Board of Directors

Prof. N. Balakrishnan Director

Prof. N. Balakrishnan received his B.E. (Hons.) in Electronics and Communication from the University of Madras in 1972 and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science in 1979. He then joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering as an Assistant Professor. He is currently the Associate Director of the Indian Institute of Science and a Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and at the Supercomputer Education and Research Centre.

His areas of research where he has more than 200 publications in the international journals and international conferences include Numerical Electromagnetics, High Performance Computing and Networks, Polarimetric Radars, Aerospace Electronic Systems, Information Security, Complex Social Networks and Digital Library.

He has received many awards including the Padmashree by the President of India, 2002, Homi J. Bhabha Award for Applied Sciences, 2004, JC Bose National Fellowship in 2007, the Alumni Award for Excellence in Research for Science & Engineering by IISc, 2001, Millennium Medal of the Indian National Science Congress in 2000, Ph D (Honoris Causa) from Punjab Technical University in 2003, the CDAC-ACS Foundation Lecture Award in 2008 and the Academy Excellence Award, Defence Research and Development Organization in 2009. He was the NRC Senior Resident Research Associate at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A. from 1987-1989. He was a visiting research scientist at the University of Oklahoma in 1990, Colorado State University in 1991 and is a Visiting Professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 2000 till 2006. He is an Honorary Professor in Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR).

He is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences and Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers.

He is one of the Directors of Data Security Council of India (Currently its Chairman), Central Bank of India, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and of CDOT-Alcatel Research Centre at Chennai, a member of the Council of CDAC, Member of the Joint Advisory Board of Carnegie Mellon University at Qatar and Member of the Governing Council of IIT Kharagpur, He was one of the editors of the International Journal on Distributed Sensor Networks, and Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of World Digital Libraries.

Till recently he was a member of the National Security Advisory Board and the Board of Governors of IIT Delhi and of IIT Madras. He was also one of the Directors of the Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), a Part-Time Member of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

He is the National Coordinator of Indo-US Million Books to the Web Digital Library Projects (www.ulib.org and www.new.dli.ernet.in ). He, along with his colleagues from India, China and the US created the world’s largest Digital Library which proudly hosts more than a million books that are freely accessible by any one anywhere and anytime.

More details can be found at http://swati.dli.ernet.in/balki