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Pankaj Jalote

Distinguished Honorary Professor, Computer Science Engineering

B.Tech.:Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, May 1980
M.S.:Pennsylvania State University, University Park, October 1982
PhD: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 1985



  • Recent Publications

    Books

    1. Building Research Universities in India, SAGE, Nov 2020. The book is based on the experience of building IIIT-Delhi into a respected research university.
    2. P. Jalote, A Concise Introduction to Software Engineering, Springer, 2008, Indian edition published by Wiley India.
    3. P. Jalote, An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering, Springer, Third Edition, 2005. (Indian Edition by Narosa. Recognized as best selling CS book by Narosa in 2002.)
    4. P. Jalote, Software Project Management in Practice, Addison Wesley, 2002 (Low Priced Edition by Pearson India, 2002, French translation, Sept 2002, Chinese translation, 2003.)
    5. P. Jalote, CMM in Practice: Processes for executing software projects at Infosys, Addison Wesley, 1999. (Low Priced Edition by Pearson India, 2000, Chinese translation, Sept 2002, Korean Translation, Sept 2002, Japanese Translation, Oct 2002.)




    Book Chapters

    1. P. Jalote, A. Palit, P. Kurien, “The Timeboxing process model for iterative software development”, in Advances in Computers, 2004, Vol 62, pp 67-103.
    2. P. Jalote, “Knowledge Infrastructure for Project Management”, in Managing Software Engineering Knowledge, A. Aurum, R. Jeffery, et. al. (eds), Springer Verlag, 2004.

  • Work Experience

    Distinguished Honorary Professor, IIT Gandhinagar (Sep 2025 - Present)
    Distinguished Professor, IIIT-Delhi (Sep 2018 - Sep 2025)
    Founding Director, IIIT-Delhi (2008 - 2018)

  • Awards

    1. Fellow, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), 2003, “for contributions to software process, fault tolerant computing, and software engineering education”.
    2. Fellow, INAE (Indian National Association of Engineering), 2011.
    3. Fellow, Computer Society of India (CSI), 2012.
    4. Fellow, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE), 2002.
    5. Silver Jubilee Award for Best Selling Author by Narosa 2002 for An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering.
    6. Infosys Managerial Award, 1997-98, for spearheading the quality efforts.

Research Interests

  • ● AI in Software Engineering
  • ● Open Source Software Engineering
  • ● Software process