D. P. Sharma Explained

D. P. Sharma
Birth Name:	Durga Prasad Sharma
Birth Date:	1 May 1969
Birth Place:	Samona, Rajakhera, Dholpur, Rajasthan, India
Nationality:	Indian
Citizenship:	Indian
Education:	PhD
Alma Mater:	University of Rajasthan
Occupation:	Academician, computer scientist, social activist
Known For:	Digital Diplomacy
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Spouse:	Anuragi Sharma
Mother:	Gomati Devi
Father:	Ninua Ram Sharma
Awards:	Life Time Achievement International Award (Sardar Ratna)-2015 Peace Ambassador International Award (2018) Red and White Bravery Awards (2001) Civil Services Chronicle Award (1997)

Durga Prasad Sharma, better known as D. P. Sharma (born 1 May 1969), is an Indian computer scientist and disability rights activist.

Early life and career

Son of a small farmer Ninua Ram Sharma, Durga Prasad Sharma was born in Samona village of Rajakhera Tehsil in Rajasthan, India. He was the youngest brother of the second number among 5 brothers and 3 sisters. His left arm and right leg are affected by post-polio syndrome.^[1] After completing his primary level education, he had to walk 18 kilometers daily from his village Samona to attend the school in Rajakhera.^[2] Later he completed his degree-level education (BSc) from Government College Dholpur, Master of Computer Application (MCA), Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Information Technology, as well as Ph.D. (Intranetwares) from University of Rajasthan, India.^{[3] [4]}

In 1994, Sharma joined a national advocacy campaign for the new disabled welfare and rehabilitation legislation in India which resulted in a new law passed by the Indian Parliament, "Equal Opportunity, Protection of Rights and Full Participation Act 1995".^[3]

In 2000, Sharma became Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Informatics and later promoted to Associate Professor and a Full Professor.^{[5] [6]}

He is an expatriate research adviser at the Rajasthan Technical University, Kota (India).^[7] He has been serving as an honorary adviser to an international educational program run by Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium).^{[8] [9]}

Achievements

In 2005, he developed a job search engine for people with disabilities^[3] which was later adopted by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India. It was designed to help disabled people in search of jobs based on their suitability of working environment and physical limitations. The search engine was featured as a cover story in the SMB edition of PCQuest in March 2008.^[10]

In 2017, Sharma was nominated as National Brand Ambassador (Academicians and Youth) by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, to the nation-wide campaign Swachh Bharat Mission (Clean India Drive) .^{[11] [12] [13]}

In 2019, on the basis of Sharma's recommendation, the Government of Rajasthan started a process of establishing a Technical University in Jaipur, Rajasthan to provide technology-enabled training, education, and rehabilitation to people with disabilities.^[3]

Sharma authored or co-authored 22 books, edited/reviewed several academic articles^[3] and contributed editorials on labour and disability issues for Rajasthan Patrika. He is also a member of editorial boards of academic journals – the MECS Press Journals ^[14] and the International Journal of Future Computer and Communication^[15] – both of which, however, have been included on Beall's List as predatory or questionable journals.

Sharma advocates for end-to-end transformations in the Indian education system.^{[16] [17]} He is involved in designing policies for inclusive internet access.^[18]

Selected awards and honours

• Legendary Personality of Rajasthan by the Rajasthan Foundation of the Government of Rajasthan (2022)^[19]
• 2021 IEEE Computational Linguistics International Award for Low Resource Language^[20]
• Civil Services Chronicle Award^[21] (1997) by Chronicle India Publications^[22]

Selected publications

• Foundation of Operating Systems(Print),, Publisher: Excel Books
• Information Technology(Print),, Vol-2, August 2009, p. 282
• Theory of Computation(Print),, Vol-3, August 2012, p. 250
• Book: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-25734-6_93 . 10.1007/978-3-642-25734-6_93 . Knowledge-Based Systems, Problem Solving Competence and Learnability . Computational Intelligence and Information Technology . Communications in Computer and Information Science . 2011 . Sharma . D. P. . Khandelwal . Kapil . 250 . 543–547 . 978-3-642-25733-9.
• Distributed and Prioritised Scheduling to Implement Carrier Aggregation in LTE Advanced Systems, IEEE Computer Society Digital Library, ACCT'14', February 2014 p;390–393
• Book: https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/Emerging-paradigms-and-practices-in-cloud-resource-management/19542726 . 10.1007/978-3-642-25734-6_93 . Emerging Paradigms and Practices in Cloud Resource Management . Autonomic Computing in Cloud Resource Management in Industry 4.0 . Springer International Publishing . 2021 . Sharma . Durga Prasad . 1 . 17–40 . 978-3-030-71756-8.
• Autonomic Resource Management in a Cloud-Based Infrastructure Environment, Springer, Vol-1, 2021, p. 325-345,
• Autonomic Computing: Models, Applications, and Brokerage, Springer, Vol-1, 2021, p.  59-90,^[23]
• Emerging Paradigms and Practices in Cloud Resource Management, Springer, Vol-1, 2021, p.  0-17,^[23]

External links

• United College of Engineering & Research, Greater Noida

Notes and References

1. Web site: आदमी दिमाग से ताकतवर होता है, बाजुओं से नहीं . epaper.patrika.com.
2. Web site: Digital inclusion: bridging the divide with Professor DR. DP Sharma. Missions Publiques. 2 December 2020. en.
3. Web site: An Untold Story about the Struggle and Determination of Dr. DP Sharma . Internationalnewsandviews.com . 18 July 2019 .
4. https://iirfranking.com/location/institute-detail/609e0a8510a105bc63ff3cfe
5. Web site: Maharishi Arvind . www.maism.org.
6. https://www.maism.org/program.php?program=Mw==
7. Web site: Rajasthan Technical University . Rtu.ac.in.
8. Web site: जयपुर के प्रोफेसर शर्मा बने फ्लेमिश यूनिवर्सिटीज के इंटरनेशनल रिसर्च सलाहाकार आयोग के सदस्य. patrika.com. 14 April 2018. hindi.
9. Web site: Hindi ePaper, EPaper Download, Online Epaper, Newspaper in Hindi, Today Newspaper: Patrika. epaper.patrika.com.
10. Web site: An Untold Story about the Struggle and Determination of Dr. DP Sharma. www.internationalnewsandviews.com. 18 July 2019.
11. Web site: 28 August 2018. पार्षदों ने उठाए सवाल- अब निगम के पास जिम्मा, फिर क्यों नहीं हो रही फाई?. Dainik Bhaskar. hi.
12. Web site: 26 August 2018. स्वच्छता के ब्रांड एंबेसेडर बोले; कोटा में गाय-गंदगी व गड्‌ढों ने किया स्वागत. Dainik Bhaskar. hi.
13. Web site: स्वच्छता मिशन के ब्रांड अम्बसडर गंदगी से आहत. epaper.patrika.com. 4 June 2019. 4 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191204020226/http://epaper.patrika.com/1819664/Rajasthan-Patrika-Ajmer/rajasthan-patrika-Ajmer#page/4/1. dead.
14. Web site: Editorial board of IJFCC . www.ijfcc.org.
15. Web site: Maxwell Science/Journal Page . maxwellsci.com.
16. Web site: Dr. D P Sharma On The Challenges In Indian Education Systems . Eduvoice The Voice of Education Industry . 25 May 2020.
17. Web site: Murdeshwar . Sachin . Open Graph Meta Tags: Everything You Need to Know . Global Prime News. 2 May 2020 .
18. Web site: Prime minister Modi congratulated IIGF's efforts towards defining a roadmap on internet governance.
19. Web site: Legends of Rajasthan . foundation.rajasthan.gov.in.
20. Book: 2021 International Conference on Computational Performance Evaluation (ComPE) . https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9752134 . December 2021 . 10.1109/ComPE53109.2021.9752134 . List of Awards . i-iii . 978-1-6654-3656-4 .
21. Chronicle of the Civil Wars of Edward II. 2021-06-20. Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle. 10.1163/9789004184640_emc_sim_000942.
22. Book: publisher., India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division. Connecting communicating changing ...: a chronicle of the Vice President of India Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu's third year in office.. 2020. Publications Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India . 978-93-5409-000-4. 1200743379.
23. Book: Autonomic Computing in Cloud Resource Management in Industry 4.0 . 10.1007/978-3-030-71756-8 . EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing . 2021 . 978-3-030-71755-1 . 241311007 . Choudhury, Tanupriya . Dewangan, Bhupesh Kumar . Tomar, Ravi . Singh, Bhupesh Kumar . Toe, Teoh Teik . Nhu, Nguyen Gia .