Building Research Universities in India (Hardcover-2024)

About the Book: With the emergence of global university rankings, there is increased interest in research universities. The focus of the higher education system in India has traditionally been on educating students and not on research. However, in the last decade or so, there has been a growing appreciation of research in universities and interest in transforming some of the Indian universities to globally competitive research universities. This is the first book that focuses on building research universities in India. It provides a comprehensive and holistic view of a research university and discusses the key dimensions of such a university, including education, research, PhD programme, faculty management, governance, financing and third mission. This book will be of interest to academicians, academic leaders, policymakers, and those who are involved in developing a university in India.

About the Author: Pankaj Jalote is the Founding Director of Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi). He worked as the Director of IIIT-Delhi from 2008 to 2018, during which it reached the list of BRICS top 200 universities. Prior to this, he has been a Chair Professor at IIT Delhi, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur, where he was also a Head of the Department, and an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland at College Park. From 1996 to 1998, he was Vice President at Infosys Technologies Ltd., and from 2003 to 2004, he was a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Corporation, Redmond. He has a BTech from IIT Kanpur (1980), MS from Pennsylvania State University and a PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1985). He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, and was the General Chair for the International Conference on Software Engineering (2014).

He is the author of five books. His books CMM in Practice (Addison Wesley) and Software Project Management in Practice (Addison Wesley) were highly acclaimed and were translated in many languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and French. His textbook An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering (Springer, three editions) was very popular, and its Indian edition was declared as the bestselling computer science book by its local publisher (Narosa). The book A Concise Introduction to Software Engineering was published by Springer, and its Indian edition by Wiley India. The book Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems (Prentice Hall) was the first graduatelevel book in the area. Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor at IIIT-Delhi. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).