Associate Professor
Amrita School of Computing
Amritapuri Campus
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
India
Dr. Swaminathan J. currently serves as an Associate Professor and Chairperson Department of CSE and AI at the School of Computing, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri. He has completed M. Tech. in Computer Science. He has close 25 years of overall experience including 10 ½ years with IT major Wipro Technologies. At Wipro he served in various capacities including software engineer, project lead, consultant, project manager and delivery manager in product engineering, network protocol maintenance and enterprise application development.
He is passionate about teaching and his teaching interests include computational thinking, programming, algorithms, data structures, networking and distributed computing. He alsos lead the ACM Code @Amrita club dedicated to competitive programming at the campus that mentors students to take part in national and international coding competitions such as ACM ICPC. Apart from these, he guides B. Tech. projects, M. Tech. dissertations and Ph. D. theses.
He has about 30 research publications in reputed international journals and conferences. He is part of numerous initiatives at Amrita including Amrita AHEAD Online programs, curriculum design for UG and PG programs, process initiatives, course content development, and mentoring junior faculty members. His interview on Concise Introduction to Computer Science & Engineering can be watched at YouTube