Pankaj Jalote

IIIT-DELHI

Profile

Pankaj Jalote was the founding Director of IIIT-Delhi (from 2008 to 2018), which is now a highly-respected institution globally with high quality research and education, and has been ranked in BRICS top 200 universities.
Prior to this, he has been a Chair Professor at IIT Delhi, Professor and head of CS Department, IIT Kanpur, and Assistant Professor at University of Maryland at college Park. He was also Vice President at Infosys for two years, and Visiting Researcher at Microsoft, Redmond, for a year.
He has a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur, MS from Pennsylvania State University, and Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He is the author of five books including the highly acclaimed CMM in Practice, which has been translated in Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc, and the best selling text on Software Engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and INAE.