Deepak B. Phatak
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Dr. Deepak B. Phatak graduated in
Electrical Engineering from Indore and then completed
his M. Tech. and Ph. D. in Computer Science. He is with IIT Bombay
since 1971 He served in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering till
January 2000 and was the Department head from 1991 to 1994. He also served as
the first Dean of Resource Development for IIT Bombay from 1995 to 1998. He was
invited to head
the Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology set up in October 1998 at the Institute.
He was appointed to the Subrao Nilekani
Chair in the School in January 2000.
His research interests are in the areas of Data Bases and
Information Systems, Software Engineering, System Performance Evaluation, IT
enabled Education and IT strategy planning. His primary research inclinations
are in Technology application and deployment areas. He has guided five Ph.D.,
over 60 M.Tech. and several B.Tech/M.Sc. students. He is the architect of the
benchmark-toolset "PARIKSHAK" that has been used by several Indian
organizations for system performance evaluation.
He has been involved in the development of an authoring
environment for creating interactive Computer based tutoring systems. Through a
large project sponsored by the Aeronautical
Development Agency, he has developed a tutoring environment for a maintenance
training simulator which is now being used as a product for training engineers
and technicians for maintaining large and complex engineering systems. He is
presently engaged in an attempt to port the system to JAVA for possible use an
intranet and internet. He was invited to work on the Saraf
committee set up by RBI to plan induction of modern Information Technology in
the National Payment Systems. Arising out of this association, He has
successfully coordinated a large pilot project on the Institute campus to introduce
smart card based payment systems in the country. The draft national standards
evolved in the project have been submitted to and accepted by RBI. He currently
chairs a SEBI Committee to evolve similar technical standards for internet
trading.
Apart from developing courses and labs in Information Technology
at the Institute, he has been involved with curriculum development efforts for
the undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Indian Universities and colleges
in the field of Computer Science and has advised several Institutes in setting
up their CS Department and laboratories. He participated in the CLASS project
aimed at introducing computer education in schools. He was co-cordinator of the IIT Bombay resource center for the project IMPACT
of DoE. He has worked on several AICTE and ISTE
Committees. He was invited to the working group of the National IT Task force
on Human Resource Development.
Dr. Phatak has a long association with
Computer Society of India spanning over two decades. He has regularly been
participating in all major CSI events. In CSI 1987, he organized a national
programming contest for students. He was program committee chair for Bombay
Chapter's annual convention in 1991 and for CSI annual convention in 1993. He
has been deeply involved with CSI COMAD conferences for many years. He played
an important role in getting the prestigious international conference on Very
Large Data Bases (VLDB) to India and was the General Conference Co-chair for
the same in 1996. VLDB 96 was resounding success and apart from establishing
India's strong position in Data Base activities, it also generated a large sum
that has since been endowed by CSI & VLDB for promoting activities in this
area. He was given the "Patron of Mumbai Branch" award in 1998 and
the CSI Fellowship in December 1999. He has also been elected fellow of IETE in
March 2000.
He has been a consultant and advisor to many organisations
on various issues related to Information Technology. In the financial sector,
he has involved in a major effort by Industrial Development Bank of India to
use relational data bases on Unix platforms in late
80's. He has been an I.T. advisor to the State Bank of India for several years.
He has also been a consultant to several other financial and industrial organisations like Reserve Bank of India, Unit Trust of
India, Industrial Credit & Investment Corporation of India, Life Insurance
Corporation of India, New India Assurance, Rashtriya
Chemicals and Fertilisers, L&T, Times of India,
etc. He works on several committees advising Government departments on issues
related to computerization. Dr. Phatak is on the
boards of IDBI Bank, ISIL, UTIISL, NIBM, IDRBT and NIA.
Dream
Dr. Phatak's dream is to see a resurgent
India catching up with the world using Information Technology as the spring
board. Towards this end, he has pioneered the establishment of the K.R. School
of Information Technology at IIT Bombay. This School will endeavor to create
future IT leaders through post graduate educational programs and R&D focus
on IT applications, new technologies, processes and products. Through his
initiative, the school has started two new activities. One is on offering of
the DIIT programs through distance education to working professionals. The
other is to set up a pilot IT business incubator to promote IT entrepreneurship.
Personal Details
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Date of
Birth |
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2nd April,
1948 |
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Early
Schooling |
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In 14
different schools in Madhya Pradesh |
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Engineering
Degrees |
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B.E. from
SGSITS, Indore |
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Life
Partner |
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Pratibha, Occupational Therapist, Now a home maker |
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Children |
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Aditya, 28, BE, M Tech in CSE from IIT Bombay; Senior
Member of Technical Staff PSPL, Pune Pursuing
Masters at U Wash Pradeep, 20, student of Final
year B.E. at MGM College, Bombay |
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Hobbies |
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Travelling, Reading - Specially History, |