Prof. K. K. Aggarwal, eminent IT expert and Vice Chancellor of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, recently took over as the President of the prestigious South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC) for the year 2009-10.

Established in 1978, SEARCC is a confederation of non-political and non-profit making Computer/ IT professional societies in the South East Asia region. The member countries of SEARCC include Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand. Prof. Aggarwal, who was elected as Vice President of SEARCC for 2008-09 and President-elect for 2009-10 assumed his responsibilities at the ‘25th SEARCC Conference’ held in Chennai from September 10th -13th , 2008. The SEARCC Conference was held jointly with the ‘43rd Annual Convention of Computer Society of India’ (CSI), in association with Confederation of Indian Industries on the theme ‘Connected Society’.

Prof. Aggarwal, who is also the National President of CSI, is widely recognized for his extensive work in the field of Electronics & Computer Engineering. He has published over 300 papers in national and international journals of repute and has delivered lectures at several Universities in India and abroad. Prof. Aggarwal has earlier been the Sectional President of IT Section in Indian Science Congress Association, Chairman of DOEACC (a society, fully owned by Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Govt. of India), and also the President of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers. Besides many other awards and recognitions bestowed on him, Prof. Aggarwal has been conferred the ‘Rajkumar Varshney Award’ in Systems Theory for the year 2006 by the Systems Society of India as an acknowledgment of his excellent contributions towards Reliability Analysis of Engineering Systems.

As the President of SEARCC, Prof. Aggarwal will be able to contribute significantly towards the systematic development and growth of Information Technology, Computer Science Engineering and Technology and IT Education in this region, and in creation of a Knowledge-based society. It was largely due to his efforts that the SEARCC Conference was held in India after almost 20 years.

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