Shashikant Albal, PhD

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 worked for Tata Consultancy Services, Mahindra British Telecom (MBT), and SYNTEL before joining SSN. While at MBT, he worked in association with Carnegie Mellon University in 1996 to form an academic institution.

Dr. Albal has been Director of SSN SASE from its inception (Nov 2001), and currently teaches a number of pre-requisite, core, and elective courses in the MSIT-SE curriculum, including Personal Software Process and Managing Software Development.  At present he is also focussing on the utilization of technology advancements in innovative teaching-learning process.