Dr Gautam Shroff

Dr Gautam Shroff
Vice President & Chief Scientist, TCS Innovation Labs Delhi
Research Interests:
Data Analytics, Big-Data, Information Fusion, Artificial Intelligence, Software Architecture, Software
Engineering, and Scientific Computing
Education:
Dr Shroff graduated with a BTech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur, India, in 1985 and received his PhD in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
NY, USA, in 1990.
Publications:
Book:
“Enterprise Cloud Computing: Technology, Architectures, Applications”, Cambridge University Press,
October 2010
Papers/Keynotes in Refereed International Conferences / Journals
1. Franklin W.R., Bansal, R., Gilbert, E., Shroff, G, Debugging and tracing expert systems.
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, 1988.
2. Gautam Shroff and Robert Schreiber, On the Convergence of the Cyclic Jacobi Method for Parallel
Block Orderings SIAM J. Matrix Analysis and Applications, Volume 10 Issue 3, 1989
3. Gautam M. Shroff, A parallel algorithm for the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a general complex
matrix, Numerische Mathematik,Volume 58, No. 8 pages: 779-805, 1991
4. Christian H. Bischof and Gautam M. Shroff . On Updating Signal Subspaces. IEEE Transactions on
Signal Processing, 40(1):96-105, January 1992.
5. Gautam Shroff, Christian Bischof , Adaptive Condition Estimation for Rank-One Updates of QR
Factorizations SIAM J. Matrix Analysis and Applications, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1992

6. Gautam Shroff and Herbert Keller, Stabilization of Unstable Procedures: The Recursive Projection
Method, SINUM, Volume 30 Issue 4, 1993
7. Rekha Goel and Gautam Shroff, Transparent Parallel Replication of Logically Partitioned Databases,
3rd International Conference on High Performance Computing December 19-22, 1996 - Trivandrum,
India.
8. Rekha Goel and Gautam M. Shroff, Transparent parallel transactions on replicated autonomous
databases, In book Algorithms for Parallel Processing, Editors: Robert Schreiber, Michael T. Heath,
and Abhiram Ranade, IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, Springer, New York, page
117, Volume 105, 1999,
9. Christian H. Bischof and Gautam Shroff, Updating signal subspaces, Proceedings of SPIE -- Volume
1348, Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations, Franklin T. Luk,
Editor, November 1990, pp. 338-348
10. Gautam Shroff, Parallel algorithm for the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a general matrix,
Proceedings of SPIE -- Volume 1348, Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and
Implementations, Franklin T. Luk, Editor, November 1990, pp. 373-381
11. Gautam Shroff, “Industrialization of Software Development” – Proceedings of the World Computer
Congress – Beijing, August 2000.
12. Gautam Shroff & S.Santhanakrishnan, “Methodologies for Software Architecture” – International
Conference on Software and Systems Engineering – Paris, December 2001.
13. Gautam Shroff, SfleX: A Flexible Software Architecture for Utility Computing and Information
Appliances, International Conference on Software, Systems Engineering and Applications (Paris,
December 2003).
14. Gautam Shroff, Harpreet Singh Kanwar, and Ravi Govil, The fleX Architecture Framework Suite,
International Conference on Software, Systems Engineering and Applications (Paris, December
2002).
15. Bhatt Pankaj, Shroff Gautam, Misra Arun K., Dynamics of Software Maintenance, ACM SIGSOFT
Software Engineering Notes, Volume 29, Number 5, September 2004.
16. Gautam Shroff, Puneet Agarwal, and Abhiram Gandhe, JfleX: A Dynamic Model Driven Architecture
International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP’05), Las Vegas,
June 2005

17. Gautam Shroff, Anish Mehta, Puneet Agarwal, Rajesh Sinha, Collaborative Development of Business
Applications, The First International Conference on Collaborative Computing, IEEE Computer
Society, December 2005
18. Bhatt Pankaj, Shroff Gautam, Anantaram C., Misra Arun K., An Influence Model for Factors in
Outsourced Software Maintenance, Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and
Practice, 2006; 18:385–423
19. Bhatt Pankaj, Shroff Gautam, Williams, K., Misra Arun K., Factors and their Relationships in
Outsourced Software Maintenance, WMSCI 2006, Orlando, Florida, July 2006.
20. Bhatt Pankaj, Shroff Gautam, Anantaram C., Misra Arun K., On Factors in Outsourced Software
Maintenance, Software Engineering Conference (Russia), Moscow, Russia, November 2006.
21. Bhatt Pankaj, Shroff Gautam, Williams, K., Misra Arun K., An Empirical Study of Factors and their
Relationships in Outsourced Software Maintenance, 13th Asia Pacific Software Engineering
Conference, Bangalore, India, December 2006
22. Puneet Agarwal and Gautam Shroff: “Flexible Model-based Workflow without Flows” International
Conference on Software & Systems Engineering and their Applications, Paris Dec. 2008
23. Gautam Shroff: “Dev 2.0: Model Driven Development in the Cloud”, Keynote Address at the ACM
SIGSOFT Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Atlanta, November 2008
24. Gautam Shroff, Puneet Agarwal, Premkumar Devanbu, Instant Multi-tier Applications Without Tears,
2nd India Software Engineering Conference, Pune, India, Feb 2009
25. Gautam Shroff, Puneet Agarwal, Premkumar Devanbu, InstantApps: “A WYSIWYG Model Driven
Interpreter for Web Applications”, ICSE 2009 (International Conference on Software Engineering,
Vancouver CA, May 2009)
26. Prasun Dewan, Puneet Agarwal, Gautam Shroff, Rajesh Hegde: “Distributed Side-by-Side
Programming”, CHASE-09 Workshop of ICSE 2009 (International Conference on Software
Engineering, Vancouver CA, May 2009)
27. Gautam Shroff, Geetika Sharma, and Prasun Dewan: “Workplace Collaboration in a 3D Virtual
Office”, International Symposium on VR Innovation, IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, Singapore,
March 19-23 2011
28. Gautam Shroff, Puneet Agarwal, Lipika Dey: “Enterprise Information Fusion for Real-time Business
Intelligence, International Conference on Information Fusion, Chicago, July 2011

29. Gautam Shroff, Saurabh Sharma, Puneet Agarwal, Shefali Bhat: “A Blackboard Architecture for Data
Intensive Information Fusion using Locality Sensitive Hashing”, International Conference on
Information Fusion, Chicago, July 2011
30. Lipika Dey, Sk Mirajul Haque, Arpit Khurdiya, Gautam Shroff: : “Acquiring Competitive Intelligence
from Social Media, Joint Workshop on Multilingual OCR and Analytics for Noisy Data, International
Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Septermber 2011, Beijing