Dr Sharad Mhaiskar, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, NMIMS University, Mumbai, has academic experience for about 30 years and has been associated with a Middle East consulting firm for 4 years.

He graduated in Civil Engineering from Mumbai University in 1978 and subsequently earned his Master’s and Doctoral degrees from IIT Bombay.

Dr Mhaiskar has been a member of the Engineering Accreditation Evaluation Committee (EAEC) of the National Board of Accreditation, India and has evaluated several programs across the country for accreditation.

He has guided forty students for their MTech dissertations and three PhD research scholars in different areas of Civil and Materials Engineering.

He has been a member of the BIS committees for drafting codes and standards and he has to his credit several research papers in international and national journals.