Modern Application Development I

Thejesh GN is an Electronics and Communication graduate from Bangalore, India. He started his career as a software engineer at Infosys technologies limited. He was awarded Infosys Community Empathy Fellowship in 2010, which allowed him to work for a not-for-profit organization for a year. He was also a senior software engineer for NPTEL / CourseBuilder team, which is now offered as Seek, an Open Source Online Education delivery platform.

He loves free and open-source software. He has been an active contributor to various open-source projects. He was awarded IBM Champion in the years 2018 and 2019. Currently, he runs DataMeet – India's biggest Open Data Community and works as an Engineering Head.

Nitin Chandrachoodan received his BTech (electronics and communication engineering) from IIT Madras in 1996, and PhD from the University of Maryland at College Park in 2002, in the area of high-level synthesis techniques for mapping DSP algorithms to architectures. He has been with the department of electrical engineering at IIT Madras since 2004, where he is currently an professor.

His research interests include digital systems design and design automation tools and techniques, as well as design of embedded systems with a special focus on assistive technologies. He has taught graduate courses on digital integrated circuit design and on mapping algorithms to architectures, and a UG course on data structures and algorithms, as well as a laboratory course on digital design using FPGAs. He is an associate editor of the Springer Journal of Signal Processing Systems.