The Awards were supported by Ms. Sheila Mehta, Director, Onward Foundation for Dewang Mehta Awards. The Chairman of the jury was Dr. Prasad Medury, Partner, Amrop International.
Prof. Bhasker is a Senior Professor at IIM Lucknow in the area of Information Technology and Systems. In addition, as a principal investigator, he is responsible for setting up Internet Commerce Research Center in IIM Lucknow, to conduct research and development in the focus area of Internet Commerce with the objective of growth of Internet Commerce in India. He received and managed a grant for implementing the IIMNet (an Intranet of four Indian Institute of Management in India) worth Rs.1, 000,000 from Digital Equipment Corporation (India) Ltd.
Prof. Bhasker is responsible for the Consulting, Executive /Management Development Programs, Library, Computer Centre, planning, budget and new developmental activities of the institute including the setting up of a new campus of the institute at NOIDA.
Prof. Bhasker has worked across the globe in various capacities. He has worked at NASA for seven years as Group Manager, Hughes STX Inc, 4400 Forbes Blvd., Lanham, MD 20706 at Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA; He has worked in the corporate sector in the US having been a Consultant at Connectix Corp., San Mateo, California; Project Director at SYBASE INC, Emeryville, CA; Principal Scientist at MDL Information Systems Inc., San Leandro, CA and as a Systems Analyst, Computer and Information Systems, Tata Steel Ltd., India.
Prof. Bhasker has rich and diverse experience in academia and has been a Visiting Professor at ESSEC Business School, Paris, France and University of Texas, Dallas, USA. He was a Distinguished Professor at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, was a Research Professor at University of California, Riverside, USA and Adjunct Faculty at Information Systems, Univ. of Maryland, College Park.
Prof. Bhasker has rendered professional consulting services in the area of Information systems planning, network design, electronic commerce to Ernst and Young, BHEL, NABARD, HPCL, Government of UP.
Prof. Bhasker holds a Ph.D in Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Dissertation: "Query Processing in Heterogeneous Distributed Database Management Systems". He has published over 80 research papers in International Journals and Conferences and is the author of three books in Electronic Commerce: Framework, Technologies & Applications.
