Information For B.Tech/Dual Degree 2002 Students

I am done being the facad of this batch. The last thing to do is to "marshall" the students at the convocation .. Aug 10, 2007. I am keeping the rest of the page for posterity and (perhaps) to help other facads. Welcome! It's my pleasure -- really -- to welcome you all to the CS Department. This page contains preliminary information on how I will interact with you over the next four-five years. As we go along, we will build this page. Much of the information on this page address the concerns of B.Tech students, since we are still groping with some of the nuances of the Dual Degree program.

As a faculty advisor, I will be primarily responsible for the following "hard" tasks.

Registration of courses. I will countersign the courses that you have registered for. I request you to carefully look at any prerequisites that a course might have before you sign up for a course. Please note that I do have the ability to cancel your registration at any time, so please be careful.
Allotment of seminar and B. Tech projects.
Works visit and practical training.
Industrial tour.
Routine administrative matters: Note that you DO NOT NEED my approval to get a room in the guest house.

More generally

I will serve as a "bridge" between you and other faculty in the institute. I hope to keep your interests in mind when I argue for a particular proposal.
Guide you, to the best of *my* ability in *your* goal to be a great human being, a first class citizen, a scientist and engineer, and a computer scientist in particular.

Getting in touch with me....

Please feel free to paper WRITE to me at any time, should you feel like sharing something with me. Or email me if you have some strong emotions.

Feel free to slide under my door any routine paper that requires my signature. Unless you find it very difficult, place a small explanatory covering note with your emailid somewhere. I will let you know when I have signed it (usually within minutes of seeing it) -- UNLESS -- the papers needs to go to someone else (e.g. office). For example, I will forward all registrations to the office (usually) on the last date.
If there is something that takes less than 3 minutes, and I am in with my door not completely shut, please walk in. Do NOT send email in such cases.
If, however, you want to MEET me for longer meeting times, please check my schedule for my office hours, drop me an email (sharat at iitb dot ac dot in) BEFORE you decide to come to my office to meet me DURING THOSE OFFFICE hours (earlier first floor in the CSE department building, now Kresit/EE as mentioned elsewhere). Do not expect a reply unless I am unable to meet you. If there is no advance email, I will take it that nobody wants to be meet me, and I will NOT be present
(I am sure you realize that I cannot serve like a bank that is open 24x7 which is why I have these office hours

Do not, in any event, send me HTML mail (or gasp!) Word documents. (Check out some thoughts on this). And oh, when you write to me, please make sure that you check your grammar and spelling. Would you speak like an idiot if you are in person? You won't? Then why write like you have never learnt English?

Here is a list of students in the program. As you no doubt realize, a "deletion" algorithm is often more difficult than an "insert". So I request you to write to me in case you notice that one of the students in this list has either dropped out, or moved to a different department. Also write to me if you spot any errors. Ciao.

Getting in touch with me....

If there is something that takes less than 3 minutes, and I am in with my door not completely shut, please walk in. Do NOT send email in such cases.