Timothy A. Gonsalves

Timothy Aloysius Gonsalves (born 20 June 1954) is a computer scientist and professor. During his academic career, he has been founder/co-founder of several institutions and companies. These include founder of Nilgiri Networks (P) Ltd, co-founder of NMSWorks Software (P) Ltd, co-founder of the TeNeT Group[1] and RTBI at IIT Madras, and IIT Mandi Catalyst. Most notably, he was the founding Director of IIT Mandi in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh from Jan. 2010 to Jun. 2020. He is currently Professor Emeritus (Honorary) at IIT Mandi.[2] His academic interests include Education for engineers of the future, Computer networks, Distributed systems, Telecom software and Performance evaluation among others.

Timothy A. Gonsalves
Founding Director of IIT Mandi
In office
15 January 2010 – 30 June 2020
Personal details
Born20 June 1954
Ooty
ResidenceKamand, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India
Alma materStanford University
Rice University
IIT Madras
ProfessionAdministrator, Professor
Websitehttp://www.ptag.in/

Early life and education

Gonsalves born on 20 June 1954, is a native of Ooty, Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu. He graduated from Breeks Memorial School, Ooty, and completed his higher education as follows:

Research
  • Design and Implementation of integrated computer and telecom networking systems
  • LAN switching
  • IP Switching
  • DECT-based wireless networks
  • Network Management
  • CTI and operating systems for embedded systems

Other activities

Gonsalves is a founding member of TeNeT group and has been actively involved in guiding the incubation of many Technology companies from the TeNet Group including Midas Communications, Banyan Networks, NMSWorks and iSoftech. Gonsalves also holds several patents and has presented many award winning research oriented papers. He also serves as Consultant to State Bank of India and IDRBT.

Gonsalves is involved in the development of products and technology in computer networks and telecommunications, especially aimed at mass markets in developing countries and also in the promotion of software development in rural areas. He translates his goals into tangible actions in his capacity as Director of Rural Technology Business Incubator (RTBI) and Nilgiri Networks.

Institution Building: Founding Director, IIT Mandi

Prof. Gonsalves took charge as the first full-time Director of IIT Mandi in January 2010. Under his leadership, IIT Mandi has grown to from an Institute with only 97 students in 2009 to one with 1655 students (2019-20) and has graduated over 1100 alumni. It has a vibrant research culture, with 125 faculty who have brought in external research funding to the tune of Rs. 110 Cr.[3][4]  From a green-field project initiated in 2009, IIT Mandi today has 1.4 lakh sq. mt. constructed space with residential, academic and recreational facilities at par with the best higher education institutions in the world.[5][6][7].

In the National Framework Institute Ranking of the Government of India (2019), IIT Mandi was ranked 20th among engineering colleges in India, and best Institute among all categories in Himachal Pradesh.[8]  Within a decade of its establishment, IIT Mandi has earned praise, including from the Indian Vice-President, and the Governor and Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, for establishing its unique identity in the education map of the country.[9]

Prof. Gonsalves was instrumental in setting up Catalyst, the first technology business incubator in Himachal Pradesh, in 2016. He also serves as the Chairman of its Board of Governors. Catalyst has helped over 75 startups since 2017, and is changing both the industry profile and entrepreneurial mindset in Himachal Pradesh.[10]  So far, Catalyst has secured external funding of Rs. 24 Cr from various funding agencies.[11][12]

In 2019, IIT Mandi became the first IIT to introduce a B. Tech. programme in Data Science.[13][14][15]  Prof. Gonsalves has mentored other educational institutes in Himachal Pradesh by serving on their board. He has served as the Vice-Chairman of the State Higher Education Council, Himachal Pradesh (2014 – 2017), and as the Chairman, Board of Governors, Jawaharlal Nehru Government Engineering College, Sundernagar, Himachal Pradesh (2012 – 2017).

Prof. Gonsalves has been appointed the National Project Coordinator for FarmerZone, a project that harnesses artificial intelligence for crop management advisories to small and medium farmers, initially helping over 1000 potato farmers in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. This prestigious project is funded to the tune of Rs. 9.7 cr (2018-2021) by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.[16]  Another example of IIT Mandi achieving national leadership during his tenure: in 2018 IIT Mandi was nominated as the nodal institution for Germany in the nationwide SPARC (international researchers’ mobility) programme of Ministry of Human Resource Development.[17][18]

In keeping with IIT Mandi’s vision to bridge the gap between academia and the local community, Prof. Gonsalves initiated ‘Prayas’, a citizen’s forum with residents and administrators in Mandi town, and serves as its Chairman[19].

After over 10 years of his contribution as founding Director of IIT Mandi, he stepped down on 30 June 2020, leaving IIT Mandi with a strong foundation.  Thereafter, Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi, Director of IIT Roorkee, took the charge of Director of IIT Mandi temporarily after Prof. Gonsalves continues his association with IIT Mandi as Professor Emeritus (Honorary) since 1 July 2020.[20]

Initiative to increase female enrollment in the Indian Institutes of Technology

In 2017 he chaired the Joint Admissions Board (JAB) sub-committee for increasing female enrollment in B.Tech. in IITs.[21][22] The committee recommended increase in female enrollment in IITs from 8% in 2016 to 14% in 2018-19, 17% in 2019-20 and 20% in 2020-21 by creating supernumerary seats.[23][24][25] As a result of this effort, and additional efforts at IIT Mandi including scholarships for female students and the setting up of a help-desk, IIT Mandi admitted 20.22 percent female students to its B. Tech programme for the Academic Year 2019-20. That is, there were 53 female students among a total of 262 BTech students admitted that year.This is the highest proportion of female students in a BTech programme in any of the 23 IITs.[26] This effort has been a national success as well: Female enrollment in BTech in all IITs more than doubled from 8% in 2016 to 18% in 2019.[27][28]

Five Week Induction Programme for BTech Students

Since 2016, under Prof. Gonsalves' leadership, IIT Mandi has organized a unique, fully faculty-mentored induction or orientation programme for its new BTech students. The aim of this five-week programme is to provide training to the new students and help them in the transition from school to college, to improve their respective skills and proficiency, and to help them to appreciate the significance of engineering’s societal connect.[29][30]

Personal life
Priscilla and Timothy Gonsalves, August 2019

Gonsalves is married to Priscilla Tapley Gonsalves and has two daughters, Danica Gonsalves and Kartiki Gonsalves. He is an avid amateur photographer and has contributed photographs to Wikimedia Commons.[31][32]

Selected Publications
  • T. A. Gonsalves; F.A. Tobagi (1988). "On the Performance Effects of Station Locations and Access Protocol Parameters in Ethernet Networks". IEEE Transactions on Communications. IEEE. 36 (4): 441–449. doi:10.1109/26.2768. ISSN 0090-6778.
  • T. A. Gonsalves; F.A. Tobagi (1989). "Comparative Performance of Voice/Data Local Area Networks". IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. IEEE. 7 (5): 657–669. doi:10.1109/49.32329. ISSN 0733-8716.
  • T. A. Gonsalves (1993). "High-Speed Transport Protocols: Design and Implementation Issues". IETE Journal of Research. IETE. 39 (2): 99–109. doi:10.1080/03772063.1993.11437103.
  • A. Jhunjhunwala; M. Archana Rao; B. Murugesh; T. A. Gonsalves; B. Ramamurthi (1993). "A Reliable Fibre-Optic Ring Network for Process Control". International Journal of Optoelectronics. 8: 477–491.
  • S. Mahesh; C. Sivaram Murthy; T. A. Gonsalves; C. Pandurangan (1995). "Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Job Scheduling in Multiprocessor Systems". International Journal of Computer Mathematics. Taylor & Francis. 58 (3–4): 221–247. doi:10.1080/00207169508804445.
  • B. Sain; T. A. Gonsalves (1997). "KeRTESy: A Real-Time Event-driven Microkernel". Dr Dobb's Journal. UBM Technology Group: 48–58.
  • A. Jhunjhunwala; B. Ramamurthi; T. A. Gonsalves (1998). "The Role of Technology in Telecom Expansion in India". Computer Communications Magazine. IEEE. 36 (11): 88–94. doi:10.1109/35.733480. ISSN 0163-6804.
  • A. Jhunjhunwala; B. Ramamurthi; T. A. Gonsalves (1998). "The Role of Technology in Telecom Expansion in India". Computer Communications Magazine. IEEE. 36 (11): 88–94. doi:10.1109/35.733480. ISSN 0163-6804.
  • A. Balaji; T. A. Gonsalves; R. Kumar (1998). "The Performance of the corDECT Voice/Data Wireless Local Loop". IETE Journal of Research. Taylor and Francis. 46 (6): 489–503. doi:10.1080/03772063.2000.11416193.
  • E. Elwin Stelzer; T.A. Gonsalves (1999). "Embedding RMON in Large LAN Switches". IEEE Network. 13 (1): 63–72. doi:10.1109/65.750451. ISSN 0890-8044.
  • D. Venkatesulu; T. A. Gonsalves (1999). "Efficient Fault-tolerant Reliable Broadcast in a Multi-switch Extended LAN". Computer Communications. Elsevier BV. 22 (3): 266–278. doi:10.1016/s0140-3664(98)00256-4. ISSN 0140-3664.
  • D. Venkatesulu; T. A. Gonsalves (2000). "On the Performance of Distributed Objects". Journal of Systems Architecture. Elsevier BV. 46 (5): 411–428. doi:10.1016/s1383-7621(99)00023-5.
  • D. M. Divakaran; H. A. Murthy; T. A. Gonsalves (2006). Traffic Modeling and Classification Using Packet Train Length and Packet Train Size. International Workshop on IP Operations and Management. Dublin, Ireland: IEEE. doi:10.1007/11908852_1. (Best Paper Award)
  • C. Jagdish; V. Jammula; T. A. Gonsalves (2008). "Low-cost DCN for rural telecom network management". International Journal of Network Management. Wiley. 18: 15–26. doi:10.1002/nem.645.
  • C. Jagdish; T. A. Gonsalves (2009). "Distributed Control of Performance Management Traffic with Accuracy Objectives". International Journal of Network Management. Wiley. 19: 465–478. doi:10.1002/nem.722.
  • C. Jagdish; T. A. Gonsalves (2009). "Distributed control of event floods in a large telecom network". International Journal of Network Management. Wiley. 20: 57–70. doi:10.1002/nem.728.
  • R. Madanagopal; N. Usha Rani; T. A. Gonsalves (2010). "Path Computation Algorithms for Dynamic Service Provisioning with Protection and Inverse Multiplexing in SDH/SONET Networks". IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. ACM. 18 (5): 1492–1504. doi:10.1109/TNET.2010.2043538.
  • Deepti Kumar; T. A. Gonsalves; A. Jhunjhunwala; G. Raina (2010). Mobile Payment Architectures for India. National Conference On Communications. Chennai: IEEE. pp. 410–415. doi:10.1109/NCC.2010.5430160.
  • R. Singh; T. A. Gonsalves (2015). "A Pragmatic Approach Towards Secure Sharing of Digital Objects". Security and Communication Networks. Wiley. 8 (18): 3914–3926. doi:10.1002/sec.1310.
  • S. Gupta; A.D. Dileep; T. A. Gonsalves (2018). "A Joint Multivariate Feature Selection Framework for Resource Workload Prediction in Cloud using Stability and Prediction Performance". The Journal of Super Computing. Springer. 74 (11): 6033–6068. doi:10.1007/s40012-020-00268-6.
  • R. Singh; T. A. Gonsalves (2018). "Using Ontologies to Share Access Control Information in Rural Business Process Outsourcing". IETE Journal of Research, Published Online. Taylor and Francis. doi:10.1080/03772063.2018.1527259.
  • T. A. Gonsalves (2020). "Musings on change: driver for SDN". CSI Transactions on ICT. Springer. 2020: 657–669. doi:10.1007/s40012-020-00268-6.
  • Snehal Shete; Srikant Srinivasan; Timothy A. Gonsalves (2020). "TasselGAN: An Application of the Generative Adversarial Model for Creating Field-Based Maize Tassel Data". Plant Phenomics: 657–669. doi:10.34133/2020/8309605.
  • M. Sundar; Sriram K.; T.A. Gonsalves (2020). Benchmarking Distributed Stream Processing Frameworks for Real Time Classical Machine Learning Applications. 11th International Conference On Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies(ICCCNT). IIT Kharagpur: IEEE.


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