Area of Interest

• Computer Networks, Mobile Computing, Artificial Intelligence

Educational Details

• B.Sc. from University of Bangalore, India in Phy, Chem, Maths, 1967
• B.E. from University of Roorkee, India in Electronics, 1971
• P.G. Diploma from University of Roorkee, India in Computers, 1975
• M.Tech. from University of Roorkee, India in Computers, 1976
• DIC from Imperial College London, U.K. in Computers , 1984
• Ph.D. from Univ. of London, U.K. in Computers, 1984

Professional Background

• Assistant Engineer, Bharat Electronics Limited, Bangalore from 1971 to 1973
• Trainee Officer, Bharat Electronics Limited, Bangalore in 1971
• Lecturer, University of Roorkee, India from 1976 to 1985
• Reader, University of Roorkee, India from 1985 to 1989
• Professor, I.I.T. Roorkee, India from 1989 to On Going
• Professor and Head, Institute Superhighway Centre from 2005 to 2006

Administrative Background

• Member, University IT Steering Committee, in I.I.T. Roorkee from 2001 to 2002
• Chairperson, Standing Committee for the prevention of Sexual harassment of women at their work place, I.I.T. Roorkee since 2002
• Coordinator, in National Programme for Human Resource Development in IT, of the MHRD, GoI from 2003 to 2005
• Member, Strategic planning Committee of IITR, I.I.T. Roorkee since 2004
• Head, Information Superhighway Centre, I.I.T. Roorkee since 2005
• Chairperson, Departmental Undergraduate Committee, I.I.T. Roorkee since 2005

Honors

• Gold medal for standing first in P.G. Diploma / M.Tech awarded by University of Roorkee, India, 1971
• Two gold and one silver medal for best girl student in B.E awarded by University of Roorkee, India, 1971
• Four year Merit Scholarship in B.E awarded by University of Roorkee, India, 1971
• CSIR Senior Research Fellowship awarded by Govt. of India, 1976
• Commonwealth Scholarship for Ph.d in UK awarded by ACU / British Coundil, 1981
• Apple Distinguished Educator Award awarded by Apple Inc., USA, 2006

Teaching Engagements

• Autumn Semister:EC425-Artificial intelligence(3L-1T-0P)
• Spring Semister:EC427-Advanced Computer Networks(3L-1T-0P)

Organised Conferences, Seminars, Courses

• National Workshop on Role of Information Technology and Continuing Education in Human Resource De sponsored by I.I.T. Roorkee, Oct. 1998
• Symposium on Mini- micro Computer & Automation sponsored by I.I.T. Roorkee, March 1978
• All India Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Artificial Intelligence sponsored by I.I.T. Roorkee, January 1989
• International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication ADCOM99 sponsored by UOR. Roorkee & ADCOM Society, Dec. 22-24, 1999
• Staff Advisor,SYNC 2001, student technical symposium and festival sponsored by I.I.T. Roorkee, 2001

Seminars, Symposiums, Workshops Attended

• Garuda Meet held at , Bangalore, during December 2005
• ADCOM 2004 held at , Ahmedabad, during December 2004
• HiPC 2003 held at , Hyderabad, during December 2003

Visit(s) to Outside Institutions

• Toulouse, France: International Workshop on Timed Petrinets., during Sept 1983
• Cisco Systems Inc., Silicon Valley, USA: Visited Cisco systems, on their invitation, to explore avenues for mutual collaboration in networking, during Oct 2004
• San Francisco, U.S.A: Paper presentation in the 4th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, during May 1984
• Wipro Customers Meet at Hotel Pan Pacific: To represent IIT Roorkee as customer of Wipro Systems at their annual Meet in Singapore, during 26-30 July 2005
• Imperial College of Science & Technology, London, U.K. : To pursue research leading to Ph.D. in the area of Distributed Systems and Computer Networks, during 1981 - 1984

Ph.Ds Supervised

Memberships

Refereed Journal Papers

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