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Student Welfare

The student welfare office at VIT Mauritius provides a wide range of services and support to students, focusing on enhancing their overall experience and well-being that goes beyond traditional academic instruction. The overall goal is to create a supportive learning environment, where students feel secure, recognized, respected, and motivated, that helps students to succeed. This positive learning environment helps students to grow in all aspects of their lives including physical, emotional, social, psychological and academic development. It also serves as a vehicle to facilitate extra-curricular activities for the students and assist their involvement in the activities of the student council, social functions, and professional organizations.

Student support services include a wide range of programs designed to help students in their academic and personal lives. These services include but not limited to academic advising, mentoring, counseling for mental well-being, career planning and guidance, financial support, tutoring, support for students with disabilities, and providing all appropriate resources for an engaged student life. All these programs are aimed at helping the students to develop their goals, realize their potentials, balance their academic and personal life, create trust and sense of belonging, grow within their diverse community, feel happy, included and supported and ultimately achieve their full potential.

Student Welfare Team

Dr. Rajesh Kumar Muthu

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering

Dr. Rajesh Kumar Muthu is an academician, accomplished researcher, entrepreneur and an International consultant . He has over 25 years of teaching and research experience across India (2000–2010, 2015–2021, 2023–2025), the United Kingdom (2010–2015), and Mauritius (2022, 2025–Present). He is a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), U.K., and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In 2010, he was awarded a prestigious Research Scholarship for his Ph.D. in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. He served as Co-PI in a Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K.-funded project (2022–2024) and was invited as an International Transversal Researcher under the France–Mauritius ULIMA project in 2024. He currently serves as a Principal Consultant (2024) for a project in India focused on identifying behavioral patterns in children, and as a Co-Consultant (2025) for a project on audio-related applications in South Korea.

Dr. Rani Chinnappa Naidu

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering

Dr. Rani Chinnappa Naidu has over two decades of academic experience and more than two years of industry exposure. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, in 2014. Dr. Rani brings extensive expertise in artificial intelligence and optimization techniques, with applications spanning healthcare systems, machine intelligence, solar photovoltaic systems, wind energy conversion, and power generation dispatch. She received a prestigious research grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK (2021–2023), for a collaborative project between India and the UK. She is also the principal investigator of an international research initiative (2023–2024), funded by the IRCC, Qatar, in collaboration with Qatar University, VIT University, and Université des Mascareignes, Mauritius. An active contributor to the global academic and research community, Dr. Rani has organized and chaired numerous international conferences and symposiums.

Dr. Anu Mary Ealias

Faculty of Civil Engineering

Dr. Anu Mary Ealias holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from VIT Vellore, India, and brings specialized expertise in environmental nanotechnology, wastewater treatment, sludge dewatering, and the fate and transport of emerging contaminants, including microplastics. She gained international research exposure as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Irvine, through the prestigious Indo-U.S. WISTEMM Fellowship. Dr. Ealias has authored over 20 SCIE-indexed publications, is the co-inventor of two certified design patents, and serves as a peer reviewer for more than 50 international journals. A recipient of the Best Teacher Award (2023–24), she actively mentors B.Tech and M.Tech projects as well as Ph.D. scholars, contributing to the advancement of sustainable and innovative engineering solutions.

Dr. G. Leena Rosalind Mary

Faculty of Mathematics

Dr. G. Leena Rosalind Mary holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from VIT University, Vellore, India, and specializes in fluid dynamics, chemical graph theory, nanofluid heat transfer, and fuzzy systems. She has authored over 10 publications in SCI and Scopus-indexed journals and has collaborated on interdisciplinary research, including the application of AI in healthcare diagnostics. She is committed to fostering analytical thinking and innovation in mathematical sciences through both instruction and research mentorship.