Education & Academics

Profiling Dr. KRVS Raja, BITS Professor & Founder of Ascendum, 

When Academicians become Entrepreneurs: The third in a series. 

By Vikas Chandra PDF

Prof K.R.V. Subramanian (popularly known as Raja to BITSians) has made contributions to BITS by the creation of institutions that have given BITS an edge over other institutions, and will outlast all our lifetimes. He remained at the helm of technological leadership of BITS during a tremendously successful and satisfying 26 years that he spent there. Prof Subramanian joined BITS, Pilani in 1974, and joined BITS upon graduation in 1979 with MA (Hons) Economics.

After 1985, he taught courses in Computer Science and Information Systems. He served as Group Leader of Computer Science for 3 years during 1986-1989. In 1989, he started the Center for Software Development and served as the Chief Coordinator till 1995. During 1990-2000, he served as the Dean of the Distance Learning Program Division.  

 In May 2000, Prof. Subramanian left BITS and moved to Bangalore to start AnswerPal (now Ascendum). He currently serves as the CEO of Ascendum. He is also one of the Directors on the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction. He still maintains very close ties to the BITSIAN community in India and Abroad. 

Profiling Dr. Vijay Chandru, Winner of the First Dewang Mehta Award for Innovation, India's highest honor for innovation

When Academicians become Entrepreneurs: The second in a series. 

By Aanand Krishnan

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Inventor of India’s most famous PDA – The Simputer, Founder of India’s first VC funded bioinformatics company – Strand Genomics and Pico Peta – listed by MIT as one of the  7 most exciting university spinoffs globally,  and recipient of the highest honor for Innovation in India, the First Dewang Mehta Award, Professor Vijay Chandru has some outstanding learnings for us all in this somewhat nostalgic, somewhat outspoken, gripping interview. More... 

Profiling Dr. Amit Sheth, Co-founder of two companies and Professor at University of Georgia

When Academicians become Entrepreneurs: The second in a series. 

By Vikas Chandra

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Amit Sheth is a Professor of Computer Science, the director of the Large Scale Distributed Information Systems (LSDIS) Lab, at the University of Georgia, and BITS alumnus.  Prof. Sheth joined the UGA and started the LSDIS lab in 1994. In August 1999, Sheth founded Taalee, Inc., a venture capital funded enterprise software and Semantic Web technology startup based on the research at the LSDIS lab.  He managed Taalee as its CEO until June 2001 when it was acquired by Voquette, Inc. Subsequently he has been the CTO for Voquette, Inc. (now Semagix, Inc). He has also founded another high-tech company—Infocosm, Inc. He has provided consulting to a wide variety of companies involving real world solutions to the real world problems. His research has led to several commercial products and applications (including SCORE, METEOR EAppS, and InfoHarness), as well as two patents. From 1985 to 1994, he served in R&D groups at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies), Unisys, and Honeywell.  He received his B.E.(Hons.,1981) from B.I.T.S., Pilani, India and M.S.(1983) and Ph.D.(1985) from the Ohio State University. More...

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