Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay
Dr. D. Manjunath is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering of IIT Bombay. He holds BE in Electronics and Commun. Engg, MS in Elecl. Engg, PhD in Elecl Engg. He has a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and specializes in the general area of telecommunication and networking. He has co-authored two major textbooks in this area. His research has won him several professional recognitions. He was the head of the Computer Centre of IIT Bombay and responsible for its IT infrastructure that included general purposes and high-performance computing resources, software resources, and networking resources. In addition to carrying out major expansion and modernization of the IT infrastructure at IIT Bombay, he was responsible for introduction of several innovative processes in procurement and maintenance. He consults on technology deployment and technology development widely with several organizations and has extensive experience in dealing with banking and financial segments. He has been a consultant to several banks and financial institutions for more than twenty years now. Over these years, he has been advising them on most of their major networking, computing, and software projects. He has given several lectures at IDRBT and worked with them. Most recently he has been working with the Reserve Bank of India on currency management, with NSE in analyzing their server infrastructure, and with Mumbai Police Department on a major IT project.
He serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Clearing Corporation of India.