A Ph.D. from IIT Delhi, he was awarded the Boyscast Fellowship in 1997, the IBM Faculty Award in 2007 and Yahoo Faculty Grant in 2009. He is a Board Member of Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH), Data Security Council of India (DSCI), IIIT Kurnool, Senate Member of IIIT Trichy and Member of Governing Body, Technology Innovation Hub, IIT, Bhilai. He has served as Board of Studies member in several Universities including VIT University, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Anna University, Gujarat Technical University, Andhra University, SV University, JNTU, Hyderabad, JNTU, Kakinada and Academic Council member of Hindustan University. Prior to joining IDRBT, he was a Senior Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in USA. His current research focus is on building large scale distributed systems and challenges in big data processing, along with cloud computing and blockchain technologies. |