Jay Misra, BS, MS (Engg., Pittsburgh), MBA (Harvard),
Advisor, Amrita TV

Taught at Stanford Business School for 5 years, guest lectured at Harvard Business School, and 12 years teaching experience is taking a course on “BPM-Managing Change”. He did his B.S. and M.S. in Engineering in four years from University of Pittsburgh, USA. He has held senior management positions in leading Corporates in the USA like Intel, 3Com, Capital Group and Soros Fund Management, owned by the brilliant investor, Mr. George Soros, where he was Managing Director. He has published 2 books: “Business Telecommunications” and“Business Telematics,” by the leading business book publisher in the USA. He was a finalist for the Distinguished Teaching Award at Stanford and has interacted with business leaders like Bill Gates, Michael Dell and Gordon Moore. He has also been on the boards of directors of many technology firms, and now focuses his efforts on helping large charitable organizations.

E-mail:- jay@amma.org

Interest Areas : Entrepreneurship, Growth Strategies, Investment Management, Entertainment Industry.

K.P. Soman
B.Sc. (Engg.), P.M.Dip. (SQC&OR, ISI-Calcutta), M.Tech. (IIT-Kh.), Ph.D (IIT-Kh.)
Professor- Head CEN

16 years of research & teaching experience at IIT-Kharagpur, AEC-Bhatkal, and Amrita. Has around 60 publications in national & international journals and conference proceedings. Has organized a series of workshops and summer schools in e-commerce, fractals, chaos, neural networks, and wavelets for industry and academia. Currently on deputation to the Center for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking (CEN). Authored a book on“Insight into Wavelets”, published by Prentice Hall, New Delhi.

Email:- kp_soman@amrita.edu

Interest Areas : Quality & Reliability, Wavelets, Bio-informatics, Kernel methods, High Performance Computing.

Sreevalsan M, B.Com., MBA (MKU)
Head - ICTS, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

More than 20 years of Experience in IT field. Started as a faculty member in St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad in 1985. From 1995, working with Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Deemed University. Worked on various software development projects and conducted training programmes. Have designed and led the team to network the 1500 PC campus network at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham from its inception in 1995. Was instrumental in installation of the PARAM 10000 super computer in Amrita. Also involved with the implementation of the Satellite based E-Learning networks connecting all 4 campuses of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and 50 premier research and Engg. Colleges across the country. Also worked in setting up the Satellite based Village Resource Centres connecting 13 villages across the nation. Legal Main Contact for the Cisco Academy Training Centre (CATC) at Amrita and currently the Chairman of Cisco Networking Academy-Academic Council.

E-mail:- sree@amrita.edu

Interest Areas: Computer Networks and Security, Operating Systems, Systems Administration, IT infrastructure design & implementation and implementation of IT enabled services in various departments.

Colonel P. N. Kumar (Retd)
M. Tech (IIT-K), MSc (Madras Univ.)
Professor, Amrita School of Engineering

25 years of service in Defence with vast experience in Software Project Management, Technology Management in a Telecommunication & IT environment and training. Projects include a War Gaming Model for Airborne operations, Decision Support System for career management of officers of Army and Y2K projects at Defence HQ. 10 years of teaching experience as Head of Dept at Military College of Electronics & Mechanical Engg, Secunderabad and faculty in College of Military Engg, Pune. Was visiting faculty for Army War College Mhow, defence services staff college, Wellington and Institute of Armament Technology, Pune. Also served as GM (Technical) of Army at Ladakh (J&K), Assistant Military Secretary (Automation) at Defence HQ, New Delhi and Head Technical Wing for Parachute Brigade of Indian Army.

E-mail:- pn_kumar@ettimadai.amrita.edu

Interest Areas: Software Project Management, Software Engg and Soft Computing Applications in Financial Engg.

Sriram Devanathan P.
B. Tech. (Chem.Engg, Osmania Univ.), MS (Chem.Engg, Iowa State), Ph.D (Chem.Engg & Statistics, Iowa State)
Professor, Amrita School of Engineering

Nine years of industrial experience with 3M Company in Minnesota, Texas, and California (USA). Seven years of experience in academic research as a graduate student at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Certification of Six Sigma Black Belt Training from 3M. Successfully led quality improvement/cost reduction projects in various 3M Company manufacturing plants in the US, Canada, Singapore, and Japan. Trained over 600 engineers, managers, and operators in statistical methodology & software, and Six Sigma. Has authored and co-authored several publications in US technical journals. Expertise in GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) and Internal Auditing.

E-mail:- sriram@amrita.edu

Interest Areas : Quality Methodology, Six Sigma, Statistical Modeling & Analysis, Data Mining, Reliability Analysis, Statistical Process Control, Process Optimization, Work flow procedures and optimization.

Pradeep Achan
B. Tech, (Hons.), Naval Arch., (IIT, Kh.)
Amrita Techonologies

14 years of experience in software development and deployment of enterprise applications on variety of platforms. Worked for organizations in USA like Sun Microsystems, Network Associates, Nortel Networks and Tata Unisys. Currently Chief Technology Officer, Amrita Technologies and Project Leader of Amrita Hospital Information System, a complex ERP application covering Clinical, administrative and financial areas. Experience in developing Operating System level software led to the design and development of Health Care Middleware Operating System, a Patent Pending technology for Amrita Technologies. Primary research inclinations are in Bioinformatics; guided several UG and PG Projects

E-mail:- pradeep@ammachi.org

Interest Areas: Operating System Development, Databases and Information Systems, Software Engineering, System Performance Evaluation, Fractals Image and Signal Processing, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Data Mining.

Prashant R.Nair, BE (ECE), PGDM (ASB-C), AIE, MIETE, MCSI, MISTE
Assistant Professor & Vice Chairman - IT, Amrita School of Engineering

Over 7 years of teaching, training, consultancy, research and academic administration experience in the Information Technology department at Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore. A rank holder from the third batch of Amrita School of Business. Visiting faculty at University of California, San Diego in the summer of 2003. Has about 10 publications in leading journals and conferences like “Indian Management”, “University News”, “D-Lib”, “National Convention of Computer Engineers”, “Asia Pacific Telecom”

Since 2003, has been on the Executive Council of the Coimbatore sub-centre of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), one of the largest professional bodies in India. Was appointed as the Honorary Secretary of the IETE Coimbatore sub-centre in 2006 for a term (2006-08). Is one of the youngest in India to secure such an appointment in IETE. Has been elected to the Managing Committee of the Coimbatore Chapter of CSI for the period 2007-08.

Performed consultancy assignments for Zenasis, California and Axxonet Solutions, India. Has been Chairman/ Member of Board of Studies/  Valuation/ Question paper setters/ thesis examiner/ selection committee for Amrita, Anna, Bharathiar and Mahatma Gandhi universities. Has organized several events including AICTE sponsored National Seminar on "Mobile and Network Security" (2007), 31st ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) (2006-Coimbatore site), National Level Student IT Symposiums (Convergence 2002/2003), International Colloquium on Digital Libraries (2005), World Telecommunication and Information Society Day Celebrations (Since 2005) etc. Has also particpated in Induction Training programmes for Infosys and Wipro.

E-mail:- prashant@amrita.edu

Interest Areas: Software Engineering, E-commerce, Financial Engineering and Strategic Management of Information Systems.

J. Shri Krishnan, B.Sc., DCPA (National Computing Center, UK)
PGDCS Executive-Training, ICTS, Amrita School of Engineering.

Over 5 years of teaching experience in School of Engineering and School of Business. Cisco-Sun certified Instructor for teaching Java Technologies in Cisco Networking Academies. Involved in the management of computer labs, recruitment, and training of teaching staff for Amrita schools.

Courses taught include Object Oriented Programming
using Java, Database Management Systems.

E-mail:- j_shrikrishnan@ettimadai.amrita.edu

Interest Areas: Object Oriented Software Engineering, Object Oriented Modeling using Design Patterns, Software Project Management, Database Management Systems, Enterprise Computing, Infusing Technology in Education.