{"id":641,"date":"2026-07-07T05:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.nptel.ac.in\/?p=641"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:17:38","slug":"the-long-range-scanner-how-anupam-tiwari-turned-every-nptel-course-into-a-new-frequency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.nptel.ac.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/the-long-range-scanner-how-anupam-tiwari-turned-every-nptel-course-into-a-new-frequency\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long-Range Scanner: How Anupam Tiwari Turned Every NPTEL Course Into a New Frequency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dr. Anupam Tiwari<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A radar doesn’t look at one thing. It sweeps: wide, patient, picking up signals across an entire field before settling on what matters. It’s a fitting image for Dr. Anupam Tiwari, a Radar and Communication engineer with 28 years behind him, because that is exactly how he has spent the last five years learning: sweeping across Mathematics, Robotics, Law, Psychology, and AI, one NPTEL course at a time, refusing to let his expertise sit still in a single domain. It started, as these things often do, out of professional necessity. As head of the department of Applied Electronics at IETE-Hyderabad, he needed to do Faculty Development Programmes (FDP), 3-4 per year. In 2020, he found four on the AICTE platform. Then he discovered NPTEL offered them too, bundled with real coursework from IIT and IISc faculty. That was 2021. He hasn’t stopped since.The numbers, when he lists them, sound almost implausible for someone who isn’t a full-time student: 50 courses attempted, 40 completed and certified, 37 FDPs across categories, 15 times rated in the star category, 15 silver medals, 5 golds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I don’t think any platform in India is better than NPTEL,” he says; not as a slogan but as a conclusion he’s tested repeatedly, exam after exam, for five years running.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

What makes his approach distinctive isn’t just the volume, it’s the deliberate spread. Every semester, he picks 4-5 courses using what he calls a personal formula: one from mathematics, one from a core engineering branch, one from management, and one from whatever subject his own college years never gave him the chance to study. Robotics, IoT, Applied Linear Algebra for Signal Processing, Graph Theory, Game Theory, Internet Crime Law, the list reads like someone deliberately refusing to specialize. “Because I did M.Tech in Applied Mathematics Modeling and Simulation,” he explains, “I could relate how mathematics is behind the technology.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He fits all this around a working professional’s week: an hour or two on weekdays, and full weekends spent finishing assignments often submitted early, ahead of Wednesday deadlines, because Saturdays and Sundays are when he actually has room to think. But the most telling part of his NPTEL journey isn’t a certificate at all. It’s a course called \u2018Cyber Security for Practitioners\u2019, offered by IIT Kanpur, which he took alongside his son, already a cybersecurity professional in his own right. They studied together, discussed together, and sat the same exam. He scored 97%. His son scored 95%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“We enjoyed learning over the platform, discussing,” he says, with the quiet satisfaction of a father who beat his son fair and square. His wife has since completed three courses of her own, in Psychology and Teaching.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Now, with AI reshaping every field, he has registered for five more courses this semester : three of them in AI governance, AI law, and Generative AI. “If I learn today how AI is governed in future,” he says, “definitely I will handle it much better.” It’s the same radar logic as always: scan early, scan wide, and let the signal find you before you need it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked what he’d tell someone hesitating to start, his answer doesn’t waver: enroll, explore, and don’t wait for a reason. At 900-plus courses and counting, NPTEL has more to offer than one lifetime can exhaust\u00a0 and he intends to keep sweeping the field for as long as he’s able.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~written by Elsa Prasad<\/em>
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Dr. Anupam Tiwari A radar doesn’t look at one thing. It sweeps: wide, patient, picking up signals across an entire field before settling on what matters. It’s a fitting image for Dr. Anupam Tiwari, a Radar and Communication engineer with 28 years behind him, because that is exactly how he has spent the last five … <\/p>\n

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