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Prof. D. S. Yadav
Pro-Vice Chancellor, UPTU, Lucknow

Divakar Singh Yadav is Professor of Computer Science at Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow. Born and brought up in city of Etah in U.P, he obtained B.Tech in Computer Science& Engineering, M.Tech in Computer Science from IIT, Kharagpur and Ph.D from University of Southampton, U.K. Before joining Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow as Pro-Vice Chancellor, he was at South Asian University, New Delhi, an international university established by South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) nations, where he was Chairperson of Department of Computer Science at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

He has been conferred with ‘Young Scientist Award’ of the Government of Uttar Pradesh in 2003, British Government ‘Commonwealth Scholarship Award’ in 2004, and a ‘Distinguished Author Award’ of FEPI at India Education Conference, New Delhi in 2008. He has widely traveled abroad and visited many universities and organizations in Europe and Far East. He has visited Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sri Lanka, Switzerland and United Kingdom.