Dr Vivek Deshpande is Full Professor and Head of Computer Engineering at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology under Pune University, India. He served as Associate Professor at MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India. He worked as Dean, Research and Head Information Technology Department from 2009 to 2011. Dr Vivek holds Bachelors and Masters Degree of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from Pune University, India. He pursued his Doctorate from Nagpur University, India. Dr Vivek did Post Doctoral Study at Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria in Europe.
Dr Vivek is senior member of IEEE and currently working as Chair, IEEE Education Society. He was Past-Chair for Communication Society, Pune Chapter. He is also a member of Computer Society, India Council. Dr Vivek is currently an IEEE Executive Committee Member of Pune Section, India. He contributed his expertise to IEEE Working Groups of IoT Harmonization and ROOF Computing as Vice-Chair.