Teaching Interests: Data Structures, Design & Analysis of Algorithms, Competitive & Efficient Programming, Programming in C, Object Oriented Programming in C++, Software Design & Development, Software Engineering & Project Development, Operating Systems, Data Bases, Object Oriented Systems, Software Testing. Research Interests: Software Engineering, Soft Computing, Software Metrics, Machine Learning & AI in S/w Engg; clustering and mining

Experience : 29 years (Teaching alongwith Research )

Publications : Total 158

• SCI/Scopus indexed International Journals: 55
• Others and National Journals: 18
• Book Chapters & Procedia, LNCS etc: 24
• International Conferences: 45
• National Conferences: 16

Reviewer for Journals : IEEE Transactions, ACM Transactions, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Inderscience etc.

Research Project: Project entitled “Design and Development of a Novel Approach (non-cryptographic) for Secure Storage on External Media and Lossless Retrieval”, funded by DRDO Govt of India, completed.

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs):

• Patents : Total 8 published
• Copyrights: Four granted, two filed

Books Published: Total 3

• Coauthor of World-famous Schaum Series Book from McGraw Hill titled “Programming with C” Byron Gottfired, USA & Jitender Kumar Chhabra. 4th Edition
• Book for learning depth of coding: ”Conceptual Programming Tips for Interviews and Competitive Exams”, McGraw Hill

Ph.Ds Supervised :

• Completed: 6 (each with 3 or more SCI publications reputed journals)
• In progress: Two
• New Admissions: I will accept 1 candidate for PhD who is sincere, hard-working and ready for quality-work

Significant Academic Contributions:

• First recipient of Best Teacher Award of NIT Kurukshetra
• Started a new Elective for “Efficient Coding for Problem-Solving and Competitive Programming”, helpful for internship and placements in reputed companies
• Coach for ACM ICPC Programming Contest in India and our team reached to top 5 ranked teams.
• My guided PhD thesis selected as a Resource Material at International Level by ACM, USA for researchers and scientists in the area of Software Engineering.
• Our Project selected in TOP-20 projects of the World (in SCORE: one of the most prestigious IEEE’s International Project Contest of S/w Engg).
• Guiding students in the domain of Data Structures and Algorithms and helping them in preparation towards campus placements in most reputed IT companies
• Workshops Conducted (Interview Preparations, Competitive & OO Programming, Data Str, Algo, Teaching Pedagogy etc) : 18
• Keynote Speaker & Guest of Honor in Conferences & Seminars: 25
• Session Chairs in Conferences: 25

Industrial Collaborations:

• Founder HP-Chair by Hewlett Packard (HP) for collaborative work at NIT Kurukshetra
• Co-Coordinator for Software Engineering training by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Awards:

• Best Teacher Award of N I T Kurukshetra
• All India Badminton’s Men’s Champion (Singles as well as Doubles) at Inter NIT Sports Tournament
• Gold Medalist in M. Tech from N.I.T. Kurukshetra
• 2nd Topper of B.Tech from N.I.T. Kurukshetra
• Best Project Award
• Best Educator Award, Sir Issac Newton Scientific Award of Excellence
• Best Presentation Award
• All India Open Debate Winner

Foreign Visits: USA, UK, Canada, France, Spain, Czech Republic, Singapore, Malaysia, Turkey, Thailand, Dubai for research paper presentation and chairing technical sessions.

Significant Administrative Contribution :

• HOD Computer Engg, HOD Computer Applications, HOD/Coordinator (VLSI & Embedded Systems)
• Founder Professor Incharge (Institute Website)
• Founder Officer Incharge CCN
• Nodal Officer (BAS)
• Chairman/ Member of DRC, BOS, Senate, Academic Council of many Universities & Institutes
• Scheme & Syllabi revision of UG & PG Programmes at NIT Kurukshetra and other Universities