Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi

29th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University

Assumed office 1 August 2025

Director (Acting) at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi

In office 1 July 2020 – 31 January 2022

Succeeded byLaxmidhar Behera

Director at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

In office 1 January 2017 – 11 Oct 2022

Succeeded byProf. Kamal Kishore Pant

Lecturer at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi

In office 1994–1996

Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

In office 1996–1999

Professor , Dean of Research & Development and Deputy Director at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

In office 1999–2016

In office 2022–2025

Personal details

Born1964 (age 61–62) (India)

ProfessionProfessor Dean Researcher

Known forMIMO systems applications

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Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi (born 1964) is an Indian Professor, education administrator, currently serving as the 29th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University. He has previously served as the Director of IIT Roorkee. He has largely contributed to waveform shaping and sequence design, MIMO systems.

Awards, honors and fellowships

Singh, Vindheshwari P.; Chaturvedi, Ajit Kumar (22 June 2017). "Max–min fairness based linear transceiver–relay design for MIMO interference relay channel". IET Communications. 11 (9): 1485–1496. doi:. S2CID .
Manglani, G.; Chaturvedi, A.K. (February 2006). "Application of computational geometry to multiuser detection in CDMA". IEEE Transactions on Communications. 54 (2): 204–207. Bibcode:. doi:. S2CID .
Chaturvedi, A.K.; Sharma, G. (1999). "A new family of concurrent algorithms for adaptive Volterra and linear filters". IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 47 (9): 2547–2551. Bibcode:. doi:.
S Chandan, P Sandeep, and AK Chaturvedi, "A family of ISI-free polynomial pulses," Communications Letters, IEEE 9 (6), 496-498 (2005)
P Sandeep, S Chandan, and AK Chaturvedi, "ISI-free pulses with reduced sensitivity to timing errors," Communications Letters, IEEE 9 (4), 292-294 (2005)
R Appuswamy and AK Chaturvedi, "A new framework for constructing mutually orthogonal complementary sets and ZCZ sequences," Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on 52 (8), 3817-3826 (2006)
G Manglani and AK Chaturvedi, "Application of computational geometry to multiuser detection in CDMA," Communications, IEEE Transactions on 54 (2), 204-207 (2006)
RU Mahesh and AK Chaturvedi, "Closed form BER expressions for BPSK OFDM systems with frequency offset," Communications Letters, IEEE 14 (8), 731-733 (2010)

Sah, Abhay Kumar; Chaturvedi, A. K. (December 2016). "Improved Sparsity Behaviour and Error Localization in Detectors for Large MIMO Systems". 2016 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC WKSHPS). IEEE. pp. 1–6. doi:. ISBN 978-1-5090-2482-7. S2CID .
Sah, Abhay Kumar; Chaturvedi, A. K. (January 2016). "Improving the reliability of receivers for 5G networks". 2016 8th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS). IEEE. pp. 1–2. doi:. ISBN 978-1-4673-9622-6. S2CID .