BIO-DATA Name (in full) : Hari Vasudeo Sahasrabuddhe Contact : C2/7 Kumar Classics | 1735 Seville Way Aundh, Pune 411007 India | San Jose CA 95131 USA Phone: : +91 20 2588 7742 | +1 925 451 8316 E-mails : hvs[at]it.iitb.ac.in, hvs_buddhe[at]hotmail.com Year of birth : 1943 Family : married with 2 grown-up children. Last Designation : Professor Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology (subsequently merged with Department of Computer Science and Engineering) Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (2002-2005) Education: : K-12 in Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh), India Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, 1964. Masters and Ph D from IIT Kanpur. Year of Ph D: 1968. Title of thesis: "Computer Models for Circuit Design: Sensitivity and Optimization Models" Experience - teaching : Teaching in Science/Engineering institutions continuously from 1964 to date. 1964-1974 and 1976-1984 IIT Kanpur 1974-75 - University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1975-76 - University of Waterloo 1984-2001 - University of Pune 2002-2005 - IIT Bombay Experience - curriculum : Have participated in many curriculum development development and review exercises. Member of the IIT Kanpur committee which adapted their undergraduate curriculum from 5-year to 4-year format in 1980. During my tenure at Pune my colleagues and I gradually transformed the MCA into a strong Computer Science degree and kept it up-to-date. Experience - distance : Have participated in the evolution of a Distance education Education technology at the Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology at IIT Bombay (details at http://www.dep.iitb.ac.in/about.html), since January 2002. My individual contribution is the design of the audio paths in the entire process of interactive telecast and recording of sessions. I have also taught two courses (one of them two times) in Distance mode. Experience - education : Set up a new Department of Computer Science at management the University of Pune in 1984 and ran it as head till Feb. 2001. In an area where faculty is extremely hard to get, the department hired six Ph D's, four of whom were working full-time at the department at the time I left. The annual budget of the department was INR 18 million in 2000-2001. Experience - research : Guided Bachelors and Masters dissertations at the rate of 3-5 per year throughout. The topics, decided by student preparation and inclination, covered a wide spectrum. During 1976-84 at IIT Kanpur guided four Ph D students. Three of them addressed the problem of improving the productivity of programmers each in his own way. The fourth proposed an index structure and a method of simulating the index using a small fraction of the storage space that would be required to actually store the index. During 1984-95 explored computational musicology with the help of masters degree students and project staff. A report on this work is at http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~hvs/paper_1994.html. During 1995-2002 guided three Ph D students. One proposed a framework for building a decision support system combining rule-based expert system and artificial neural networks and other mechanisms (He was a management major). Another found novel genetic algorithm attacks on four different problems and developed an empirical technique for studying the functioning of g.a. attacks on problems. The third has developed a new theory of tuning in Indian Classical Music and veriied it with the help of renowned musicologist Pt. Babanrao Haldankar. In addition I have also been a co-guide to a fourth Ph D student. The duration of my stay at IIT Bombay (3 1/2 years) was too short to see a Ph D student through. I supervised M Tech dissertations and mini-projects. Publications : (a) Book - Computer Programming in COBOL (with V Rajaraman) (b) Papers - about 60. Collaborative work with : Sponsored research for DOE, ECIL, DTSR, CDAC other organizations Consultant to ACC, TCS, ECIL, ICIM (at various times) Membership of Learned : Member, Computer Society of India Societies Member, Indian Science Congress Association Member, Indian Musicology Society --- (last updated December 2007)