The VJTI International Alumni Association is excited to host Dr. Faruk Kazi, Dean of Research & Development at VJTI, for a webinar.
Date: Saturday January 30, 2021 at 8:30am Pacific Time / 10pm IST.
Dr. Faruk Kazi shared his passion for research in this inspiring fireside conversation with Dr. Rajesh Parekh. He shared an interesting anecdote about how he came to join VJTI. What a fascinating story!
Dr. Kazi talked about various research initiatives in the areas of blockchain, AI, ML, deep learning, creating and detecting deep fakes, where under his leadership and guidance, VJTI students have successfully demonstrated meaningful outcomes, won prizes in competitions hosted by EY and Facebook. Alumni in the audience asked questions about how to contribute to research efforts at VJTI. Dr. Patel and Dr. Kazi talked about opportunities for alumni with subject matter expertise to engage with students in the capacity of advisors and mentors, and potentially sponsor corporate projects. They talked appreciatively about how alumni from TCS, Emerson and L&T Infotech have been very supportive to this cause.
If any alumni who are involved in research and have subject matter expertise in these areas of research, we welcome you to reach Dr. Kazi at fskazi@el.vjti.ac.in.
Thank you so much Dr. Kazi! We are thrilled to see VJTI doing research in cutting edge areas under your passionate leadership.
Dr. Faruk Kazi is Dean of Research & Development at VJTI. He is also Professor & Head of Electrical Engineering Department. Dr. Kazi received his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in 2009. He is recipient of the prestigious AICTE VISVESVARAYA Best Teacher Award 2020.
His research focus includes cyber-physical systems (CPS), Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and smart grids. He has published more than 100 research papers in various IEEE Journals & Conferences and was recently elevated as Senior Member of IEEE. He has received project funding of around Rs. 20 Crores for his various research projects from agencies like ISRO, BARC, DRDO and DST. He has also secured project funding and in-kind support from industries like Siemens, Emerson, L&T (Electrical & Automation), L&T Infotech and Cisco for the smart grid, digital twin and & industrial IoT test-bed redeveloped at VJTI.
He is working as Chair of WG-3 (Digital Architecture and Cyber Security) of India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF), PPP initiative of Ministry of Power, Government of India. Currently, he is Education Chair for Cybersecurity & ISA/IEC 62443 of ISA District 14 (Asia-Pacific Region). He also works as a consultant with Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE) for Smart Grid & WAMs projects. He is currently working a Chairman of Board of Studies (BoS) in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering, University of Mumbai. He works as a member of Core Advisory Committee of Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Maharashtra.
He was invited as a visiting research scholar at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, Switzerland and Tufts University, Boston, USA. He has delivered invited talks and presented his research work at MIT USA, SUPELEC, CNRS Paris (France), Budapest (Hungary), Florence (Italy) and Japan.
