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New Editorial Board for CSI Communications
Dr. Rajendra M Sonar
Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair
New editorial board will take charge of CSI Communications from April 2011 onwards. Following dignitaries are selected as members of the Editorial Board Dr. Rajendra M. Sonar, IIT, Mumbai Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair, University of Kerala, Trivandrum and Dr. Debasish Jana, Dynamic Digital Technology Pvt Ltd, Kolkata Dr. Rajendra M Sonar will be the Chief Editor for CSI Communications. Dr. T V Gopal, former Chief Editor of CSI Communications and Mr. H R Mohan, member of Publications Committee will act as Advisors to the Editorial Board. Mrs. Jayshree A. Dhere will be the Resident Editor for CSI Communications. Here is a brief introduction of the newly selected members of the Editorial Board –
Dr. Rajendra M. Sonar Rajendra M Sonar has been with Shailesh J Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is an Associate Professor of Information Systems/ Technology, and holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Pune University. Knowledge based systems and hybrid intelligent systems have been his areas of research since one and half decades. He is well versed with various software technologies and has published extensively in international and national journals and in conference proceedings. His book titled ‘Next Generation Business Intelligence: a knowledge based approach’ is in print. Before joining IIT Bombay, he worked with National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM), Pune as an Assistant Professor in IT area group. He is also Founder of iKen Solutions, a company incubated at IIT Bombay’s Business Incubator under SINE specializing in developing business solutions backed by hybrid artificial intelligence; using hybrid AI to build integrated, operational and real-time analytics. iKen Solutions is research spin-off of IIT Bombay based on his work.
Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair is the Director of the State InterUniversity Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, at Thiruvananthapuram. He is an electrical engineer, who earned his degrees from University of Kerala, IIT-Bombay and University of Cambridge, UK. He has taught in various engineering colleges and Universities, both in India and abroad since 1987. He
Dr. Debasish Jana
has served as Director of C-DIT, Govt. of Kerala (2001-2004) and also as Visiting Professor in University of Korea, Seoul (2007). He has more than 12 popular science books to his credit and has guided 12 PhD candidates successfully. He has interdisciplinary interests in music and history and is currently a part-time student in Music at University of Kerala for his second Ph.D. He has been associated with CSI since late 1980s.
Dr. Debasish Jana Dr. Debasish Jana, Ph.D. (Computer Science, Jadavpur University), is currently working as Director-Mobile Applications Group with Dynamic Digital Technology, Kolkata. He obtained his Masters in Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Jadavpur University, and MBA (Finance) from IGNOU, New Delhi. He has extensive professional experience of more than twentythree years in IT industry including PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Anshin Software, Techna, Millenium, and BFL Software. He has been serving as Visiting Faculty for more than fourteen years at premiere institutions including Jadavpur University and BIT Mesra Kolkata Campus. A Fellow Member of IETE and IE(I), Senior Member of IEEE, ACM, CSI, Dr. Jana has authored two popular books on C++ and Java, published by PHI Learning. He has coauthored a book with Prof D P Mukherjee on Graphics, published by PHI Learning. He has authored many papers in national and international conferences and journals. He has been involved in CSI Kolkata Chapter for many years as Treasurer and MC member at different times, and will be the Vice Chairman of CSI Kolkata Chapter for 2011-12. He has been involved in CSI Kolkata Chapter activities in several national and international conferences including EAIT 2006, CSI-2006, CSI-RDHS 2008, EAIT 2011 as spearheading role in Program Committee. His work and research interests include object-oriented programming, cloud computing, grid computing, mobile computing and mobile application development.
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