{{short description|Vice chancellor of Banaras Hindu University}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}} {{Use Indian English|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi | image = Director akc (cropped).jpg | caption = | birth_date = 1964 | birth_place = (India) | alma_mater = Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | website = {{url|https://www.iitr.ac.in/institute/pages/Director_IIT_Roorkee.html|Official website}} | known_for = MIMO systems applications | profession = Professor<br />Dean<br />Researcher | office = Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University | appointer = President of India | order = 29th | term_start = 1 August 2025 | predecessor = Sudhir K. Jain | successor = | term_end = | office1 = Director (Acting) at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi | term_start1 = 1 July 2020 | term_end1 = 31 January 2022 | predecessor1 = Timothy A. Gonsalves | successor1 = Laxmidhar Behera | office2 = Director at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee | term_start2 = 1 January 2017 <ref>{{cite news |last1=Susheel |first1=Tapan |title=ajit kumar chaturvedi: IIT Roorkee gets new director {{!}} Dehradun News - Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/IIT-Roorkee-gets-new-director/articleshow/55859868.cms |work=The Times of India |date=8 December 2016 |language=en}}</ref> | term_end2 = 11 Oct 2022 | predecessor2 = Pradipta Banerji | successor2 = Prof. Kamal Kishore Pant<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.timesnownews.com/education/iit-delhi-professor-appointed-as-the-new-director-for-iit-roorkee-all-about-prof-kk-pant-article-94523389 | title=IIT Delhi Professor appointed as the new Director for IIT Roorkee, all about Prof. KK Pant | date=29 September 2022 }}</ref> | office3 = Lecturer at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi | term_start3 = 1994 | term_end3 = 1996<ref name="a">{{cite web |title=Director IIT Roorkee, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee |url=https://www.iitr.ac.in/institute/pages/Director_IIT_Roorkee.html |website=www.iitr.ac.in}}</ref> | office4 = Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee | term_start4 = 1996 | term_end4 = 1999<ref name="a"/> | office5 = Professor,Dean of Research & Development and Deputy Director at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | term_start5 = 1999 | term_end5 = 2016 | term_start6 = 2022 | term_end6 = 2025 <ref name="b">{{cite web |title=A K Chaturvedi |url=http://home.iitk.ac.in/~akc/bio.html |website=home.iitk.ac.in |publisher=IIT Kanpur |access-date=8 July 2020}}</ref> }} '''Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi''' (born 1964) is an Indian Professor, education administrator, currently serving as the 29th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-08-05 |title=IIT Veteran Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi Sworn in as BHU Vice Chancellor |url=https://www.jagranjosh.com/colleges/iit-veteran-prof-ajit-kumar-chaturvedi-sworn-in-as-bhu-vice-chancellor-clga-1870000146-1 |access-date=2025-08-18 |website=Jagranjosh.com |language=en}}</ref> He has previously served as the Director of IIT Roorkee. He has largely contributed to waveform shaping and sequence design,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chakrabati |first1=S. |last2=Chaturvedi |first2=A.K. |title=2000 IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.00TH8488) |chapter=Application of Steiner design for capacity enhancement of frequency hopping spread spectrum wireless systems |date=December 2000 |pages=198–202 |doi=10.1109/ICPWC.2000.905802 |isbn=0-7803-5893-7 |s2cid=19501210 }}</ref> MIMO systems.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sah |first1=Abhay Kumar |last2=Chaturvedi |first2=A. K. |title=Sequential and Global Likelihood Ascent Search-Based Detection in Large MIMO Systems |journal=IEEE Transactions on Communications |date=February 2018 |volume=66 |issue=2 |pages=713–725 |doi=10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2761383 |bibcode=2018ITCom..66..713S |s2cid=3706683 |issn=1558-0857}}</ref>

Chaturvedi was appointed as the 29th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University in July 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BHU Vice-Chancellor : आइआइटी कानपुर के प्रो. अजीत कुमार चतुर्वेदी बने बीएचयू के नए कुलपति - IIT Kanpurs Professor Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi Appointed as New BHU Vice Chancellor |url=https://www.jagran.com/uttar-pradesh/varanasi-city-iit-kanpurs-professor-ajit-kumar-chaturvedi-appointed-as-new-bhu-vice-chancellor-23999438.html |access-date=2025-07-31 |website=Jagran |language=hi}}</ref>

==Awards, honors and fellowships== *Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship of Nanyang Technical University, Singapore (2008).<ref>{{cite web |title=A. K. Chaturvedi |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37290116500 |website=IEEE}}</ref> *INSA Teacher award (2017)<ref>{{cite web |title=INSA :: INSA Teachers Award List |url=http://insaindia.res.in/teacher_award_list.php |website=insaindia.res.in}}</ref>

==Education== *PhD, Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1995<ref name="iitk.ac.in">{{cite web |title=Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi |url=https://iitk.ac.in/new/ajit-kumar-chaturvedi}}</ref> *M. Tech., Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1988<ref name="iitk.ac.in"/> *B. Tech., Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1986<ref name="iitk.ac.in"/>

==Selected bibliography== ===Articles=== *{{cite journal |last1=Singh |first1=Vindheshwari P. |last2=Chaturvedi |first2=Ajit Kumar |title=Max–min fairness based linear transceiver–relay design for MIMO interference relay channel |journal=IET Communications |date=22 June 2017 |volume=11 |issue=9 |pages=1485–1496 |doi=10.1049/iet-com.2017.0034|s2cid=206185133 }} *{{cite journal |last1=Manglani |first1=G. |last2=Chaturvedi |first2=A.K. |title=Application of computational geometry to multiuser detection in CDMA |journal=IEEE Transactions on Communications |date=February 2006 |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=204–207 |doi=10.1109/TCOMM.2005.863793|bibcode=2006ITCom..54..204M |s2cid=9792284 }} *{{cite journal |last1=Chaturvedi |first1=A.K. |last2=Sharma |first2=G. |title=A new family of concurrent algorithms for adaptive Volterra and linear filters |journal=IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing |date=1999 |volume=47 |issue=9 |pages=2547–2551 |doi=10.1109/78.782201|bibcode=1999ITSP...47.2547C }} *S Chandan, P Sandeep, and AK Chaturvedi, "A family of ISI-free polynomial pulses," Communications Letters, IEEE 9 (6), 496-498 (2005)<ref name="iitk.ac.in"/> *P Sandeep, S Chandan, and AK Chaturvedi, "ISI-free pulses with reduced sensitivity to timing errors," Communications Letters, IEEE 9 (4), 292-294 (2005)<ref name="iitk.ac.in"/> *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)<ref name="iitk.ac.in"/> *G Manglani and AK Chaturvedi, "Application of computational geometry to multiuser detection in CDMA," Communications, IEEE Transactions on 54 (2), 204-207 (2006)<ref name="iitk.ac.in"/> *RU Mahesh and AK Chaturvedi, "Closed form BER expressions for BPSK OFDM systems with frequency offset," Communications Letters, IEEE 14 (8), 731-733 (2010)<ref name="iitk.ac.in"/>

===Conference proceedings=== *{{cite book |last1=Sah |first1=Abhay Kumar |last2=Chaturvedi |first2=A. K. |title=2016 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC WKSHPS) |chapter=Improved Sparsity Behaviour and Error Localization in Detectors for Large MIMO Systems |date=December 2016 |pages=1–6 |doi=10.1109/GLOCOMW.2016.7848930 |publisher=IEEE|isbn=978-1-5090-2482-7 |s2cid=25357090 }} *{{cite book |last1=Sah |first1=Abhay Kumar |last2=Chaturvedi |first2=A. K. |title=2016 8th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS) |chapter=Improving the reliability of receivers for 5G networks |date=January 2016 |pages=1–2 |doi=10.1109/COMSNETS.2016.7439993 |publisher=IEEE|isbn=978-1-4673-9622-6 |s2cid=4908364 }}

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