V. Rajaraman

Prof.V.Rajaraman obtained a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Physics from Delhi University in 1952, DIISC in 1955 and AIISC in 1957 from the Indian Institute of  Science, Bangalore, in Electrical  Communication Engineering, SM in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1959 and Ph.D from the University of  Wisconsin in 1961.  He was an Assistant Professor  of  Statistics at the University of Wisconsin in 1961-62 and joined Indian Institute of  Technology, Kanpur, as an Assistant Professor of  Electrical Engineering in 1963 and became a Senior Professor in Electrical Engineering and  Computer Science in 1973.  He  headed the Computer Centre at IIT, Kanpur, from 1967-72 and again from 1976-79.  At IIT/Kanpur he  initiated the computer science educational programme and guided its growth from 1966 to 1979.  He joined the Indian Institute of  Science in 1982 where he initiated the plan to set up a National Supercomputing facility in 1983.  It was set up with a funding of Rs.50 crores from the Government of  India.  He also set up the National Centre of  Science Information  with funding from the University  Grants Commission for providing selective dissemination of information to scientists at Indian Universities.   The other activities started at the Institute of  Science by him include Computer Aided  Design  of  Electronic Systems and Knowledge Based Computer  System Development.  He was an IBM Research Professor of  Information Technology at the  Jawaharlal Nehru Centre  for Advanced  Scientific Research, Bangalore from 1994 to 2001.