Object-Oriented Programming

Dr. Deepak B Phatak has been working with IIT Bombay since 1971. His main concern is improvement in the quality of education commensurate with the Indian national aspirations, on a larger scale. Towards this end, he has dovetailed the synchronous distance education, which he started 15 years ago at IIT Bombay, into an innovative program for training 10,000 teachers at a time. He believes in developing affordable technological solutions. He headed the national initiative on Aakash tablets. He has been an advisor and IT consultant to organizations and companies, and has worked on many company boards. He has won several distinctions and awards. He has been conferred ‘Padma Shri’ by Government of India.

Prof Supratik Chakraborty received his BTech from IIT Kharagpur, and MS and PhD from Stanford University. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay, where he has been teaching since 2000. His broad research interests are in theory and applications of formal methods, automata theory and logic. He has also worked on asynchronous systems in the past. He has taught several courses including Topics in Mathematical Foundations of Formal Verification, Formal Specification and Verification of Programs, Automata Theory and Logic, and Formal Methods in Computer Science, at IIT Bombay.

Nagesh Karmali is a Sr. Manager (Research) in the Dept. of CSE at IIT Bombay and heads the Fundamental Research Group. He is associated with IIT Bombay since 2005. His broad research areas are in the field of Parallel Databases, Big Data Analytics, Adaptive Recommendation Systems, Peer Evaluation Systems, etc. His interests also lies in Category Theory, Control Theory, System Dynamics, Music Theory, etc. He has mentored over 70 B Tech, DD, and M Tech theses since 2008. He maintains a wiki for his research projects, which can be accessed at www.it.iitb.ac.in/frg/wiki. He also likes to travel across villages and learn from the local people.

Firuza Karmali, aka Firuza Aibara, is working as a Project Manager, at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Bombay since 2011. She obtained her Masters in Information Technology from D G Ruparel College, Mumbai, affiliated with the University of Mumbai, in 2010. She has so far authored eight books: A Short Introduction to LaTeX, Cheatsheet for LaTeX, HTML5 for Beginners, Computer Concepts and Programming in C, etc. All her books have been
well received amongst teachers as well as students for their simple and lucid examples. She has a keen interest in programming, documentation, proof-reading and editing, etc.. She loves travelling, learning languages, meeting people of different cultures, and exploring various cuisines.