OurTeam
Dr. Sridhar Iyer (Co-Founder & Director)
Dr. Sridhar Iyer is presently a Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science & Engg. At IIT Bombay. Prior to this, he has been a faculty member in the Dept. of Computer Science &Engg at IIT Guwahati. His research interests include: eLearning technologies, networking protocols and multimedia tools for distance education, wireless networking and applications, and some areas in program/protocol verification. Sridhar Iyer received his BTech, MTech and PhD from the Dept. of Computer Science &Engg at IIT Bombay. Prof. Sridhar Iyer is a consultant to MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource and Development), MTNL (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd), NSDL (National Securities Depository Ltd), LIC (Life Insurance Corporation of India Ltd), RIL (Reliance IndustriesLtd), SHCIL (Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd) UIIC (United India Insurance Corporation Ltd) PSPL (Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd). Dr. Sridhar is also the founder of InOpen technology and currently serving as a Non-Executive Director for InOpen.
Dr Shridhar Shukla (Director)
Founder and Managing Director, GS Lab. For eight years before GS Lab, Shridhar was a Director at Persistent Systems, leading the Company’s growth to US$10+M with 500+ employees in 2003 from revenue base of US$200K with 20 employees in 1995. Six years prior to Persistent, Shridhar served as a faculty member at the US Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA where he successfully led several distributed computing research projects funded by the NSF, US Navy, and Unisys. Shridhar has advised more than 20 Masters and PhD students and has published extensively in the area of parallel processing, distributed computing, multicast protocols, routing, and directory services. Shridhar holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University (1990), an M. S. from Virginia Tech in VLSI (1985) and a B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India (1983). Shridhar is very active in the IITB Alumni Association activities and served as the Pune Chapter President between January 2006 and June 2007.
Rupesh Kumar Shah (Co-Founder & CEO)
A Computer Science Engineer. He is also an alumnus from IIM Calcutta where he studied Business Analytics. Rupesh's passion lies in leveraging Open Source based content and technology for Education. Rupesh did his research work in IIT Bombay where he along with his team developed a Linux based Operating System for first time users. His background helps him to lead InOpen’s efforts towards creating educational solutions that focus on creating content which can be universally accepted and deployed across varied infrastructure. Rupesh brings with him analytical, statistical skills and expertise in project management. His skills include Idea Evolution, Business Negotiation and Team Building. Rupesh is essentially a hands-on player, with focus on converting ideas-to-reality. Before InOpen Rupesh was involved with a company for training on Open Source which involved 6000 college students and organization like Indian Air Force. Hobbies include fiddling with his piano and gadgets. A lover of street food and loves cooking to core. He is available on rupesh@inopen.in. Read his blog. He is available on Linkedin and tweets @rupeshkumarshah . He is covered by various newspapers and tech blogs. They can be seen at http://rupeshkumarshah.com/media-love/
VenturEast
VenturEast is a ‘venture style’ investment firm with offices in Chennai and Hyderabad. VenturEast TeNeT Fund II is primarily focused on early/ seed stage investments. VenturEast as a firm has enabled over 50 businesses in India and overseas in the areas of technology, healthcare & life sciences, cleantech, besides other emerging sectors.
Dr. Sridhar Iyer (Editor-in-chief)
Dr. Sridhar Iyer is presently a Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science & Engg. At IIT Bombay. Prior to this, he has been a faculty member in the Dept. of Computer Science &Engg at IIT Guwahati. His research interests include: eLearning technologies, networking protocols and multimedia tools for distance education, wireless networking and applications, and some areas in program/protocol verification. Sridhar Iyer received his BTech, MTech and PhD from the Dept. of Computer Science &Engg at IIT Bombay. Prof. Sridhar Iyer is a consultant to MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource and Development), MTNL (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd), NSDL (National Securities Depository Ltd), LIC (Life Insurance Corporation of India Ltd), RIL (Reliance IndustriesLtd), SHCIL (Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd) UIIC (United India Insurance Corporation Ltd) PSPL (Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd). Dr. Sridhar is also the founder of InOpen technology and currently serving as a Non-Executive Director for InOpen.
Malati Baru (Editor)
Malti Baru is a Project Manager at IIT Bombay.
Dr. Farida Khan (Author)
Dr. Farida Khan is VP at InOpen technologies and supports the Acad Team in its research activities. She was earlier a research scientist at Department of Computer scienceand Engineering, IITBombay. She has a PhD in Psychology from IIT Bombay.She has published several papers in National and International journals inthe field of ICT and education.
Dr. Sahana Murthy (Reviewer)
Dr. Sahana Murthy is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Distance Engineering Education Program at IIT Bombay. Prior to this, she has worked at MIT and Rutgers University in the field of physics education research. She received her PhD degree in physics from Rutgers University, M.Sc in physics from IIT Bombay and B.Sc in physics from University of Mumbai. As part of her research, she studies: pedagogical aspects of ICT in education, teaching and learning of science/engineering process skills, and evaluating effectiveness of educational programs.
Vijayalakshmi Chitta (Author)
Vijaylakshmi Chitta is a Project Manager at IIT Bombay.
Usha Viswanathan (Author)
Usha Viswanathan is a Project Manager at IIT Bombay.
Sameer Sahasrabudhe (Designer)
Sameer Sahasrabudhe is a Bachelor of fine Arts and has done diploma in Animation Film Making. Sameer is a project Manager for TICET, a Tata Teleservices IITB Center of Excellence. Prior to this Sameer was working as Project Manager for the eOUTREACH program of Project Ekalavya, at Dept of CSE, IIT.
Kaumudi Sahasrabudhe (Illustrator)
Kaumudi Sahasrabudhe, is a animator and a freelance illustrator. She has done her graduation in Fine Arts, and later was a first batch student at ZICA for a three year extensive course. She was fortunate to have training from Russian masters for the cell animation. She has worked for a full length animation feature: Bhagmati, as a core team member. Her animation film on the issue of 'Female Foeticide' has been awarded at FICCI International Film festival, and UNICEF - Laadli film festival as the best film with social message. She has illustrated for over 10 books in various languages.
Rupesh Kumar Shah (CoFounder/CEO)
A Computer Science Engineer. He is also an alumnus from IIM Calcutta where he studied Business Analytics. Rupesh's passion lies in leveraging Open Source based content and technology for Education. Rupesh did his research work in IIT Bombay where he along with his team developed a Linux based Operating System for first time users. His background helps him to lead InOpen’s efforts towards creating educational solutions that focus on creating content which can be universally accepted and deployed across varied infrastructure. Rupesh brings with him analytical, statistical skills and expertise in project management. His skills include Idea Evolution, Business Negotiation and Team Building. Rupesh is essentially a hands-on player, with focus on converting ideas-to-reality. Before InOpen Rupesh was involved with a company for training on Open Source which involved 6000 college students and organization like Indian Air Force. Hobbies include fiddling with his piano and gadgets. A lover of street food and loves cooking to core. He is available on rupesh@inopen.in. Read his blog. He is available on Linkedin and tweets @rupeshkumarshah . He has been covered by various newspapers. They can be seen at http://rupeshkumarshah.com/media-love/
Dr. Farida Khan (VP-Learning & Research)
Dr. Farida Khan was earlier a research scientist at Department of Computer scienceand Engineering, IITBombay. She has a PhD in Psychology from IIT Bombay.She has published several papers in National and International journals inthe field of ICT and education.
