Rajat Moona Explained

Rajat Moona
Birth Date:	1965 3, df=yes
Birth Place:	Uttar Pradesh
Residence:	Gandhinagar, India
Nationality:	Indian
Alma Mater:	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Known For:	Computer Hardware and Architecture and VLSI Design
Profession:	Professor Administrator Consultant
Office1:	Director at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Term Start1:	3 October 2022^[1]
Term End1:	present
Predecessor1:	Prof.Sudhir K. Jain
Office2:	Director (Additional Charge) at Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara
Term Start2:	21 May 2023
Term End2:	30 May 2024
Predecessor2:	Prof. Sarat Kumar Patra
Successor2:	Prof. Dharmendra Singh
Office3:	Director at Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
Term Start3:	20 March 2017
Term End3:	26 September 2022
Predecessor3:	Position Established
Successor3:	Prof.Rajiv Prakash
Office4:	Director General of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Term Start4:	1 May 2011
Term End4:	15 March 2017
Predecessor4:	Rajan Joseph
Successor4:	Dr. Debashish Dutta
Office5:	Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Term Start5:	15 April 1991
Term End5:	31 March 2030 ^[2]

Rajat Moona (born 28 March 1965) is the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar from October 2022 onwards. He has also served as Director of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Vadodara on additional Charge Basis from 2023 till 2024. He has served as director at Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai from March 2017 to September 2022. He is also a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur from April 1991 and was Director General of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing from May 2011 to March 2017.^{[3] [4]}

Early life

He completed his BTech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He earned his doctoral degree from the Department of Computer Science and Automation at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, in 1989, under the supervision of Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman.^[5]

Work

He joined at IIT Kanpur as a faculty member in 1991.^[3] Between 1994 and 1995, he was a visiting scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[6] Later he was also associated with Mentor Graphics as Senior Engineering Manager. Here was involved in developing methods of translating software codes of electronic systems into hardware.^[7]

During his tenure at IIT Kanpur, he was involved in development of a smart card operating system for Electronic Passports.^[8] At C-DAC, he was instrumental on the SCOSTA^[9] compliant operating system development,^[10] and the technical improvements behind the Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) in India and Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) that uses RFID.^[11]

Honor and awards

• Indo-US Science and Technology Fellowship (1994)^[12]
• Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair Professorship (2008)^[13]
• VASVIK Industrial Research Award in Information and Communication Technology (2010)^[14]
• National Award for Best Electoral Practices, Election Commission of India (2016, 2020-21)^{[15] [16]}

Selected bibliography

Articles

• Nandy . S K . Deogaonkar . Anuradha . Moona . Rajat . Madhuri . C Sudha . K-d Tree based Gridless Maze Routing on Message Passing Multiprocessor Systems . IETE Journal of Research . 2 June 2015 . 36 . 3–4 . 287–293 . 10.1080/03772063.1990.11436895.
• Mujoo . Ashwani . Malviya . Manoj Kumar . Moona . Rajat . Prabhakar . T V . A Search Engine for Indian Languages . Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies . Lecture Notes in Computer Science . 2000 . 1875 . 349–358 . 10.1007/3-540-44463-7_30 . Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 978-3-540-67981-3 .
• Book: Chandra . S. . Moona . R. . VLSI Design 2000. Wireless and Digital Imaging in the Millennium. Proceedings of 13th International Conference on VLSI Design . Retargetable functional simulator using high level processor models . 2000 . 424–429 . 10.1109/ICVD.2000.812644 . IEEE Comput. Soc. 0-7695-0487-6 . 25990436 .
• Book: Rajesh . V. . Moona . R. . Proceedings Twelfth International Conference on VLSI Design. (Cat. No.PR00013) . Processor modeling for hardware software codesign . January 1999 . 132–137 . 10.1109/ICVD.1999.745137. 0-7695-0013-7 . 2708772 .
• Moona . Rajat . Rajaraman . V. . A FIFO-based multicast network and its use in multicomputers . Microprocessors and Microsystems . December 1991 . 15 . 10 . 543–547 . 10.1016/0141-9331(91)90013-6.

Patents

• Compiling memory dereferencing instructions from software to hardware in an electronic design (2004)^[17]
• Methods and systems for secured access to devices and systems (2006)^[18]
• Method and system for using personal devices for authentication and service access at service outlets (2009)^[19]

Books

• Book: Moona . Rajat . Assembly Language Programming in GNU/Linux for IA32 Architectures . 2009 . PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. . 978-81-203-3156-3 . en.
• Book: Ghosh . Ratan K. . Gupta . Phalguni . Moona . Rajat . Foundations of Parallel Processing . 1995 . Narosa Publishing House . 978-81-7319-032-2 . en.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Former IIT Bhillai Director Prof Rajat Moona Now Takes Charge of IIT Gandhinagar . 13 April 2023. 20 September 2022. news18.com.
2. Web site: Rajat Moona . www.iitk.ac.in . IIT Kanpur . 24 July 2020.
3. Web site: Rajat Moona Home Page . www.cse.iitk.ac.in.
4. Web site: Prof Rajat Moona takes over as Director General, C-DAC . www.cdac.in . 24 July 2020.
5. Web site: Rajat Moona Home Page . www.cse.iitk.ac.in . Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur . 24 July 2020.
6. News: SAII Ropes in Faculty From Premier Institutes . The Financial Express . 13 May 2003.
7. Web site: Compiling memory dereferencing instructions from software to hardware in an electronic design . patents.google.com . US Patent office . en . 21 July 2004.
8. Web site: e-Passport to be launched, developed by Prof. Moona. www.iitbhilai.ac.in. 19 March 2020.
9. Web site: SCOSTA Operating system . www.cdac.in.
10. Web site: Moona . Rajat . Agrawal . Manindra . Gairola . B. K. . Smart Card Initiatives@IIT Kanpur . www.cse.iitk.ac.in . 24 July 2020.
11. News: Vishnoi . Anubhuti . Election Commission: EVM rigging not possible, chips source coded in India: Rajat Moona, Member, Technical Expert Panel on EVMs, EC . The Economic Times . 13 September 2018.
12. Web site: Vidwan Profile Page . vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in . Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET).
13. Web site: Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair . www.iitk.ac.in . 24 July 2020.
14. News: C-DAC scientists selected for Vasvik Reaserch Award . www.cdac.in . 10 September 2012.
15. Web site: Rajya Sabha accolades Prof. Moona's contributions for EVM . www.iitbhilai.ac.in . 24 July 2020.
16. Web site: Director of IIT Bhilai receives prestigious award on National Voters' Day . www.iitbhilai.ac.in . 26 June 2022.
17. Web site: Compiling memory dereferencing instructions from software to hardware in an electronic design . patents.google.com . US Patent office . 24 July 2020 . en . 21 July 2004.
18. Web site: Methods and systems for secured access to devices and systems . patents.google.com . US Patent office . 24 July 2020 . en . 18 April 2006.
19. Web site: Method and system for using personal devices for authentication and service access at service outlets . patents.google.com . US Patent office . en . 20 April 2009.