Academic Council
The Academic Council is the Principal Academic Body of the University and functions within provisions of the Act, the Statutes, the Ordinances and the Rules. Co-ordinates and exercises general supervision over the Academic Policies of the University and provides leadership for maintaining the Standards and for improved Quality of education, Evaluation and Research in the University.
Suresh Ramani
Vice-Chancellor I/c+
Suresh Ramani
- Alumnus – IIT Madras and IIM Bangalore
- President – Sricity Education Foundation; former Chief Commercial Officer at DP World
- 3+ decades across supply chain, logistics and consulting with senior roles at TVS Supply Chain, TCS and Whirlpool
K. Nagabhushan Raju
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K. Nagabhushan Raju
- Commonwealth British Fellowship for doctoral research at UMIST, Manchester, UK
- Founder Director of an Atal Incubation Centre under NITI Aayog
- 32+ years in academia with 110+ publications and 18 PhD scholars guided; recipient of A.P State Scientist and Teacher Awards
- Early Career at Tata Energy Research Institute
Gopi Santhanam
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Gopi Santhanam
- Deputy Dean & Director – School of Nova Media at Sricity International University
- 30+ years across Branding, Telecom, Advertising, and Digital Transformation; Marketing Leadership at Airtel
- IICA-certified Independent Director; expertise in Web3, Blockchain and emerging media technologies
Sathishkumar Thangaiah
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Sathishkumar Thangaiah
- Deputy Dean – School of Technology & AI at Sricity International University
- Alumnus NIT (Trichy). 28+ years in higher education with leadership roles in AI, cloud computing and national accreditation initiatives
- Published 15+ Scopus/Web of Science research papers and filed 3 patents; former State Head of a Government of India skill development program
Ritesh R Bhatt
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Ritesh R Bhatt
- Deputy Dean – School of Advanced Manufacturing at Sricity International University
- Editor-in-Chief of a Scopus-indexed engineering journal
- International academic experience in Industrial automation, robotics, and Lean manufacturing
- Published 3 Books, 45 Scopus-indexed journals, 9 Scopus-indexed proceedings, 13 Scopus-indexed editorial prefaces
Vasudeva Varma
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Vasudeva Varma
- Head- Language Technology Research Centre & Founding Head of iREL
- Former Dean – R&D and CEO of IIITH Foundation, leading research and startup initiatives
- Expert in AI, NLP, semantic search and intelligent content systems
- Founding Mentor- IIIT Sri City
M.K. Badrinarayanan
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M.K. Badrinarayanan
- Associate Dean – School of Business at Sricity International University
- Ph.D in Competitiveness of MSME Clusters and MBA in Finance & Systems; University Rank Holder and three-time Gold Medalist
- Academic leader with over 20 years of experience in higher education, institutional leadership and industry-academia collaboration
- Expert in academic strategy, accreditation, research and entrepreneurship
- 22 Scopus-indexed publications and six Ph.D scholars guided
Deenanath Harapanahalli
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Deenanath Harapanahalli
- Alumnus – Carnegie Mellon University, IISc
- Former Country Head – Invesco India; former Chair of NASSCOM GIC Forum
- Serial founder across startup studios, enterprise FACT-Ops platforms and India’s leading cycling and wellness platform
Vijay Kumar
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Vijay Kumar
- Ph.D. in Computer Science with research expertise in Deep Learning, Computer Vision & Cognitive Computing.
- Academic administrator and technology mentor with 17+ years of experience in higher education
- Expertise in Artificial Intelligence & Academic Digitisation.