SYMBIOSIS INFOTECH CAMPUS

Padma BhushanDr. S. B. MujumdarChancellor. SIU

Dr. S. B. Mujumdar is a distinguishedAcademician and Educationist. He is theFounder & President of Symbiosis - a multi -lingual. multi - national and multi -disciplinary educational complex ofinternational repute. He is the Chancellor ofSymbiosis International University. Inappreciation of his long illustrious career. thePresident of India awarded the prestigious I

Padma Shri' to Dr. S. B. Mujumdar in 2005.The VicePresident ofIndia also awarded Dr. S.B. Mujumdar 'Punyabhushan' award in theyear 2009. He is also recipient of prestigious'FIE Foundation Award' and 'MaharashtraGaurav Award'. Dr. Mujumdar was also theChairman of the education wing of theprestigious federation of Indian Chamber ofCommerce & Industries (FICCI)(2005-06).

Born on 31st July 1935 in a small townGadhinglaj in Kolhapur District(Maharashtra), Dr. Mujumdar completed his

higher education at Kolhapur and Pune.

He obtained a first class first in M. Sc.(Botany) and a Doctorate in Microbiology.He was the Head of the Department ofBotany. Fergusson College. Pune for 20years. He has written many books andpublished several papers in national andinternational journals. He was also amember of the Executive Council of thePune University for 14 years.

Padma Shri Dr. S. B. Mujumdar hassucceeded in converting Symbiosis into anInternational University and has set up aVishwa Grama (Global Village) on theUniversity campus - where foreign andIndian students are living together inhostels, learnin9 together in classrooms,playing together on sports field and eatingtogether in cafeterias.

Prof. Dr. Bhushan K. PatwardhanVice Chancellor, SID

With over 20 years in academic andUniversity governance he brings a uniqueblend of Industry-Academia executiveculture. Over 200 publications, 8 Patentsand 18 PhD students, he has attractedsubstantial research funding from nationaland international agencies. He was Directorof Interdisciplinary School of Healthsciences of the University of Pune for over 10years; Chief of Academics of ManipalEducation Group for three years and alsofounding Director of Institute of Ayurvedaand Integrative Medicine Bengaluru. He isfounder Editor-in-Chief of Journal ofAyurveda and Integrative Medicine and oneof the top cited authors of Elsevier'sSciTopics.

He has been a Convener of nationalcommittee on Promotion of Indian HigherEducation Abroad (PIHEAD) of the UGC;member of Boards of several Universitiesand national institutions such NIPER, CSIR

NBR1, ICMR RRC; member Taskforce ofNational Knowledge Commission andPlanning Commission; KarnatakaInnovation Council; Consultant to WHOGeneva and SEARO.As Convener of VisionGroup of EDGE Forum he is providingremarkable leadership for innovations inhigher education sector. As Vice Chancellorof Symbiosis International University he willlead the effort to strengthen research,innovation and entrepreneurship as well asaddition of new disciples in biomedicalsciences and humanities.

Dr. Vidya YeravdekarPrincipal DirectorSymbiosis Society

Dr. Vidya Yeravdekar. the Principal Directorof Symbiosis Society is a gynaecologist, whoalso has a degree in law to add to herqualification. She imbibed the zeal for socialand educational work through her father, Dr.S.B. Mujumdar. She has traveled widely tocountries like UK, USA, UAE, Thailand,Singapore, Malaysia, Tanzania, Kenya,Ethiopia etc. On these tours she hasparticipated in educational fairs and hasinteracted with students and parents in anattempt to promote higher Indian educationabroad. She has also developed closecontacts with the Ministries of Education indifferent countries. By liaisoning with thesedepartments she is able to understand thespecific needs of the youth of thosecountries. Under her administration atSymbiosis, these needs are then met andprovided for, in an attempt to increase thecomfort level of the foreign students atSymbiosis.

Dr. Vidya's main interest is to carry forwardthe vision of her father, Dr. S.B. Mujumdar -by promoting international understandingthrough quality education. Being a memberof the Board of Management of theSymbiosis Society and SymbiosisInternational University, she contributes tothe overall planning and development ofSymbiosis. She has been instrumental incollaborations of Symbiosis with some of theworld-class universities abroad. She hasbeen nominated as member of UniversityGrants Commission and a member ofgoverning Body of Indian Council forCultural Relations (ICCR) by the Govt. ofIndia. She has also been nominated as amember of Executive Council of NationalInstitute of Agriculture ExtensionManagement (MANAGE) which is underMinistry ofAgriculture, Govt. ofTndia.

Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology (SCIT)Research Compendium

About

SCIT is a premier IT Business Schoolnurturing genuine IT talent.

Students at SCIT are groomed to becomefuture leaders in Information Technologyarena. SCITwelcomes those, who are willingto take on challenges and transformthemselves into proactive professionals. Theinstitute supports their transformation withinnovative teaching-learning methodology;state-of-the-art computer labs, platform forpeer learning and opportunities to learnmanagement in real time. The success of ouralumni is a proof to claim that - SCITensuresoverall professional development ofstudents, who are transformed intoindustry-ready ITprofessionals.

With more than fifteen regular members ofits Faculty; SCIT is able to acclaim areputation of being a quality business schoolwith its unique focus on InformationTechnology.

This compendium gives an overview ofresearch activities at SCIT and is a humbleinitiative to demonstrate its researchcapabilities.

Accolades

• Symbiosis Centre for InformationTechnology was honoured with the19th Dewang Mehta Business SchoolAwards for Business School with BestAcademic Input (Syllabus) inInformation Technology, on 26thNovember, 2011. This award is inrecognition of leadership,development, innovation and industryinterface of Business school.

• SCIT wins the award for Best B-Schoolwith Relevant Industry RelatedCurriculum in Information Technologyin the Asia's Best B School Awards heldat Suntec Singapore on 22nd July 2011

• SCIT was awarded as one of the Best B-Schools who innovate in TeachingMethodology by DNA and Star Groupson Feb 12th 2011

• Symbiosis Centre for InformationTechnology was awarded the Best B-School using Information Technologyin TraininglEducation and the Best B-School with Industry relatedcurriculum in Information Technologyby Star News in National B-School

Awards 2011.

• SAPByDesign is now offered hands-onexperientially in the EES Course ofMBA-ITBMfrom August 2011. SCIT isthe fIrst to do so amongst the three pilotinstitutions in India.

• CRISIL Business School Gradingreflects CRISIL's opinion on the relativeability of SCIT to impart qualityeducation and achieve the desiredoutcomes for the MBAITBM-Programme. CRISIL has graded SCIT'sMBA - ITBM Program at A'" (A TripleStar) at the state level, the highestpossible grading that a program can getat the state level. SCIT's MBA - ITBMProgram has an A •• (ADouble Star) atthe national level, the second bestpossible grading that a program can getat the national level.

• Symbiosis International University,Pune-India and Carleton University,Ottawa- Canada , singed an MoU tofacilitate collaboration on academicand research related activities in thearea of Information TechnologyBusiness Management. This willspecifically benefit the students and

faculty members of SCIT which is aconstituent of Symbiosis InternationalUniversity offering MEA in IT BusinessManagement.

• Dr R Raman - Director SCIT is awardedthe Best Professor in InformationTechnology in the Asia's Best B SchoolAwards held at Suntec Singapore on22nd July 2011.

• Dr. R Raman Director SCIT wasawarded the Best B-School Professorwho continuously Innovates in Styleand Substance for academic excellenceby DNA and Star Groups on Feb 12th2011

• Prof. S. Vijayakumar Bharathi, wasinvited to Malaysia by SAP-UASingapore to conduct 5-DayConsultancy Workshop on Introductionto ERP using GBI 2.0 at INTIInternational College, Subang Jaya,Malaysia during May 09-13, 2011.University Faculty Members fromMalaysia, Thailand and Indonesiaparticipated in the workshop.

• Prof. S. Vijayakumar Bharathi, was oneamongst the 12 Faculty Members

chosen from all over the world to beinterviewed by Ms. Elizabeth Field,Program Manager - Education at SAP,Greater Philadelphia Area to solicitresponses on the usability, informationtracking, content management, areasof improvements in the SAP-UACglobal web portal.

• Prof. S. Vijayakumar Bharathi and Prof.Sadhana Ghalsasi visited Germany onthe invitation from SAP AG Walldorf toattend the SAP Business ByDesignInfo-Days from October 05-072011.

• Prof. S. Vijayakumar Bharathi, gave a 5-Day Consultancy Workshop onIntroduction to ERP using GBI 2.0 inSAP ECC6 in association with SAPUniversity Alliances India, at SRMUniversity, Chennai during March 21-25, 2011. The participants wereFaculty Members of B-Schools from allover India.

SCIT has nurtured effective researchculture across its Faculty and Studentsthrough various pctivities. Followingsubsections inform about the researchacumen of SCIT Academic Community inshort:

Research Grant: Prof. Suprika Shrivastavahas received Doctoral Research Grant ofUS$II,875 from Project ManagementInstitute's Educational Foundation in2012, for the duration of two years fromthe receipt of grant.

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SCIT Publications: SCIT is publishing thefollowing journals and monographs:

SCIT Journal (lSSN 0974-5076). apeer-reviewed international journal,published annually since 2001.

Student Monograph Series

Navankur - A Newsletter by ITEntrepreneurship & Leadership Forum(Students Initiatives)

Faculty Publications: About 35+ paperswritten by Faculty members (in last 5years) have been published in variousjournals and conferences of repute.

Research Project: AProject ofwas taken upby SCIT with PMI India with title, TheImpact of Credentials on Success of ITProjects and the results were published in

Manage India. The project was of theduration of 6 months ( August 2009 -January 2010) and received the fundingsupport ofRs. 7,00,000.

Research Conference: SCIT is organizingan International Research Conference onEmerging Information Technology andEngineering Solutions, on 17-18 February2012

Research Support: SCIT provides supportto Researchers (Faculty or DoctoralStudents) in many ways:

1. Access to online journal databases likeEBSCO, CMIE, IEEE-CS and EmeraldInsights.

2. A well equipped Library with morethan 8000 books and Labfacility

3. Contingency Grant for the followingactivities related to Research Work(including presenting paper inNational & International conferences):

a. Tours & Travels Expenses

b. Hotel Expenses

c. LocalConveyance Expenses

d. Registration Expenses

e. Tea& FoodExpenses

f. Printing & Stationery Expenses

g. Xerox Expenses

h. Other OfficeExpenses

4. Research Start-up Grant for newlyappointed Assistant professor of Rs. 6Lakhs as per UGCnorms

R & D Dissertation (ProgrammeStructure): Student's Dissertation on thetopics related to Information TechnologyBusiness Management becomes aneffective source of knowledge creation. Afew dissertation reports have led to theinternational publications of repute.

Practices to Promote Research Culture: AtSCIT,two monthly activities are conductedfor sharing the knowledge and experienceon research in the areas related toInformation Technology BusinessManagement and higher education. Shortnotes on these internal activities are givenbelow:

The Quest

Goal: To provide a platform to enhancethe skills of the members of academiccommunity (members of Faculty andstudents) of SCIT for research,discussion, scrutiny and expression. Toequip ourselves with critical thinkingcapabilities that facilitates ourinteractions with outside researchcommunity.

The Context: At SCIT,we believe thatthe effective learning culture relevantto higher education demands for high-end research activities and relatedcommunication. In turn, good qualityresearch is possible only when there isan environment conducive to collectiveacademic scrutiny and constructivescholarly criticism. The success of thisactivity is indicative of the convictionof SCIT's academic community incritical evaluation by peers and ininvisible incentive for sparing sometime for preparation, delivery of andlistening to research seminars.

The Practice:

Stakeholders: Members of Faculty ofSCIT and occasionally, studentcommunity, whenever suitable topic istaken up.

Description: The Quest is once a monthmeeting of Stakeholders for listeningto the Research Seminars delivered bythe members of SCIT Faculty, studentor an invited guest. The topics can berelated to the Doctoral research, or,any research work they are involvedwith; or, any new paper they areworking on and wish to get scrutinizedby their colleagues; or, a good qualitypublished research paper (not

necessarily written by them) that mayhave some value to the Audience. TheQuest meetings are held every thirdThursday of the month from 1:15 p.m.to 2:00 p.m. Most of the times, it getsextended due to the questions andanswers following the seminar. It hasbeen kept a voluntary activity forpresenter as well as the audience.Sometimes, due to high demand,two/three meetings of the Quest areheld in a month.

The Prowess

Goal: Toequip the learning communityof the institute with the world classknowledge about the adult learning,teaching, assessment and highereducation.

The Context: The Prowess initiative ofSCIT aims to address the perpetualdilemma ofhigher education whether toteach adults or make adults learn.Everyone was convinced about thedifference between the pedagogiesadopted for undergraduate andgraduate level programmes and held atreasure of experiences of teachingGraduate programmes. The missinglink was the availability of the platformwhere these experiences can be shared.The Prowess provides that platform.

Stakeholders: Members of Faculty ofSCIT and occasionally, studentcommunity, whenever suitable topic istaken up.

Description: The Prowess is once amonth meeting of Stakeholders topresent/discuss the topics related tohigher education (e.g., ExperientialLearning, Formative and Summativeassessment, Bloom'sTaxonomy etc.). Itis a group based activity, wherein,involvement of Faculty membersoccurs through presentation of somework related to higher education,playing some relevant videos, raisingsome points specific to learning andeducation. The Prowess meetings areheld every second Thursday of themonth from 1:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Ithas been kept a voluntary activity.

A well equipped Library with more than8000 books with WEBOPAC,online PublicAccess Catalog over intranet ontechnology and management and nearly1000 CD's. Yearly Expenditure on Libraryis around Rs 45,00,000. The studentshave access to nearly 20,000 books housedin the same building by sister institutes.Book Reviews are held regularly by thelibrary. Certificates are awarded for Best

Ql Book Review and also to all those who~ review books.

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Computer Labs are equipped with a richsuite of software packages and alsohardware. Three different platforms viz.Windows, Solaris and Linux make them theright place for developing platform-independent professionals. Lab practicalon SW development methodology andbusiness management are carried out inthe different terminal clusters. Besides,SCIT being subscriber to MSDNAA andIBM academic initiative gives access to arange of latest software. SCIT hasUniversity alliances with SAP as well . Inaddition to it, there are 10 Intel XeonServers with RAMup to 32MBand in total204 systems with latest configurations

"Proof of Concept" (POC) Lab:

A unique facility with diverse networkingenvironments and platforms, it gives a freearena to students/researchers toexperiment with different technologiesand products for simulating diverseenvironments. POC Lab provides withnecessary equipment and alsoindependent link to set up simulatedenvironment to experiment variousnetwork concepts and practices, such as,fIXed line wireless integration, ethicalhacking, Voicecommands, virtualization ofservers and storage, MPLS.

Dr. R Raman has a blend of corporate andacademic experience. He started his careerwith Godrej and Boyce and then venturedinto the area of consultancy with - TheLeading Edge Consulting Services. HisPassion for academics led him into teachingassignment at Vellore Institute ofTechnology. Carleton University's SprottSchool of Business, Canada gave him theplatform for global exposure in teachingInformation Technology while he washandling the teaching assignment withKohinoor Business School along with theconsulting assignment as an InformationTechnology Architect with the Kohinoorgroup of companies for the various verticalsincluding Real Estate, Hotels, Hospitals,Education and Power Generation. He alsotaught at S. P.Jain Institute ofManagementand Research Mumbai.

Dr. Raman is a Computer Science andEngineering graduate from MadrasUniversity, he completed his MBA inInformation Systems from the sameUniversity. He furthered his education bycompleting his Postgraduate Diploma inSoftware Marketing, M.Phil (Management)and Ph.D in Information TechnologyEnabled Services Strategy. He is a SixSigma Green Belt and Six Sigma BlackBeltCertified by RABQSA (RegistrarAccreditation Board Quality Society ofAustralasia). He is also an AccreditedManagement Teacher, (a prestigiousnational recognition conferred by AlMA)and Green ITcertified by ISEB.

His teaching and research area includeManagement Information Systems,Disruptive Technologies, IT InfrastructureManagement, IT Project Management,Management of Information TechnologyEnabled Services and Green IT. He haspublished his research fmding in severalreferred journals and also has presentedseveral papers in Indian and Internationalconferences.

Recent Publications:

1. R. Raman, 'Linking Strategic Type &Outsourcing Pattern' NMIMSManagement Review Journal ISSN:0971-1023 VolumeXXOct 2010.

2. R. Raman, 'The Importance andRelevance Of Cross CulturalManagement in InformationTechnology Enabled Services Sector'Udyog Pragati (ISSNISSN0970-3365),a journal from NITIE, Mumbai, Vol.34,No.1,Jan-Mar2010.

3. R. Raman, 'How protected iselectronically transferred data fromBusiness Process Outsourcing (BPO)Units - The Indian Scenario',KBSCMR's Journal of ManagementResearch, Vol.1, No 1,April 2009.

4. R. Raman, 'Strategies to Retain HumanCapital in Business ProcessOutsourcing (BPO) Industry' in thebook 'Challenges of Attrition andRetention Strategies' published byICFAIUniversity First Reprint 2008.

5. R. Raman, 'The Changing InternationalCompetitive Environment Prospectsand Challenges For Business ProcessOutsourcing Units In India' in the e-journal ofAlMA(AllIndia ManagementAssociation) Volume: 2 Issue: 2 /4,ISSN 146, May 2008. Available athttp://www.airna-ind .org/ejournal.

6. R. Raman, 'Knowledge ProcessOutsourcing -An emerging trend- Willit Dwarf Business Process Outsourcing

in the Future?' in Pratibimba, ajournalfrom IMIMS- Bhubaneswar, Vo1.7,No.I,Jan-June2007.

7. R. Raman, 'Role of Government(Central and State) in makingMaharashtra an export hub for IT andITES services' in the of DYPIMSResearch Review, July- Dec. 2006

8. R. Raman, 'The BPOCyber coolies - Arethey satisfied with their jobs?' in UdyogPragati (ISSN ISSN 0970-3365), ajournal from NITIE, Mumbai, Vol. 30,No.2, April- June 2006.

9. R. Raman, 'Strategies to Retain HumanCapital in BPO Industry?' in Abhigyan(ISSN0970-2385), a journal from ForeSchool of Management, Vol. XXIII,No.4, Jan. - March 2006.

10. R. Raman, 'The BPO Revolution:Strategies to Control High Rate ofAttrition' in Udyog Pragati (ISSN ISSN0970-3365), a journal from NITIE,Mumbai, Vol.28 No.4, Oct.-Dec. 2004.

Dr.Dhanya Pramod is a post graduate incomputer science from Pondicherrycentral university and completed herdoctoral degree from SymbiosisInternational University. She has a strongacademic foundation and was the FirstRank holder of university both atundergraduate and post graduate level.She has over 10 years of experienceincluding industry, research, academicsand administration. She worked withWipro Technologies, Chennai in the R& DLabs and gained research experience onnetwork protocols. She moved toacademics in 2001 and joined IndiraInstitute of Management, Pune. She wasassociated with Indira till Sept 2010 andthen joined Symbiosis Centre forInformation Technology and currentlyworking as the Deputy Director. Herresearch interests are networks &

application security, information riskmanagement and aspect orientedprogramming. She has published papers inrefereed journals and several conferencesof international repute. She is a seniormember of lACSIT,Singapore.

Publications

1. Dhanya Pramod, VinayVaidya(2008,Feb). "Modeling Securityaspects in model driven webapplication development.", IJCSApublished by researchpublications.org/ ACM(print/online)pages 67-70, volumel(issue.no I)ISSN 0974-1003Available:http://www. researchpublications.org/

2. Dhanya Pramod,Vinay Vaidya(2009,oct). "APlatform specific UMLmodel for Web Application selfDefense through an Aspect OrientedApproach",International Journal ofComputer and Electrical Engineering,IACSITSingapore, pages-449-457,volumelissue4ISSN: 1793-8163,Available:http://www. ijcee .org/papers/069. pdf

3. Dhanya Pramod ,(2011,Jan), "Astudyof various approaches to assess andprovide web based application

security", "International Journal forInnovation, Management andTechnology", Singapore, pages: 58-62volume 2issue1, ISSN: 2010-0248,Available:http://www.ijimt.org/papers/104-M490.pdf

4. Dhanya Pramod, "Visualizing webapplication security through aplatform independent model using anaspect oriented approach" ICCMS2011, IEEEconference, Mumbai, Jan2011, pages145-149

Current Work

An aspect oriented approach to informationriskmanagement

Every application or business process mayhave some non functional requirements inaddition to the functional requirements.Aspect Oriented Modeling deals withweaving the non functional aspects to thebasic model and thus increasesmodularity. It complements the ModelDriven architecture and helps separationof concerns. The main application of thisapproach is to model cross-cutting issuesthat occur in various designs as a separatefragment and apply to existing and newlydesigned applications. Effective riskmanagement process is an inevitable part

of an organizations IT security strategy. Ithas an impact in the organization's abilityto perform their mission. IT securitystrategy can be separated from businessstrategy as IT security strategy is a crosscutting concern of any business.Henceforth aspect oriented approach isadopted as the method for risk management.The proposed model of risk managementseparates this cross cutting concern fromthe SDLC. The various security aspectsand impact levels will be identified andcategorized.

Dr. Ajey Kumar presently works as anAssistant Professor at Symbiosis Centre forInformation Technology (SCIT), PuneIndia. He was a post-doctoral fellow (PDF)at Institute for Advanced Studies in

Communications, UFCG, Brazil, fromJanuary 2009 to October 2011. Hereceived his PhD Degree from IndianInstitute of Technology Roorkee, India, in2008. Prior to PhD, he did his BE inComputer Science and Engineering andME in Software Engineering in 2000 and2002 respectively.

Dr.AjeyKumar's research interest includesWireless Networks, Mobile Computing,Location Based Services and SpatialDatabases. His research work has beenpublished in various InternationalConferences and referred Journals. Heworked in the area of Location DependentInformation services and has proposedvarious cache invalidation and replacementpolicies to improve the performance of it.In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs),algorithms were proposed that increasethe network lifetime and can support largenetworks. Under network traffic, amathematical model was proposed toestimate the size distribution of packets innetwork traffic. Currently, he is workingtowards integrated architecture that canprovide better precision of mobile usersand assist future location based services(LBS).

Recent Publication:

• Marcelo Portela Sousa. Ajey Kumar.Rafael F. Lopes. Waslon T. A. Lopes.Marcelo S. Alencar." CooperativeSpace-Time Block Codes for WirelessVideo Sensor Networks". WirelessPersonal Communication Journal.Springer. (Accepted).

• Marcelo Portela Sousa. Rafael F. Lopes.Ajey Kumar, Waslon T. A. Lopes,Marcelo S. Alencar . "CooperativeSTBC with Fuzzy Election Applied toSurveillance Wireless Video SensorNetworks". International Journal ofCommunication Networks andDistributed Systems (IJCNDS), Vol. 7.Nos. 3/4, 2011.

• Ajey Kumar, Manoj Misra and A.K.Sarje. "Prioritised Predicted RegionBased Cache Replacement Policy ForLocation Dependent Data In MobileEnvironment", International Journal ofAdhoc and Ubiquitous Computing(IJAHUC), vol. 5. no. I, pp. 56-67.2010.

• Dr. Ajey is active in volunteeringresearch activities as TechnicalProgram Committee member forInternational Conferences andreviewer for International Conferences

& Journals. He is the editor of SCITJournal (ISSN 0974-5076), (Anannually published InternationalJournal by Symbiosis Centre forInformation Technology, Pune, India).from 2008 to till date.

Recent Activities:

• Reviewer of Journal FaculdadeSalesiana Maria Auxiliadora (FSMA) -Salesian Journal on InformationSystems, 201l.

• Reviewer of Journal WirelessCommunication and Mobile Computing.John Wiley& Sons, 201O-201l.

• Reviewer of the 3rd IEEE NationalConference on Emerging Trends andApplications in Computer Science(NCETACS 2012). March 29-31,2012, Shillong. India.

• Publication Committee Member ofInternational Research conference onEmerging Information Technology andEngineering Solutions (EITES 2012),February 17-18, 2012 SCIT-Pune ,India.

• Technical Program Committee Memberof the 2nd Student ResearchSymposium 2012, held in conjunctionwith the 8th International Conference

on Distributed Compl:ltingand InternetTechnology (ICDCIT 2012). February2-4.2012, Bhubaneswar. India.

• Program Chairs Member of theInternational Conference on IntuitiveSystems & Solutions (ICISS2012),April 21-22.2012, Mumbai, India.

• Special Guest in the 14th InternationalSymposium on Wireless PersonalMultimedia Communications (WPMC2011). October 3-7,2011, Brest,France.

Dr. Urvashi Rathod is a Professor with theacademic and research focus on SoftwareEngineering and Project Management. Shehas been in IT industry for about twentythree years with an entrepreneurial stint ofeight years in the field of Software

Development. She had been associatedwith IIM Indore for about five years in thecapacity of Academic Fellow. She is aDoctorate from Birla Institute ofTechnology and Science, Pilani. She isinternationally published and is a memberof the editorial boards of InternationalJournal of Project Organization andManagement, Inderscience, UK andInternational Journal of SystemsAssurance Engineering and Management,Springer.

She is a regular reviewer for some nationaljournals of repute and several conferences.She has been associated to premierinstitutions, IT organizations andindustry-oriented forums in India asVisiting Faculty and Guest Speaker. Shehas been a consultant to organizations forresearch and industry level developmentprojects.

Research Interests -Area

Software Design and Architecture,

Software Processes,

Management of SoftwareDevelopment

Software Modeling Techniques,

Technology Management for IT and ITuser organizations

Publications:

a. Agarwal Nitin and Rathod Urvashi,"Defining 'success' for softwareprojects: An exploratory revelation",International Journal of ProjectManagement, 24, 2006, pp 358-370.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263 78630500 1250

b. Seyed Ali Marjaie and UrvashiRathod, "Communication in AgileSoftware Projects: QualitativeAnalysis using Grounded Theory inSystem Dynamics", in Proceedings of29th International Conference of theSystem Dynamics Society inWashington D.C, ISBN978-1-935056-08-9, July 24-28,2011.http://www. systemdynamics. org/conferences/2011/proceed/index.html[December 28, 2011)

Work In progress:

AREA- Global Project TeamCommunication

AREA- Technology Assessment andAdoption (IT Perspective)

AREA- Deriving Business ServiceSpecifications from Requirements

Following studies have been picked upwith the present Doctoral students ofSymbiosis International University:

AREA - Risk Management in AgileDevelopment

AREA- Architectural Reference Modelfor Intelligent Business Collaboration

Dr. Prasenjit Sen has a vast experiencetotaling more than 45 years in IT industryand in scientific research. He had startedhis career in DRDO as a Scientist andworked for 15 years .Later joined AirIndia's IT department from where heretired as CIa (Director IT). He hadcontinued his association in IT industryand thus worked for Datamatics andHexaware and also in short stints asConsultant to John Keells in Colombo. He

had virtually seen how the world of ITmigrating from closed proprietary systemsto open architecture and to collaborativecomputing .. Dr. Sen had all through keptsome time for the academia, had a PostDoctoral assignment in Germany and sometime as visiting faculty to ManagementInstitutes even when he was fully active inthe industry. He had also been associated asa Consultant to the Duke University at theiroff-shore campus at 11M-A.He is a FellowofIETEand has been active in various fora ofairlines IT industry, like, lATAIMC,SITAandUnisysAirlines User Association (UAUA)andpresented research oriented papers in thoseconferences.

Currently he is an Adjunct faculty atSymbiosis Centre for Informationtechnology, Pune. He is interested topursue research in academic fieldparticularly in the area of Proj ectManagement under Fuzzy environment,Software Engineering using FormalMethods, SW security aspect using Zspecification language, etc. He is anapproved guide for Ph.D degree in sm.Research Interests -Area

a) Formal Methods in SWengineering

b) Project Management under Fuzzyenvironment,

c) SWsecurity aspect using Z specificationlanguage, etc.

Work in Progress:

A faculty member of SCIT hasregistered for PhD under my guidance..Her research area for dissertation is inProject Management under variousstress conditions.

Prof. S. Vijayakumar Bharathi is a PostGraduate in Commerce from BharathiarUniversity, Coimbatore and in Managementfrom Bharathidasan University, Trichy. Heis an Inter of ICWAIand has cleared SLETin Commerce. He is currently pursuing hisPhD at Symbiosis International University,Pune in the area of ERP for SMEs. He isAlMAcertified management teacher and is

a member of lACSIT,Singapore. He is alsoserving a reviewer in a couple ofjournals ofinternational repute. He has over 19 yearsof experience including more than 5 yearsin the Industry at an Indo-Swiss JVmanufacturing textile machinery. While atthis company, in addition to his corefunctions of Costing & Banking, he was apart of the Task-Force on Business ProcessMapping and MIS Reporting. On theacademic front he has taught a wide rangeof courses in commerce and managementat reputed institutes in Coimbatore andPune.

He is an SAP-ERP trained and certified(SAP-TERP10)faculty on Business ProcessIntegration from SAPand has more than 7years of experience in successfullyconducting end-to-end SAP based ERPcurriculum. He has conducted FacultyDeveloped Program on SAP-ERP both inIndia and Abroad. He was twice invited bySAP AG Germany as part of the SAPBusiness ByDesign enablement Pilot Teamto Germany. He has more than 50publications in the form of articles,research papers, case-studies, teachingnote, and conference publications oncontemporary issues on Costing, HR andGeneral Management and paperspublished in various conferences ofNational and International repute. He has

also published case studies on ERP,KMandBusiness Process Mapping in the EuropeanCase Clearing House (ecch), UnitedKingdom one of which featured in the top20 most viewed cases in the world in 2008.His consultancy projects relate to UpwardAppraisal and Community PerceptionSurvey for companies in the manufacturingdomain.

Research Interest:

His research interests include ERP,Managerial Accounting. HRM, KnowledgeManagement

Details of Grants Received from Researchand Consultancy:

• As investigator, completed a study onCOMMUNITY PERCEPTION of Mis.Kirloskar OilEngines Limited, Pune, aspart of their initiatives on CorporateSocial Responsibility during March -August 2005 (Total Amount of Grantfor the project Rs. 1 Lakh to theInstitute)

• As investigator, completed a study onCOMMUNITY PERCEPTION of Mis.Kirloskar Pneumatic CompanyLimited, Pune, as part of theirinitiatives on Corporate SocialResponsibility during March - August2005 (Total Amount of Grant for the

project Rs. 1 Lakh to the Institute)

• As project investigator, completed aproject study on UPWARDAPPRAISALat Mis. Roots Cast (Private) LimitedCoimbatore as part of the Industry -Institute Interaction during October2002 and January 2004. (Part ofInd u stry-In s ti tu te -In teracti onInitiative - NoGrants received)

Work In Progress - Research

Doctoral Research on the AssessmentDecisions on ERP Adoption by Smalland Medium Enterprises in the Auto-component cluster. This research is anattempt to analyze the critical decisionareas of ERP adoption by the SMEs.After having worked on the variousaspects of ERP adoption, this researchhas identified 5 decision areas. Thesedecision areas are planning,acquisition, implementation, usageand percolation and extension, whichhave a strategic impact on the successof ERP adoption. Critical factors ineach of these decision areas will beidentified, parameterized to make acomposite assessment and develop apredictive model which could evaluatethe success of ERP adoption from astrategic perspective.

Prof. Shaji Joseph is a postgraduate fromPune University and is pursuing his PhD inthe area of organisational culture. He hasalso completed a Diploma program inwomen's studies from Pune University. Hehas also successfully completed the Trainthe Trainer and Managerial Gridcertifications.

He has a work experience of almost 12years doing both teaching and research.He has travelled and worked in differentparts of the country and has been veryactive in the Tribal Development Programsin Jharkhand. His research on Employeeguarantee Scheme of Maharashtra withIDSSussex has been a seminal one and hasbeen published by EPW. He has alsocoordinated a series of newsweeklies in thesectors of education, retail, real-estate,health care and hospitality as a member of

Kohinoor Center of Excellence. He haspresented papers in national levelseminars and also published articles,research papers and case studies inreputed journals. He has taught

.Organizational Behavior, OrganizationalTheory, Business Ethics and HRM to bothUndergraduate as well as Postgraduatestudents over the past seven years. He hasbeen an affiliate professor of Sprot Schoolof Business Carleton University andassistant professor at KBSCMR,Khandala.

He has undertaken researches in the areaof Rural development and povertyalleviation with particular reference toMaharashtra Employment GuaranteeScheme. He is also a keen researcher in thearea of organizational culture and the roleof sociological factors in understanding,creating and maintaining organizationalculture. His other areas of interests are inthe area of Corporate Social Responsibilityand related areas.

Research Publications

1. Joseph Shaji. "Power of the People.Political Mobilization and GuaranteedEmployment ", Economic & PoliticalWeekly 41(50): 5149-56, 16December 2006.(http://www2.ids.ac. uk/gdr/cfs/drc-

pubs/pubs-theme-02 .html),

2. Joseph Shaji. "Role of popularmobilizations and EmploymentGuarantee Scheme", SamajPrabodhan Patrika (Marathi Journal)Issue: 174: 142-149.(http://www2.ids.ac. uk/gdr/cfs/drc-pubs/pubs-theme-02.html),2006,

3. Joseph Shaji. "Asociological Study ofthe Organisational Culture in the ITsector", Spectrum: e-Journal ofKBSCMR,Issue 2. 2007,

4. Joseph Shaji. "Acase study of SelfHelp Group in Kerala-Kutumbashree" Spectrum: e-journalof KBSCMR,Issue 3. 2007,

5. Joseph, Shaji , "Business LevelStrategies for Survival during timesof economic Upheavals", KBSuccess:Internship Chronicle-2010,

6. Joseph, Shaji, "Acase of Leadership-Maharashtra Education Policies",KBSCMR'sJournal of ManagementResearch, Vol 2, Dec 2010

Dr. Ganesh B. Janvale received postgraduate and doctoral degree in Computerscience from Dr. Babasaheb AmbedkarMarathwada University, Aurangabad. Hisresearch interests include HumanComputer Interfacing, Speech SignalProcessing, Neuroscience (EEGand fMRI)and electromagnetism. Currently, He isworking as Assistant professor, SymbiosisCentre for Information Technology.

Paper Published in International /National Joumals

1. G. B. Janvale. B.W.Gawali, Rakesh S.Deore, Suresh C. Mehrotra, Sachin N.Deshmukh. Arun V.Marwale. (2010.April 2) "Songs Induced MoodRecognition System Using EEGSignals", Annals of Neuroscience,[online]pISSN 0972-7531 eISSN0976-3260, Volume 17 Number

http://annalsofneurosciences .org/journallindex. php/annallarticle/view Article/227

2. Abhilasha Mishra, Ganesh B. Janvale,Bhausaheb Vyankatrao Pawar,Pradeep Mitharam Patil, (2010, July)"The Design of Circular MicrostripPatch Antenna by Using Quasi-Newton Algorithm of ANN", Journalof Electromagnetic Analysis andApplications, [online] ISSN Print:1942-0730,2010,2,444-449,

http://www.scirp .org/Journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID =2342

3. Bharti W.Gawali, Pramod Rokade,Ganesh B. Janvale, Suresh C.Mehrotra, (July 2009 )"Effect ofOvarian Hormones on the brain signal- A review", Journal of IndianAcademy of Neurosciences,[online]ISSN 0972-7531 Volume 15, 2008,Page No. 66.

http://annalsofneurosciences .org/journallindex. php/annaliarticle/viewArticle/32/1023

4. Ganesh B. Janvale, Bharti W.Gawali,Sachin N. Deshmukh, Arun V.Marwale, Pramod Rokade, Suresh C.Mehrotra, (2008) "Analysis of BrainSignal using Electroencephalogram".

Journal of Indian Academy ofNeurosciences, ISSN 0972-7531Volume 15, 2008, Page No. 61.

Thesis:

Ganesh B. Janvale, "Human ComputerInteraction through Speech and EEGSignals", Ph.D. Thesis, Dr. BabasahebAmbedkar Marathwada University,Aurangabad,2010.

Current research work plan

The research work is concern withneuroscience. it is related to the functionalMagnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).ThefMRI data can detect the correlationbetween brain activation and the task thesubject performance during the scan. ThefMRI scan the 3D volume of head in everysecond and producing five hundred to onethousand images. But these images are inFourier transform space, so there is need totransform back to images spaces. Afterreconstruction of 3D images, we can detectcommon correlations i.e. motioncorrelation and correlation in physiologicaleffects. If the task like though performedby subject is compared with BOLDresponse time and temporal pattern.

She is a postgraduate from Pune Universityin Computer Management. Prof. PradnyaPurandare is per suing PhD from symbiosisInternational University under the facultyof Computer studies. She has completedthe pre PhD course work successfully fromJune 2010 till June 2011. Her area ofPhDresearch is IT Project RiskManagement.

Earlier she was working as a PostgraduateLecturer in Pune University colleges andcarries rich experience of teaching variousIT related courses from programming to ITproject management for more than 10years. Currently She is working asAssistant Professor at SCIT, SIU since2004, and has also managed academicadministration as Dy. Director from 2007to 2011. She has conducted severalcorporate training programs in IT industry.

Research Work: Her research interest

areas include IT Project Risk Management,IT Project Management, SoftwareEngineering, Data Mining, BusinessIntelligence and has published researchpapers in reputed international journalssuch as IADIS, European Conference onData Mining on web mining. She hassuccessfully completed IT ProjectManagement course held by lIT, Bombay.She has guided several R&D projects ofpost graduate students.

2. Research Interests -Area: ITProject RiskManagement

Publications:

1. P.Purandare. "Study of Object OrientedDatabases (ODBMSs)." SCIT Journal,vol. V.pp. 16-18, Aug.2005.

2. P. Purandare, "Web Mining: A Key ToImprove Business On Web", in Proc.IADIS European Conference DataMining 2008, Amsterdam,Netherlands, August 2008

3. Participated in a research projectconducted by SCIT faculty memberswith Project Management Instititute(PMI). The research project durationwas six months conducted in 2009.The study comprised to find the impactof project manager's projectmanagement certification on the

project success of the IT Projects.

5. Work in Progress

1. Research work ongoing for PhD atSID from 2010: PhD Research Titile:"Study for the improvement in ITProject Risk Management aspects",PhD Guide: Dr. Prasenjit Sen,Professor, SCIT.

Currently, working as Assistant Professorat Symbiosis Centre for InformationTechnology (SCIT),Pune. I have been intoacademics since past 8 years and havecontributed by delivering various coursesin the field of Computer Science andEngineering. My basic qualification is M.E(Computer Science (I.T» and B.E(computerScience) and am currently enrolled withSymbiosis International university for

PhO. (Faculty of Computer Studies). Myarea of research is "Risk Management indistributed Agile Development Projects"and I am currently working on this area ofresearch under the able guidance of Dr.Urvashi Rathod (Professor, SymbiosisCentre for Information Technology) as apart of my Doctoral work. Myother areas ofinterest: Data Compression, SoftwareQuality, Software Refactoring.

Publications:

• Suprika V Shrivastava and Dr. HemaDate," A Framework for riskManagement in Globally DistributedAgile Software development (AgileGSD)", International conference onUncertainity Management in Green-field Projetcs (lCUM- 2011), 2011

• Suprika V Shrivastava and Dr. HemaDate, Distributed Agile SoftwareDevelopment:A Review, Journal ofComputer Science and Engineering(JCSE), Online Journal(http://sites.google .com/site/jcseuk/),2010

• Suprika V Shrivastava, "Effect ofMetrics Based Refactoring on theCode Quality", PIMTjournal. 2009

• Dhruva Pathak and Suprika vShrivastava, "Quality Improvement of

a Product Data and ProcessManagement Software for AchievingBusiness Benefits" , InternationalConference on Innovation inRedefining Business Horizons, 2008

• Suprika V Shrivastava and VishalShrivastava, "Impact of Metrics basedRefactoring on the Code Quality",TENCON2008 (sponsored andorganized by IEEERegion 10), 2008

• Suprika V Shrivastava and Neelu Jain,"EMGData Compression usingWavelet_based Vector Quantizationfor Telemedicine" BSNLjournal, 2005

Current research work:

I am working in the as area of riskmanagement in distributed agile projects.The objective of the research is to identifythe risk factors which impact thedevelopment of projects which are beingdeveloped through agile softwaredevelopment methodology by distributed(global) teams. Along with the risk factors,the risk management strategies which canbe used to reduce their impact wiil also beidentified. A framework will be created byanalyzing and consolidating knowledgefrom the contemporary literature and datafrom the project work documents, theexploratory interviews and a comprehensive

survey of distributed agile project and teammembers. The research will be relevant forthe academic discipline of projectmanagement and practicing projectmanagers whoare handling distributed agile.

Prof. Sadhana Ghalsasi has completed herMaster of Computer Applications fromGCOEK,Shivaji University. She has workedwith Bhabha Atomic Research Centre(BARC) Mumbai for six months for theexternal project of MCA. She is inacademics since 1999 and has worked withvarious universities such as ShivajiUniversity, IGNOU and Pune Universitybefore joining Symbiosis InternationalUniversity. Currently she is working asAssistant Professor and looking after theSoftware Solution Management stream.

She is Symbiosis Accredited Facultymember. She is SAP certified SolutionArchitect. She has completed varioustrainings on IBMand SAPproducts.

She has taught subjects like programming,software design, architecture, componentand service oriented architecture anddesign related subjects. She has guidedseveral students in completing their R&DDissertation projects. She has worked as areviewer for SCIT Tech Journal also forAICITinternational conferences, Korea.

She has published five papers in nationaland international conferences andjournals.

Researchlnterests:

Software Engineering particularly servicescomputing

1. Ghalsasi Sadhana, "AComparativestudy of Contemporary Web ServicesBased Transaction ProtocolsSupporting Process Integrity inDistributed Transactions" SixthInternational Conference on NextGeneration Web Services Practices,Gwalior, NWeSP 2010.

2. Ghalsasi Sadhana, "AConceptualFramework for maximizing SoftwareReuse", IMS Manthan, Vol. 4, No.2,pp 1441-1446, Dec09

Ghalsasi Sadhana, "Critical SuccessFactors for Event Driven ServiceOriented Architecture", inInternational Conference onComputer Sciences and ConvergenceInformation Technology, ICCIT2009

4. Ghalsasi Sadhana, "Enterprise ServiceBus: Making SOA Dream come True",in National Conference on EmergingTrends in Engineering andManagement, ETEM '08, 2008

5. Sadhana Ghalsasi, "Presence ofService oriented Architecture in Small& Medium Enterprises", inInternational Conference on GlobalIssues in Business and Technology,2008

Prof. Rajul Joshi is a management graduatefrom University of Technology Sydney,Australia with professional experience of 8

years from India and Abroad. She hasinclination for research, teaching andconsulting. She is AlMA's AccreditedManagement Teacher (AMT), accreditedfaculty for Entrepreneurship Developmentby Dept. of Science and Technology (DST).Prof. Joshi had been an academic associatein IIM-B. Prof. Joshi has presentedresearch papers in national andinternational conferences and couple ofher papers has got published in the journalof repute. She also had been a consultingeditor for two books. Her forte is inStrategic Management, Marketing,Information Technology Management andEntrepreneurship. She is on advisoryboard of the firm iaskmedia.com, ismentoring the entrepreneurship cell (iTELF)of SCIT and is also faculty in charge ofExecutive MBA of SCIT. She has aprofessional membership of Association ofIndian Management Scholars andInternational Association of ComputerScience and Information Technology -Member no 80333706.

• "Optimization of Trade PromotionalActivities: Framework, Tool andIndustry Application", 2010,Accepted for presentation in theGlobal Marketing Conference in Tokyo

in September 2010.

• "Creative Industry, Entrepreneurshipand India: Reshaping Indipreneurs'future",2010 Accepted and presentedin the Annual Global Conference onEntrepreneurship and TechnologyInnovation (AGCETI)at IndianInstitute of Technology ,Kanpur(IIT(K». This Conference was jointlyorganized by IIT (K),RPI (USA),andNational Entrepreneurship network.The key supporter was SIDBI.

• "Strategic decision making and NGO"accepted in the 9th SMFI conferenceat IIM (K)

• "Knowledge Management Means ofInnovation and Sustainability forSME:Walkthrough and review of SME& KMConvergence" was presented inthe Entrepreneurship GlobalConference 2008. The theme of thisconference was "Creating SustainableEntrepreneurship Eco-system andHigh Performance SMEs". Theconference was organized by MonashUniversity, Australia.

• "Child Labour in the Restaurants andEateries: A case study of Pune City"was presented in the InternationalConference on Child Labor and ChildExploitation in Cairns, Australia. This

conference was organized byChildren's Rights International (CRI)and the key supporters of theconference where Australian Councilof Trade Unions, Microsoft, WorldVision, Child Help line International,Lasalian Foundation and others

• Case study: Participated in casecompletion held by ISB, Hyderabad"Entrepreneurial saga of CompulinkPvt. Ltd" (under Review)

• Books Edited: 1. GeographicInformation System: Managementand Technology Perspective, ICFAIUniversity Press, 2007 and2.Effective leadership: Lessons in aCross Cultural Context, 2007, ICFAIUniversity Press, 2007

• "Magazine/Journal Article-

1) "Podcast: An emerging E-businesstool", ICFAIE-business Magazine,November 2005 Issue. (Published)

2) "Licensing Models and their impacton the Telecom softwareindustry",SCIT Journal, Vol IX,August 2009, ISSN 0974-5076

• Book Chapters - "Fundamental ofGIS" and "Technology Topography ofGIS" for the book Geographic

Information System: Managementand Technology Perspective.

• Summarized an Article titled"Leadership made in Germany: Lowon Compassion high on performance"for the book titled "EffectiveLeadership: lessons in a CCLcontext"

• Research Project: Impact ofCredential on the success of ITProject

• News Letter: "e-GOV:New avatar ofGovernment", Rajdharma, MIT-School of Government, Pune.

Prof. Apoorva Kulkarni is an MBA inComputer Management from PuneUniversity. She has worked as a full timeFaculty for various undergraduate coursessince 2006. Her subjects of expertise includePrinciples of Management, Information

Technology for Managers, InformationTechnologyand Systems, E-Business and E-Governance and Software Engineering. Shehas an article published for State LevelSeminar Souvenir under her name.

She has also handled a number ofManagement related subjects with theexperience ofa visiting faculty for a variety ofinstitutes and universities.

• Participated in a 3 day FacultyDevelopment Program{FDP) workshopheld at SIUon "CASEWRITING".

• Attended a one dayDistrict level

• workshop on "Data Structures andAlgorithms".

• Attended a one day seminar onMethodologies in I.TEducation.

• AnExternal Resource person for the topic"GOODPOWERPOINTPRESENTATION"to the SoftSkillsDevelopment Cell.

• Attendee ofthe GTT(GlobalTalentTrack)Co-ordinator's Meet at the UniversityLevel.

Research Interests - General Management

PaperPresented:Prof.ApoorvaV.Umrani{Kulkarni)."It Audit-THESETUp,"Innovation in ITMethodologiesin the Corporate Sector" ,Nashik,2010(Unpublished)

Workin Progress: None.

CASonal Joglekar is a professor with SCITfor 3 years as a visiting and adjunct faculty.She is a CISA and SAP FICO certifiedprofessional. She has 2 and a half years ofindustry experience working in KPMGMumbai and London. She has worked onsecurity risk assessments, postimplementation ERP reviews and variousother IT attest work.

Research Interests

,/ Deriving value from IT investments

,/ SMEs and IT Risk Management

,/ Financial and Security RiskManagement

Work In progress: Nil

She has done her M.B.A. from M.D.University, Rohtak with specialisation inMarketing & IT. She was among top 3 rankin her graduation & post graduation. Sheachieved distinction in her post graduatediploma in Advertising Management fromICM, Bangalore. She completed her Ph.Das a University Research Scholar from M.D.University, Rohtak. Her research workincludes Ethics in Advertising & researchinterest in studying emerging Currenttrends & technology in business & IT.

She worked with ICICI & NGO beforepursuing her passion in academics. Sheis silver medallist in NTSE.Her forte isin Marketing, Advertisement &Management.

Research Interests: -

Application of Current trends &technology in business changingdynamics of advertising.

Title of Publication: -

ETHICS IN ADVERTISING:ANALYSISOF PROSPECTSPERCEPTION( Ph.D)

Details of grant received: -

Junior research fellowship in 2004

Work in progress:- Article on QR Codes.

Prof Anuradha Goswami has done herMaster in Technology with a specializationin Computer Science & Engineering. Shehas achieved a distinction in her postgraduation and secured the 2 rank in hercollege.

She is experienced and proficient inteaching several technology relatedsubjects like Data Structures andAlgorithms, Data Communications &Networks, Operating Systems, NetworkSecurity and more.

She has also attended several seminarsand workshops which include:

vi' Workshop on 'Image processing andPattern RecogllltlOn held byDepartment of Computer Sc. & Engg,HIT,Kolkata

vi' Workshop on 'Web Technologies' held

by the Department of InformationTechnology, CMR Institute ofManagement Studies, Bangalore

vi' National Level Workshop on 'RecentDevelopments in Network Security'conducted by Department of MCA &CDAC,Bangalore.

MTech Thesis Work:

She has performed her thesis work in DataMining, where she has studied structure ofcommunities in social networks. In herthesis work she has dealt with metricscalled Strength of Link and Edgebetweenness and done a completecomparative analysis in the performanceof these metrics in case of different smallnetworks. During her thesis tenure, shehas also dealt with overlappingcommunities along with disjoint one.While doing so, she has introduced ametric called strength of vertex which ispending to be proved to be equallycompetent with other existing metrics.

PUBLICATIONS:

NIL

CURRENT WORK:

Paper work is in progress based on mythesis study.

I have got total work experience of 11V2years out of which 7 years were into theareas of sales and marketing in diverseindustries comprising of courier, transport,international freight forwarding, logisticsand pharmaceuticals associated withcompanies like Gati, Cipla, Zydus Cadila,AFL-DHL, Pafex-FedEx. Assignmentshandled were achieving sales target,business development, key accountretention, marketing strategyimplementation, managing distributionchannel, services output level, teamhandling at regional level.

Passion for learning and acquIringknowledge has landed me into teachingand has been in this profession for the past4V2 years. Areas of interest in teaching areMarketing, Sales, Distribution, SupplyChain, Logistics, Export and ImportManagements.

My basic qualification is B.Sc. fromManipur University and has a Master'sdegree in Management Studies fromBharati Vidypeeth, Pune. Now pursuingPhD program in management from TilakMaharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune in the areaof customer loyalty in logistics industry.

Research Interest:

./ Customer loyalty/satisfaction

./ Consumer buying behavior

./ Supply chain and Logistics services

./ Business/Marketing strategies

No publications but few papers presentedat annual conferences ofASM'sINCON

Work in Progress:

My PhD research topic is 'Determinants ofcustomer loyalty in logistics outsourcingrelationship - A 3PL relationshipmarketing perspective.'

Prof. Rashmi Sundriyal Gairola is currentlyworking as Assistant Professor (Finance) atSymbiosis Centre for InformationTechnology (SCIT). She has been in thefield of academics since 2005, teaching invarious management institutes in Delhiand Pune. She completed her B.Com(Hons.) from Delhi University and was therank holder in the college. She went aheadwith her MBAand was a Gold medalist inFinance from Guru Gobind SinghIndraprastha University, Delhi. She hasalso completed 2 year Diploma in NetworkCentered Computing from NUT,Delhi. Herinitial schooling is from Ramjas SchooLDelhi.

Prof. Rashmi's areas of Research interestincludes:

• Corporate finance

• Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)

• Financial Crisis

She has presented and published a numberof papers in various national andinternational conferences. The details ofher papers are as follows:

1. Rashmi Sundriyal Gairola, "RiskPerception of Consumers withreference to Internet Banking inIndia", at Singhgad School of BusinessManagement, National ResearchConference 2012, "OrganizationalExcellence through Creativity andInnovation." (Accepted for publishing)

2. Rashmi Sundriyal Gairola, "Impact ofFinancial Crisis on Mergers &Acquisitions, with special reference toIndia, presented at IES InternationalFinance Conference - 2012.

3. Rashrni Sundriyal Gairola, "FinancialCrisis and its Impact on India",presented and published in IESInternational Finance Conference -2011, Changing Dynamics ofManagement through Innovation andCreativity. ISBN: 93-80697-47-3,Excel India Publishers

4. Rashmi Sundriyal Gairola, "FinancialLeverage and effective value of thefirm", presented and published inSinghgad Management School

National Conference - 2011, 'Manthan'"Not Just Effective but Efficient: A newBlueprint for Management in 21stCentury". ISBN: 978-93-5024-769-3,Himalaya Publishing House

5. Rashmi Sundriyal Gairola, "EconomicValue Added - A better measure ofcompany valuation to ensure long termvalue addition", presented atVishwakarma Institute ofManagement, National Conference -Transcending Horizons throughInnovation, 2010.

Her subject expertise includes FinancialAccounting, Financial Management andManagement Accounting. Prof. RashmiSundriyal Gairola is currently pursuing herPhD research work on the topic "EquityValuation in Different Market Phases usingCapital Asset Pricing Model" fromUttarakhand Technical University,Dehradun.

Prof. Suneel KPrasad is a Post Graduate inComputer Science & Engineering from"Indian Institute of Science", Bangalore, BTech in Electronics and Communicationfrom Military College of TelecomEngineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Universityand a PG Diploma in Management fromIGNOU.Before joining SCIThe was SeniorGeneral Manager IT and IT Head of aleading Software Products DevelopmentServices Company at Pune and has earlierheld different positions at different levels,in IT and Telecom Industry, at DefenceElectronics Research Lab, DRDOand in theIndian Army, Corps of Signals. He has beena Commissioned Officer in the Indian Armyand retired as Lt Colonel to pursue hisinterests outside.

Prof. Suneel Prasad carries rich practicalexperience of more than 24 + years in ITand Telecom projects & operations

planning, and their effectiveimplementation and management. He hasexecuted several major IT projects thatincluded design & development ofintegrated enterprise solutions forcorporate, IT infrastructureimplementation and management andexecution of information security &networking projects. He has also handledcertain state of the art complex softwareand systems development initiatives in theniche electronics warfare and softwaresimulation area, while working at apremier Defense R& D Lab of DRDO.He isa keen teacher and has taught extensivelyboth in a corporate environment as a seniorfaculty wireless systems at the CorporateLearning and Development Centre,Reliance Communications as well as in anacademic environment as a faculty inElectronics, Communications and IT at TheCollege of Military Engineering, Pune. Hehas developed and conducted severalcustom programs to enhance employeeemployability within the corporate and toenable new technology assimilation andturnkey human resource development forachieving rapid field deployment ofidentified technology initiatives in thecompany.