Dr. Sunil Bhirud
Vice Chancellor, COEP Technological University, Pune
Experience: Over 35 years in teaching and 1 year in industry.
Administrative Roles:
- • Deputy Director, Registrar, and Head of CE&IT Department at VJTI, Mumbai
- • Registrar (Additional Charge), University of Mumbai
- • Advisor-I & Director at AICTE, New Delhi (Head – e-Governance, Legal & Chief Vigilance Officer)
Key Achievements:
- • Recipient of Scotch Order of Merit Award and Silver Edge Award for e-Governance
- • 70+ international journal publications and 100+ conference papers
- • Supervised 19 Ph.D. scholars
- • Secured major research funding in AI and Social Media Analytics
Major Contributions:
- • Implemented complete e-Governance and Digital Transformation at AICTE for 10,000+ institutes nationwide
- • AICTE became first organization to disburse PG scholarships via DBT with zero RTI pendency (2013)
- • Significantly reduced legal case pendency as Head of Legal Cell
- • Served as Chief Vigilance Officer resolving key vigilance matters
- • Led implementation of On-Screen Marking (OSM) system at University of Mumbai for ~8 lakh students
- • Contributed to ICT policy framing and administrative reforms
Research Leadership:
- • Co-PI, CoE – Deep Fake Detection & Social Media Analytics (MHA, Govt. of India)
- • Co-PI, Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (Govt. of Maharashtra)
- • PI, Machine Intelligence & Social Network Analytics (AICTE)
- • Co-PI, CoE in Complex & Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (TEQIP)
Education:
- • Ph.D. in EC & CSE – SRTM University, Nanded (2001)
- • M.E. in Electronics Engineering – SGGS College of Engineering, Nanded (1995)
- • B.E. in Electronics Engineering – SGGS College of Engineering, Nanded (1987)
- • Diploma in Electrical Engineering – MSBTE, Maharashtra (1984)
