Ravi Pendse, PhD, will soon leave Wichita State. He will assume office at Brown University as the vice president for computing and information services on Sept. 1. Brown University is a private, Ivy League research university in Providence, R.I.

Pendse currently serves as the vice president for information technology. In addition, he works as the executive director of the Advanced Networking Research Institute at Wichita State University.

Pendse, who also works as a professor at the college of engineering at WSU, completed his bachelor’s degree at the Osmania University in India in 1982 and his master’s and doctorate degrees at WSU in 1985 and 1994 respectively.

He is recognized for maintaining a productive relationship with Cisco Systems, the networking giant.

As a result, Pendse has played a key role in bringing in millions of dollars to WSU that has helped fund the networking research at WSU.

In 2008, he turned down an offer made by North Carolina State University that came with a raise of about $120,000 a year.

Back then, he cited the bright future of the networking research at WSU as reason for staying.