Milind Vaidya (b 19th Aug. 1960), has taken over as the In-Charge Principal of the College after a very successful run as the Vice Principal for eight years, during which period he was called upon to function as the In Charge Principal in the absence of the then Principal on a number of occasions.
Milind Vaidya has been instrumental in administration in almost every section. He has monitored the academic progress of the Departments, Admissions to various classes, Examinations, International Exchange programmes, Research activities, infrastructure, Time table, Purchases, university examinations and been the Co-ordinator for B.Sc.Information Technology since the inception of the course (July 2001) by University of Mumbai etc. to name a few. His has contributed immensely in the establishment of 03 new institutes on the Campus in Principal Dinesh Panjwani’s tenure.
A worthy alumnus of the College, Milind Vaidya began his academic career at Smt. CHM College, Ulhasnagar as a Lecturer in Junior College, in the Department of Physics in 1982 and from 1983, lecturer in Degree College. He became Reader designate in Physics Dept. in August 1996 and was working as the Vice Principal from 4th Sept 2001 to 31st Aug. 2009. Milind Vaidya has established the research laboratory in the Physics Department and some of the instruments were procured as donations from TIFR. Other equipment were procured mainly by way of funding received from various schemes of Minor research projects, from UGC, and the University. He has actively participated and shouldered responsibilities in various Outreach-and-Community-oriented programmes, that the College organizes in coordination with UGC-sponsored Women’s Studies Centre and the Gandhian Studies Centre of the College and has been instrumental in their success. He has been appointed as the vice Chancellor’s nominee as Subject Expert in Physics in various Colleges.
A first Class graduate of the University of Mumbai, Milind Vaidya completed his M Sc and Ph D with the University of Mumbai. His interest in research resulted in the presentation and publication of research papers at National and International platforms. He has presented 03 research papers at the International level (Australia, France, India) in International Conferences and more than 15 research papers were presented at various Symposiums held at Nagpur, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Bilaspur, Cochin, Tirupati, IGCAR-Kalppakkam, Kurukshetra, Mysore, Pune, Pantnagar-Nainital. He visited the Clayton State University, Atlanta, GA, U.S., under the Faculty Exchange Program in Nov. 2005. Many of his research papers have been cited by scholars working in the field.
Milind Vaidya has completed 04 minor research projects funded by the UGC. He is recognised as Research Guide in Physics by the University of Mumbai and currently two students have enrolled under his supervision for whom the registration process is in progress. He has established collaborative linkage with Physics Of Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar and Charotar Institute of Applied Sciences, Changa, Dist. Anand, Gujarat and presented a Research Paper at the International Conference on Application of Mössbauer Effect (ICAME) held in Monash University, Melbourne, Australia in August 1987.
Milind Vaidya, for a brief period, has been the Principal of Vikas College, Vikhroli and he has taken over as the In-Charge Principal of this College on 1st September 2009.