Core Faculty

Dr. Shashikant V. Albal

Dr. Shashikant Albal obtained his PhD in CAD from IIT, Bombay in 1978. He has a mix of academic, research and software industry experience. He has worked in variety of roles and handled responsibilities of training, technology, R&D, and software project management. He has worked in Tata Consultancy Services, Mahindra British Telecom, and SYNTEL before joining SSN. While in MBT, he had worked in association with Carnegie Mellon University in 1996 and had formed an academic institution.

Besides holding the reigns as a director of SSN SASE from its inception (Nov 2001), he teaches a number of subjects including Managing Software Development, Methods of Software Development, Software Process Definition, Software Measurement, and Personal Software Process. At present he is also focussing on utilization of technology advancements in innovative teaching-learning process. He is fond of pets and indulges in philosophical reading when time permits.

Dr. Shashikant Albal says,

"A true master is one who has attained such proficiency that others look up to him for guidance. I am sure you will be a true master."


 

Director, SSN SASE
sase.director@ssn.edu.in

Dr. C. Aravindan

Dr. C. Aravindan obtained his PhD in Computer Science (Knowledge and Data base updates) from Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand in 1995. After completing his PhD he worked at University of Koblenz, Koblenz,Germany, as a Research scientist from 1995 to 1997. He then worked at Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, India, as Professor and Head of Computer Science department from 1998 to 2002.

Dr. C. Aravindan's research interests include logic programming, soft computing, and high-performance computing. He is guiding 15 research scholars in these fields. He has completed three funded projects, and currently investigating two projects. He has published about 25 papers in international journals and conferences. Dr. C. Aravindan joined SSN Institutions in July 2002 and presently he is Assistant Director, SSN SASE. He teaches Models of Software Systems which is a core course for both MSIT-SE and MSIT-ESE programs.

 

Assistant Director, SSN SASE
sase.ad@ssn.edu.in

Dr. Sivakumar

Dr. Sivakumar obtained his PhD from IIT, Bombay (1987). He Specializes in mathematical modelling and simulation as applied to process industries. Dr. Sivakumar has wide development experience from various projects ranging from developing process control and simulation systems to architecting and developing large scale business applications. He was one of the early adapters of Rational's methodologies and tools in the development environmnet.

Dr. Sivakumar joined Rational in 1999 and functioned as TechLead in India. He took the role of Senior Software IT Architect in the IBM Software Group when IBM took over Rational. He had been an adjunct faculty to SASE since 2002. He joined SASE in February, 2009 as a full time faculty. His areas of interests are software architecture and methods.

 

Professor, SSN SASE
sivakumarS@ssn.edu.in

Ms. P.Saratha

P.Saratha graduated from P.S.N.A Engineering College, Dindigul in Computer Science and Engineering. in 2002. She subsequently received her Master’s Degree from the same college.

Saratha started her career as Lecturer in the department of CSE at P.S.N.A Engineering College. She has around four years of teaching experience. She joined Insoft.Com Pvt Ltd in 2007 and worked as Business Analyst for two years before joining SASE. As Business Analyst she managed client interactions and requirements. Her areas of interest are business process modeling and requirements management.

Saratha has presented papers in several National and International conferences.

 

Assistant Professor, SSN SASE
sarathap@ssn.edu.in

Ms. Gayetri Devi S.V

Gayetri Devi Venkhataraman obtained her MTech Degree from SASTRA University, Thanjavur in 2007. She has worked for HCL Technologies in Aerospace Domain especially in DO-178B Standards related software activities before joining SASE. Her interests include music and fitness practices and she takes up reading during leisure.

Gayetri Devi specializes in the areas of verification and validation.

 

Assistant Professor, SSN SASE
gayetridevisv@ssn.edu.in

Adjunct Faculty

Mr. Ravindra Appaswamy Pillai

Ravindra Appaswamy Pillai obtained his M.Tech degree from Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupati. He has extensive industry experience of over 2 decades in telecommunications and software industry. He has worked in variety of roles and handled telecom product R&D, switching software, embedded and application software development.

He handled multiples software projects for various global clients and has in depth software project management experience. He has worked in Indian Telephone Industries, Natelco and Invensys before joining HCL. He has keen interest in technology research, software intensive systems. He has also wide experience in implementation of various software processes, quality systems in his career.

 

Associate General Manager
HCL Technologies

Mr. Tharanian Mahendran

Tharanian is an alumni of SSN SASE. He obained his MSIT degree in 2007 convocation at Carnegie Mellon University. After getting work experience in the USA, he chose to return to India and he is at present working with Infosys as a Process Consultant. Due to his flair for teaching, he has continued his association with SSN SASE as an adjunct faculty. He contributes in Methods and holds special seminars.

 

Process Consultant
Infosys

Coordinating faculty from Carnegie Mellon University,USA

Dr. David Garlan

Dr. Garlan is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he leads several research projects and is the Director of the Master in Software Engineering Programs. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1987.

Dr. Garlan's research interests include software architecture, ubiquitous computing, self-adaptive systems, formal methods, and software development environments.

 

Dr. Raj Reddy

Dr.Raj Reddy is Herbert A. Simon University professor of computer science and robotics in Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include the study of human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence. His research projects include spoken language systems, gigabit networks, universal digital libraries.

 

Prof. Matthew Bass

Matthew Bass is part of the faculty for Carnegie Mellon University’s Master of Software Engineering Program. He is a former member of the technical staff for the Software Architecture group of Siemens Corporate Research. Matthew Bass has been a practicing software engineer for many years and has worked with Fortune 500 companies from multiple domains. Additionally Bass spent 3+ years as a resident affiliate with the Product Line Systems program at Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute. He lectures internationally, and has given talks and tutorials at numerous international conferences. He has degrees in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University respectively.

 

Prof. Mel Rosso-Llopart

Mel Rosso-Llopart has experience in research and development, managing project communications, and fiscal project management for large and small projects. He is also well versed in a variety of computing environments, has developed large network configurations, and developed large database applications. Recently Mel Rosso-Llopart worked for a local company Adtranz in developing complex embedded software system for the rail transit industry.

He earned Bachelor's degrees in Physics, Biology, and Computer Science at the University of California, and holds a Masters of Software Engineering from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Mel Rosso-Llopart is also a registered instructor in PSP from the Software Engineering Institute.

 

Prof. Anthony J. Lattanze

Anthony J. Lattanze is a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), and an Associate Teaching Professor at the Institute for Software Research International (ISRI) at Carnegie Mellon University. Anthony J. Lattanze has been involved in research in the area of software architecture; particularly in the development of methods and techniques for defining, documenting, and evaluating software architectures.