Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram (Chair)  |
Profession:
Teaching and Research in the area of Photochemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland (since 1979) Academic formation: - B,Sc and M.Sc in Chemistry from Loyola College, Univ of Madras, Chennai, Tamilnadu - Ph.D in Physical Chemistry, Radiation Laboratory, Univ of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana USA; - Post-doctoral Research: Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, UK Tamil IT interests - one of the first to introduce "free" Tamil fonts (Mylai) on the Net for unrestricted information interchange in Mac, Windows and Unix platforms (for use in email, tamil websites) - author of popular "Tamil Electronic Library" website, one of maiden efforts to provide a comprehensive website of interest to Tamil Diaspora Location: E-Mail: |
Mr. T.N.C. Venkatarangan (Vice-Chair)  |
Profession:
Chairman & Managing Director, Vishwak Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Chennai, Tamilnadu Academic formation: MSDN Regional Director for Chennai (for the past 7 years) Member: Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN), IT interests
An expert on Web Technologies, Venkat leads a team at Vishwak that works closely with global portals providing them a wide variety of solutions. With his strong analytical skills and expertise in .NET technologies, Venkat has been driving the delivery of value-added services to MSN India for the past 5 years. He was instrumental in shaping Vishwak's foray into Mobile portal services with the development of a world class solution for the Hutch GPRS portal. Venkat encourages his team to thoroughly understand the pain areas of the customers and inspires the team to develop sound products and solutions based on the understanding. |
Dr. Badri Seshadri (Member)  |
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Chairman & Managing Director, New Horizon Media Private Limited, Chennai, Tamilnadu Academic formation:
B.Tech, (Mech. Engg), Indian Inst of Technology, Chennai Ph.D. 1993, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA Activities:
- along with several others had co-founded Cricinfo.com, the largest single-sport website on the internet where Badri held several postions (COO, CTO, MD, Director Commercial)till 2005 when he launched a multilingual Indian Book Publishing House,New Horizon Media Private Limited. |
| Mr. Maalan Narayanan (Member) |
Profession: Media Director, Writer, Journalist Academic formation: Masters in Journalism, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA . Activities A writer- journalist, lead the premier Tamil journals namely India Today(Tamil), Dinamani , Kumudam and Kungumam as its editor. - Editor -Thisaigal, First Online Tamil e-zine. - Maalan has 10 titles to his credit. He has also edited an anthology of Tamil Short stories, in two volumes for Orient Longmans Ltd. - Microsoft is on a project to bring its premier products like MS Office 2003 in Tamil and he has been asked by Microsoft to be the validator of the softwares. - He is also the Moderator for the Tamil Glossary of IT terms another project by Microsoft. . -- Associated with INFITT for many years, Editor of its technical journal MinManjari. Location: New Delhi, India E-Mail: maalan AT gmail.com |
Mr.Jeyatheepan Ulagaprakasam (Member)  |
Profession: Electrical and Electronics Engineer & Management Accountant Academic formation: Masters in Journalism, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA . Activities Executive Council Member, International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT) - Director of Finance, Tamil Information Technology Association - Member, Language Requirement Work Group - ICT Agency of Sri Lanka - Member, Tamil Standards Work Group - ICT Agency of Sri Lanka - Member, Eelam Tamil Archives Location:Sydney, Australia E-Mail: jeya AT globalitlabs.com |
| Dr. Vasu Renganathan (Member) |
Profession: Faculty, Penn Language Center, Univ.. of Pennsylvania Academic formation: Ph.D in Tamil Linguistics, Annamalai University, Tamilnadu Activities Areas of specialization include Tamil language, linguistics and literature. Fields of interest in linguistics include syntax, phonology, computational linguistics and language teaching. Location: Philadelphia, USA E-Mail: vasur AT gmail.com |
| Mr. S. Maniam (Member) |
Profession: Academic formation: Activities Location: Singapore E-Mail: |
| Mr. R. Kalaimani (Member) |
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| Mr.Ravindran K. Paul (Member) |
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| Mr. Va.Mu.Se. Kavi Arasan (Executive Director) |
Profession: Academic formation: Activities Location: OHIO, USA E-Mail:kaviarasan AT yahoo DOT com |
| Mr. Ilakkuvanar MaraiMalai |
Profession: Academic formation: Activities Location: Chennai, India E-Mail: |
Mr. RM. Krishnan  |
Profession: Academic formation: Activities Location: Chennai, India E-Mail: |
| Mr. A. Elangovan |
Profession: Academic formation: Activities Location: Chennai, India E-Mail: |
| Mr. Satish Kumar |
Profession: Academic formation: Activities Location: Bangaluru, India E-Mail: |
| Mr. N. Kannan |
Profession: Academic formation: Activities Location: South Korea E-Mail: |
| Mr. T Thavaruban |
Profession: Academic formation: Activities Location: Jaffna North Sri Lanka E-Mail: |