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Brief Biodata of Dr. N. L. Sarda

Dr. Nandlal L. Sarda is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Mumbai (Bombay). He received his Masters degree and PhD at IIT Bombay, and joined as faculty at IIT, where he is teaching since 1972. He was Visiting Associate Professor at University of New Brunswick, Canada from 1986 to 88. He was Head of the Computer Science and Engineering department at IIT Bombay from 1994 to 1997.

He was Dean of Academic Programmes, IIT Bombay, from October 2001 to September 2004. In this capacity, he coordinated with IIT's Senate and its various Academic departments for creating, revising, operationalizing and supervising IIT's academic programmes.

He has been appointed in October 2004 as Professor-in-Charge for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, in which role he coordinates with the Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) hosted by IIT Bombay to encourage and actively facilitate IITB's faculty and students to convert intellectual property developed by them into business ventures.

His main research interests are in the areas of Database Systems and Software Engineering. He has published widely in international journals and conferences. He has focused in the last few years on the research issues in Temporal databases, data warehousing (that includes metadata integration from multiple sources), and agent-based schema integration. He has participated in many conferences in the capacity of PC member, invited speaker, etc. He was the Programme Committee Co-chair of VLDB'96, a premier international database conference, which was held in Bombay. He is also on the editorial board of a few international journals. Recently, he was Programme Chair for the Annual event of Computer Society of India organized in Dec. 2004 and attended by over 600 professionals in the IT area.

He is closely associated with many companies and government institutions as a consultant, offering advice in planning, selection, implementation and evaluation of information technology solutions. He has been associated with IT projects of RBI, SEBI, SBI and other leading financial organizations. He is on the Board of Directors of Union Bank of India.

For more details, please visit cse.iitb.ac.in/~nls

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