Harikumar Vasudevan Pillai Santhibhavan

Professor of Practice

About

Hari is a thought leader with extensive functional leadership experience in managing multi-disciplinary, high-performance teams of engineers, architects, and product owners across domains such as Telecom, Enterprise Application Development, and BFSI. He has built and nurtured technology teams in India, the US, Canada and Hungary, working with both government and private organizations including the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Hewlett-Packard, Bell Labs – Lucent Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, and Nokia Networks. Hari also ventured into entrepreneurship, serving as Group CTO and Managing Director at Testenium India Private Ltd. He is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore and holds a Master’s degree in Data Science Engineering from BITS Pilani.

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."" — William Butler Yeats"

Data Privacy

Encryption

Generative AI

DevOps

Research Interests

Agentic AI

Data Privacy

PMP from Project Management Institute, USA

"Innovator of Registers R&D” Award from Nokia Networks

Patent pending : 20194100210 Method and Apparatus for de-centralizing networks

Harikumar Vasudevan Pillai Santhibhavan

Professor of Practice

M.Tech (Data Science & Engineering)

School of Computer Science and Engineering