Deepak B. Phatak

About

Born on 2nd April 1948, Professor Phatak obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from SGSITS Indore in 1969, and his M Tech and Ph D from IIT Bombay. He has been serving with IIT Bombay since 1971. He headed the CSE department from 1991 to 1994, He was the first Dean of Resources of the Institute from 1995 to 1998. He was the founding head of the Kanwal Rekhi School of IT from 1998 to 2002. He briefly served as head of SJ Mehta School of management, from 2004 to 2005. He was Subrao M Nilekani Chair Professor, in the department of Computer Science and Engineering from 2000 to 2013. He currently serves as professor in the department of CSE.