CV

Education

Ph.D, Computer Science & Engineering Oct. 2001 – Nov. 2004

• Inria, Université de Rennes 1, France

• Thesis Title: Environnement de Tolérance aux Fautes pour Terminaux Mobiles Embarqués (A Fault Tolerance Framework for Embedded Mobile Devices)

• Advisor: Prof. Gilbert Cabillic

M.Tech., Computer Science & Engineering July 1999 – Dec. 2000

• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

• Thesis Title: A Simulation Testbed for Active Networks

• Advisor: Prof. Sanjiva Prasad

B.Tech., Computer Science & Engineering Jan. 2001 – June 1999

• IET, MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly India

Positions Held

Dean of Academic Affairs (DoAA) June 2020 – Present

IIIT Delhi, India

• Started online PG Diploma program in collaboration with IBM & Great Learning

• Started Industrial PhD program

• Established the Internal Quality and Assessment Cell

• Supervise and manage all the academic activities across IIIT-Delhi’s different academic programs 

Project Director, iHub Anubhuti IIITD Foundation Aug. 2020 – Present

IIIT Delhi, India

• Signed MoU with the Technology Innovation Hub (TiH) of IIT-Delhi to start the India’s first Med- ical Cobotics Center. The Center will be on IIITD premises and will be run jointly by the teams of TiHs of IIT-Delhi and IIIT-Delhi. The Center will collaborate with AIIMS and other prestigious Medical Colleges of India and abroad.

• Established the functioning of TiH at IIITD from scratch including hiring of CEO and other staffs, obtaining necessary approvals, setting up physical space, etc.

• As a member of Hub Governing Body and Board of Directors, I also set the vision of TiH and different activities that the TiH will pursue.

Professor Jan. 2019 – Present

Dept. of Computer Science, IIIT Delhi, India

• Research and teaching in the fundamental areas of Computer Science

• Professional and Institution Services

Founding Head, Center for Design and New Media, IIIT Delhi, Aug. 2018 – Feb. 2020

• Received funding of $4 million (25 Crore INR) from Tata Foundation and Tata Consultancy Ser- vices to establish the Center as the founding head

• Created a team of 10+ faculty members as part of the Center

• Created policies and processes for running of the Center

Founding Head of the Department, Dept. of Human-centered Design, IIIT Delhi, India, Feb. 2018 – Feb. 2020

• Started as the Founding Head of the Dept. of Human-Centered Design

• Started a new UG program in "Computer Science & Design"

• Creation of policy and procedures for smooth running of the dept. and its academic programs

• Searching and hiring of faculty member - hired 3 faculty members who are PhD from GaTech, Univ. of Oxford, and NUS, Singapore

Associate Dean of Research (ADIRD), IIIT Delhi, India April 2014 – March 2017

• Started the Intellectual Property (IP) Cell at the institute to support patent filing

• Contributed for successful submission of FIST Infrastructure grant of 1 Crore INR (or $ 130,000) to DST for CSE department

• Contributed for successful submission of FIST Infrastructure grant of 1.1 Crore INR (or $ 140,000) to DST for ECE department

• Brought grants of about 7 Crore INR (or $1 million) to support 23 PhD fellowships for 5 years and 4 young faculty fellowships under the Visvesvaraya Scheme of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, India

• Supervised and managed all Research and Innovation related activities across IIIT-Delhi

Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, IIIT Delhi, India April 2014 – Dec. 2018

• Research and teaching in the fundamental areas of Computer Science and HCI

• Professional and Institution Services

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, IIIT Delhi, India Oct. 2009 – April 2014

• Research and teaching in the fundamental areas of Computer Science

• Professional and Institution Services

Ingénieur Expert (Research Engineer), Inria Rocquencourt, France Jan. 2008 – Oct. 2009

• Worked on IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) in collaboration with Alcatel to enable presence service for building Ubiquitous Computing applications

• Worked on creating a mobile middleware - Ibicoop - to enable data exchange across hetero- geneous mobile devices over heterogeneous networks to support development of mobile and ubiquitous computing applications

  • Developed Service Discovery, security modules, and also worked to port the middleware to Windows-based devices

  • Ibicoop formed the core of a startup, established in 2010, by my Inria teammates

Research Associate Dec. 2005 – Aug. 2007

Culture Lab, University of Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

• Worked on NERVE project to develop mobile-based visualization tools to show data of civic agen- cies in time of crisis. We worked with Civil Engineering Dept, Industry partners, and Police and Fire Services

• Worked on ASK-IT project to develop ubiquitous computing applications for visually impaired people. The apps were aimed to support independent navigation for visiting a museum.

• Worked on Future Traveler Information Systems and build location-aware services to support independent and intelligent navigation across different transport modes within the city. Also, mentored a Ph.D. student in the project

• Worked to develop a prototyping tool for developing location-aware services

Research Fellow Sep. 2004 – Aug. 2005

Dept. of Psychology Portsmouth, UK

• Worked to develop a mobile learning application in J2ME for Japanese-English speakers

• The aim of the app was to train Japanese-English speakers in learning the difference between

/r/ and /l/ sounds.

• The app was adaptive in nature to adjust the difficulty level as per the user’s performance