Dr.Pawan Kapur, Director 

Dr. Pawan Kapur is currently the Director of Central Scientific Instrument Organisation (CSIO) Chandigarh, a constituent Laboratory of the CSIR, New Delhi. Born in December 1950 at Amritsar, he had his education in M.Tech. and Ph.D from the Institute of Radio Physics & Electronics, University of Calcutta in Control Systems & Digital Techniques and Bio-medical Engineering respectively.

He was earlier at CEERI-Pilani for about 30 years where he worked on Instrumentation & Control Systems for various Agro-Based Industries. He developed 17 products, 5 patents and has about 50 research papers in referred journals & more than 100 research papers in the Conference proceedings. He has authored 7 book-chapters and delivered more than 100 invited talks at various forums.

Dr. Kapur has been instrumental in restructuring R&D structure of CSIO and has guided various prestigious projects in the Strategic Sector (Head up Displays & Cockpit Instrumentation) and Societal Applications such as health, agro-based and public utilities & safety, etc. He has setup many advanced research Labs such as Photonics, Advanced Optical Metrology, Virtual Instrumentation, GAIT-Lab, Food Processing Instrumentation Lab, etc.

He is a recipient of several prestigious awards which include: CSIR-Technology Shield-1992, 7th Hari Ram Toshniwal Gold Medal-1995, Sugar Cup Medal 1993, 1997, 1998, Noel Derr Gold Medal 2004, Anusandhan Vibhusan 2006,etc..

He is a member of various professional Societies like Institute of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Computer Society of India (CSI), Optical Society of India (OSI), Indian Society of Instrumentation (ISOI), IPA, IFTA, etc.

He was on deputation to countries like Germany, France, Australia, UK, USA, Brazil, Hungary, Singapore on projects related to Advanced Measurement Sciences & Instrumentation Technology

Dr. Kapur has been the Adjunct Faculty Member of BITS-Pilani, BESU-Shibpur Calcutta University and CSIR-PGRPE programme and has taught several B.Tech & M.Tech level courses in the broad area of Instrumentation & Control. He has 10 Ph.D’s and about 100 M.Tech level dissertation works.

He has been a member of various Apex Bodies of Premier Institutions like Senate, Board of Governors of Kurukshetra University, Panjab University, Thapar University, PEC-University of Technology, HARTRON, Pushpa Gujral Science City, Panjab State & Haryana State Councils of Sciennce & Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University and many more.