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.

Dr. Ashwin Mahesh received his PhD degree from University of Washington. He worked as Graduate Assistant at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee fall 1991-Spring 1993; Research Assistant, University of Washington, Fall 1993-Summer 1999; Research Scientist, AS & M., Inc./NASA Langley, Hampton Virginia, September 1999 to August 2000, Research Faculty, Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center & University of Maryland, September 2000-August 2005. Dr Mahesh is the Co-founder and Editor, India Together, Bangalore. Dr Mahesh also worked as Director - GOIS/Transport, E-Governments Foundation, Bangalore during April 2005-July 2006. He was a Consultant - Second Administrative Reforms Commission, Govt of India, New Delhi during February 2006-December 2006. Dr Mahesh is also a Co-founder and Director, Mapunity, Bangalore since 2006.

Prof. Mahesh has published several papers in both national and international journals.

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.

She has been associated with IIIT-B since 2007. Apart for IIIT-B, she has taught at The Art of Learning Global Entrepreneurship Academy (TALGEA) and Indian Business Academy (IBA).

Muralidhar Koteshwar has two decades of experience after a B-Tech from IITMadras,rated as one of the top engineering academies in the world in a career that spans a complete product life-cycle – Product Conceptualization and Development, Usability design, Quality (ISO & SEI CMM), Sales, Marketing,Product management, Competency Development, Corporate Communications and Program management in cross-cultural transoceanic teams.

A part of the team that built India’s first Supercomputer the PARAM at CDAC,he subsequently held leadership positions in multinational organisations like Tektronix (color printing division that was taken over by Xerox), Tata Elxsi, Celstream and Trilogy. He is currently the founder and CEO of Usability Consulting India, Director at Parjanya Technologies – an online mentoring platform company and visiting faculty in Usability Engineering at IIIT-B.

Over the last few years he has trained thousands of IT industry professionals in both technical and leadership domains

He is equally passionate about education and as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Art of Living’s Educational Trust was responsible for establishing over 100 educational institutes, employing 1600 staff and catering to 20,000 students.

He is the course director for its well known teacher training and parent training programs that have positively impacted over 200000 people worldwide

He travels worldwide speaking at International Seminars and training thousands of teachers and professionals in schools, homes and organisations.

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.

Since 2004, she has been a freelance journalist, writer, poet and instructor. Her projects include a book on rainwater harvesting, six American e-books and scripts for educational CD-Roms. Currently, she is a Senior Editor at Manyagroup. She has taught at Indian Business Academy and Princeton Review, apart from IIIT-B.

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.

Abbas is currently a Consultant for Programming Practices at ASL Advanced Systems Ltd., Bangalore.

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.

Venkatesh has performed the various academic activities, a few of which are listed below. 1. Co-taught a full credit elective course “Managing Software Business” at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow 2. Taught a 3-credits course “Marketing of Information Technology” at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore from 2003 to 2009 3. Lecture on “Intellectual Property in the context of Offshoring” (Jan 2006) and IT offshoring (Feb 2011), (both via video conference) to the Post-Graduate students of Law at The University of Michigan Law School, USA 4. Lecture on “Launching of IT products and services”, at the School of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (Jan 2007) 5. Taught a full credit course “Marketing of Information Technology” at the Thiagarar School of Management, Madurai in 2011 6. Taught “Electronic commerce business models” as Guest Faculty at the post graduate e-commerce technology students of Padre Conceicao College of Engineering, Goa, India (May 2004). 7. Lecture on “Pricing of information technology products” (via video conference) to the students of LP University, India 8. Lecture on “Introduction to Marketing of Information Technology” at Thiagarajar School of Management, Madurai, India (Jan 2010) 9. External examiner for various student projects in IIM Bangalore 10. Panelist for PGSEM interviews at IIM Bangalore

Venkatesh has authored a book “Marketing of Information Technology: Concepts, Products, Services and Intellectual Property”, published by McGraw-Hill Education; ISBN 9780070152939 / 9780070248724. This was / is used as a prescribed text / reference in various IIMs and other business schools. He is currently authoring his second book on Software Engineering Practices, which he expects to publish soon.

Venkatesh has been a Guest Speaker and Panelist in industry forums such as TCWorld (2012) and STC Conference (2009).

Venkatesh is currently employed with Yahoo! in Bangalore as Senior Program Manager, managing the Service Engineering business programs and budgets for Yahoo!'s properties in HK, India, Jordan, Korea and Taiwan. Earlier he has held various positions at Adobe Systems, Aventail (acquired by SonicWALL), Wipro, Infosys and C-DAC. He has earned an Electronics Engineering degree from Bangalore University (BE, 1995) and a Post Graduate Diploma from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (PGD SEM, 2001), with majors in Marketing and Finance. He has earned a Certificate in French from the Alliance Francaise de Bangalore (1993).