Rajat Moona

Director (Additional Charge) at Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara
In office 21 May 2023 – present
Director at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
In office 26 September 2022^[1] – present
Director at Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
In office 2017–2022^[1]
Director General of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
In office 2009–2017^[2]
Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
In office 1991–2011^[3]

Personal details
Born	Uttar Pradesh
Nationality	Indian
Residence(s)	Gandhinagar, India
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Profession	Professor Administrator Consultant
Known for	Computer Hardware and Architecture and VLSI Design
Website	www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/moona/

Rajat Moona is the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar from 2022 onwards. He is also serving as Director of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Vadodara on Additional Charge Basis from May 2023 onwards. He has served as director at Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai from 2017 to 2022. He was also a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur from 1991 to 2011 and Director General of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing from 2009 to 2017.^[4]^[2]

Early life

Work

He joined at IIT Kanpur as a faculty member in 1991.^[4] Between 1994 and 1995, he was a visiting scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[6] Later he was also associated with Mentor Graphics as Senior Engineering Manager. Here was involved in developing methods of translating software codes of electronic systems into hardware.^[7]

During his tenure at IIT Kanpur, he was involved in development of a smart card operating system for Electronic Passports.^[8] At C-DAC, he was instrumental on the SCOSTA^[9] compliant operating system development,^[10] and the technical improvements behind the Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) in India and Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) that uses RFID.^[11]

Indo-US Science and Technology Fellowship (1994)^[12]
Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair Professorship (2008)^[13]
VASVIK Industrial Research Award in Information and Communication Technology (2010)^[14]
National Award for Best Electoral Practices, Election Commission of India (2016, 2020-21)^[15]^[16]

Nandy, S K; Deogaonkar, Anuradha; Moona, Rajat; Madhuri, C Sudha (2 June 2015). "K-d Tree based Gridless Maze Routing on Message Passing Multiprocessor Systems". IETE Journal of Research. 36 (3–4): 287–293. doi:10.1080/03772063.1990.11436895.
Mujoo, Ashwani; Malviya, Manoj Kumar; Moona, Rajat; Prabhakar, T V (2000). "A Search Engine for Indian Languages". Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 1875: 349–358. doi:10.1007/3-540-44463-7_30. ISBN 978-3-540-67981-3.
Chandra, S.; Moona, R. (2000). "Retargetable functional simulator using high level processor models". VLSI Design 2000. Wireless and Digital Imaging in the Millennium. Proceedings of 13th International Conference on VLSI Design. IEEE Comput. Soc. pp. 424–429. doi:10.1109/ICVD.2000.812644. ISBN 0-7695-0487-6. S2CID 25990436.
Rajesh, V.; Moona, R. (January 1999). "Processor modeling for hardware software codesign". Proceedings Twelfth International Conference on VLSI Design. (Cat. No.PR00013). pp. 132–137. doi:10.1109/ICVD.1999.745137. ISBN 0-7695-0013-7. S2CID 2708772.
Moona, Rajat; Rajaraman, V. (December 1991). "A FIFO-based multicast network and its use in multicomputers". Microprocessors and Microsystems. 15 (10): 543–547. doi:10.1016/0141-9331(91)90013-6.

Compiling memory dereferencing instructions from software to hardware in an electronic design (2004)^[17]
Methods and systems for secured access to devices and systems (2006)^[18]
Method and system for using personal devices for authentication and service access at service outlets (2009)^[19]