Director’s Profile

Dr. E. Vidya Sagar is full Professor and Head, Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), University College of Engineering (UCE), Osmania University. Prior to this he was the Chairman – Board of Studies (BoS) and earlier Vice Principal of UCE from 2018 to 2021. He is also serving as Director – Directorate of Information Technology, Electronics and Communication (ITE&C), Osmania University since 31^st January 2023 responsible for internet and WIFI services at campus and constituent colleges, website maintenance, etc.

He took charge as Director – Osmania Technology Business Incubator (OTBI) appointed by the Vice Chancellor on 6th April 2023. He is instrumental in producing startups from ideas of students and faculty members leading to success stories. In the past he successfully led the Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) at UCE when he was the Project Nodal Officer for TEQIP-II from 2013 to 2018 with funding from AICTE which later got scaled-up to OTBI at Central Facilities for Research and Development (CFRD), Osmania University.

He did his Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) in 1998, Master of Technology (M. Tech) in Power Systems in 2004 and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D) in 2014 from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU Hyderabad). His areas of interest are Computer Simulation of Power Systems and Reliability Engineering. He has got eleven research papers published in International Journals and also presented a technical paper at Hong-Kong in 2008.