Dr. P.K. Chande

Dr. P.K. Chande has more than 25 years of experience in teaching, research, consulting industry and administration.

Before joining TRUBA Group as Group Director, he was Professor in Information Science at IIM Indore. He has headed Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (A deemed University), Bhopal as Director & Professor of IT. He has also headed Shri. GS Institute of Technology & Science, Indore and was Corporate Head at Mahindra British Telecom Limited, Pune, where he was responsible for the development of Mahindra Institute of Software Engineering & Management in collaboration with the US Universities. He was also the Visiting Professor at Kumamoto Unversity, Japan.

Dr. Chande has pursued research and professional activities at national/ international levels in the areas like Fault Tolerant Systems, Networks, Multi-processors, Real Time Knowledge Bases Systems, Intelligent Automation, Medical Informatics, Human Centric System, Smart Vehicular Systems, etc. He has guided 7 Ph.Ds and has published more than 80 research papers in international/national journals/conferences.

He has been the Coordinator of WB IMPACT project at SGSITS, Indore and has actively contributed to the TEQUIP project. He was the General Chair for International Conference: ICAUTO-95, sponsored by SICE Japan, has edited/reviewed may journals/ conferences proceedings in his research areas. He has conducted workshops in Japan and Malaysia on Intelligent Robotics.

He established a center for AI & Robotics, IT incubation center and was also Director-in-charge of MP Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Park, Bhopal. He has been member of AICTE - PG Board and member of many other Boards, Senates and RDCs of different Universities. He is the invited member of Society of Instruments and Control Engineering Japan. He has also been member of e-governance, e-education, tele-medicine Committees of MP Electronics Corporation and Rajiv Gandhi Technical University. He was instrumental in collaboration/consulting with BHEL, Bhopal, Pestronics, Indore, State Bank of Indore, Gajra Gears, SOPA, Web-Dunia and M & M.

He is recipient of various national & international honours & awards, viz, International Scholarship Award by Society of Instrument & Control Engineering, Japan, FANUC Japan scholarship, Anna University National Award for Best Academics 1996, Pt. Lajja Shankar Jha Award for Outstanding Contribution to Technology, Radhakrishnan Award 1992 for research contribution in multiprocessor performance, etc, and he is member of various Institutional and professional bodies. He was invited to deliver the MS Ramanujam Memorial Lecture on the occasion of Seventh Institution of Engineers' National Convention of Computer Engineers on the topic of Information Security.

His current research interest areas are: knowledge Management, Human Centric Systems, Man-machine Collaboration, Systems for Physically/mentally Challenged, IT Project Management, Decision Support Systems, Educational Management & Innovation, Intelligent Agents, Group Support System, Behaviourial Engineering, Distance Education, and e-governance.