Released on: October 7, 2008, 5:24 am

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Press Release Summary: Prof. Bharat Bhasker, Professor of Information Technology and
Systems, IIM Lucknow, was conferred the "Best Professor of Information Technology"
at the recently concluded AsianBrand Summit and Dewang Mehta Business School Awards.






Press Release Body: Press Release
7th October 2008
New Delhi

IIM Lucknow’s Prof. Bharat Bhasker awarded the "Best Professor in Information
Technology 2008" at Dewang Mehta Business School Awards



Prof. Bharat Bhasker, Professor of Information Technology and Systems, IIM Lucknow,
was conferred the "Best Professor of Information Technology" at the recently
concluded AsianBrand Summit and Dewang Mehta Business School Awards.

The Awards were supported by Ms. Sheila Mehta, Director, Onward Foundation for
Dewang Mehta Awards. The Chairman of the jury was Dr. Prasad Medury, Partner, Amrop
International.

Prof. Bhasker is a Senior Professor at IIM Lucknow in the area of Information
Technology and Systems. In addition, as a principal investigator, he is responsible
for setting up Internet Commerce Research Center in IIM Lucknow, to conduct research
and development in the focus area of Internet Commerce with the objective of growth
of Internet Commerce in India. He received and managed a grant for implementing the
IIMNet (an Intranet of four Indian Institute of Management in India) worth
Rs.1,000,000 from Digital Equipment Corporation (India) Ltd.

Prof. Bhasker is responsible for all the Consulting, Executive /Management
Development Programs, Library, Computer Centre, planning, budget and new
developmental activities of the institute including the setting up of a new campus
of the institute at NOIDA.

Prof. Bhasker has worked across the globe in various capacities. He has worked at
NASA for seven years as Group Manager, Hughes STX Inc, 4400 Forbes Blvd., Lanham, MD
20706 at Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA; He has worked in the corporate sector
in the US having been a Consultant at Connectix Corp., San Mateo, California;
Project Director at SYBASE INC, Emeryville, CA ; Principal Scientist at MDL
Information Systems Inc., San Leandro, CA and as a Systems Analyst, Computer and
Information Systems, Tata Steel Ltd., India.

Prof. Bhasker has rich and diverse experience in academia and has been a Visiting
Professor at ESSEC Business School , Paris, France and University of Texas, Dallas,
USA. He was a Distinguished Professor at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, was a
Research Professor at University of California, Riverside, USA and Adjunct Faculty
at Information Systems, Univ. of Maryland, College Park.

Prof. Bharat Bhasker has been conferred many awards and has held a number of
important positions, in his illustrious career spanning over two decades. He was
awarded for Best Research Paper at McMaster World Congress 2004, Hamilton, Canada,
Scroll of Honour (2001), for exemplary services in the field of Information
Technology, by Rotary Club of India (Lucknow), Research Productivity Award (for
1994) National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA), USA; He has been an
international expert for Research Grants and Scholarships Directorate of Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), a member of State Task
Force of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) on India @75 of Uttarakhand,
Technical Advisory Board to Controller of Certifying Authorities, Ministry of
Information Technology, Government of India and was a member of All India Management
Association and PNB Institute of Information Technology, India.

Prof. Bhasker has rendered professional consulting services in the area of
Information systems planning, network design, electronic commerce to Ernst and
Young, BHEL, NABARD, HPCL, Government of UP. He has conducted Management Development
Program, "Electronic Commerce- Enabling Technologies" attended by Information
Technology business leaders. He has also done a workshop on Internet Commerce
strategies for Ernst & Young India Ltd., at Delhi.

Prof. Bhasker holds a Ph.D in Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University, Dissertation: "Query Processing in Heterogeneous Distributed
Database Management Systems". He has published over 80 research papers in
International Journals and Conferences and is the author of three books in
Electronic Commerce: Framework, Technologies & Applications.



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