Pankaj Jalote

Prof Pankaj Jalote is a part of the Academic Advisory Board of Plaksha University. He is currently a Distinguished Professor (CSE). He was the founding Director of IIIT-Delhi from 2008–2018. Earlier, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science at IIT Kanpur, and a Chair Professor at IIT Delhi. He was also Vice President at Infosys for two years, Visiting Researcher at Microsoft in Redmond for one year, and Interim Vice Chancellor of Delhi Technological University (DTU) for six months. He is the author of five books, some of which have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc., and the Indian edition of his text on Software Engineering was adjudged the bestselling book by the publisher. He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, International Journal on Empirical Software Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and INAE.

Software Engineering (quality improvement and management, process improvement, resource models and optimization, software architecture), Fault-tolerant computing.

1. P. Jalote, Software Project Management in Practice, Addison Wesley, 2002 (Low Priced Edition by Pearson India, 2002; French translation, Sep 2002; Chinese translation, 2003).
2. P. Jalote, CMM in Practice: Processes for Executing Software Projects at Infosys, Addison Wesley, 1999 (Low Priced Edition by Pearson India, 2000; Chinese translation, Sep 2002; Korean translation, Sep 2002; Japanese translation, Oct 2002).
3. P. Jalote, An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering, Springer, New York, third edition, 2005; second edition, 1997; first edition, 1991 (Indian Edition published by Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi. Recognized as the bestselling book in Computer Science by Narosa on its silver jubilee, 2002).
4. P. Jalote, Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, ISBN: 0-13-301367-7, 1994.

• Elected Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, “for contributions to software process improvement, fault-tolerant computing, and software engineering education”, 2003.
• Elected Fellow, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE, India), 2002.
• Silver Jubilee Award for Bestselling Author by Narosa, 2002, for An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering.
• Infosys Managerial Award, 1997–98, for spearheading the quality efforts.