ACM Bangalore

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Thursday, 12 February 2009
Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni, ACM Bangalore Chairperson
Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni, is currently the ACM Bangalore Chapter Chairperson and is on the steering committee of Compute 2009 conference. He is a Principal Researcher at Software Engineering and Technology Labs (SETLabs), the R and D arm of Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore, India. He serves on ACM India council and is the founding member of ACM Bangalore. He supervises the Software engineering and High performance computing research in SETLabs He has been selected for Who’s Who in Asia 2007 first edition, and Who is Who in the World 2009 editions. He serves on editorial board of journals and program committees for international conferences in area of web services, SOA, and Software Engineering. He has authored a book by Wiley on Distributed Systems Security, and authored several papers in international conferences, and book chapters, and serves on editorial boards of several journals, and on program committees for several international conferences and standards bodies and workshops. He has given numerous invited speeches at varied industry and academic forums including IEEE and ACM forums, industry CIO seminars and conferences. and architect forums like IASA.. Prior to Infosys, Dr. Srinivas has worked in multiple capacities in startups out of Canada and USA. Dr. Srinivas holds a Ph.D degree in computing science from University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Prior to Ph.D he secured his B.Tech and M.Tech in computer science from Indian Institutes of Technology at Kanpur and Mumbai respectively.

Jayatheerthan K, ACM Bangalore Treasurer
Jayatheerthan is an Architect for the Master Data Management product at IBM Software Labs, specializing in middleware technologies and products. His strengths include WebSphere Application Server, SOA and Autonomic computing. Jay holds a Masters Degree in Computer Applications from Bharathidasan University, Trichy. He has presented his works at various conferences including ICSOC 2007. Being a part of the ACM Bangalore Chapter's core committee, Jay has served as the Finance Chair for Compute-HeadStart 2008 and 2009.

Akshay Darbari, Vice Chair, ACM Bangalore
Akshay Darbari is currently associated with Infosys Technologies Ltd., and is focused on delivering product R&D services and solutions to customers worldwide. He is involved in identifying technologies & areas of business interest and conceptualizing them into new products and initiatives. He has several years of project management and software development experience. He has expertise in the field of Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Image/Video Processing and specializes in program development, strategic planning, team building and mentoring. Before joining Infosys, he was associated with Tata Elxsi Ltd., Patni Computer Systems Ltd., and Devi Ahilya University. He is co-founder of an IT business initiative, Cooperative Computing Group of International Institute of Professional Studies (IIPS), whose objective is providing IT solutions and disseminating IT in society. He serves on several boards, advisory, core and programme committees including SIGGRAPH Asia, SEAGRAPH, ACM Bangalore, International Journal of Virtual Reality, ACM Compute, Edutainment, Computer Games and Allied Technology, and IEEE Gold Bangalore Section. He is currently serving as Vice Chair, ACM Bangalore. He is working towards bringing the fragmented Indian Computer Graphics Community together. He has proposed, formation of a Worldwide Consortium to decide upon a roadmap for Digital Imaging with equal participation from industry, academia and technical societies. He was invited for “The United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) for the World Summit Contributory Conference on ICT & Creativity” to bridge the Digital Divide. Akshay has several publications to his credit and is a frequent speaker at leading technology conferences and events. He is also an invited reviewer for IEEE Multimedia and a regular reviewer for SIGCHI. Akshay is a subject of biographical record in Marquis Who's Who in the World Publication, and International Professional of the Year by International Biographical Centre (IBC) of Cambridge, England. He was recently awarded ACM Senior Member status for his performance and accomplishment that sets him apart from his peers. Akshay holds a Masters degree in Computers from Devi Ahilya Vishwa Vidyalaya (Formerly Indore University), India and is a member of IEEE, IEEE-Computer Society, ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH and ACM Bangalore.

Vinayak Hegde, General Secretary, ACM Bangalore
Vinayak Hegde is currently working as an Architect in Analytics Team with Akamai India, where he is building one of the biggest distributed networks to gather performance data for websites, web-applications and streaming media. His areas of expertise include Internet measurement and analysis, large- scale distributed systems and high-performance networking. He has previously worked with Microsoft India and bootstrapped his own startup. He is also a co-founder of Headstart - a non-profit organisation that helps foster entrepreneurship.

Kishore Kumar M, member core committee, ACM Bangalore
Kishore Kumar M is currently a senior architect at Hewlett-Packard. He specializes in servers and storage technologies and products. Prior to working at HP, Kishore worked at the research labs at Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore for about five years. A masters degree holder in computing science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Kishore has one granted US patent and more than eight patents pending. He has two journal papers and seven conference papers. Electrical and Electronics Communication was his Bachelors degree specialization from S V University. Kishore is a life time member of ACM Bangalore Chapter. He has served on the program committee of Compute 2008 and 2009 conferences.

Kallol Borah, member core committee, ACM Bangalore
Kallol Borah, a serial entrepreneur, is currently chief software architect at a social media product startup and is also Director, Aumega Networks, a software infrastructure products company based out of UK, India and Japan. Kallol is also the founder of the HeadStart Foundation and the Association of Computing Machinery Bangalore, two not for profit organisations engaged in the promotion of entrepreneurship and innovation in India across five cities in India. Earlier, he had run an e-procurement business venture in the UK from which he had a successful exit and before that, he worked at the Vice Chairman’s office at Reliance Industries in Mumbai. Kallol has done his post graduation in Economics from the London School of Economics. He is also a member of the Association of Computing Machinery and has also reviewed research submitted to IEEE publications on computing.

Naveen KS, Member core committee, ACM Bangalore
Naveen KS is currently working as Project Manager, for Dover Software India and manages software product development of OPW Fuel Management Systems, USA and manages India R&D centre as Lead. He has nearly a decade of experience in Product development in Energy, Public Safety & Security, Earth sciences and personnel management working in companies in India & Canada. His expertise includes product management, technical consulting, R&D centers initiatives & strategies and integration of business & technology goals of organizations. He holds a Engineering degree and currently pursuing Post Graduate Global Program from Great Lakes Institute of Management. He received Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional & Community Star Awards from Microsoft. He holds membership in ACM and Agile Project leadership network, where he is life member.

Harsh Dhand, member core committee, ACM Bangalore
Harsh is a Venture Manager in Philips Research, Bangalore. He is a part of the New Business Incubation unit in Philips and is currently leading a cardiology related medical device venture. He graduated from IIT-D with a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science in 2005. He has also got an MBA from Said Business School, Oxford recently. He has 10 publications (Business and Technical) in different conferences over last 4 years and five patents filed for Philips. Harsh was instrumental in starting the IIT-D student chapter of ACM and has been a part of the ACM Bangalore chapter since the start.
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