| Prof. Rajat Moona received
his BTech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur
in 1985 and a PhD degree in Computer Science and Automation
from IISc Bangalore in 1990. He worked for about one year
as Scientific Officer in IISc Bangalore and joined as a faculty
member of IIT Kanpur in 1991 where he is a full professor
in the department of CSE. In recognition of his research,
Prof. Rajat Moona was offered the prestigious Poonam and Prabhu
Goel Chair Professorship by IIT Kanpur in 2008.
During his stay at IIT
Kanpur, he had been a recipient of Indo-US Science and Technology
Fellowship, a scheme jointly supported by the Governments
of India and USA, and had been a visiting scientist to MIT
USA in 1994-95 on this fellowship. He had also been a senior
Engineering Manager in Mentor Graphics India during 2002-04
where he led a team to develop a tool for embedded system
design that is now a product from Mentor Graphics.
He has taught a large
number of courses at IIT Kanpur, both at undergraduate and
postgraduate level. He has also supervised about 80 postgraduate
theses. He along with his students and other colleagues, has
authored 7 patents, about 30 research papers and 2 books.
The research area of
Rajat Moona spans over embedded computing, computer security,
VLSI design and Operating Systems. He has been involved in
defining standards for the Operating Systems for Smart Cards
for Indian Government which are in use in applications such
as Driving License, Vehicle Registration Systems, Indian National
ID, Electronic Passports and several other ID related applications.
He along with his students
and National Informatics Centre has defined the Key Management
System and Layout of the data on the Driving License, National
Id Card and Electronic Passports. He has also been instrumental
in defining the strategy for smart card certification mechanisms
for the Government of India. He along with other faculty members
and students have also defined and developed a secure encrypting
file system with extremely powerful trust model for use in
the enterprise storage technologies. He is involved in defining
the RFID applications in areas such as electronic toll collection.
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