The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) has a new director. Prof. D. Janakiram has taken over charge of the institute on 24 January. He brings with him immense experience in various fields of direct relevance to banking and financial technology. A Ph.D. from IIT Delhi, he is a board member of IIIT Kurnool and Senate Member of IIIT Trichy. He has served as member on the Board of Studies in several Universities including VIT University, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Anna University, Gujarat Technical University, Andhra University, SV University, JNTU, Hyderabad, JNTU, Kakinada and Academic Council member of Hindustan University. He has authored over 150 research papers and has written books, especially on Grid Computing, Building Large Scale Software Systems and Grid and Cloud Computing. He was also the principal investigator for a number of projects including MobiTel: Mobile Telemedicine for Rural India (Indo-German Project), Peer-to-peer Concept Search (Indo-Italian collaborative project), Service Oriented Architecture for Linux Kernel (DIT) and Cloud Bursting Architecture for Document Workflow (Xerox) and has incubated two companies in the cloud computing space. Prior to joining IDRBT, he was a Senior Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras.
