BWR Board of Directors

S Sadagopan

Independent Director

Prof Sadagopan, the Founder and Director of IIIT – Bangalore, is an alumnus of Madras University, India, and Purdue University, USA. With a teaching career spanning over 25 years, he has taught at prestigious institutions like IIT Kanpur, IIM Bangalore, IIT Madras, and IIIT Bangalore. Additionally, he has undertaken brief teaching assignments at Rutgers, USA, and AIT, Bangkok. A prolific author, Prof. Sadagopan has penned seven books, numerous book chapters, and research papers. His extensive research pursuits encompass Operations Research, Multi- criteria Optimization Decision Theory, Simulation, Enterprise Computing, Programming Languages, Databases, Multimedia, and e-governance.

Prof. Sadagopan is a Fellow of IEE (UK) and the Computer Society of India. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE, ACM, and AIS. Prof. Sadagopan provides consulting services across various industry sectors, including automotive, manufacturing, banking, information technology, and the social sector. He delivers lectures extensively at corporations, industry events, and universities in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, covering various topics related to information technology.

He has served on the boards of several esteemed universities and public and private sector corporations, such as IIIT Dharwad, IIIT-Gwalior, IIIT Delhi, Jain University, Dayanand Sagar, Chairman of IIITD&M Kancheepuram, IBAB, Bank of India, NMDC, BEL, NSE, BEML, IRDAI, to name a few. Noteworthy memberships include the Karnataka Knowledge Commission, Chief Minister's Vision Group on IT, NASSCOM Regional Council, and ISA Executive Council. Prof. Sadagopan holds the position of Chair at the IEEE Computer Society, Bangalore Chapter, and is a Member of ACM India Council and the WWW Conference Committee.