Chandigarh University's 10th International Faculty Development Program Draws Participation of 130 Global Academicians from Over 100 Universities Across 40 Countries
This
edition of IFDP has brought together experts from 58 QS-ranked universities,
including six academicians from institutions ranked among the world's Top 20
universities. The program is also being attended by 37 scientists featured
among the world's Top 2% researchers, making it one of the most prominent
international academic forums hosted by an Indian university.
While
the inaugural session was graced by Prof Pankaj Arora, Chairperson, National
Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) as Chief Guest, Prof (Dr.) Jurg Bahler,
Director, Institute of Healthy Ageing and Professor of Systems Biology,
University College London, United Kingdom, Prof Dr Luke Dickens, Founding
Member and Co-Lead of the Knowledge Information and Data Science (KIDS)
Research Group and Associate Professor of Machine Learning, University College
London, UK and Dr Ian John Dixon, Associate Professor of Screenwriting, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore attended the event as Guest of Honour.
Prof
(Dr) RS Bawa, Advisor to Chancellor of Chandigarh University, Prof (Dr)
Raviraja N Seetharam, Vice-Chancellor, Chandigarh University and Prof (Dr)
Rajan Sharma, Executive Director, International Affairs among other
academicians from different nations were also present on the occasion.
The
participating experts represent leading institutions from Norway, Germany,
Australia, Finland, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, the
United States, France, Israel, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Poland, Saudi Arabia,
Bahrain, Portugal, Qatar, Taiwan, Oman, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia,
Malaysia, Thailand, Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Algeria, Lebanon, South
Africa, Kyrgyzstan, the Philippines, Morocco, Bangladesh, Nepal, Cameroon,
Nigeria, Ethiopia and several other countries.