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 Profile
Amit Sharma works in the areas of technology-based and social Innovation. Working at the Software Engineering Technology Labs- the corporate R&D division of Infosys Technologies, he has successfully led the development of various Innovative R&D projects in the areas of Grid Computing, Web Services and Software Licensing. A sample of his writing on Innovation can be found at http://www.domain-b.com/infotech/itfeature/20050711_innovation.htm
In the social sector, Amit has co-founded two unique not-for-profit organizations called Kutumb (in Delhi) and doSomething (in Bangalore).
Kutumb has:
• successfully implemented an ambitious education program for slum-children in Khan market area in New Delhi
• organized an innovative football competition between children from different NGOs in Delhi for the last 3 years
• conducted healthcare camps for slum dwellers with doctors from leading hospitals from Delhi
doSomething:
• is working with various schools in Bangalore to carry out leadership development using its Leadership for Young Adults (LYA) program
• has developed 30 schoolchildren as ambassadors for various NGOs and social causes
• is working on a sustainable development program for Tsunami affected areas (see www.ground1.org)
On the technology side, Amit has an active publishing record- with more than 10 research papers in reputed IEEE/ACM conferences like ccGrid, IJCAI, IEEE’s SMC, Tencon, WISE and GlobusWORLD. He is also:
• Invited Panel Member, Birds of a Feather Panel on Utility Pricing/Pay-Per-Use Pricing, SoftSummit 2005 (www.softsummit.com)
• Program Committee member of e-Science 2005 (http://www.gridbus.org/escience/)
• Program Committee member of WISQ 2005 (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/wisq05/)
• Co-organizer of the Second Web Services Quality Workshop (WQW 2004) at the International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, 2004 (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/wqw04/)
• Invited Speaker at GlobusWORLD 2005 on Pricing and Licensing Issues in Grid Computing. (http://www.globusworld.org/2005Slides/Session%203d(1).pdf)
• Reviewer, The 8th world multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 18-21, 2004, Orlando, Florida, USA
• Reviewer, IEEE Multimedia (http://www.computer.org/mc/multimedia)
• Co-Reviewer, International Conference on Web Services, San Diego, California, USA, July 6-9, 2004
• Author of a column in PC Quest for over a year.
Other accomplishments include:
• Awarded the Global AT&T IEEE Student Enterprise Award, 2000 by the AT&T Foundation, New Jersey.
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