Dr. Arun Surendran is the Strategic Director and Principal of Trinity College of Engineering Trivandrum where he pioneered faculty entrepreneurship. He holds his Masters and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University after his BTech from IIT Bombay. He was awarded the prestigious Eppright Outstanding International Student award, the highest honor given by Texas A&M University to any international student.
Dr. Arun is the co founder of Wattsun Football Academy and Blitz Sports Tech. He is part of the board of devBlink.ai that works in the education space. He is a founder director of Adcy.io Cybersecurity Solutions and cybersecurity instructor for Upgrad.com. Dr. Arun serves as strategic advisor to Acsia Technologies.
He is the Honorary Fellow for Robotics for the Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) and a Senior Fellow of the Defence Research and Studies (DRaS) thinktank.
He is a Core Group Member of the Kerala Knowledge Economy Mission. Dr. Arun is a past chair of the Young Indians Trivandrum chapter and serves regularly as instructor on online education and AI at the Madan Mohan Malviya Teachers Training Center, Kerala University.
Dr. Arun is also the director of Agasthyam International Kalaripayattu and Principal Investigator for the Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) Center for Kalaripayattu & Siddhar Tradition awarded to Trinity College by the Ministry of Education, Govt of India.
