Spanning 30+ years

Persistent Systems Limited (Dec 2002 – Oct 2023). Leadership Roles played:

1. Global Chief Information Officer
2.  Senior Vice President & General Manager of Industrial & IoT Solutions
3. SVP of Engineering for Products business of Persistent Systems (Accelerite)
4.  Global Chief Technology Officer responsible for global technology initiatives
5.  Head of Strategic Business – Cloud, Mobility, Collaboration and Analytics
6.  Head of Telecom Business

1. Part of CTO Office and responsible for architecture and evolution planning for Lucent’s internal WAN
2.  Network Researcher at Bell Labs working on emerging network technologies. Awarded 3 patents and authored multiple technical papers

1. Played significant roles in organizing Smart India Hackathon 2017, 18 & 19
2.  Evaluation Committee Member, Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation
   Achievements (ARIIA), an initiative of MHRD Innovation Council – 2019-2021

1. Recognized PhD Guide, Dept of Technology, SPPU. Co-guide for 1 student who successfully defended his PhD thesis in July 2022. On Ph.D Advisory panel for 3 students of SPPU.
2. Member, Board of Studies, Dept of IT, SPPU and PCCOE.
3. Member, Board of Management, Symbiosis Skills & Professional University (Pune & Indore) since 2019.
4. Member, Governing Body, RSCOE and VIIT (Pune)
5. Eminent Speaker of ACM, India. Active contributor in Teacher Partnership
   Program initiative of ACM since 2021.

1. Ph.D in Computer Science, Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA, 1997
   Thesis: “Multicast Routing in High Speed Networks”
2. M.Tech. in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1992
3. B.Tech. in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1988

1. US Patent No. 6144666, Technique for efficiently transporting information through an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) Network [2000]
2. US Patent No. 5946316, Dynamic Distributed Multicast Routing Protocol [1999]
3. US Patent No. 5831975, System and Method for Hierarchical Multicast Routing in ATM Networks [1998]
4. European Patent No. EP0854618A3, A dynamic distributed multicast routing protocol [1998]

1. Snehkumar Shahani, Jibi Abraham and R Venkateswaran, “Selection and Verification of Privacy Parameters for Local Differentially Privacy Data Aggregation”, In 5th International Conference on Information System and Data Mining (ICISDM2021), May 27-29, 2021, Silicon Valley, CA, USA, 10 pages.
2. Snehkumar Shahani, R Venkateswaran and Jibi Abraham. “Cost-based recommendation of parameters for local differentially private data aggregation”, Computers & Security, Volume 102, 2021, 102144, ISSN 0167-4048.
3.  Snehkumar Shahani, Jibi Abraham and R. Venkateswaran, “Distributed Data Aggregation with Privacy Preservation at Endpoint”, 21st International Conference on Management of Data, COMAD 2017, IIT-M, Chennai.

1. “QoS and Differentiated Services in a Multiservice Network Environment,” Bell Labs Tech. Journal, vol. 3, number 4, Oct-Dec. 1998. Co-author: Meera Balakrishnan.
2. “Improved VC-Merging for Multiway Communications in ATM Networks,” IEEE International Conf. On Computer Communications and Networks, Oct. 1998. Co-authors: S.Li, X.Chen, C.S.Raghavendra and N.Ansari.
3. “Support for Multiway Communications in ATM Networks,” IEEE ATM’98 Workshop, May 1998. Co-authors: C.S.Raghavendra, X.Chen and V.P.Kumar.
4.  “A Framework for QoS in Packet Switched Networks,” 14th Intl. Conf. On Advanced Science and Technology, pp. 136-149, April 1998. Co-author: Meera Balakrishnan.
5. “DMRP: A Distributed Multicast Routing Protocol for ATM Networks,” IEEE ATM’97 Workshop, May 1997. Co-authors: C.S.Raghavendra, X.Chen and V.P.Kumar.
6. “Support for Group Multicast in PNNI,” ATM Forum 97-0076, February 1997.
7. “A Scalable, Dynamic Multicast Routing Algorithm in ATM Networks,”, ICC’97, June 1997. Co-authors: C.S.Raghavendra, X.Chen and V.P.Kumar.
8. “Hierarchical Multicast Routing in ATM Networks,” ICC’96, June 1996. Co-authors: C.S.Raghavendra, X.Chen and V.P.Kumar.