Pankaj Jalote Best Faculty Award

Professor Surender Baswana has been voted as Best Faculty for the year 2011-12 by the graduating batch

Professor Pankaj Jalote has instituted CSE Best Teacher Award. The award includes a plaque given to the Professor and an appropriate citation written by the graduating batch is read out in praise of the Professor selected for the award in a function. The awardee is to be elected by the graduating BTech, MTech, and dual-degree students.

About Prof. Pankaj Jalote

Currently, Pankaj Jalote is the Director of IIIT Delhi. Earlier he was at Department of Computer Science and Engineering at I.I.T. Delhi as Microsoft Chair Professor. Before this he was with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur since 1989, where he was also the Head of the Department from 1998 to 2002. Earlier he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, where he also held joint appointment in the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies. From 1996 to 1998, he was Vice President (quality) at Infosys Technologies Ltd., a large Bangalore-based company providing software solutions worldwide, where he spearheaded Infosys' successful move to high maturity levels of the CMM. From 2003 to 2004 he was a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA.

He is the author of CMM in Practice , (Addison Wesley, 1999), a book that has been translated in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean; Software Project Management in Practice (Addison Wesley, Feb 2002); the highly popular textbook An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering, (Springer 1991, 2nd Edition 1996, 3rd Edition 2005), whose Indian edition was recognized as the best selling book in computer science by its local publisher; and the graduate-level book Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems , (Prentice Hall, 1994). He is on the Board of Advisors of many software companies in India and USA, is a Technical Advisory Board member for Microsoft Research, India, and is on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and International Journal of Emperical Software Engineering.

His research interest is in software engineering (software quality, software process improvement, software architecture analysis), and fault tolerant systems and reliability.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Past Winners

2010-11: Surender Baswana
2009-10: Surender Baswana
2008-09: Prof. Manindra Agrawal
2007-08: Rajat Moona
2003-04: Deepak Gupta & Rajat Moona
2002-03: Manindra Agrawal
2001-02: Harish Karnick
2000-01: Sumit Ganguly