Dr Utkal Mehta received his PhD from IIT Guwahati. He is a Senior IEEE Member and Secretary IEEE Fiji Subsection. He has over 20 years’ experience in both academic and research in industry and the various educational institutes. His expertise is in area of system identification, modeling and embedded devices. His current research focuses on process identification, control and applied fractional calculus for industrial engineering. His passion is also to develop low-cost educational devices or tools for Special Need Children. Dr Mehta received Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Innovations (2016, 2017) and Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2018).  Dr Mehta welcomes inquires regarding Masters/PhD studies and collaborative project grant applications.