Kannan Moudgalya

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Kannan M. Moudgalya
Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai

Kannan M. Moudgalya (born 21 March 1958) is an Indian professor of Chemical Engineering, Systems and Control, and Education Technology at IIT Bombay.

Education

Kannan earned his

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, systems and control, 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 (

IEEE.[3]

He has also written two textbooks: (1) Digital Control, pub-lished by

mathematical modelling, control and simulation.[4][5]

He is notoriously known for his rigorous instructorship in the Design Project course at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, which has inspired many startups.

He recently retired from IIT Bombay which leaves a void in the IITB and FOSSEE community. More recently, he has taken an initiative in teaching convicts in prison using Spoken Tutorials.

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.[6][7][8]

The Spoken Tutorial project received Reimagine Education Award in 2015, by coming first in Nurturing Employability category sponsored by QS and Wharton School.[9] He has also received Google MOOCs Research Award for Extending the Offline Capability of Spoken Tutorial Methodology in 2015.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b "Kannan M Moudgalya". www.che.iitb.ac.in. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  2. ^ "IIT Bombay has trained more than 4 lakh students using the Spoken Tutorials methodology". DATAQUEST. 20 April 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  3. ^ "kannan". sflc.in. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Kannan Moudgalya". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Kannan M. Moudgalya ResearchGate profile".
  6. ^ "Spoken Tutorials For Education Employment And Empowerment Kannan Moudgalya Tedxnmimsshirpur - Cute766". cute766.info/. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  7. ^ ""Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Recognition for Re-Engineering India 2020" to Prof Kannan".
  8. ^ "Free Academy". m.facebook.com. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  9. ^ Sharma, Shashi (6 December 2015). "Spoken Tutorial project bagged a first prize in the Reimagine Education Competition". WHEELS Global Foundation. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  10. ^ "Announcing the Google MOOC Focused Research Awards". Google AI Blog. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

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