Cloud computing to lead India’s digital transformation and growth story

Dr. Lucy J. Gudino

Dr. Lucy J. Gudino received her B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Kuvempu University in 1994, M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, India, in 2003 and 2010 respectively. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Computer Science and Information Systems group, at BITS Pilani’s Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division. She has over 24 years of teaching experience in the field of Electronics and Communications, and Computer Science. She is a Programme Committee lead for WILP’s Computer Science and Information Systems and is involved in the design and delivery of curriculum, digitization of course and lab contents. Her research interests include Wireless Networks (Wireless Sensor Networks and Adhoc Networks), Array Signal Processing and Digital filter design. She has guided 6 PhD scholars in the areas of Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Adhoc Networks and Antennas for wireless applications.

Dr. Y V K Ravi Kumar

Dr Y V K is an Associate Professor with the Compute Science and Information Systems group of Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division, BITS - Pilani. He did his M.Sc (Applied Mathematics) from Sri Venkateswara University, A.P and PhD from Osmania University, Hyderabad. He Qualified CSIR JRF/NET examination. He has published about 50 research papers in various national and international journals. Two students have been awarded PhD under his guidance.

In addition to 25 years of teaching experience, he also worked as Group 1 gazetted officer (State Civil Services) in the Ministry of Finance, Government of A.P.

As a faculty with WILP, he teaches courses like Introduction to Statistical Methods, Advanced Statistical Techniques for Analytics, Data Mining and Machine Learning for various programmes.

Prof. Anita Ramachandran

Prof. Anita Ramachandran is an Associate Professor with Work Integrated Learning Programmes, BITS Pilani. Anita has 14 years of industry experience across Motorola and Lucent Technologies and has worked extensively on broadband and wireless technologies, specifically in Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols. In various roles in these organisations, she has led technical initiatives, generated patents and published papers in internal symposiums. She did her B.Tech from NIT, Calicut, M.Tech from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago and Ph.D from BITS, Pilani-KK Birla Goa campus.

Anita is currently an Associate Dean with WILP. She teaches courses in the areas of networking, IoT and machine learning.

Dr. Ritu Arora

Dr. Ritu Arora is working as an Assistant Professor with the Computer Science and Information Systems group of Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division, BITS Pilani. She has over 17 years of experience in academics and has served in varied roles. At the onset of her career, she got an opportunity to work for an upcoming University, where she was assigned responsibilities to coordinate, design and deliver newer courses every semester, year after year. This gave her immense exposure to curriculum design structures, content development procedures, work processes and associated tools and technologies prevalent in academics domain. Later, she joined BITS Pilani in 2008 and has since then served as a featured faculty in the Work Integrated Learning Programmes and Practice School Division of BITS. She has been actively involved in industry engagement, programme and curriculum design, content development and delivery of course content.

She completed her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, in 2017 in the area of Collaborative Software Development and her publications in this area are increasingly getting recognition. Other areas of interest include Software Engineering, Software Testing and Quality Management, Object Oriented Systems and related technologies and software engineering education.

Dr. G. Venkiteswaran

Dr. Venkiteswaran obtained his Ph. D in Industrial Mathematics from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUKL), Germany, in the year 2003. After doing a post-doc at the Graduate School in TUKL for close to 18 months, he joined BITS, Pilani as a visiting faculty in the Department of Mathematics, in 2004. Presently, he is the Associate Dean for Quality Assurance and Assessment in the Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division. With over 23 years of teaching experience, he teaches courses in Mathematics and Computer Science. His main research interests are in the area of numerical solution of partial differential equations in high dimensions, Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods.

Prof. Manoj Kakade

Prof. Manoj Kakade is an Assistant Professor in the Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division of BITS Pilani. He holds Masters of Engineering in VLSI & Embedded systems. He is based out of Pune. His area of expertise is Embedded system design, IoT and has been engaged with research and teaching in the field of Embedded systems for the last 15 years. He has spent more than over four years in industry in Embedded hardware domain where in, he was involved in design and development of various embedded systems based product for process, consumer electronics, and healthcare industries. He guides undergraduate and graduate level students pursuing dissertations and research in areas such as Embedded Systems Design and IoT. Presently he is involved in curriculum design, development and delivery for various corporate industries for upgrading the skill set required as per industry needs.

Prof. Chandra Shekar R K

Prof. Chandra Shekar R K is working as Assistant Professor in the WILP division, CSIS group since 2014. Previous to this, he worked in Academic Institutions (PESIT, TJIT, BTLIT - Bangalore) and IT industry (KALS - Bangalore & Firium, Maxis Communications, KL, Malaysia). He has a total experience of 22 years. He did his B.E in Computer Science and Engg. from UVCE, Bangalore, M.Tech in Computer Network and Engg. from VTU, Belgaum. Currently, he is a Ph.D scholar with BITS, Pilani, KK Birla Goa campus. His research interests are in Cloud Computing and IoT.

Prof. Vamsidhar Ambatipudi

Prof. Vamsidhar Ambatipudi is an Associate Professor in the Management Department, Off Campus Programs at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He is based out of Hyderabad. He is a qualified fellow of Institute of Actuaries of India (FIAI), Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst (CERA), Financial Risk Manager (FRM®) and a Professional Risk Manager (PRM®). He also holds an undergraduate degree in computer science engineering and an MBA from IIM Indore. He has around 20 years of work experience in IT and education sectors primarily in the BFSI domain, including 7 years of entrepreneurial experience. His current research interest lies in application of machine learning techniques to solving finance and business problems. He joined BITS Pilani on 7-Aug-2019.
He is a continuous learner constantly motivated by Numbers, Calculations (Mathematics and Statistics), Data Analysis and model building. He is passionate teacher and had successfully taught various hands on practical courses in finance, analytics and actuarial science using EXCEL, R, SPSS, and Python at various premier institutions and organizations across the country as a guest faculty and a corporate trainer. At BITS Pilani, he teaches courses in the areas of financial modelling and analytics, risk modelling, data science and statistics. He always enjoys designing new courses, and mentoring the students

Prof. Febin A Vahab

Prof. Febin A Vahab is an Assistant Professor with WILP, BITS Pilani, with 10+ years of experience in industry and academics. During her tenure in IT industry, she worked in Business Intelligence domain and has worked in Customer Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence projects of major clients like NORDSTROM, WALMART etc. She did her B.Tech from Kerala University and M.Tech from VTU, Karnataka. She teaches courses in DATA SCIENCE ,Technology and Programming domains.

Dr. Chetana

Dr. Chetana is an Associate Professor in the CSIS department at Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division, BITS Pilani. She has more than 23 years of teaching and industry experience. She did her PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from a joint programme of IIT Bombay and Monash University, Australia. She has been working extensively on different state of art research projects and has been awarded the “Best Industry Aligned Research” at the CSI TechNext India 2019 - Awards to Academia. She has published various papers and is also a reviewer at national and international level peer reviewed conferences and journals. Her areas of expertise include Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, Deep Learning, Text Mining, Big Data Analytics, Information Retrieval and Software Engineering. Apart from teaching above courses at WILP, she is SPOC for practice school program for CSIS

Dr. Saikishor Jangiti

Dr. Saikishor Jangiti believes in “Simplify & Teach Effectively” and has chosen Teaching as his profession after completing his B.Tech in Computer Science & Information Technology from JNTU, Hyderabad and M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. He joined the CSIS Group, Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division, BITS, Pilani with 12+ years of experience. While teaching at SASTRA Deemed University he got an opportunity to pursue research in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing. He has published 17 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences with a cumulative impact factor of 7.6 and awarded with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. His subject interests include Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Data Mining, Web Technologies

Prof. Nishit Narang

Prof. Nishit Narang is an Associate Professor in the department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Work Integrated Learning Programmes, BITS Pilani. He has a B.Tech degree from IIT Delhi, M.S from BITS Pilani and a Ph.D from IIT Delhi. Prior to joining BITS Pilani, Nishit spent 23 years in the IT industry, working with Hughes Software Systems, Aricent, Altran and Capgemini. 

Nishit has worked extensively in broadband and wireless technologies, cybersecurity and IoT. He has actively supported various industry initiatives as part of NASSCOM, published research papers and has also authored four internationally acclaimed technical books in the area of mobile and communication networks. Nishit has technically led multiple projects during his tenure in the IT Industry, in areas of Mobile and Wireless Communications, Industrial and Consumer IoT and Embedded Systems. 

Nishit is currently the head of the CSIS group of WILP and teaches courses in the area of mobile and wireless systems, real-time systems, advanced computer networks, cloud networks, cybersecurity and cyber-forensics.

Prof. Srinath Naidu

Prof. Srinath Naidu is an Associate Professor with the Work-integrated Learning Programme at BITS Pilani. Srinath brings a blend of industrial and academic experience into this role with seven years of industrial experience in Electronic Design Automation companies such as Magma, Synopsys and Cadence and ten years of academic experience with IIIT Bangalore and Amrita University. He has many impactful publications in Electronic Design Automation with one of them winning the 2003 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award from IBM Research. Srinath holds a B.Tech(Hons.) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (now IIT Varanasi), M.Sc(Engg) in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Srinath's current research and teaching interests lie in the areas of machine learning, deep learning and mathematical optimization.

Prof. Swapna Kulkarni

Prof. Swapna Kulkarni is an Assistant Professor with Work Integrated Learning Programmes, BITS Pilani. Swapna received her B.E. degree in Instrumentation and control from Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University and M.Tech. degree in Instrumentation engineering from Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology ,Maharashtra, India. She has over 14 years of teaching experience in the field of Electronics and Communications. She teaches courses in the areas of electronics, control systems, networking and IoT.

Prof. Rekha Anandrao

Prof. Rekha Anandrao is an Assistant Professor with Electrical and Electronics Engineering group, at BITS Pilani’s Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division. She received her B.E degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Bangalore University and M.E from University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering in Electronics and Communication, Karnataka, India. She has over 15 years of experience in academics. She has been actively involved in development of digitized content and delivery of course content. Her areas of interest includes Wireless Communication, Networking and IoT.

Prof. Rajavadhana

Prof. Rajavadhana is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Work Integrated Learning Programmes division of BITS Pilani, India since 2016. Prior to joining BITS, she was with PSG College of Technology as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. She has over 3 years of industrial experience in the field of Enterprise Application Integration as a developer and a consultant in the BFSI domain with HCL Technologies and Larsen & Toubro Infotech. She received her B.E. & M.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University and MBA in Human Resource from Indira Gandhi Open University. Her research interests are in the fields of Graphs, Computer vision and computational Intelligence. She teaches courses in the area of Data Technologies and Intelligence domain.

Prof. Akanksha Bharadwaj

Prof. Akanksha Bharadwaj is an Assistant Professor and coordinator of the WILP programs running with our industry partner CISCO. She is based out of the Bangalore location. Akanksha has worked for around 3 years as a Business Technology Analyst at Deloitte. She did her B.Tech in Computer Science from Bharati Vidyapeeths' college of engineering, Delhi, and M.tech from Delhi Technological University, Delhi. She teaches courses in the area of software architecture, databases, data mining, and statistics.

Prof. Kranthi Kumar Palavalasa

Prof. Kranthi Kumar Palavalasa is working as an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering department for Work Integrated Learning Programmes, at BITS-Pilani. He is based out of Hyderabad. Prof. Kranthi holds B.Tech degree in ECE from JNTU-Hyderabad university and M.Tech degree from Electrical Engineering with specialisation in Signal, Image and Video processing from IIT Kanpur. Prof. Kranthi has nearly 9 years of industry experience across BOSCH and TCS and has worked extensively on Medical imaging, specifically in automated screening of ophthalmic related diseases and Advanced driver assistance systems. Prof. Kranthi has led technical teams, generated patents and published papers in national conferences. Prof. Kranthi is very passionate about teaching and joined BITS-Pilani in July 2020. He teaches courses belongs Electrical and Computer Science engineering departments.

Prof. Seetha Parameswaran

Prof. Seetha Parameswaran is an Assistant Professor with Work Integrated Learning Programmes, BITS Pilani. She has 7years of teaching and industry experience. She did her B.Tech and M.Tech from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala and is a Ph.D scholar with Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala. She is a team member of the Computer Science and Information Systems group of WILP. Her areas of expertise include Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Text Mining, Probabilistic Graphical Modelling, Image processing.

Prof. Vineet Garg

Prof. Vineet Garg is an assistant lecturer with BITS Pilani WILP. He has a postgraduate degree in computer science from BITS Pilani. In WILP he takes courses like Computer Networks, Network Security and Data Structures.

Prof. Ankur Pachauri

Prof. Ankur Pachauri, is appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Science, in WILP, Off-Campus center, Pune, since August 2015 and has teaching experience of over 9 years. He had done his schooling from a missionary school, then higher secondary from Kendriya Vidyalaya in the year 2000. He is a Mathematics Honors Graduate of the year 2003, Masters of 2006 and completed doctorate from Department of Mathematics, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra in January 2013. He had also worked as Assistant Professor from June 2012 till July 2015 in Rajiv Academy for Technology and Management, Mathura. He had taught various courses on Algorithms, and Applied Mathematics courses. He has published a number of research papers in various reputed Journals and National & International Conferences Proceedings and they are cited by a large number of Researchers, from various countries. His area of research is Nature Inspired Algorithms, Evolutionary Algorithm, Search Based Software Engineering, Soft Computing and Graph Mining

Prof. Mohammad Saleem Bagewadi

Prof. Mohammad Saleem Bagewadi is an Assistant Professor with the Compute Science and Information Systems group of WILP Division, BITS-Pilani. He did his M.Tech from Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) in Computer Networks Engineering in 2008. He worked as a QA Network Engineer for 7 years in Juniper Networks and has worked on HighEnd/Core Router network technologies, Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols. He has been actively involved in industry engagement, content development and delivery of course content. He is very passionate about teaching and getting his students inspired in pursing their educational and career goals. His main research interests are in the area of Networks and Security and Educational Research. He teaches courses in the area of Networking, Cyber Security, Software Engineering and related technologies.

Prof. Vijayalakshmi Anand

Prof. Vijayalakshmi Anand is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the department of computer science at BITS Pilani off campus center,Pune. She has been with BITS pilani since 2008. Before joining BITS , She was working various engineering colleges in chennnai and pondicherry. She completed her master degree in computer science from Anna University,chennai and completed her bachelore degree in Electronics &communication engineering from Manonmaniam Sundarnar university, Tirunelveli. She is pursuing Phd in crowdsourcing and machine computation for social media application at BITS Pilani Hyedarbad campus, Hyderabad. Her academics and research interest are in the area of networking and datascience .

Prof. Akshaya Ganesan

Prof. Akshaya Ganesan is working as an Assistant Professor with the Computer Science and Information Systems group of Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division, BITS Pilani. She has 2 years of experience in the industry and 5+ years of experience in the academia. Apart from effective classroom teaching, she has held various roles and responsibilities including curriculum development, departmental committee works, students counselling, placement training, and recruitment of faculty in various colleges. She holds an M.E Computer Science and Engineering degree from Anna University, Chennai. She teaches courses in the area of Web Development, Service Oriented Computing and Algorithms. Other area of interest includes Full stack software development, cloud computing and Devops.

Prof. Ramakrishna Dantu

Prof. Ramakrishna Dantu is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Information Systems department of Work Integrated Learning Programs, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, off Campus division. Prof. Ramakrishna has a Ph.D. From University of Texas at Arlington, USA. He also holds MS in Information Systems from UTA, USA, M.Tech., IIT Bombay, and an MBA from USA. He has over 16 years of IT industry experience in USA in different domains, including Insurance and Transportation Logistics He joined BITS Pilani, Hyderabad in February, 2020. Prior to joining BITS Pilani, he worked as an Assistant Professor at California State University, Sacramento, and as adjunct faculty at University of Texas, Arlington and University of Texas at Austin. He is passionate about teaching and research. His research has been published in Information Systems Management Journal, and several international conferences.

Prof. Sonika Chandrakant Rathi

Prof. Sonika Chandrakant Rathi, is an Assistant Professor with Work Integrated Learning Programmes, BITS Pilani. Sonika has overall 10+ Years of experience where before WILP she was involved in the Product Lifecycle Management domain with Tata Technologies & Dassault Systems Global Services. She has pursued her M.Tech from College of Engineering Pune.Sonika is part of the Computer Science and Information Systems group of WILP. She is involved in delivery of courses in the areas of Agile, DevOps and Project Management.

Prof. Chennupati Rakesh Prasanna

Prof. C Rakesh Prasanna is working as an Assistant Professor with the Computer Science and Information Systems group of Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division, BITS Pilani. he has 10 years of experience in academia. Before joining work-integrated learning programs, he was faculty at the BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus.He has been actively involved in industry engagement, content development, and delivery of course content He holds an M.Tech GITAM University Vishakapatnam. He teaches courses in the area of Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence. Another area of interest includes machine learning.

Prof. Ashish Narang

Prof. Ashish Narang is serving as an Assistant Professor with the Computer Science and Information Systems group of BITS, Pilani’s Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division. He has completed his ME (Computer Science) from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala. He has more than 8 years of teaching and industry experience. He teaches courses related to Database Technology and Programming Methods.

Prof. Rajesh Kumar Tiwary

Prof. Rajesh Kumar Tiwary is an Assistant Professor with Work Integrated Learning Programmes, BITS Pilani. He has 18 years of teaching experience. He did his B.Tech. In Electronics & Communication Engineering, M.Tech. from MREC, Jaipur. He teaches courses related to Electronics and Communication Engineering and his specialization is Microelectronics. He has guided projects in the field of VLSI.

Prof. K. Gopala Krishna

Prof. K. Gopala Krishna is currently Associate Professor in BITS-Pilani WILP Division. He has been teaching working professionals in Indian IT organizations since 2009. Prior to his current position as faculty member, he has had over 35 years of experience in the IT industry in the design and delivery of products and services for global clients in Embedded Systems and Enterprise Software arena. He is passionate about Science and Electronics and in his spare time loves to dirty his hands building physical models and run thought- experiments on paper when run out of resources. His interests include Teaching-Learning, Design Thinking, Internet-of-Things, Developmental Economics, eGovernance and Digital Organizations. Krishna started his career with typing lines of Fortran code on a punch-card machine after graduating with M.Tech from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Dr. Shree Prasad M.

Dr. Shree Prasad M. is an assistant professor in the Dept. of EEE at the Off-campus program of BITS Pilani. He has five years of research and eight years of teaching experience. He has obtained Ph. D. degree in the Dept. Of Electronic and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Goa in 2020. He has published research articles in several IEEE flagship conferences and SCI journals. His teaching interest is in the areas of communication, signal processing, and IoT.

Prof. Swarna Chaudhary

Prof. Swarna Chaudhary is an Assistant Professor in CSIS department at Work Integrated Learning Programmes, BITS Pilani. She has more than 10 years of teaching and industry experience. She did her B.Tech from BIET Jhansi, a Government college affiliated to UPTU and M.Tech from DTU (earlier DCE), Delhi. Prof. Swarna Chaudhary has contributed towards designing digital content for Big Data Engineering Program (in collaboration with Upgrad), Full Stack engineering certificate programme, and IDS (Introduction to data science) course. Her research and teaching interests are in the domain of Machine Learning and Data Science

Prof. Preeti N G

Prof. Preeti NG is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Work Integrated Learning Programmes division of BITS Pilani, India since Jan 2014. Prior to joining BITS, Prof Preeti has worked in CMRIT, HKBK Bengaluru and MGIT Hyderabad as an Assistant Professor. She has an overall experience of 16+ years in Academics and Software Industry. She has earlier worked as a Software Engineer in Misys Software Solutions for about 2.5 years and as a Research Intern for an year in Intel India Software Technologies. She received her B.E. & M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangalore University and VTU respectively . She is passionate about teaching and strongly believes in the motto “Teaching is learning”.She has received excellent feedback for all the courses from her students and takes it to be her biggest driving force and source of satisfaction. Her research interests are in the fields of Data Mining, Machine Learning, Image Processing and Statistics.
Professor Preeti has been a part of the Computer Science and Information Systems group of WILP and is involved primarily in delivery of courses in the areas of Data Technology, Intelligence and Applied Mathematics. Professor Preeti has been the Program Coordinator of Wipro, WASE programs for about 3 years since 2014 and has been coordinating SAP Labs specific MTSE program after that.

Dr. Jyotsana Grover

Dr. Jyotsana Grover is an Assistant Professor with Work Integrated Learning Programmes, BITS Pilani. She did Ph.D, M.Tech.(Computer Applications) and M.Sc(Maths) all from IIT Delhi. She has published various papers in renowned international journals like Applied soft computing, Applied Intelligence, Pattern Recognition letters, Engineering applications of Artificial Intelligence.

Subjects Handled:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advanced data mining
• Natural Language Processing
• Introduction to Data Science
• Big Data Systems
• Machine Learning