Rajat Moona | |
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Director at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar | |
In office 3 October 2022 [1] –present | |
Preceded by | Prof. Sudhir K. Jain |
Director (Additional Charge) at Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara | |
In office 21 May 2023 –30 May 2024 | |
Preceded by | Prof. Sarat Kumar Patra |
Succeeded by | Prof. Dharmendra Singh |
Director at Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai | |
In office 20 March 2017 –26 September 2022 [1] | |
Preceded by | Position Established |
Succeeded by | Prof.Rajiv Prakash |
Director General of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing | |
In office 1 May 2011 –15 March 2017 [2] | |
Preceded by | Rajan Joseph |
Succeeded by | Dr. Debashish Dutta |
Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | |
In office 15 April 1991 –31 March 2030 [3] | |
Personal details | |
Born | Uttar Pradesh | 28 March 1965
Nationality | Indian |
Residence(s) | Gandhinagar,India |
Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Indian Institute of Science Bangalore |
Profession | Professor Administrator Consultant |
Known for | Computer Hardware and Architecture and VLSI Design |
Website | www |
Rajat Moona (born 28 March 1965) is the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar from October 2022 onwards. He has also served as Director of Indian Institute of Information Technology,Vadodara on additional Charge Basis from 2023 till 2024. He has served as director at Indian Institute of Technology,Bhilai from March 2017 to September 2022. He is also a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur from April 1991 and was Director General of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing from May 2011 to March 2017. [4] [2]
He completed his BTech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He earned his doctoral degree from the Department of Computer Science and Automation at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore,in 1989,under the supervision of Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman. [5]
He joined at IIT Kanpur as a faculty member in 1991. [4] Between 1994 and 1995,he was a visiting scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL),Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [6] Later he was also associated with Mentor Graphics as Senior Engineering Manager. Here was involved in developing methods of translating software codes of electronic systems into hardware. [7]
During his tenure at IIT Kanpur,he was involved in development of a smart card operating system for Electronic Passports. [8] At C-DAC,he was instrumental on the SCOSTA [9] compliant operating system development, [10] and the technical improvements behind the Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) in India and Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) that uses RFID. [11]
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