Rajendraprasad A. Pagare

 Working as Assistant Professor, TV Technical Operations with FTII, TV Engineering Department since May-2024. He is also a Liaison Officer: SC/ST/OBC/EWS/Ex- Servicemen at FTII. He has received Ph.D. in Next Generation multigigabit Optical Access Networks from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University’s Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT), Ch. Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, India. He has completed his Masters in Engineering from S.G.G.S. Institute of Technology (Formally Government-Aides College of Engineering), Maharashtra, India. He has 19 years teaching experience with different engineering colleges associated with Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) (Formerly Pune University). His research area of includes Transmission & Broadcasting Technologies, TV Technical Operations, Virtual Production (VP), AI-ML in VP.  He has published 15 papers in peer revived journals, conferences international publisher.  He has also published an authored book entitled 'Future Optical Access Networks (FOAN)' with an international publisher Springer Nature. He is a life member of Indian Society for Technical Educations (ISTE). He was criteria coordinator for multiple criteria’s for NAAC accreditation process of different engineering colleges and Universities.