Chalk Talk (Season 2) with Prof. Pankaj Jalote, IIIT Delhi

Chalk talk discusses a variety of issues from personal reminisces of renowned teachers to specific teaching nuances adopted by individuals. Prof Pankaj Jalote is the founding Director (from 2008 to 2018) of IIIT-Delhi, where he is currently an Emeritus Professor. He led the development of IIIT-Delhi from ground up as a research-led institute including the building of its campus, developing academic programs, building the research program, recruiting faculty, etc.. By the time his tenure ended, IIIT-Delhi was ranked in BRICS200 by QS. Prior to this, he has been an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland College Park, Chair Professor at IIT Delhi, and Head of Computer Science Department at IIT Kanpur. He has also been Vice President at Infosys for 2 years, Visiting Researcher at Microsoft in Redmond for 1 year, and Interim Vice Chancellor of Delhi Technological University (DTU) for six months. He has a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur (1980), MS from Pennsylvania State University, and Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1985). He is the author of many books. His books CMM in Practice (Addison Wesley), and Software Project Management in Practice (Addison Wesley) – were highly acclaimed and were translated in many languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and French. His text book on Software Engineering (Springer) was popular and its Indian Edition was awarded the best-selling Computer Science book prize by the publisher. The book Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems (Prentice Hall) was the first graduate level book in the area. He recently revised his book A Concise Introduction to Software Engineering: Using Open Source and GenAI (Springer, 2025; Indian edition published by Wiley India). His research interests are in Software Engineering, AI for Software Engineering, and Higher Education. He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Tran on Service Computing, International Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, and Software Process and Experience. He was the General Chair of ICSE2014 and RE07 conferences, and program chair for APSEC2006, ISEC2008, ISEC2009, CSEET2009, ISSRE2009. He has given over 20 Keynotes/plenary talks in national and international conferences (e.g. ER2022, ACM Compute 2018, SRDS2010, ASEET2009, COMPSAC2008, APSEC2002). He has been a keen observer of higher education and research –has written over 40 opinion articles in leading newspapers, has a blog Higher Education in India, and has authored Building Research Universities in India (SAGE, Nov 2020, republished by Atlantis and available online on this page.) He provides guidance to higher education institutions on various issues and is on Board of Governors of LNMIIT in Jaipur (was till recently on BML Munjal University board), and was a member of CS department review committees of three IITs. He also gives talks to higher education faculty on faculty career, and offers a 4-session module on Effective Teaching (now online on NPTEL, offered every semester). He was the chair for the design of 2022 Model CSE Curriculum for India, and was a member of Steering Committee for ACM’s CS20223 Curriculum. Currently, he is leading the effort to build a network of researchers in Higher Education in India (IHERN) and starting a scholarly conference on Higher Education in India (IHERC). In 2025 he spent a few weeks in Sweden, visiting various Universities and Centers (hosted by MDU). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and INAE and a recipient of Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kanpur, and Distinguished Academic Achievement award from Siebel School of UIUC. Feedback on the content presented in the video is welcome; however, commenters are requested to keep their language civilised. Inappropriate comments may be removed. Disclaimer: This video is intended for educational purposes only. All the views expressed in the video are for instructional purposes only and should not be taken out of context. While care has been taken to ensure accuracy, the creators are not responsible for any errors, omissions, or outcomes resulting from the use of this material. All third-party materials, if any, are used under fair use for educational purposes.