Timothy Aloysius Gonsalves

Timothy Aloysius Gonsalves is a computer scientist and professor. 

Gonsalves was born on 20 June 1954, in Ooty, Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu. He graduated from Breeks Memorial School, Ooty in 1969. He completed B.Tech. (Electronics), IIT Madras, 1976. He went to the US for graduate studies, receiving an M.S. (Electrical Engineering) from Rice University, Houston in 1979 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1986.  He joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras as Assistant Professor in January 1989.

In the early 1990s, Gonsalves with Ashok Jhunjhunwala and Bhaskar Ramamurthi decided to focus their research on technology for mass use in India. They founded the TeNeT Group with its motto “World-class technology at an affordable price”. From about 2006 onwards, he worked on financial systems as a consultant to SBI and SEBI. 

Later on, he applied machine learning and data science to diverse fields such as computer networks and agriculture.  He developed an interest in data-driven speculations on the future

Prof. Gonsalves took charge as the first full-time Director of IIT Mandi in January 2010.  In 2019, IIT Mandi became the first IIT to introduce a B. Tech. program in Data Science. In 2017 he chaired the Joint Admissions Board (JAB) sub-committee for increasing female enrollment in B.Tech. in IITs.

After his retirement as Director, of IIT Mandi in June 2020, Prof. Gonsalves has been active in improving education in engineering colleges in India. (Collected from the public domain)

 

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