Professor Uday Gadkari is well-known for his academic and administrative contributions to the field of architecture in the country. A graduate from VRCE Nagpur, he completed his Masters in City Planning from IIT Kharagpur. 

He has been the immediate past president of the COA from 2012-2015. Professor Gadkari has been in the teaching field since that past 33 years, and has been affiliated with institutions such as Manipal Inst. Of Technology in Manipal; College of Architecture, Guwahati; VRCE, Nagpur; Priyadarshini College of Architecture and others. 

Additionally, he has served as the secretary for MASA – Maharashtra Association of Schools of Architecture; been a member of the Executive Committee for the COA; and a board member for various Universities across the country. He has been the chairperson for the International Conference on Cyrogenics in Nagpur, and has been a key-note speaker for many National and Regional conferences in India. Presently, Professor Gadkari is the director and a professor at the Institute of Design Education and Architectural Studies (IDEAS) at Nagpur.