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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.

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.

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.

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.

Prof. Rejesh N A

Prof. Rejesh N A is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering group of Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division, BITS-Pilani.
He has over 16 years of teaching experience in the field of Electronics and Communication. He has been associated with BITS WILP Programme as a Guest Faculty from 2010-2018 and as Assistant Professor from 2018. As a faculty with WILP, he teaches courses like Analog IC Design, Mathematical Foundations for Data Sciences, and Digital Signal Processing for various programs.
He received his B.Tech Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala. He obtained his M.Tech Degree in Signal Processing from National Institute of Technology, Calicut. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
He has published research papers in various international journals and conferences in the area of regularized image reconstruction for photoacoustic tomography. His research interests include Photoacoustic Tomography, Biomedical Image Reconstruction from sparse data, Linear and Non-Linear Optimization Techniques, and Inverse Problems.

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. Pravin Y Pawar

Prof. Pravin Y Pawar is an Assistant Professor with the Computer Science and Information Systems group of BITS, Pilani’s Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division. He completed his ME (Software Systems) from BITS Pilani - Pilani campus and PG Diploma in Data Science from IIIT Bangalore - Upgrad. Prior to joining BITS, Pravin has worked with Oracle India Private Limited, Bangalore and Pune, for twelve and half years’ in the area of business software products development. During his tenure at Oracle, he was mostly working on the design and development of Oracle’s Streaming Analytics product with special emphasis on the visualization and dashboard designs along with analytics capabilities of the product.
Pravin leads certificate programme committee as well as Full Stack Engineering programme. He teaches courses related to the Data Science and Software Engineering domain, and is also a key faculty in the M. Tech. (Data Science & Engineering) programme. He is also engaged with PG programmes in the field of AI/ML, Big Data, Business Analytics and IoT where he enjoys simplifying the courses related to the Data engineering.

Dr. K. Pradheep Kumar

Dr. K Pradheep Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science and Information Systems of Work Integrated Learning Programmes Division, BITS PIlani.
He did his B.E. in Electronics and Communication from the University of Madras in 2002. He did his M.E. in Embedded Systems Technologies in 2005 and PhD in Computer Science in 2013 both from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University.
He has published patents in the domain Embedded Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing. He has several publications and book chapters in the domain of Data science, Artificial Intelligence, IoT and Quantum Computing. His publication in Quantum Computing has secured the Best paper award out of more than 1500 papers received by the “Society for Data Science” in 2021.
During his PhD, he was the recipient of Senior Research Fellow award from CSIR. He is an Active member of professional bodies like ACM and IET.His research interests include Embedded Systems, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, IoT, and Quantum Computing.
Dr K Pradheep Kumar worked for two and a half years as Assistant manager (Information Technology) in a PSU bank (Union Bank of India) dealing with banking software, Cryptography and Data Security applications,
He also worked as Assistant Engineer in Chennai Metrowater (a state government undertaking) in the IT department looking after Oracle data base administration for one and a half year.
He has completed seven years as Assistant Professor in the department of computer science and information security in BITS. He has been actively involved in industry engagement, programme and content design, design of lab capsules and delivery of course content.
He has been teaching several courses including Cloud Computing, Software Development for Portable Devices, Data Warehousing, Network Security, Real Time Operating Systems, Computer Organisation and System Software and System for Data Analytics for various programmes.

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. Sugata Ghosal

Prof. Sugata Ghosal is an off campus faculty member in the Computer Science and Information Systems department. Prior to joining BITS Pilani, he was a Senior Manager and Program Director at IBM Research – India, New Delhi.
Sugata has over 20 years of research experience in areas such as computer vision, machine learning, high-performance computing, software and services analytics. He holds over 45 United States patents and has published over 40 papers in international conferences and journals. Sugata obtained a B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky, Lexington in 1993.

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. 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. 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. Shekhar Rajagopalan

Prof. Shekhar Rajagopalan is an Associate Professor with WILP, BITS Pilani. His work experience comprises approximately 15 years in industry (IT, IT Services and Research Lab) and approximately 15 years in academia (Engineering and Management colleges). He did his BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from Delhi University and an MS (Computer Science) and PhD (Mathematics) from Syracuse University. Shekhar is in the Management group teaching Quantitative subjects such as Statistics and Analytics.

Prof. T V Rao

Prof. T V Rao is an Associate Professor in Computer Science. He teaches subjects in areas of Software Engineering, Data Science and Engineering. He has over a decade of teaching experience. Prior to that he spent nearly two and half decades in software industry meeting business needs of Fortune corporations. He performed diverse roles in software development, project management and program management. He holds B. Tech. in Electronics & Communication and M. Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur.

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. Krishnamurthy Bindumadhavan

Prof. Krishnamurthy Bindumadhavan is a Professor and Group Leader of the Management Group, Off Campus Programs at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He is based out of Hyderabad. Prof. Bindumadhavan is a Fellow of IIM, Kashipur (equivalent to PhD), CFA charterholder from CFA Institute, USA and FRM titleholder from GARP, USA. He also holds an MBA from University of Kentucky, USA and an Undergraduate Degree in Engineering. He has over 15 years of international experience in the banking and financial services industry, including 8 years with Capital One, a top 10 US bank, based out of Richmond, Virginia. In addition to working for a bank he has also worked as a consultant, entrepreneur and faculty among other roles. He is very passionate about teaching and joined BITS, Pilani in December 2014.

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. Annapoorna Gopal

Dr. Annapoorna Gopal is an MCA graduate from Bangalore University and PhD in Management from SIBM, with over 25 years of experience in the academia and IT Services industry, spanning multiple roles. She has worked with Christ University, Bangalore, Wipro Ltd and BITS, Pilani. An output oriented faculty, with a thirst for facilitating learning by leveraging on innovative methods, so as to enable her students to apply the learning at the workplace. In her current role, she facilitates courses on subjects related to Strategy, HRM, Consultancy Practice and Change Management, to work integrated learning professionals, as part of their MBA program.  Certified Trainer for OOAD/UML/ROSE, Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst and Insync Certified Faculty for ‘Online Synchronous Training’. She is a recipient of several awards and accolades such as ‘Feather in My Cap Award for outstanding work’, ‘Dear Boss Award from the team’ and 3 rd place in ’Doctoral Paper Competition at AIMS-5‘

Prof. Pawan Sharma

Prof. Pawan Sharma is an Assistant Professor with Work Integrated Learning Programmes, BITS Pilani. Pawan joined Pilani campus in 2001 and has over two decades of academic experience with BITS Pilani. He led the project of establishing state of the art VLSI design facilities at Pilani campus. He taught courses in the areas of VLSI design, microelectronics, analog and digital electronics, system specifications and modeling and microprocessor design. He participated in organizing national and international conferences organized by EEE department at Pilani campus. He has 6 years of industrial experience handling automation tasks involving DCS, Siemens PLC, HVAC control in manufacturing sector. Pawan shifted from on-campus to off campus programme of the Institute in 2014. He played a key role in establishing remote and virtual laboratories for students enrolled in various WILP programmes. He teaches courses in the areas of VLSI Architecture, Reconfigurable computing, computer architectures and system specifications, modeling and co-design. He also leads the PS-1 and PS-2 activities of EEE group of WILP. Pawan did his BTech from Nagpur University and MTech from BITS Pilani in 1995 and 2005 respectively.

Prof. Satya Sudhakar Yedlapalli

Prof. Satya Sudhakar Yedlapalli is an Associate Professor with the Work Integrated Learning Programmes(WILP) offered by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus. He is based out of the BITS-Pilani Off-Campus Center at Bangalore since August-2014. He also serves as a Group Leader for the EEE-WILP-OffCampus group since July-2021. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communications Engg. from the College of Engg., Andhra University, Visakhapatnam; a Master of Technology(M.Tech) in Communications from the Indian Institute of Technology(IIT)-Madras and a PhD in Signal Processing from the Indian Institute of Science(IISc) -Bangalore. He has about 20 years of technical work experience with the Bangalore based companies (1) Centre for Development of Telematics, (2) Motorola India Electronic Ltd, (3) Texas Instruments Pvt Ltd, (4) Samsung India R & D, (5) Saankhya Labs and (6) Aureole Technologies Pvt. Ltd. He has a passion to design and optimize computationally intensive signal processing algorithms for embedded systems and teach courses which require analytical and computational skills in the electrical engineering domain.

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