Prof R V Raja Kumar

Best IEEE Student paper award winner in the 1984 IEEE Region 10 ( All Asian and Pacific countries ) . Student paper contest conducted by the IEEE, NJ, USA for his paper entitled ," A Novel Adaptive Line Enhancer for a sinusoid in uncorrelated noise ", Year: 1984.
ISTE Baroda Chapter National Award for the best paper published in ISTE Journal of Technical Education during 2008 for his paper titled, “Engineering education in India: quality concerns and remedial measures.
Paripalana Bhasha Puraskaram from Govt of Andhra Pradesh in 2013 for his services in introducing studies in Telugu and its culture in curricula of engineering.
The BOYS - CAST Research Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, for carrying out research at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Year: 1987.
Awarded the YUVA SHAKTI Puraskar for Science and Technology for his contributions to Electrical Engg. Sciences on the occasion of International Youth Year celebrations Year: 1985.
Education Leadership Award in 2016 in Global Awards for Excellence in Education, Leadership & Teaching, World Education Congress by Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Awarded a prize in the international Design Contest in the 16th International Conference on VLSI Design & the 2nd International Conference on Embedded Systems Design held during January 4-8, 2003, New Delhi, India.
• Awarded the Design and Research Forum of India's III prize in the Eleventh All India Student Competitions conducted by Institution of Engineers (India). Year: 1979.
• Member of the delegation of hon’ble President of India on his state visit to China from 24th-27th May 2016.
Under Prof Raja Kumar's leadership, RGUKT received the 10th eINDIA award for IT in Higher Education category for its "ICT Based Hybrid Pedagogy", at eINDIA summit 2014 held at Kovalam on Nov 15th 2014.
Under Prof Raja Kumar’s leadership, IIT Bhubaneswar has been awarded with the University of the Year award by FICCI in 2021 in its 11th year of existence amongst up to 30 year old category,
Under Prof Raja Kumar's leadership, RGUKT was awarded the 8th NTA ICT World Communication Summit and Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Rural Education, at the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology (IIEST) at Howrah, West Bengal on 11 Dec 14.
Jointly topping in all specializations of Bachelor of Engg. (B.E.)., in Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. Year: 1980.

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