Prof. Chandrashekar Ramanathan
Professor Chandrashekar Ramanathan is a faculty member at IIITB since 2007. His primary focus area is data science, software engineering and application development. Professor Chandrashekar received his Ph.D degree from Mississippi State University. His thesis was in the area of object-oriented databases. He has extensive application software development experience spanning over 10 years in large multinational organizations. His current focus is in the area of information convergence and software engineering. Technology for education, Application architectures, enterprise architecture and content management are his other areas of interest.
Mr Kannan
Mr Kannan holds a Post Graduate degree in Mathematics with specialization in Operations Research. Prior to joining IIITB he was a Program Manager in Advanced Computing and Communications Society (ACCS) with responsibilities of directing such activities like Pan India Design Challenge for students of Engineering colleges, Tutorials with the help of faculties of IISc, PES University, KSIT, SJBIT, GAT etc to name a few. He is also the associate editor of the Society’s flagship journal – “Advanced Computing and Communications”.
He has been teaching Mathematics at secondary and senior school levels . He has 30 years of experience in Pharmaceutical sales management , personnel management and training.
Vivek Yadav
Vivek Yadav is Adjunct Faculty at IIIT Bangalore since August 2017. He is co-founder of FullStackNet and distinguished alumnus of Government Engineering College - Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, MP. His area of interest is in the field High Performance Systems, Big Data, Data Stream, Algorithm and Data Structure.
Dr. Ekroop Caur, IAS
Dr Ekroop Caur is an Indian Administrative Service Officer of the 2001 batch. After doing her BA (Hons), MA and PhD from Punjab University as UGC Junior Research Fellow, she did her Masters in Public Administration from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore. She has 20+ years of experience in various fields of public administration including general administration, implementation of development programs, and planning and public policy making. She is a recipient of the Prime Minister’s award for Excellence in Public Administration for her work in implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
Prof. Debabrata Das
Prof. Debabrata Das is serving as Director of IIIT Bangalore (IIITB). Before joining IIITB, he had served at G S Sanyal School of Telecommunication at IIT Kharagpur and later at Kirana Networks in New Jersey, USA. He is PI and nodal officer of project under National Mission for Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems in the areas of Advanced Communication System, from DST, Govt of India.
Shri Darshan H.V., IAS
Shri Darshan H.V. is an IAS officer of the 2016 Batch. He completed his IEM (Industrial Engineering and Management) from JSSATE College, Bangalore As Director, Electronics, IT, BT and MD-KITS, he is spearheading the implementation of various schemes and programs of the Department in the sectors of Information Technology, Biotechnology, Electronics, Animation & Gaming and Startups.
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General Manager (IT) KITS, Dept. of IT, BT &S&T, GOK
Naresh Shah
Naresh has been in the technology industry for 3 decades. He served as President of India R&D for Hewlett Packard Enterprise from 2011 to 2019. Before HPE, Naresh worked at Novell for 4 years as Managing Director of Novell’s India Development Center and 20 years at AT&T.
Rajeev Rashtogi
Rajeev Rastogi is the Vice President of Machine Learning at Amazon India. Previously, he was Vice President of Yahoo! Labs Bangalore and the founding Director of the Bell Labs Research Center in Bangalore, India. Rajeev is an ACM Fellow and a Bell Labs Fellow.
Manohar Swaminathan
Manohar Swaminathan (aka Swami Manohar) is currently a principal researcher at MSR India, where his research interests are in assistive technologies, virtual and augmented environments and their impact in emerging markets.
Prof. Rahul De
Professor Rahul De’ teaches Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence at IIM Bangalore. His research interests are in ICT for development, open source, e-Government systems, digital payments, internet governance and telemedicine.
Prof. Krithi Ramamritham
Dr. Krithi Ramamritham has spent almost equal lengths of time at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and at IIT Bombay as a Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He has served as Dean (R&D) at IIT Bombay and headed IIT Bombay’s Center for Urban Science and Engineering (CUSE).
His current research involves applying computational approaches to energy management, based on his S M A R T principle: Sense Meaningfully, Analyze and Respond Timely. This work exploits and extends the state of the art in database systems, real-time computing, sensor networks, embedded systems, mobile computing and smart grids. He has guided close to 40 PhD students. Krithi’s publications garnered over 24,500 citations with an h-index of 82.
Prof. Yadati Narahari
Y.Narahari got his B.E. from Department of Electrical Communication Engineering in 1982, M.E. and Phd from Department of Computer Science and Automation in 1984 and 1987 respectively. In February 1988, he joined as the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Automation and was Chair of the department during January 2010 – July 2014. He was the Dean of the Division of EECS (Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Sciences) from August 2014 to July 2021. He was also chairing the Office of DIGITS (Digital Campus and Informational Technology Services) from January 2016 to August 2020. During 1992, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA and during 1997, he was a Visiting Scientist on sabbatical at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersberg, Maryland, USA.
Prof. AnnaLee Saxenian
AnnaLee (Anno) Saxenian is a professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarship focuses on regional economies and the conditions under which people, ideas, and geographies combine and connect into hubs of economic activity. She was Dean of the School of Information from 2004-1019, and upon stepping down she received the Berkeley Citation "for distinguished achievement and notable service to the University." She has served as a member of the Apple Academic Advisory Board, and Chair of the Advisory Committee for the National Science Foundation Division of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (NSF-SBE
Prof. Srini Devdas
Srini Devadas is the Webster Professor of EECS at MIT where he has been on the faculty since 1988. His current research interests are in computer security, computer architecture and applied cryptography. Devadas received the 2015 ACM/IEEE Richard Newton award, the 2017 IEEE W. Wallace McDowell award and the 2018 IEEE Charles A. Desoer award for his research in secure hardware.
He has had an exceptional teaching and mentoring career of over 30 years as a professor in the EECS Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), lecturing in a large number of subjects and recently sole-authoring a well-received introductory programming textbook (Programming for the Puzzled, 2017). As a crown feather, he was awarded MIT’s two top teaching awards (the MacVicar Fellowship, and the Baker Award), and the top teaching award from MIT’s School of Engineering (the Bose award).
Prof. Eshwaran Subrahmanian
Dr.Eswaran Subrahmanian is a Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and an Associate at the Software and Systems Division at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology. His contributions span design theory, collaborative engineering, philosophy of design, gaming, simulation, computational linguistics, mathematical foundation of information modeling for systems design, standards development, and socio-technical systems design. He was the head of the multi-disciplinary n-dim (n-dimensional information modeling) group. In his work, he combined ethnographic methods, and participatory design methods to provide support for geographically distributed engineering. He has worked with several multinational companies including Westinghouse, Alcoa, ABB, Bosch, and Bombardier designing, developing, and deploying collaborative support systems.
Dinesh Babu Jayagopi
Dr. Dinesh Babu Jayagopi is an Assistant Professor at IIIT Bangalore since Dec 2013, where he heads the Multimodal Perception Lab.
Srinath Srinivasa
Srinath Srinivasa heads the Web Science lab and is the Dean (R&D) at IIIT Bangalore, India.
Madhav Rao
Madhav Rao received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama, Master of Science in Microelectronics from University of Arkansas.
Neelam Sinha
Neelam received her PhD from IISc, Bangalore. Her thesis was on strategies for rapid MR imaging. Her previous stints include MILE Lab, IISc and MR Imaging group at GE Healthcare, Bangalore.
Dr. V. Ramasubramanian
Ramasubramanian obtained his B.S. degree from the University of Madras in 1981, B.E. degree from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1984 and the Ph.D. degree from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Bombay in 1992.
G Srinivasaraghavan
G. Srinivasaraghavan, PhD is a Partner at Performance Engineering Associates. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and has over 18 years of industry experience.
Jaya Sreevalsan Nair
Professor Nair obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Davis; after a B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT-Madras and an M.S. in Computational Engineering from Mississippi State University.
Jyotsna Bapat
Professor Bapat received her Ph.D. from Penn State University. Her thesis was in the area of semi-blind equalization applied to communication systems.
Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti
Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti has a Ph.D. from the department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Sachit Rao
Dr Sachit Rao obtained his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University. His specialization is in the area of Control Systems and Theory with an emphasis on Sliding Mode Control.