IIM Lucknow’s Dr. Bharat Bhasker awarded the "Best Professor in Information Technology Management"

July 26, 2010 - PRLog -- Press Release
New Delhi
July 26th, 2010

IIM Lucknow’s Dr. Bharat Bhasker awarded the "Best Professor in Information Technology Management" at Asia’s Best B-School Awards, Singapore

Dr. Bharat Bhasker, Professor of Information Technology and Systems at IIM Lucknow, has been conferred the "Best Professor of Information Technology Management" at the recently concluded Asia’s Best B-School Awards in Singapore.

The Asia’s Best B-School Awards are presented by CMO Asia with CMO Council as its Strategic Partner and Stars of the Industry Group as a research partner. The Awards of the highest stature are presented to Individuals and Institutions who have surpassed several levels of excellence and set an example of being a role model and exemplary leadership. Individuals behind the Institution who are building their Institutions through Leadership, Innovation, Academic and Industry Interface and a supreme objective of Building future leaders.

Prof. Bharat Bhasker was earlier conferred the "Best Professor of Information Technology" at Dewang Mehta Business School Awards at Mumbai in Sept 2008. In Jan 2004, he was honoured as the Best Researcher in the field of Electronic Commerce by the McMaster World Congress, Hamilton, Canada. In 2001 Rotary Club awarded him Scroll of Honor for his work and public service in the field of Information Technology and Management. He won NASA’s Best Research Productivity Award in 1992 in recognition of the research contributions

Dr. Bharat Bhasker serves as Professor of Information Technology & Systems and Head of Internet Commerce Research Center and is the former Dean of Indian Institute of Management Lucknow.  Dr. Bhasker holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering from I.I.T. Roorkee; Master’s and Doctorate in Computer Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA.  

Prior to joining IIM Lucknow, Prof. Bhasker spent 11 years working in the leading research establishments in USA. Dr. Bhasker spent seven years with Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA in leading research and research management positions. His research contributions in Heterogeneous distributed database management systems, Heterogeneous distributed information management, Information retrieval from mass repositories, and Network Information Retrieval protocols won him a NASA’s Best Research Productivity Award in 1992 in recognition of the research contributions. Dr. Bhasker was member of the High Performance Computer and Communications (HPCC) initiative of the NASA that lead to the Information Superhighway project. He worked for four years with MDL Information Systems and Sybase Inc., California, USA and was the architect of the massively parallel DBMS, Sybase MPP.  

Dr. Bhasker is associated as Visiting Professor with ESSEC Business School, France, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, School of Business in University of Maryland, University of California and University of Texas, USA,

Prof. Bhasker serves in several advisory committees of Indian Government, is honorary expert to National Science Education and Research council of Canada, and is member of Governing Boards of several Engineering and Management Institutes. He has also served in several Information Technology task forces and committees of the UP Government.

Prof. Bhasker has several publications in the area of Data Management, Electronic Commerce, Agent Technologies and Data Mining in International Journals and Conferences. He has authored a book: "Electronic Commerce: Framework, Technologies and Applications", which is into its third edition and is published by Tata McGrawHill.