Dr. Manesh B Kokare is the Director of Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology Vishnupuri Nanded. Prof Kokare has an impressive academic background. He is credited with Postdoctoral experience from the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, under the BOYSCAST Fellowship, following his Ph.D. from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He received BE(Electronics) and ME( Electronics) from SGGSIE&T Nanded. He has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, such as the national level AICTE Visveswaraya Best Teacher Award (2020), SRTM University Best Teacher Award (2013), BOYSCAST Postdoctoral fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology Government of India (2011), “Best Achievements in Career" awarded by Alumni of Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nanded, in the Silver Jubilee Alumni Meet held 26th -27th December 2009, AICTE Career Award for Young Teachers (C.Y.A.T.)" of Rs. 10.5. Lakh for 2005-06, International Association of Pattern Recognition (UK) Travel Bursary Award of $500, with all these fortified with several Best Paper Awards.
He has served SGGSIE&T Nanded in almost all administrative capacities. This includes the Dean of Academics (March 2022-April 2023), Dean of Finance Quality Assurance and Resource Mobilisation (October 2020-March 2022), Institute NBA Coordinator (October 2020- April 2023), Institute NAAC Coordinator (October 2020- April 2023), Head of the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (July 2018- July 2020), Dean of Research and Development (August 2016- July 2018), Coordinator of the Center of Excellence in SIP (September 2013- April 2023), Coordinator of RUSA (September 2017- April 2023), Controller of Examination (June 2008-June 2011), and Hostel Warden (July 1999-July 2001). In every role, Prof Manesh Kokare has demonstrated exceptional leadership skills and dedication, consistently driving the concerned Institutional activities to completion, with a keen eye for detail and a strategic mindset for excellence. He has been instrumental in the preparation and implementation of new policies, starting new programs at SGGSIE&T Nanded, and always ensuring that the curriculum remains up-to-date and relevant to the needs of the industry. He also fetched funding of Rs. 749.20 Lakhs, from different funding agencies, for the institute. To date, he has published more than 115 papers in reputed International conferences and Journals. His research has achieved a citation index of 3270, an h-index: of 24, and an i-10 index of 46. He has delivered more than 400 seminars and expositions in other Engineering institutes all over India, as a resource person, to benefit faculty and students all over the nation. To date, 15 research scholars have completed their Ph.D. under his supervision, and six are currently working towards their Ph.D.
He is a life member of the System Society of India, the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) and Member of IEEE, Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society, Member of IEEE Computer Society. Acknowledging Dr. Kokare's research contribution, he has been selected as a reviewer of twenty-five international journals. Dr. Kokare was also Program Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Information Processing (IConSIP- 2016), held at Nanded, Maharashtra, in Oct 2016. In Aug 2004, Dr. Kokare visited Cambridge University U.K. to present his research paper at the IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). Also, in June 2006, Dr. Kokare visited the University of Barcelona, Spain, for collaborative research work. In November 2006 and January 2008, he visited the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. In March 2009, he visited Bangkok to present his research paper at IEEE International Conference on Digital Image Processing 2009. For his Post Doctoral research work in 2011-12, he visited the University of California Santa Barbara USA, the University of Iowa USA, Stanford University USA, the University of California San Diageo USA, and the University of California Berkley, USA. In 2013, he visited National University Singapore, NTU Singapore, and UTP Malaysia for research collaboration. His research interests include wavelets, image processing, pattern recognition, Computer Vision, and Content-Based Image Retrieval.