Ph.D. from the Kurukshetra University with a thesis on “Reliability Evaluation and Optimization”
M.Sc.-Engineering in advanced electronics from the Kurukshetra University
Engineering Degree in electronics and communication from Punjab Engineering College
- Chairperson, Board of Governors, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur (Rajasthan).
- President, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) for two terms from 2002-2004.
- President, Computer Society of India for the period April 2007 March, 2009.
- President, South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC) for the year 2009-2010 and earlier its Vice President for the year 2008-2009.
- Chairman, Board of Studies of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra for fourteen years and external expert in the Boards of Studies, Faculties for several other Universities in the country such as Punjabi University, Delhi University, Gwalior University, Indore University, etc.
- Member several expert panels constituted by the Govt. of India for the purposes of starting Electronics Engineering / Computer Engineering Courses in several institutions.
- Member, Search Committees for Vice Chancellors constituted by the State Governments.
- Selection Committee Expert at several Universities, Academic Institutions, UPSC, HPSC, etc.
- Delivered special invited lectures in several Universities in India and abroad.
- Nominee of the Govt. of India in the Joint Appraisal Team for the Indo German Project for the establishment of a Vocational Training Centre in India in the area of Test Engineering.
- Co-ordinator for the establishment of Digital Circuits and Systems Laboratory and Data Communication and Computer Networks Laboratory under the Institutional Network Scheme of Govt. of India.
- Chairman, DOE review committee for HARTRON Continuing Education project.
- Co-ordinator for World Bank project IMPACT at National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra.
- Nominee of AICTE as well as DOE for Model Curriculum Development for Degree Course in Electronics and Communication Engineering at national level.
- Member, All India Board of Computer Science, Engineering and Applications, AICTE.
- Member, working group for the establishment of Institute of Information Technology and Management; also in the core group for drafting Memorandum for this institute.
- Member, Academic Council of Kurukshetra University.
Chairman/Member, Accreditation Teams of AICTE. - Member in the All India Council of the Institution of Electronics & Telecom Engineers.
- Govt. of India, Representative in the Board of Governor of the National Institute of Technology at Surat and Hamirpur.
- Member, Court of Delhi University, Kurukshetra University, Guru Jambeshwar University, Hissar, Central University of Hyderabad.
- Member of the Planning Board, Guru Jambeshwar University, Hissar.
Chairman Examination Board of Institution of Electronics & Telecom Engineers. - Member Advisory Council on IT, Govt. of Delhi.
- Member Academic Senate, Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior.
- Member Board of Research Advisors, American Bibliographical Institute, USA.
- Member Board of Governors, Haryana State Electronic Development Corporation, Chandigarh.
- Chairman for one year and presently Member, Governing Council of DOEACC Society, an autonomous body of the Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Govt. of India.
- President, of the section of Information and Communication Science & Technology (including Computer Sciences) for 2004-2005 (92nd Session the Indian Science Congress Association).
Ph.D’s Guided
30 years of active research including supervision of more than 20 doctoral students, 18 having already completed Ph.D Degrees.
List of Publications
About 300 publications in this period out of which more than 130 have appeared in reputed international journals.
Details of these publications, in various international journals are :
- IEEE Transactions
- International Journal of Electronics
- International Journal of System Science
- International Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering
- International Journal of Reliability Engineering & System Safety
- International Journal of Microelectronics & Reliability
- ACM SIGSOFT, Software Engineering Notes
- Computer Science, Metric News, Object Technology
- Other international Journals
Referee for IEEE Transactions on Reliability for last several years; reviewed more than 40 research papers. Also referee for other journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Communications, various National & International Conferences, etc.
Guest Editor for a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Reliability, titled Status of Reliability Effort in Indian Sub-continent.
Chief Investigator for successfully completed Ministry of Education, Government of India sponsored Research Project entitled “Reliability Analysis of Communication Systems.
Member of Project Review and Steering Committee of the Government of India research project on “Fault Tolerant Design of Large Systems sponsored at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Chief Investigator for successfully completed Electronics Commission’s Research Project entitled “ Reliability Analysis and Optimization of Systems. About 25 Technical Reports and about 10 Software Packages submitted to the Department of Electronics, Govt. of India as fallout of the project.
The research work has been very widely cited in IEEE Transactions on Reliability, USA and Microelectronics & Reliability, a leading journal of Pergamon press, UK. Also work has been cited in several text books. The two text books by foreign authors, in which more than 10 of the papers have been cited are a book on Reliability Optimization by Prof. Tillman of USA, published by Marcel Dekker, and a German book entitled “Leistungsfahigkeit, Qulitat, Znverlassigkert.
Chaired the technical sessions in National Conference on Quality and Reliability; National System Conference and International Conference on Reliability and Quality Control, Paris; International Conference on Software Engineering, Canada; 2003; International Conferences on Computer Science & its Applications, USA in 2004 & 2005.
Keynote Speaker at 14th Scientific Conference, Dresden, Germany; National Conference on Quality and Reliability, IIT, Bombay; Centre for Reliability, Madras etc.
Presented a Tutorial in International Conference on Software Engineering, at Chennai.
Director, Centre for Excellence for man power development in Reliability Engineering established by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India at Regional Engineering College Kurukshetra.
- Director on the Board of Directors of HARTRON, Haryana State Electronics Corporation Limited.
- Sole Investigator for a consultancy job from Vikram Sarabhai Research Centre, a constituent unit of Indian Space Research Organisation entitled Reliability Analysis and Apportionment for a general system with special reference to PSLV.
- Conducted three Short Term Courses of one week each on Reliability Engineering for Scientists / Engineers from industries in the country at Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Also conducted in-house courses for TVS Electronics, Bangalore; CMERI, Durgapur; DCM Data products, Delhi and TISL, Bangalore.
- Delivered special invited lectures at reputed public enterprises such as Defence Research & Development Laboratory, Hyderabad; Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum; Electronics Corporation of India, Hyderabad; Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited, Hyderabad; and Centre for Electronics Design and Technology, Chandigarh etc.
- Conducted as many as 15 in-house programs on Software Reliability Engineering at various centres of Tata Consultancy Services Limited.
- Member, Advisory Committee of Haryana Remote Sensing Agency.
- Conducted Reliability Analysis for High Power Amplifier for Satellite Communications on behalf of Electronics Corporation of India Limited.
- Conducted Reliability studies for Instrument Landing Systems on behalf of Civil Aviation Department, Govt. of India.
- Visited Tata Research Design & Development Centre, Pune during 1992 and worked on practical problems in the area of Software Reliability.
- Visited Ford Motors, Detroit, USA for lecture/ discussions on Reliable Wiring arrangements in Modern vehicles.
- Visited Information Management Resources, Clearwater, Florida, USA for presenting a one day tutorial on Software Reliability to their engineers.
- Member of the Information Technology Vision Group, under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Punjab for implementing IT concepts in the state.
- Invited Speaker at CIIs University-Industry Council Symposium.
- Invited Speaker by FICCI on the topic Delhi as on International Education Hub.
Membership of Professional Bodies & Societies
- Fellow IETE (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers)
- Fellow, Institutions of Engineers (India)
- Fellow, Computer Society of India
- Honorary Fellow, Broadcast Engineering Society of India
- Certified as Chartered Engineer (India)
- Certified as Professional Engineer (India)
- Life member, System Society of India
- Life member, Indian Society for Technical Education
- Active Member (New York Academy of Science)
- Life Member, Indian Science Congress Association
- Member Standing Committee, Association of Indian Universities (AIU) for 3 years
- Member Executive Council, Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) for one year
Books
- A Software Engineering, New Age International Publishers, (2001).
- Reliability Engineering, Kluwer Academic, Netherlands / USA / UK (1993).
- Control Systems, Khanna Publishers, India (1981).
- Waveshaping and Digital Circuits, Khanna Publishers, India (1978).
A Chapters
- Tutorials in Modern Communications, printed in a Tutorial Book published by IEEE Communications Society of USA.
- Computer Networks, printed in a Tutorial Book, published by IEEE Communications Society of USA.
- Reliability and Fault-Tolerant Issues in Real Time Systems, in a book, published by Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.
- Distributed Computing Network Reliability, series of 3 articles in a Tutorial book, published by IEEE Comput
Book on Prof. K. K. Aggarwal
- Making of GGSIP University and The Man Behind by Ritu Gupta, New Age International Publishers
- Visited USA at the invitation of IEEE to receive an award from IEEE Reliability Society at 1982 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium; also presented a paper in the Symposium; delivered a lecture at Berkley University, California.
- Visited Germany for delivering keynote address in their 14th Scientific Conference at the invitation of University of Transport and Communications at Dresden; also chaired a session in this Conference and delivered a lecture at Technical University, Berlin.
- Visited Paris in June 1987 to present a paper in the International Conference on Reliability and Quality Control; Chaired a session in this Conference.
- A tour to UK to visit UMIST, Manchester, University of Birmingham, Birmingham and City University, London; Delivered Lectures and held discussions on research topics.
- Visited USA to present a paper in 1989 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium and to deliver lectures at University of Cincinatti, Ohio; Wayne State University, Detroit and North Carolina State University. Raleigh.
- Visited USA in 1994 to present two papers in ISSAT International Conference, Seattle, Washington; Delivered lectures at Wayne State University, State University of Buffalo, N.Y., Florida State University; Also delivered lectures at Ford Motors, Detroit and Information Management Resources Clearwater, USA.
- Visited USA in 1997 to deliver talks at Qualcomm San Diego and Duet Technologies, San Jose.
- Visited USA in 1999 to attend an International Conference organised by the International Society of Science and Applied Technologies, USA on Reliability and Quality in Design and presented a research paper entitled ‘ MAXREL’. “A software package for maximizing Reliability by optimum use of redundancies in a practical system.”
- Visited London, UK to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Association of Commonwealth Universities during November, 2000.
- Visited Cyprus to attend the Conference of Executive Heads of Association of Commonwealth Universities during April, 2001.
- Visited Australia to attend the Annual Conference of Australasion Association for Engineering Education at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane during September, 2001.
- Visited San Diego, Uniteed States of America to attend an International Symposium sponseord by the Society for Modelling and Simulation during July 2002.
- Visited Canada to attend the International Conference on Sofware Engineering, July 2003 ; presented a paper & chaired a session.
- Visited California, USA to attend International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications during June 2004, Presented a paper & chaired a session.
- Visited San Diego, US Education Service to attend the Third International Conference on “Computer Science and Its Applications, June, 2005 ; presented a research paper & chaired a session.
- Visited USA for attending twin Conferences, i.e., Sixth Annual ESRI Annual Education User Conference and Twenty Sixth Annual ESRI International User Conference, August, 2006; presented an invited talk on GIS-MA: Geographical Information System as a Management Aid.
- Visited Lao PDR to preside over the Orientation Programme to select LAO students for MCA programme of the University during March 2007.
- Visited Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) for attending the General Assemby Meetings of Intenational Federation of Information Processing (IFIP), August 2007.
- Visited Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia to attend the EDUCON 2007, a Conference on Higher Education, during August-September, 2007; presented a paper on University Industry Interaction.
- Visited Bangkok (Thailand) to attend SEARCC EXCO Meeting during November, 2007.
- Visited Colombo (Sri Lanka) in August 2008 to deliver a keynote address in their National Convention organised by Computer Society of Sri Lanka.
- Visited South Korea in September 2008 to deliver some lectures and participate in follow up meeting for strengthening of our MOU.