About the Author

Asoke K Talukder

Dr. Asoke K. Talukder is the Chief Scientific Officer and Director of Geschickten Solutions, Bangalore. He is also Adjunct Faculty, ABV Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior; Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Warangal; and, Adjunct Faculty at Department of Computer Engineering, NITK, Surathkal. He was also the DaimlerChrysler Chair Professor at IIIT, Bangalore and Visiting Professor at VIT University, Vellore.

Dr. Talukder has been with the IT industry for about 30 years. He has held senior positions in different technology companies in India, USA, UK, and Singapore. He was the founder CTO of Cellnext, the pioneering wireless and Mobile Web technology company in India offering technology and solutions in the domain of GSM, GPRS, SMS, MMS, Intelligent Networks, CDMA, and 3G. He has been Corporate Advisor to SaharaNext, Lucknow, Advisor to the Expert Committee, HCL Bangalore, and the CTO and Executive Director--Telecom, Sobha Renaissance Information Technology, Bangalore. He has also worked in complex projects for companies like Fujitsu-ICIM, Microsoft, Oracle, Informix, Digital, Hewlett Packard, ICL, Sequoia, Blue Star Infotech, Northern Telecom, NEC, KredietBank, iGate, and many more.

Dr. Talukder has a Ph. D. (Computer Engineering) in Telecom Routing, after completing his post graduation in Physics from the University of Calcutta (1976). He set up the first X.25 network in India for the Department of Telecommunications in 1986. Later, he set up the first Java Centre in India in 1998. He was a key engineer for Oracle Parallel Server for Hewlett-Packard HP-FX fault tolerant computers, as well as the architect for the 64 bit Informix databse for DEC Alpha.

He is the recipient of many international awards including All India Radio/Doordarshan Award, ICL Services Trophy, ICL Chief Executive Excellence Award, Atlas Club Excellence Award, ICIM Professional Excellence Award, ICL Excellence Award, IBM Solutions Excellence Award,--one of his ubiquitous middleware products was the recipient of this award in 2001, and the Simagine GSM World Congress Award--one of his products on Java Card security was recipient of this award in 2003

Dr. Talukder has been listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and Outstanding Scientists of 21st Century. He published many peer-reviewed research papers and book chapters. He edited two books and authored two textbooks in the domain of Mobile Computing and Secure Software Engineering. Dr. Talukder has also few patents to his name.

His area of expertise include Product Innovation and Management; Next Generation Internet and Services, Mobile Computing, Secure Software Engineering, Trust and Reputation. Web-based systems and applications including Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, Databases Internals, Compilers, Operating Systems, Cloud Computing and High Performance Computing. In telecommunications, his expertise include OSS, BSS, Inter-carrier Wholesale Billing, and Intelligent Networks (IN). His current domains of interest are Mobile Computing, Information Security, and Computational Quantitative Biology.

Roopa Yavagal

Roopa R. Yavagal is with Symphony Services, Bangalore. During her stint earlier at Cellnext she, along with her team, developed many mobile applications for various cellular companies in India in the technology domain of GSM, GPRS, and CDMA. Roopa did her Masters from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIITB), and her B.E. in Computer Science from Basaveshwar Engineering College, Bagalkot. Her areas of interest include wireless applications, service creation in the wireless domain, and Web 2.0 applications.