Dr Girish Deodhare is ADA Chief

Dr Girish Shantaram Deodhare is the new Director of Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA). Taking over from Cmde Cadaba Devnath Balaji, who retired on 31 March 2017. Dr Deodhare was selected by a Search Committee headed by Dr VSR Arunachalam with Dr VK Aatre (both former heads of DRDO) and Air Marshal Philip Rajkumar as its members. Earlier, Dr Deodhare was Associate Programme Director, New Programmes and Systems Engineering and Technology Director, Integrated Flight Control Systems, at ADA before taking charge of the organisation on 28 April 2017. He is expected to serve as Director for around six years, and is the 5th Director of ADA.

Dr Deodhare has a BTech (1984) in Electrical Engineering and M Tech (1986) in Control and Instrumentation, from IIT Bombay, holds a PhD (1990) in Control Theory from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr Deodhare had earlier worked with the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), a DRDO lab in Bangalore. He moved to ADA in 2007 as the Technology Director.