & Planning
Dr. Bibek Banerjee
- Dean, School of Management & Entrepreneurship
- Dean, Academy of Continuing Education
- University Professor of Marketing, Strategy and Economics
- Director, University Strategy & Planning
Dr. Bibek Banerjee is the Senior Dean and Head of Strategic Initiatives, and the Dean of School of Management and Entrepreneurship. He, along with the University’s leadership team drives efforts to build Shiv Nadar University as an outstanding research-driven, multidisciplinary institution, and also host to a world-class management school.
Prior to joining the University, Dr. Banerjee has served as the Senior Dean of Strategic Initiatives and Planning at the Ahmedabad University and Professor at the Amrut Mody School of Management. He has earlier been Director General and Academic Mentor of the Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Group and is a former Professor of Marketing and Economics, at IIM Ahmedabad, where he also led the IIMA-Duke Corporate Education collaboration as its Managing Director. Dr. Banerjee has held visiting professor positions at several international universities and is an honorary Director of the Academy of Indian Marketing (AIM), an academic and professional think-tank. He has also successfully incubated companies in education and technology.
His research publications have appeared in several international academic journals including Marketing Science, International Journal of Management, Journal of International Consumer Marketing, and Advances in Applied Microeconomics. Dr. Banerjee is also the founding co-editor of the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies.
Dr. Banerjee has significant experience in designing and delivering Executive Education programs and has mentored large businesses across sectors for their leadership development initiatives. His teaching interests span sustainable and integrated business orientation as well as strategic marketing and leadership across hierarchies.
Dr. Banerjee holds PhD and MS degrees from Purdue University’s Krannert Graduate School of Management and BS (Economics Honours) from Calcutta University (St. Xavier’s College).
An avid world traveler, high altitude trekker and a nature photographer, Dr. Banerjee has led expeditions in the Himalayas and the Andes, including to the base camps of Mount Everest, Annapurna and Machhapuchhare.
Dr. Rajat Kathuria
- Dean, School of Humanities & Social Sciences
- Professor, Economics
Dr. Rajat Kathuria
- Dean, School of Humanities & Social Sciences
- Professor, Economics
Dr. Rajat Kathuria joined Shiv Nadar University as Dean, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, and Professor of Economics, on April 1, 2021.
He carries over 20 years of experience in teaching and more than 15 years of experience in economic policy, besides pursuing extensive research on a range of issues relating to regulation and competition policy. Dr. Kathuria served as Director and Chief Executive at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) before joining the University.
He has earlier taught undergraduate Economics at the University of Maryland, USA, and spent over 12 years with the International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi teaching post-graduate students Managerial Economics and International Trade. He has also previously worked with the World Bank in Washington D.C. as a Consultant, and worked on research assignments for a number of international organizations, including the International Labour Organization (ILO), United National Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), LirneAsia, The World Bank and The Asian Development Bank (ADB). Dr. Kathuria’s work has been published in several journals of repute as well as in top magazines and newspapers across the world. He serves on multiple industry and government Committees such as the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Committee on International Trade Policy and Exports, the Implementation for Intended Determined Contribution (Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India), and on the Research Advisory Council of the State Bank of India (SBI).
Dr. Kathuria has an undergraduate degree in Economics from St. Stephens College (University of Delhi), a Masters’ from the Delhi School of Economics (University of Delhi) and a PhD from the University of Maryland (College Park), USA.
Dr. Sandeep Sen
- Dean, School of Engineering (SoE)
- Senior Professor, Computer Sc. & Engineering
Dr. Sandeep Sen
- Dean, School of Engineering (SoE)
- Senior Professor, Computer Sc. & Engineering
Prof. Sandeep Sen joined Shiv Nadar University as Director, School of Engineering, on May 16, 2019. Prof. Sen did his Ph.D. (1989) in Computer Science from Duke University, M.S. (1986) in Computer Engineering from University of California at Santa Barbara, and B.Tech. (1984) in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. He worked with Bell Labs, Murray Hill, in 1990-91.
He has been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi, since 1991. His research interests are in the area of Algorithms and Complexity; and in particular, Randomized Algorithms, Parallel Computation, Computational Geometry, Dynamic Data Structures etc.
Prof. Sen has held the Dhananjay Chair Professor and the Microsoft Chair Professor in IIT-Delhi. He has been a Visiting Researcher/ Faculty in notable institutions in India and abroad. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and also of the Indian National Science Academy. He shouldered the responsibility of heading his Department during 2007-10; and served as the Dean of Faculty of IIT-Delhi during 2016-18.
Dr. Sanjeev Galande
- Dean, School of Natural Sciences
- HoD, Life Sciences
Dr. Sanjeev Galande
- Dean, School of Natural Sciences
- HoD, Life Sciences
Dr. Sanjeev Galande joined Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, as Dean of the School of Natural Sciences in June 2021.
Dr. Galande brings with him over two decades of experience as a renowned cell biologist, epigeneticist and academic. He earlier served the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER)-Pune, as Professor of Biology, and Dean of Research & Development. At IISER-Pune, he led the Centre of Excellence in Epigenetics (CoEE) and assembled a team of scientists to study the evolution of epigenetic mechanisms using multiple model systems. The CoEE focuses on epigenetic modifications underlying a variety of biologically important phenomena and their role in gene expression, regeneration, cancer, behavior, ageing, and evolution. He is credited for having established a multidisciplinary program engaged at the interface of biochemistry, molecular biology, bioinformatics, cell biology, proteomics, and genomics.
He has previously also served the National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS) in Pune, as a senior scientist, where he was part of a group that elucidated how cellular signaling pathways eventually exert their effect at the level of chromatin to orchestrate cell-type-specific patterns of gene expression. He earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Indian Institute of Science in 1996. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the USA from 1996-2001, he studied the role of MAR-binding proteins in tumorigenesis.
Dr. Galande was the recipient of the International Senior Research Fellowship, Wellcome Trust, UK, 2005-10, DBT National Bioscience Award 2006, DST Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2007, the coveted CSIR Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2010, GD Birla Award for Scientific Excellence 2015, and the SERB JC Bose Fellowship 2019. He has been a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences since 2010, of the Indian National Science Academy since 2012, and of the National Academy of Sciences since 2017.
Dr Galande was an honorary associate faculty at the University of Sydney, Australia, and a visiting faculty at the University of Turku, Finland.
Personal website: www.sglabepigenetics.com
Dr. Suneet Tuli
- Dean, Research & Partnerships
- Professor, Electrical Engineering
Dr. Suneet Tuli
- Dean, Research & Partnerships
- Professor, Electrical Engineering
Dr. Suneet Tuli is a distinguished academician and administrator with over 35 years of experience in higher education. He joined Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR in May 2019 and leads the research initiatives and academic partnerships for the University. Dr. Tuli has been working towards promoting the inter and multidisciplinary research at the University and manages the externally-funded research, carried out by the faculty and researchers at the University. He is also responsible for developing the University’s global strategy and its implementation through international partnerships and strategic engagements across the world.
Dr. Tuli was faculty member, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi for three decades, and held terms as Dean, Research & Development (2012-16); Associate Dean Industrial Research & Development (2005-09); and Head, Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (2009-12). He is a widely regarded faculty and mentor in academia, and a visiting researcher in the UK and France. His research areas include thermal-acoustic-electrical-optical interactions, non-destructive characterization – active and passive thermography, and surface acoustic wave devices and electronic systems.
A Ph.D. and M.Tech. in Electronics from IIT Delhi, Dr. Tuli holds B.E. (Honors) in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from BITS, Pilani.
Dr. Rajeev Kumar Singh
- Associate Dean, Academics
- Director of Students (Interim)
- Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Dr. Rajeev Kumar Singh
- Associate Dean, Academics
- Director of Students (Interim)
- Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Dr. Rajeev Kumar Singh joined Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR as a member of the founding faculty in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in July 2011.
Prior to joining the University, he served as Assistant Professor at various reputed institutions and also worked in the corporate world with stints at CL Educate, MeritNation.com, IMS Learning Resources, and EXL Services. His deep theoretical foundation blended with industry practices helped him to migrate to teaching and research in a seamless manner.
Dr. Singh’s research interests lie in the broad domain of Computer & Communication Networks as well as Machine Learning application in Medical Imaging. His work has been published in various international journals, and he has served as a reviewer of many articles. He has delivered specialized lectures on Research Methodology and Big Data & Machine Learning for the Cabinet Secretariat, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. He is associated with FICCI as a key speaker for faculty development programs, and has he has delivered faculty development programs at Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR, Pearl Academy, Symbiosis Pune, and UPES, among other universities. At Shiv Nadar University, he has been instrumental in driving some of the biggest academic conferences and workshops, including the 39th National Systems Conference and an Indo-German workshop on Algorithms for Big Data in collaboration with IIIT Delhi. He has also led the University’s efforts in supporting the mission of International Career & College Counseling (IC3) Movement to promote the importance of career counseling at the grassroots.
Dr. Singh was bestowed with the ‘Best Faculty’ award by the global IT giant, Cognizant, the ‘Excellence’ award at Shiv Nadar University in 2014 for his outstanding services during the founding years of the University, and was voted ‘Outstanding Faculty’ by the students of the University.
He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, M.Tech. in Computer Science from JNU, and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Delhi University.
Mr. Raja Natarajan
- Executive Director, Finance & Operations
Mr. Raja Natarajan
- Executive Director, Finance & Operations
Mr. Raja Natarajan
Executive Director, Finance & Operations
Raja Natarajan is the Executive Director, Finance & Operations at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR. He joined the University in July 2022.
Mr. Raja holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) Degree from Calcutta University and is an Associate of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ACMA).
Mr. Raja brings with him more than 30 years of experience, with a combination of expertise and experience in Finance, HR, Operations, Legal, IT, Procurement, Facility Management and related areas. He has worked both in the corporate and non-profit sectors.
Before joining Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR, Mr. Raja was a Chief Operating Officer and CFO at Make A Difference, a non-profit organization working for children in need of care and protection.
Before that, he was with the Piramal Foundation as its Chief Operating Officer, responsible for the Foundation’s initiatives in Education, Health and Water.
Prior to moving into the social sector, he served in the corporate sector in various capacities. He has been associated with organizations like SAGE Publishing, TNS Global Market Research, Ariba, DHL, Marico, and Indian oil, to name a few.
Mr. Raja spends his free time reading books, listening to music (and singing occasionally), listening to philosophical talks and reading articles on spirituality. He can read, write and speak several Indian languages such as Tamil, Hindi, Bengali and Assamese. He is a sports enthusiast and likes playing football, cricket, badminton and table tennis; walking and meditation are also among his hobbies.