Dr. Ram Chakka  obtained BE (Electrical and Electronics 1980) and MS(Engg.) (Computer Science and Automation, 1986) from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) which is most highly reputed in India. He obtained his Ph.D. (Computer Science, 1995) from the Newcastle University, United Kingdom. He is the Director (Research & Development) at MIET, and has experience of over 25 years in teaching and research. He worked at many top institutions in the world in Information and Communication Technologies, including Indian Institute of Science, Newcastle University, Imperial College London, for several years. He has published over 70 papers in many high quality International journals, books and International conferences. He is an internationally renowned professor, several faculty members at MIET and abroad have been doing research for Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Ram Chakka. He provides and supervises excellent final year projects in cutting-edge technologies to B.Tech. and M.Tech. students. For this purpose he has been enhancing a number of laboratories including the Networks Laboratory, Software Engineering Laboratory, Communications Laboratory and Signal Processing Laboratory. These enhancements are very useful for high quality student projects at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. He received a number of prestigious academic awards. A few of his recent, internationally recognized publications are listed below:

1. Tien Van Do and Ram Chakka, A New Performability Model for Queueing and FDL-related Burst Loss in Optical Switching Node, Computer Communication Journal (Elsevier), Volume 33, Supplement 1, November 2010, pp. S146-151. (SCI-expanded and ISI listed). 
2. Ram Chakka and G.T. Kulkarni, Total Quality Management in Pedagogy (TQM_P): An Update, Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (IJPER), Vol. 44(4), Oct-Dec 2010, pp. 386-390. (SCI-expanded and ISI listed).  (This paper was awarded Prof. B.M. Mithal Memorial Award for Best Paper in Education)
3. Tien Van Do and Ram Chakka, Simulation and Analytical Approaches for Estimating the Performability of a Multicast Address Dynamic Allocation Mechanism, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (SIMPAT) journal (Elsevier), Vol.18, Issue.7, August 2010, pp: 971-983. (SCI-expanded and ISI listed). 
4. Ram Chakka and Tien Van Do, Some New Markovian Models for Traffic and Performance Evaluation in Telecommunication Networks, in the peer-reviewed, edited Performance Handbook ‘Next Generation Internet: Performance Evaluation and Applications: Towards Convergent Multi-Service Networks’ Springer-Verlag LNCS-Lecture Notes in Computer Science, SPIN 12440030, LNCS 5233, ISBN-10: 3642027415 ISBN-13: 978-3642027413, under European Commission’s (EC) Networks of Excellence (NoE) Euro-NGI & Euro-FGI: Workpackage WP.SEA.6.1,), May 2011.