Dr. S. Sridhar is currently Distinguished Advisor, Infinite-Sum Modeling Inc,USA and Founder President and CEO of Sbyte Technologies, Chennai . Dr. Sridhar, a renowned academic administrator and an internationally reputed expert in the field of Information Technology, has overall 43+ years of combined experience in academic and corporate world. He was blessed to work with Dr.APJ Kalamji. His academic qualifications include M.Sc., M. Phil. in Mathematics from University of Madras (1979) and Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering from JNU Delhi (1984). .
He served the first half of his career, around two decades, in corporate sector in renowned organizations like ONGC, India (1980-1994) and Sharjah International Airport, UAE (1994-2000). At ONGC, his last role was of Joint Director and he headed the Regional Computer Centres in multiple city offices for technical data processing like seismic, drilling and reservoir with a lot of high end modeling techniques. About 30 R and;D projects worth for INR 30Cr., were successfully completed under his leadership. At Sharjah International Airport, he served as Director IT and led the Department of Management Information Services (MIS) to provide comprehensive and high quality services, for the modernization of the airport, in tune with state of art technology and carried out 42 MNC Projects worth for INR 420Cr..Dr Sridhar served the second half of his career, around two decades, in education sector. He has worked as Vice Chancellor of Dayananda Sagar Institutions, Bangalore (2006-08) , President and Vice Chancellor of Dr. K N Modi University, Rajasthan (2017-19) and Vice Chancellor Designate of Kuvembu University Karnataka(2013-17) to run PhD programs at RVCE, Bangalore. He has also served as Director in SKR Engineering College, Chennai (2011-13) and R V College of Engineering, Bengaluru (2013-17) and many other Anna University affiliated engineering institutions, Chennai and Tamil Nadu. He was instrumental in transforming many Engineering institutions to the level of Universities with quality implementation process like NBA, NAAC, Centres of Excellence, Research and Incubation centres and funded projects through AICTE / DST / TIFAC to the tune of INR 15Cr.. He has served as Chief Examiner / Chair for many international universities like NAU, USA; AGU, Dubai; Skyline University, UAE; BITS-Dubai and MAHE Dubai. He has also served as Visiting Professor to foreign Universities, IIMA, IITD and Anna University Chennai.
He has published 339 research items and listed in researchgate.net with full text of papers published in International / National journals of reputation with good impact factor, and other projects, data etc., for use by students, faculty and other research scholars. He has guided 20 PhD scholars under various Universities as Supervisor and all of them were awarded degrees. He has co-authored two books namely, Principles of Distributed DBMS and another on Data Mining jointly with Canadian authors by Pearson Publications and eight books as solo author for Lambert German Publishers. He has organised many International and National conferences / workshops as Technical Chair and Editor in Chief for the proceedings. He has also served as Advisor to multiple International bodies and many engineering institutions in India for technical development.
He received Gold shields from Sharjah International Airport, UAE, three times as Best Director and was also selected as Best IT Professional by USA committee three times and listed in www.whoiswho-online.com . He has also received multiple National Awards in India for outstanding contributions in the fields of Education, Research and Consultancy work.
Dr Sridhar says, "I owe a lot to the following members::- Mother : Late Mrs.VijayaLakshmi ,Ever rememberable ! , Father : Late Sri.V.Seshadri , Lot of inspirations ! , Uncle : Sri.V.S.Raghavan , A dictionary of qualities ! , Cousin: Prof.P R Srinivasan , A man of motivation ! Guides(Ph.D.) Prof.M.S.Rangachari and Late Prof.N.P.Mukherjee (Remarkable guides !) "
His hobbies are :: Reading, Digital transformation, drawing and painting , web-designing and meeting friends periodically, Digital promotion , Web browsing, listening to music
