The current director of IIT BHU is Professor Amit Patra. He has been appointed as Director of IIT BHU on May 16, 2024. Generally, the directorship tenure is for 5-6 years.
Previously, he served as a faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering and as the Deputy Director at IIT Kharagpur. He has also been an electrical engineer for over 35 years and is a respected alumnus of IIT Kharagpur.
He has also visited the Ruhr University in Germany as a post-doctoral fellow and has made significant contributions to VLSI & power management circuits and control systems.