Our Visionaries
Dr. Ramjee Prasad Hon. President, Vishwaniketan
Prof. Dr. Ramjee Prasad, Fellow IEEE, IET, IETE, and WWRF, is a Professor Emeritus of
Future Technologies for Business Ecosystem Innovation (FT4BI) in the Department of
Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark. He is the
Founder President of the CTIF Global Capsule (CGC). He is also the Founder Chairman of the
Global ICT Standardization Forum for India, established in 2009. He has been honored by the
University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” Italy as a Distinguished Professor of the Department of
Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine on March 15, 2016. He is an Honorary Professor
at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South
Africa, and also an Adjunct Professor at Birsa Institute of Technology, Sindri, Jharkhand, India.
He has received Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Puraskaar (Emigrant Indian Honor Award by the
Indian President) on January 10, 2023 in Indore. He is recipient of the prestigious Distinguished
Alumni Award under the category ‘Excellence in Teaching and Research in Engineering and
Technology’ for 2023, by the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi MESRA, RANCHI,
Jharkhand, India. He has received “Pioneering Visionary Award” by Bihar Jharkhand
Association of North America (BAJANA) at New Jersey, USA, on Sunday March 26, 2023.He
has received the Ridderkorset of Dannebrogordenen (Knight of the Dannebrog) in 2010 from
the Danish Queen for the internationalization of top-class telecommunication research and
education. He has received several international awards such as the IEEE Communications
Society Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award in 2003 for
making a contribution in the field of “Personal, Wireless and Mobile Systems and Networks,”
Telenor’s Research Award in 2005 for impressive merits, both academic and organizational
within the field of wireless and personal communication, 2014 IEEE AESS Outstanding
Organizational Leadership Award for: “Organizational Leadership in developing and
globalizing the CTIF (Center for TeleInFras- truktur) Research Network,” and so on. He has
been the Project Coordinator of several EC projects, namely, MAGNET, MAGNET Beyond,
eWALL. He has published more than 50 books, 1000 plus journal and conference publications,
more than 15 patents, over 155 Ph.D. Graduates and a larger number of Masters (over 250).
Several of his students are today’s worldwide telecommunication leaders themselves.
Dr. S. S. Inamdar Managing Trustee / Vice President, Vishwaniketan
Dr. S.S. Inamdar holds a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering(NITIE). He has a total of 29 years of experience in the education of which over 20 have been spent at leading institutes in the capacity of Director or Principal.
He was a steering committee member of the European Commission Project under the Erasmus Mundus Programme titled “Mobility of Life”. Vishwaniketan is an outcome of this program where he introduced the PBL method of learning. He has been working very closely with foreign universities under various collaboration programs. After studying education systems globally he is very strongly convinced that Indian education has to be transformed from theoretical (question-answer-marks cycle) to problem & Project-Based Learning (PBL).