Ms Urmila
(FIETE, MTech, MCA, BSc (honours in Microbiology), MLT from Mumbai)
Founder of Swanirman Sunirmit, EC Member – IETE Delhi Centre (Institutional area, Janakpuri, New Delhi 58)
Born in Delhi in the year 1971, She began her career as a lab technician in 1994 and with enhancement in her qualification in the field of computers, she moved in teaching career and then towards administration having total experience of more than 20 years.
She worked for 7 years in various institutions like Delhi Institute of Computer Science at Punjabi Bagh, Information Technology Group at Uttam Nagar, All India Institute of Local Self Government at Janakpuri, SSC NET EDUCATION (P) LTD at Vikaspuri as a Senior faculty, Examination in Charge, Project in Charge where she developed and guided many live projects in software field for the courses of DOEACC, IGNOU, MDU upto MCA level. She had guided and taught more then 1500 students. Her subjects of interest are Computer architecture, Networks, C, Data structure, Structured System Analysis & Design, Database Management System, Data Mining, Fuzzy logic, Object Oriented languages, Unix, Linux, Operating System, Artificial Intelligence, Graphics, Internet and web designing, Visual Basic, Adobe.
After completing her Post Graduation in computers, she worked as a Technical officer in IETE for 7 yrs where she was involved in various departments, such as Examination (Pre and post), Academic, Membership, student interaction and placement.
As a Technical Officer, she was assigned for getting prepared Solved Question Papers (for AMIETE and DipIETE) besides assisting CoE for setting up the Question papers. In December 2010, she was chaired as CoE for conduct of last 2 days online examinations of AMIETE and DipIETE students at all the Centres of IETE including the abroad one. Also, in February 2010, she was assigned to conduct ALCCS examination (equivalent to MTech) at 3 centres – Delhi, Hyderabad & Ahmedabad. Further, in Aug 2014, she has given the responsibility to conduct examination of ALCCS (at 4 centres – Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai & Ahmedabad) including the role of academic head (for pre and post examination) where she had prepared the date sheet of the examination including the role of Compilation, Moderation & Result declaration. She has also taken the responsibility of sending Letters pertaining to matter of recognitions of IETE courses to various Institutions/Universities along with close interaction with the IETE centres.
As a membership head, she was chaired as Assistant Secretary and has been given the responsibility to conduct the Centre Election at all IETE Centres in 2012-14.She has also given the responsibility of Review of Rules/Regulations as applicable of Centres/Sub-Centres and getting amended/incorporated the same in Green & red book of IETE. Further, she was involved in getting prepare the Memorandum of Association (MoA) , Rules and Regulation (R&R) for Registration of “IETE Alumni Association” Office situated at 2nd Institutional Area, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 in Feb 2013. And she has also prepared the booklet of Alumni association that include registration of 101 alumni members of IETE. She was also assigned the responsibility to handle the publication software for all three publications in 2012-13.
Therefore, during her tenure and as per above, she has worked as a secretariat support for various committees and getting prepared agenda & minutes for Governing Council Meetings of Committees – BoE, Academics , Membership & Centres Committee (MCC), SIPLAN (mainly Students’ interaction, placement), Alumni association and Women Empowerment.
After contributing 14 years of her life in educational and administrative field, she decided to contribute something to the society, so she started working in an NGO, she worked there for 3 years as a Manager. After which she decided to start her own consultancy, where she could help people and students to deal with hardships they are facing in their educational period of life.
In more than 20 years of experience, she has been dedicated to medical, educational and social work with her empathetic and loving nature.
Dr Vinay Kumar (Editor-in-Chief)
(PhD, MCA, MSc (Mathematics), BSc (Mathematics))
Dr Vinay Kumar is PhD from University of Delhi and MCA from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Before that, he completed his Master of Science in Mathematics from Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar. He is a lifetime member of Computer Society of India and an associate member of Association of Computing Machine (ACM), USA.
Dr Vinay has experience of 28 years in the field of Academy, Research, Software Development, System Administration and Software Project Planning & Execution. He has extensively contributed to the knowledge arena through his books and research publications. He taught core computer science subjects like Discrete Mathematics, Numerical and Statistical Analysis, Operating Systems, Theory of Computation, Analysis & Design of Algorithms, Computer Graphics and Information Security & Privacy to the students of MCA and B-Level (NIELIT) during weekends in various institutions like Mahan Institute of Technology, Institute of Electrical & Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Computer And Management (BVICAM), Beri Institute of Technology, Aptech, UPTRON ACL, IDP Co. Ltd. Nehru Place. His areas of interest are Graph-Theoretic Approach of algorithmic problem solving, Information Security & Privacy, Geographic Information System Data Modeling, Restricting Backtracking in NP problems, Digital watermarking of Spatial Data, and e-Governance.
He joined the National Informatics Centre (NIC), Department of Communication & IT, Government of India, in April 1992 and worked for different software projects. He also managed the supercomputer PARAM 9000 and PARAM Padma installed at NIC. His one of the landmark achievement has been the establishment of state of the art GIS studio equipped with Video Wall and PARAM Padma. He took voluntary retirement from NIC as Scientist E & Technical Director in December 2012 after completion of approximately 21 years of service.
Then, he joined Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies (VIPS), affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, as Professor of Information Technology. He worked as Dean of the IT Department and Department of Research and Publication till 5th July, 2018. He worked as chief editor of bi-annual journal named “Vivekananda Journal of Research” during the period.
He has authored a book of Discrete Mathematics, published by BPB, India. Its first edition was published in October 2002 and its second edition is published in January 2015. He has also authored a memoire, Killed Instinct, self published on Amazon.com and released on October 1, 2018. He also contributes to blog of Times of India.
Dr Rashmi Bharadwaj
(PhD (Mathematics), MSc (Mathematics), BSc (honors in Mathematics))
PhD 1997, Assistant Professor in 1996 & Professor in 2014. Topper of University of Delhi 100% marks Integral equation & Boundary value problem. Govt of India IMD award, Visiting Associate IUCAA. Young Scientist Award AICTE. 30 years research & 25 years teaching experience. Best Researcher Award of GGSIPU thrice. 165 papers, 5 books and 1 Proceedings Springer. 13 PhD supervised 6 working. Established Nonlinear Dynamics Research Lab and Mathematics Lab in GGSIPU.
Member of Sectional Committee of the Section of Mathematical Sciences (including Statistics) for 2020-2021 (108th Session of Indian Science Congress) and for 2019-2020 (107th Session of Indian Science Congress); The Indian Science Congress Association (Professional body under Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India).
Shri Vimal Wakhlu
(BE from NIT, MBA (Marketing from IGNOU))
Shri Vimal Wakhlu is the former Chairman & Managing Director of Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd.(TCIL), a Government of India Enterprise, Past President of The Telemedicine Society of India and the Ex-Board Member of ISfTeH (International Society for Telemedicine & e-Health)
A Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) from National Institute of Technology, Srinagar 1977, and MBA Marketing from IGNOU, he has about 43 years of experience in the field of Telecom and Information Technology, including e-Networks, Mobile, etc.
He has been instrumental in the successful implementation of the prestigious Government of India’s Pan African e-Network Project, a project envisioned by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the Former President of India, providing a platform to 48 nations in Africa to India for Education and Health Services, and also the SAARC e-Network.
Starting his career with NHPC in 1977, followed by Overseas Communications Services (later VSNL and now Tata Communications Ltd.) till 1983. As an officer of the Indian Telecommunications Service he held various positions in DOT (Department of Telecom) from 1983 to 2000 and BSNL from 2000 to 2006, including Director Satellite Maintenance, Western Telecom Region, and General Manager Mobile Services in Maharashtra and the North East Circles.
He has been involved in TCIL in various capacities From December 2006 till January 2016, including Executive Director (Transmission) and Director (Technical) and Chairman & Managing Director. TCIL has scaled new heights during this phase, besides bagging some large value global and domestic projects.
He has served as Director on the Boards of TTL (Tamil Telecommunications Limited) and TBL International, TCIL Saudi Ltd., Bharati Hexacom Limited.
He is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) of the Project Management Institute (PMI) of Pennsylvania, United States
A Life Fellow of IETE (Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers), Member of TRAC committee.
A Life Member of the ITU APT Foundation of India and its current Vice President.
A Member of IEEE (Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers),
A Member of DCIF (Digital Communications India Forum) and its current Vice President.
He has been a Visiting faculty on Business of Telecom Management in Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), and Advanced Mobile Communications, Satellite and Optical Fiber Communication in University of Mumbai, Pune University and Advanced Level Telecom Training Centre (ALTTC).He has been delivering lectures on how technologies can be leveraged for entrepreneurship.
He has been participating in panel discussions on various fora, on a wide variety of subjects, including Education, Health, Disaster Management, Financial inclusion, Environment, Energy Management, Security including Cyber Security, Governance, Telecommunication and Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things etc. His specialization is in leveraging technology for mitigating challenges faced by underprivileged people of developing nations.
Currently a freelance Consultant advising companies on Technology transfer, Capacity building, Project execution and some of the state governments on Project/Program Management. Director at Sustainable Smart Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
An Expert in Working Groups on United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC),an initiative of ITU (International Telecommunications Union)-UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission on Europe)
An Expert in Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Efficiency (FGAI4EE), of ITU (International Telecommunications Union)
Dr Monangi Murali
(PhD(Civil Engineering), MTech, BTech)
Dr Monangi Murli has over a decade of administration experience as Principal/Dean and was ratified as principal by JNTUK. He had played a key role in acquiring NAAC/NBA accreditation for the colleges he worked with. He has over three decades of teaching, research and administration experience in several prestigious institutes.
He is a role model in the research department as he was sanctioned with a fully funded DST research project, seminar grant from DST-SERB and author of good publications just in the span of two years while he was Dean R&D. Actively involved in the selection process of faculty recruitment and academic monitoring as Principal/Dean/HOD since 2008.
He was a key decision maker in finalising good curriculum and an active member of committees like Board of Studies, College academic committee for several reputed institutes since 1998. Awarded as TOPPER of a course by NPTEL.Recognized as best student counselor by GITAM University. Guest speaker at AICTE- FDP.