T.R.Gopalakrishnan Nair

Dr.T.R.Gopalakrishnan Nair has 29 years of experience in professional field spread over industry, research and education. He holds the degree M.Tech. ( I.I.Sc., Bangalore) and Ph.D. in Computer Science. He is currently the director of Research and Development Centre , DS Institutions in Bangalore, India and organizes the Research and Industry activities. He started his career in Electronic Research and Development Centre, Trivandrum where he was instrumental in developing various pioneering systems ranging from color graphics systems, communication systems to desktop computer systems. Later, he worked in Indian Space Research Organization where his areas of research were Inertial Navigation and Guidance systems, Launch vehicle Technology, High speed computing and Launch vehicle simulations. In 1992, He was given the National technology award PARAM for developing the parallel computing flight simulation systems for Indian launch vehicles. He participated in the International Space University, Space Project Design Program in Toronto in 1990. Having worked in the current Electronics and Information Technology industry for decades, he studied industry process very closely and remained as a consultant to many industries. As the director of research and industry in DS Institutions Bangalore, he develops the strategies and directions in research where, Software Engineering, Nanotechnology, AI & Robotics are some of the thrust areas. He has several papers published in these multidisciplinary fields.

He is a senior member of IEEE for last two decades and a member of various other societies. He is usually invited by various universities at national and international level as well as professional societies for delivering lectures on frontier areas. He is a member of the director board of few companies operating in India. His articles on current thoughts and lectures on education, technology and business are published by leading Indian publications. He has acted as the chair of many international conferences including the ‘Euro-India Research conference –2008’ held in Bangalore.

The significant contributions:

• Microprocessor based systems design and simulation packages.
• Design of Desktop computer systems and Graphics systems.
• Critical Real-time systems for satellite launch vehicles.
• Development of on board processors and systems for Navigation, Guidance and
  Control.
• Six Degree of Freedom Flight Simulation using real-time and non real-time methods
  for space launch vehicles.
• Parallel computing methods and High Performance Computing.
• Artificial intelligence and Neural Network.
• Computer Networks and Cognitive routing.
• Software design and measurement.
• Software defect Management.
  

Technology and Business:

• Study on outsourced IT projects in India
• Senior advisor to IT Industries of  India
• Studies on sustainability and diversification of Outsourcing industry
• Agile Programming Methods, CMM level -5 perfection capability
• Global Business Transformations, Business process, Technology and Incubations of Innovations for Entrepreneurship. 

The Recent Speeches, Papers, Patents and Visits

Speeches:

1. “Engineering Career. – in Transition”, Invited Lecture, hosted by Institution of Engineers and IEEE, Trivandrum, India, August, 2004.
   Quoted widely in Indian News papers, Ref:
   http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2004/08/27/stories/2004082701351900.htm
2. “Strategic Planning for IT industry in India”, Lecture delivered in Institution Engineers, Trivandrum, India, August, 2005.
3. “Sustainability of the outsourcing Industry” Lecture Delivered for Consortium of Professional Societies ( IEEE, CSI etc) , Trivandrum, August,2006
4. “Future of the outsourcing Industry” Lecture Series in IITMK, Technopark, Trivandrum, September 2006.
5. “Outsourcing Scenarios in Aerospace Industry”, paper presented in National Conference on Aerospace Engineering, Institution of Engineers, India September, 2006.
6. “Science, Technology and Education – India On Cross Roads”, Lecture for IEEE, Institution of Engineers, Computer Society of India, Trivandrum, July, 2007.
7. “Universities as focal point of Transformation in 21st Century”, Invited Lecture, IEEE, Trivandrum Section, Computer Society of India, Trivandrum, December 2007.

Papers Published:

1. Suma.V, T.R.Gopalakrishnan Nair, “Defect Prevention Approaches in Medium Scale IT Enterprises” , Proceedings National Conference on “ Recent Research Trends in Information Technology”, Jointly organized by R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore & Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore, March, 2008.
2. Suma.V, T.R.Gopalakrishnan Nair, “Effective Defect Prevention Approach in Software Process for achieving better Quality Levels”, ICSE 2008, International Conference on Software Engineering, Singapore.
3. Suma.V, T.R.Gopalakrishnan Nair, “Anatomy of Inspection Process in Software Engineering”, National Conference on Software Engineering, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India, April 2008
4. Satish G. Dapin, Nithya G.Nair, T.R.Gopalakrishnan Nair, “Application of Wireless Sensor Networks in the Prediction of Climate extremes on large Geographical Area”, To be communicated, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Network, Taylor
   and Francis, UK.
5. Suma.V., T.R.Gopalakrishnan Nair, “Enhanced Approaches in Defect Detection and Prevention Strategies through Improved Inspection and Testing Process”, 3rd Internatonal Conference on Software Engineering Advances, October-2008, Sliema, Malta.
6. T.R.Gopalakrsihnan Nair, S.Vaidehi, “A Multicore Processor based Real-Time Functional Management System for Automobiles”, TeaTech International Conference, September, 2008, Bangalore, India.
7. T.R.Gopalakrishnan Nair, M.Jayalalitha, Abhijit.S.,“Cognitive Routing with Stretched Network Awareness through Hidden Markov Model Learning at Router Level”, IEEE Workshop on Machine learning in Cognitive networks, June 2008. Hong Kong.
8. Kiran Agarwal, T.R.Gopalakrishnan Nair, “ A study of VLSI technology; Wafers and Impact of Nanotechnology”, National Conference on Advanced VLSI_DSP, 2008, Bangalore, India.
9. R.Selvarani, Muthu Ramachandran, T.R.Gopalakrishnan Nair “ Entropy Based Metric system for Object Oriented Methods”, Journal of Computer Science, Infocom, Communicated.
10. Basavaraj S Devaramani, Ramaswamy Y S, Babu Manjasetty & T.R.Gopalakrishnan Nair - “ ZnO Nano forms : The state-of-the-art of synthetic strategies” Proceedings of Team Tech – 2008 , September 22-24, 2008 (In Press).
11. Babu Manjasetty, T.R.Gopalakrishnan and Ramaswamy Y S – Structure and Dynamics of Biological systems” Journal of Research & Industry, 2008.
12. R. Selvarani, T.R.G.Nair, Muthu Ramachandran, “ Software metrics through Entropy “ journal of Computer Science (International) .U.K
13. T.R.G Nair, R. Selvarani, Muthu Ramachandran, “CSIAM – Comphrensive Software Industry Analysis Model “ Wiley InterScience (International), Software Process : Improvement & Practice (submitted)
14. R.Selvarani, T.R.G Nair – “Software Design Complexity Analysis on the basis of Information theory using Entropy” Journal of Research & Industry, Volume 1 Issue 1 September 2008.
15. Suma V, T.R.G. Nair – “Effectiveness of Defect prevention in IT for product development” International Conference - TeamTech 2008, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on Sep 22-24, 2008.

Consultancy

Conferences Chaired

1. International Conference on Total Engineering Analysis and Manufacturing Technologies, 4-6 October, Bangalore, India
2. Euro- India Research Conference, 1-2 March, Bangalore, India
3. Key Note Address, “Advances and Challenges in Technology”, National Conference on Recent Trends in Engineering and Technology, NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte, Udupi, Karnataka, India, April, 2008.
4. Plenary Session address, “ Advances in Sensor Technology”, Total Engineering Analysis and Manufacturing Technologies, September 23, 2008, Bangalore, India.

Main Conferences attended

1. International Conference on Total Engineering Analysis and Manufacturing Technologies, 4-6 October, Bangalore, India
2. Euro- India Research Conference, 1-2 Feb:, Bangalore, India
3. International Conference on Nano Science and Technology, Feb 27-28, 2008
4. International Conference on Science Engineering and Technology “WASET”, August, 2008, Singapore.

Invited talks offered

1. “Technology Transformation and Business Process in 21st Century”, DS School of Business and Technology, Sept-2007, Bangalore, India.
2. “Funding Opportunities in Scientific and Technological Research”, International Conference on Total Engineering Analysis and manufacturing Technologies, 4-6 October, 2008, Bangalore, India.
3. “ Key Global Changes Indicating Innovation and Enterprise Transformations”, National Seminar on Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship, on 14-Feb-2008, Bangalore, India
4. “ Universities as Focal points of transformation in 21st Century”, Institution of Engineers , Dec:2007, Trivandrum, India
5. “Innovations in Frontier Areas of Science and Technology”, Key note Address for the National Seminar on Advances in Electronics and Communications, Nitte Institute, Mangalore, India.
6. “Advances in Software Engineering” Invited Lecture in ‘International Seminar on Component Based Software Design ’, August, 2008, Bangalore, India.

Doctoral Candidates

About 10 Candidates are working on different Multidisciplinary fields associated with many Universities.

Patents

1. Pending: “Cognitive Router with stretched awareness of network environment”, Patent filed in first half of 2008.
2. “Comprehensive Software Industry Analysis Model”, Patent Filed in first half of 2008.

Recent Visits

South Korean Universities.

Singapore Research Centers.