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Professor Sowmyanarayanan Sadagopan is currently the Director of IIIT-Bangalore. He is a product of Madras University, India and Purdue University, USA. He taught for 30+ years at IIT Kanpur, IIM Bangalore, IIT Madras and IIIT-Bangalore in addition to short teaching assignments at RUTGERS, USA and AIT, Bangkok.

He has authored seven books, several book chapters and papers.

He is a Fellow of IEE (UK), Computer Society of India and Institution of Engineers (India). He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM. He was a Fulbright Fellow in 1995.

He consults widely to corporations in the automotive, power, oil, software services, banking and the social sector. He lectures extensively on all aspects of IT and invited by corporations, universities and foundations both in India and abroad. He has travelled widely across all the continents.

He serves on the boards of BEML, KBITS and KEONICS. Earlier he was on the Board of Bharat Electronics, Neyveli Lignite Corporation, Indian Renewable Energy Agency, NMDC and Bank of India. He is on the Board of IIIT-Gwalior, IIIT- Bhubaneswar, ISIM Mysore; earlier he was on the Board of IIIT-Delhi, IGNOU and VIT University.

He serves as a Member of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2), Karnataka Knowledge Commission, and ACM India Council. He was the General Chair for World Wide Web (WWW) Conference 2011 and International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) 2007.