Professor Devang Khakhar is currently Director of IIT Bombay. He assumed office from January 01, 2009.

He did his B.Tech from IIT Delhi in 1981 and his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1986.

He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Bombay in January 1987, and has been with the institute since then.

He is also a recipient of IIT Bombay's "Excellence in Teaching Award" and the "Mathur Award for Research Excellence".

He has served as Professor-in-Charge of IIT Bombay's Continuing Education Program from 2001-02, as Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 2002-04, and has been the Dean of Faculty Affairs since 2005.

He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences.

List of Directors

Brg. Sisir Kumar Bose 19 January 1959 to 9 June 1969

Prof. R. P. Mhatre 10 June 1969 to 14 April 1970

Dr. P. K. Kelkar 14 April 1970 to 1 July 1974

Prof. A. K. De 1 July 1974to 31 July 1980

Prof. R. E. Bedford 31 July 1980 to 8 December 1981

Prof. A. K. De 9 December 1981 to 31 August 1984

Prof. B. Nag 1 September 1984 to 31 August 1994

Prof. S. C. Sahasrabudhe 1 September 1994 to 1 January 1995

Prof. S. P. Sukhatme 2 January 1995 to 31 December 1999

Prof. S. C. Sahasrabudhe 1 January 2000 to 8 May 2000

Prof. Ashok Misra 8 May 2000 to 4 October 2008

Prof. Juzer M Vasi 4 October 2008 to 31 December 2008

Prof. Devang V. Khakhar 01-Jan-09