University of Illinois computer science alumnus Pankaj Jalote was recently named director of IIIT Delhi, a new center established to act as a global centre of excellence in Information Technology education, training and research. The center aims to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in specified domain areas of IT.
Jalote received his PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois in 1985. He is the author of "CMM in Practice" ; "Software Project Management in Practice"; the highly popular textbook "An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering"; and the graduate-level book "Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems". His research interest is in software engineering (software quality, software process improvement, software architecture analysis), and fault tolerant systems and reliability. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.