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Tridib Roy Chowdhury
Dr. Tridib Roy Chowdhury, graduated with B-Tech, Computer Science, from IIT-Kharagpur in 1986. He then proceeded to complete his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, specializing in large intelligent databases. From 1988-1990, he was the CTO of Micronet Corporation in Maryland, USA and was involved in the development of some of the first desktop based document content management systems. He is currently Director-Technology and Co-Founder of STEX Software, a leading firm in the area of document content management systems and business process management systems. His primary interests are in the area of multi-dimensional indexes, object databases, image compression and quality systems.
Dr. Subhajit Datta received a Ph.D. in computer science from the Florida State University. He has more than 10 years of experience in software design, development, and research at a number of organizations. Subhajit is the author of Software Engineering: Concepts and Applications (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Metrics-Driven Enterprise Software Development (J.Ross Publishing, 2007). More details are available at www.dattas.net.
Prof. Roland E. Haas studied Computer Science, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe and the Technical University of Clausthal, Germany. His studies were supported by the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) and the Mercedes-Benz Scholarship Foundation. He received his Doctorate degree from the Technical University of Clausthal in 1997. He was a visiting researcher at the Kyushu Institute of Design, Fukuoka, Japan and at the Daimler Chrysler Research Center in Palo Alto, CA, USA. He has been with Daimler Chrysler for 13 years working in different divisions like Research & Technology, Engineering Passenger Cars, IT Management and Engineering Airbus. From 2001 to 2006 he was Managing Director of Daimler Chrysler Research and Technology India, Bangalore. His relation with IIIT-B dates back to 2002 when he started a lecture series in Automotive IT and Embedded Systems. Having worked on the borderline between information technology and engineering for more than a decade his research broadly focuses on digital product development topics including advanced product data management, engineering workflow automation, concurrent and simultaneous engineering as well as knowledge based engineering. He is also interested in architectural and performance aspects of complex software systems as well as design issues of mechatronical and embedded systems. Recently he started the company QSO Technologies which was incubated by IIITB. QSO Technologies consults clients in R & D outsourcing, develops customized IT solutions in the Life Sciences domain and provides outsourcing services in systems engineering and software development. Roland Haas is the author of numerous papers and 2 books while a third textbook is in the making.
Shyamala Kamath started her career in the Public Relations & Hospitality Industry nearly two decades ago. Having done her Travel & Tourism course from Iata-Uftaa (Canada), she worked for thirteen years with M/S Stic Travels (P) Ltd, a General Sales Agent for seven of the World’s finest Airlines. She has traveled extensively for various Seminars and training programs run by the various Airlines. Analytical thinking and conflict resolution have been her areas of strength which has given her exposure to many “Train the Trainer” programs.
S. Nagarajan is currently Technical Director at NetApp India, where he contributes to engineering Storage Systems. He has over 28 years of working experience in Computer Systems R & D. His current research interests are in Storage Systems, Emerging Computing Infrastructure, Operating Systems and Computer Architecture. Nagarajan holds a graduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calicut (topper from the University) and M.S (by Research) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Previously he was Director (Systems) and Distinguished Technologist at HP, responsible for the R & D activities for Enterprise Servers, Storage & Networking Division. He started his career as R & D systems software engineer at Wipro Ltd., with responsibility for contributing to the development of computer and embedded systems. While at Wipro, he worked on several international assignments with customers such as
Intel Corporation, Tandem Computers and Xerox Corporation. He worked as General Manager at Philips R & D, with responsibility for embedded software of Consumer Electronics products. He co-founded Bluefont Technologies, a technology startup in the digital convergence and wireless LAN domain. He also worked as Director of Technology at IPVALUE, contributing to intellectual property valuation. Nagarajan is a Senior Member of the IEEE,
Member of the ACM and USENIX.
Joy did his B.Tech in E&ECE from IIT Kharagpur (84-88) and MS in EE from Michigan Tech (88-89). At different stages of his career he has been a teacher, an entrepreneur and has also worked for various companies. Joy has worked in diverse areas of technology and he is passionate about finding
synergies between these areas. Lately, his work has been in the areas of mobile technologies, multimedia, printer firmware, aerospace hardware systems and building control technologies. His likes to work at the system conceptualization level and also at the algorithm/logic level. Joy holds two patents
granted by the USPTO and also holds a six sigma green belt.
Revathi Siva Kumar is a Delhi University (Literature) postgraduate, who has worked for 13 years in The Times of India and Deccan Herald. She handled news and feature supplements and wrote on developmental issues, health, education, environment and social justice. In 2000, she switched to Indiainfo.com as Channel Manager, then joined Infoglobe, an Ohio-based portal on Brain Research, as Team Lead, and next became Special Correspondent for GPS issues at Geospatial Today.
Ashok Srinivasan obtained his PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is an Association Professor of Computer Science at Florida State University, and currently visiting IIITB. He has, in the past, worked at IIT Bombay, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His research interests are in High Performance Computing applications and algorithms. He works on some of the worlds largest supercomputers and also on accelerators such as GPUs.
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. At Infosys Technologies, India's premier IT firm, he was responsible for the delivery of large, performance-critical IT systems for Fortune 500 clients in the telecom, BFSI and logistics spaces. He has over a dozen published papers in several reputed international fora, including journal of Algorithms, International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications and Foundations of Software Technolgy and Theoretical Computer Science. In his previous position he was Chief Technology Officer at Aztecsoft Ltd(now a part of Mindtree Ltd), where he brought about a radical, product-quality-focussed shift in the firm's approach to quality assessment.
Prof. Abbas enjoys developing software and teaching and mentoring good programming. Abbas has over 40 years of hands-on experience in programming and software development with reputed companies like TCS and Tata Elxsi. He has worked as Team-member, Project Leader, Group Leader and
on-site Project Manager for several development projects in India and abroad. Abbas was a Senior Faculty at the TCS Corporate Learning Center in Trivandrum and teaches as "Visiting Faculty" at IIIT-B. Abbas authored a book on
"Good Programming Skills & Practices" and has delivered workshops on the subject at TCS, Tata-Elxsi, Wipro, CSI, etc.
Dr. Raja Subramanian founded Radix Learning in June 2006 with a team of professionals who share a passion for creating innovative learning solutions and services. Prior to founding Radix Learning, Dr Subramanian co-founded Ascendum Systems in March 2000 along with a group of professionals hailing from some of the well-known business houses and Ivy-league institutions in India. Before co-founding Ascendum Systems, Dr Subramanian served as Professor of Computer Science and Dean of Distance Learning at BITS Pilani. Dr Subramanian has a unique mix of academic and corporate experience where he has led from the front for over 28 years. Dr Subramanian holds a Master's Degree in Economics, a Master's Degree in Computer Science and a PhD in Computer Science
Gopalaswamy Ramesh is an independent consultant and an adjunct professor at IIIT-B and a number of other premier institutions. He has more than 30 years of experience in industry, most of it with Oracle in the Far East, US and India. He was instrumental in setting up Oracle’s India Development Center in Bangalore and was the Senior Director of Oracle IDC, growing it from zero to more than 400. He is the author of best selling books Managing Global Software Projects, Software Testing Principles and Practices and Software Maintenance. The first book won the National Best Book Award in India. Two of these books have also been translated to Chinese. His most recent book The ACE of Soft Skills has been used as a prescribed text book for professional development workshops and courses in several institutions including IIT/Madras. He has been a regular speaker and chair / organizer in a number of international conferences. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Group of Project Management Institute (PMI), India and heads the editorial board of the quarterly journal of Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN), Chennai. He consults for a number of companies in India and abroad. His interest areas include Software Engineering, Software Project Management and Soft Skills in the context of global teams. He has taught these subjects in several leading academic institutions including IIIT/Bangalore, IIT/Madras, IIM/Bangalore, Amrita School of Business, XLRI, Jamshedpur and SRM University, Chennai. Ramesh holds a BE in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IISc, Bangalore, MS in Computer Science from IIT/Madras and MS in Engineering Management from Stanford University, USA. He can be reached at gopalaswamy_ramesh@yahoo.com
Venkatesh K has over 16 years experience in IT industry. He has worked extensively in the IT areas of software design & development, product engineering, localization, sales, marketing, support and offshoring strategy. He has worked with engineering teams and customers / prospects in various geographies such as India, US, Europe and Japan. He has traveled in / visited the US, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka and India.