Prof. RajkumarRanganathan has Masters in Textile Technology with MBA and PGDM. He has previously worked under Ministry of Textiles, Government of India under various capacities of Registrar (ic) / Controller of Examinations/ Authorized signatory etc. Has research experience at Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic. His Industry experience is in Textiles machinery manufacturing. Published in leading journals and Conferences both Nationaland International.
He was a member of Sub group constituted by then Planning commission, Govt of India, for 2012-17, on designing and developing a policy note on Textiles and Fashion Education. He has served as evaluator for various projects under DST. He is one of the reviewers for NTPL courses in textile processing. He has invented a Handloom for the blind under RuTag with IIT Madras for an NGO in Lattur. He has the experience of conducting various National level Recruitment examinations for Indian PSUs (NTC etc.,). He is also the Nodal officer for DST Training Programme at the School.