The Director
		Prof. S. Sundar Director  National Institute of Technology Mizoram Chaltlang (Dawrkawn)  Aizawl, Mizoram (India) Pin- 796012 Telefax : 0389-2391699 Email_id: director@nitmz.ac.in

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BRIEF PROFILE OF THE DIRECTOR

  Prof. S. Sundar is from the prestigious India’s Number 1 Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He is a Professor of Mathematics and he was Head of the Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras during the period 2017- 2020. He is the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Research Ambassador since 2018. He is Distinguished Alumni of TU Kaiserslautern, Germany and Alumni Ambassador of the City Kaiserslautern, Germany. He was the Chairman, JEE (Advanced) 2015, IIT Madras and prior to that he was the Chairman, HSEE 2014, IIT Madras.  He was one of the leads in bringing Joint Seat Allocation Portal for IITs and NITs in the year 2015. He is a Member of Program Advisory Committee (Mathematical Sciences), DST-SERB. Prof.Sundar was the Member of Faculty Council, IIT Madras Research Park during the period 2012 – 2020. He is the Associate Editor of International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Springer. He is also Editorial Member of Journal of Indian Mathematical Society and Journal of Indian Academy of Mathematics. He was the key in establishing Centre of Excellence in Computational Mathematics and Data Science, Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras supported under the Institute of Eminence, GoI.  

 His area of research includes Numerics for Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation. He has on his credit over 70 peer reviewed research publications. He has guided 17 PhDs and currently 8 research scholars are working under his guidance. He has guided over 150 MTech research projects and currently over 10 MTech students are pursuing their research projects. He has active contributions to Indian Academy of Mathematical Modeling and Simulation as a Fellow, His rich experience as visiting professor to various Universities across the globe shows his research potentiality. His interest for recent technologies in the field of mathematical modelling is reflected through his deep collaboration with some of the top schools of technical universities in Germany and in general, across the globe.