Brief-Biodata

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Brief-Biodata :

Dr. Nandlal L. Sarda is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Mumbai (Bombay). He recived his Master's (M.Tech.) and PhD degrees from IIT Bombay, and joined as faculty at IIT Bombay, where he is teaching since 1972. He was a Visiting Associate Professor at University of New Brunswick, Canada from 1986 to 88. He was Head of the Computer Science & Engineering Department at IIT Bombay from 1994 to 1997. He was Head of Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management from Aug. 2006 till Feb. 2007.

He was Dean of Academic Programmes, IIT Bombay, from October 2001 to September 2004.. In this capacity, he coordinated with IIT's Senate and its various Academic departments for creating, revising, operationalizing and supervising IIT's academic programmes.

He served as Professor-in-Charge of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, from October 2004 to Feb. 2006, in which role he coordinated with the Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) hosted by IIT Bombay to encourage and actively facilitate IITB's faculty and students to convert intellectual property developed by them into business ventures.

His main research interests are in the areas of Database Systems and Software Engineering. He has published widely in international journals and conferences. He has focused in the last few years on the reserach issues in Database Modeling, Geo-spatial and Temporal databases, data warehousing (that includes metadata integration from multiple sources), and ontology-based schema integration. He has participated in many conferences in the capacity of Programme Committee member, invited speaker, etc. He was the Programme Co-chair of VLDB'96, a premier international database conference, which was held in Mumbai in 1996. He has also served on the editorial board of a few international journals. Recently, he was Programme Chair for the Annual event of Computer Society of India organized in Dec. 2004 and attended by over 600 professionals in the IT area. He was honoured as Fellow of Computer Society of India at its convention in November 2006 for his sustained contributions to CSI's activities. Presently, he Heads the education and research division of Computer Society of India.

He is closely associated with many companies and goverment institutions as a consultant, offering advice in planning, selection, implementation and evaluation of information technology solutions. He served as Director on the Board of Directors of Union Bank of India, a large public sector Bank from June 2003 to June 2009. He is presently on the Board of Directors of Clearing Corporation of India, and IDBI Intech Limited.

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