Course Co-ordinator - Prof. Varsha Apte

Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Bombay

Prof. Varsha Apte is a faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay, where she served as Head of the Department from May 2022- May 2025. At IIT Bombay, she teaches Computer Networks, Computer Systems Performance Analysis, and Communication Skills. Her areas of interest are performance analysis of computing systems and networks, and building applications for online programming education, including AI for programming education.

Prof. Apte completed her M.Sc. from Pune University in 1989 and her PhD. from Duke University in 1994, both in Computer Science. After her Ph.D., she joined the Teletraffic Theory and Performance Analysis department in AT&T Bell Labs as Member, Technical Staff, which later became the Network Design and Performance Analysis department of AT&T Labs. She joined as faculty in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Bombay, in 2002. During the academic years 2009-2011, she was on leave from IITB and Visiting Faculty at the Computer Science and Automation Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. While in Bangalore, she also worked at IBM Research Labs as a part-time Visiting Researcher from June 2009 to May 2010. From February 2016 to February 2019, she served as the Head of the Network and Computing Infrastructure department (called “Computer Centre”) of IIT Bombay.

Course Lecture Videos and Reference Book Author

Prof. Abhiram Ranade

Professor (Retd), Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Bombay

Prof. Abhiram G. Ranade is a Professor (Retd) of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. His research interests are Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization, Scheduling in Transportation Systems, and Programming Education. He has won Excellence in Teaching Awards of IIT Bombay in 2006-7 and 2010-11. He is the author of the book An Introduction to Programming through C++, based on which he also taught the popular NPTEL course on C++ programming.

Prof. Ranade obtained a B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1981. In 1988, he obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University, USA. He was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, USA from 1988-94. Since 1995, he has been a faculty member at IIT Bombay. He was President of the ACM India Council from July 2018 to June 2020.