Credibility
Competence
Commitment
Partha obtained his Engineering
Doctorate in Automation and Control Engineering from
one of the finest research centres in France: le Laboratoire
d'Automatique de Grenbole, Grenoble, France (1980). His thesis won
him the highest rating given to doctoral theses: "Très
Honorable et les félicitations du jury" which may be
translated as : Highly commended, and appreciated by the jury.
Partha's research interests are :
- Software engineering related to automation and control.
- Safety-critical systems.
- Application of formal methods.
As part of the process of keeping himself up-to-date, academically and technologically, Partha has always meticulously followed a policy of taking off on sabbatical leave, every so often. His sabbatical visits have taken him to :
Long visits (longer than a month)
- France (1983): Post-
doctoral
Fellow, Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique et en
Automatique, (INRIA)
Rocquencourt (Invited by Prof. G Lelann). Major activities -- Research on Petri Nets. Authored an innovative paper on representation of Petri nets as linear difference equations.
- France (1988-1989) :
Visiting Associate Professor, Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne , St.
Etienne (Invited by Prof. P Ladet ).Major
activities -- Research on safety in automation. Taught a
course on software engineering.
- France (1993) :
Directeur de
Recherches,
Centre National de la Recherches Scientifiques (CNRS), Grenoble. Major activities -- Research on safety of automation systems particularly in the manufacturing sector.
- China (1993-1994):
Visiting
Expert, United Nations University,
International Institute for Software Technology (UNU/IIST), Macau. (Invited by Prof. Dines Bjorner). Major activities -- Research on application of formal methods for the railways. RAISE, RSL , Lectures for University of Macau. Project leader for a United Nations sponsored project for the Chinese Railways. - Germany (1999-2000):
Gastwissenschaftler, Institut fuer Regulungs-und
Automatisierungstechnik (IfRA),
Technical University of Braunschweig. (Invited by Prof. E Schneider). Major activities -- Research on safety in railways sector. Interaction with European railways. Taught "safety" to the Germans ! Taught a course on “safety in automation”. This course was higly appreciated and was judged unanimously as the “best” by the students. - India (2004-2005):This was a voluntary effort, to serve in rural India
SR Engineering College, Warangal (affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru
Technological University). Major activities
--Taught courses on discrete mathematics", "artificial
intelligence" and "selected topics in Unix". Obtained excellent
results in the University exams. Introduced various innovations and
improvements in the college. Set up the Student Branch of IEEE, in the
college. Taught a very well-appreciated short-term course in French
language in Kakatiya University.
Short visits (lesser than a month)
- Thailand (1993): Visiting Trainer/expert Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. Major activities -- Teaching assistance for course on formal methods, RAISE, RSL, and durational calculus.
- France (several visits): Laboratoire d'Automatique et d'Analyse de Systemes (LAAS), Toulouse, France (Invited by Prof. J C Laprie).
- Spain (1989): University of Zaragossa, SPAIN (Invited by Prof. Manuel SILVA).
- UK: Cambridge University, UK
- UK: Oxford University, UK. (Prof. Bernard CARRE , Univ. of Southampton).
- India (several visits): TIFR - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India (Prof. R K Shyamasundar).
