Digital Piracy detection and Control

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Published on March 21, 2005 By Tripathi In Business

Proforma for Submitting R&D Project Proposal for seeking Financial Support

1. Title of Project : A study for the development of Methodologies, Detection
Tools for Digital Contents Plagiarism and other Piracies
2. Organisation
a. Name : Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
b. Address : Deemed University, Ettimadai campus, Coimbatore – 641 105
c. Legal Status : Deemed University under UGC
3.Chief Investigator :
a. Name : Dr. K P Soman
b. Designation : Professor & Head
c. Department : Centre of Excellence in Computational Engineering &
Networking
d. Address : Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,
Deemed University, Ettimadai Campus,
Coimbatore, India – 641 105
4. Nature of the Project : Application oriented Research, Design and
Development having production potential
5. Objective & scope of the Project:
The project aims to study the extent of software piracy and other digital content piracy in India, the methods by which piracy is done, and also the common methods adopted by organizations to curtail piracy of their intellectual properties.
The project also aims at finding or developing softwares used for detecting digital content plagiarism.
The project also intends to make a comparative assessment of the legal framework for intellectual property rights protection in India, and a few other countries.
6. Brief outline of the project with specific technology fallouts

A. For texts, softwares which may have some or all of the following features

i) To detect various file formats used for standard public documents
like .pdf and .doc

ii) To convert the used file format (text) to a standard format for piracy analysis

iii) To normalize and compare the target documents and report number of
consecutive words, lines, paragraphs, pages, pixels etc. which overlap

iv) To analyse the above found overlap based on fair use provisions and
infringements clauses in the Copyright Law and generate a standard report
in respect of plagiarism or any other piracy made including its mechanism

v) Finally, development of a Computer Software tool to quantify overlap
of text and graphics in target documents and generate Copyright Alert
Reports.

B. For Computer Software Piracy

i) To study the feasibility of detecting various computer programming & scripting languages used in source code of popular software packages used by masses e.g. for works in (a) Office Automation, (

Advertising, (c) Architectural drafting (d) Internet/web transmission, (e) Hardware programming e.g. VHDL, Verilog etc.

ii) To document ways and methods used for their security and to detect
their piracy using possible standard disassemblers or developing tools of
that type

iii) To assess the current extent and methods of countrywide piracy
and its curtailment/security measures in India

iv) To suggest possible remedial measures so as to curtail present level of software piracy to an acceptable level in the next 3 years.

C. Comparative study of the legal framework regarding protection of Intellectual Property Rights protection of India, and a few other countries.

7. Expected outcome in physical terms (as applicable)
Softwares : Specifications and development
8. Agency with which link up is established/proposed (including agency abroad):
To be identified
9. Duration of project : 2 years

10. Year-wise breakup of physical achievements with specific intermediate
milestones (in terms of aims and objectives)
1st year : Secondary research, Comparative assessment of the legal systems regarding IPR protection in India and a few countries, Pilot survey, development of instruments for data collection, detailed survey, analysis.
2nd year : Continuation of the survey, Development of specifications for the software, design and development
11. Likely End User(s) : The Department of Information Technology,
Government of India. The project will be useful not only in gauging the extent of software piracy and other digital contents piracy in India, and the various measures being adopted to curtail piracy, but will also be helpful in initiating improvements in the legal framework (if needed) by keeping in mind the above, as well as the comparative study of the relevant laws of various countries.
12. Name of other organizations jointly participating in the project (including
organization abroad) – NIL

13. Total Budget outlay

Capital Equipment
Books and documents
Consumable Stores
Manpower
Travel/Training
Contingencies/other expenditure
Overheads, if any
Total

Total Expenses = Rupees Forty one lakhs and ninety two thousand only

14. a) Contribution of Project Implementing/ Rs. & other Organization in Total Budget Outlay
We will provide the infrastructure and expert manpower to conduct the research

. MIT Contribution Rs. : Rs. 41.92 Lakhs

Signature of the Signature of the
Chief Investigator Head of the Institution/Organisation
With Designation and Date With Designation and Date

Additional Information Required:
1) Wherever applicable, under S.No. 13, share of the industry collaborating agency,
any other assistance and MIT's Support required in the total cost of the Project may
be provided under various budget heads.
2) Brief history of the electronics company including products being made, capacities,
related collaborators, achievements, capabilities etc. may be provided (including
recent annual reports and company brochure).

3) Please indicate recent major achievements of in house R & D unit of the electronics
company in development of new products/processes, technology export, patents
taken etc. and whether in-house R & D unit of the firm is recognized by DSIR.
· Amrita Research Labs (ARL) is now well recognized for its leadership in hot new wireless technologies, namely WiFi (the IEEE 802.11x family of standards). One of the biggest drawbacks of wireless technologies today is security, and in solving them is where ARL has made great strides. Based on these inventions, ARL has created smart communication systems for a variety of next generation, high security, field deployments. In addition, innovative products such as the “Amrita Virtual Private Network” and the “Amrita Safe Lock”, have also received significant interest by several organizations around the globe.
Sky Bus is Konkan Railways’ futuristic high-tech transportation solution for metropolitan cities. Konkan had chosen Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham for developing the electronics for control, communication and anti-collision devices for its first Sky Bus test track.
· Amrita-BARC center for Advanced Research in Secure Data Acquisition and Networking was launched at Amritapuri campus by Director of BARC on February 1, 2004. Cutting edge research in areas like information security, secure operating systems and secure protocols are being carried out by scientists and engineers who have joined Amrita from reputed international companies such as Pacific Bell, Oracle, Sun, University of California, ATI etc.
· Further more, on May 15, 2004, the Amrita-BARC Center for VLSI Design and Development was launched at the Coimbatore Campus.
· As a result of the Satellite based education and research network, that we have set up in collaboration with ISRO, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is strategically positioned to lead the way in multi-disciplinary higher education, research, and technology innovation as they are applied to multitudes of disciplines and societal needs. Experts from academia and industry can interact live with the students and professors at different Amrita campuses.
The University has already undertaken several R & D projects earlier with organizations like ISRO, DRDO, BARC, NPOL, Konkan Railways, Ashok Leyland etc.

4) Any other information in support of the proposal - NIL

PART I: BACKGROUND INFORMATION
1. Title of the Project : A study for the development of Methodologies, Detection Tools for Digital Contents Plagiarism and other Piracies

2. (i)Chief Investigator : Dr. K P Soman
Professor & Head
Centre of Excellence in Computational Engineering &
Networking, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,
Ettimadai, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
(ii)Co-Investigator : Mr. A. V. Shyam,
Faculty Associate
Amrita School of Business
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,
Ettimadai, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
3. Other Investigators of the Project
with their designations : Dr. Deepak Gupta
Associate Professor,
Amrita School of Business
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,
Ettimadai, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
: Dr. Biresh Sahoo
Associate Professor,
Amrita School of Business
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,
Ettimadai, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
4. Brief Bio-data of Chief (Please attach separate sheets) Investigator and other Investigators(including publication/patents):
Attached separately
5. Competence of Investigator in Project Area :
(including Industry interaction /Technology transfer)
Holds experience of 15 years in teaching and research in computational sciences. Heading the Centre for excellence in Computational Engineering & Networking. Has conducted national level workshops in the area of Bioinformatics, high performance computing, data mining, wavelets and chaos theory, e-commerce technologies etc. Has undertaken three R&D projects for ISRO and NPOL. Has authored a book on “wavelets”. He has also contributed a chapter for a book published by Springer Verlag on “Reliability and safety analyses under fuzziness” in 1995. Two more books are to be released this year in the areas of data mining and high performance computing. Currently he is working on several computational approaches for protein fold prediction.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is always in the forefront to the support of Bioinformatics and Dr. Soman was the Organizing Secretary for the winter school for two weeks in December, 2003 which was sponsored by AICTE. During this workshop we used state-of-the-art opensource and freeware softwares like Darwin (Developed at University of Zurich, Switzerland). Dr. Soman has also developed several parallel algorithms that is applied in the areas of Bioinformatics.
6. Other Commitments of the Chief Investigator and Co-Investigators (including lectures, research projects responsibilities etc.). Indicate the percentage of time the Chief Investigator and Co-Investigator would devote to the project
The chief investigator is working in the field of high performance computing, Computer security for the past several years and is currently guiding many M.Tech and PhD candidates in these areas and also is working for several funded projects. He will devote 50% of his time for this project.
The co-investigators have teaching commitments in the MBA programme of the Amrita School of Business, and other some administrative responsibilities. They will devote 60% of their time for this project.

7. Details on each of the ongoing/completed projects with the Chief Investigator/
Co-Investigator/R&D Team
a. i) Project Title : Target Identification using Support Vector Machines.
ii).Funding Agency (or internal funding): Navel Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory
iii).Brief Project Summary : This project aims at developing parallel algorithms for target identification using support vector machines. The novelty of the algorithm lies in adaptive incremental learning in which algorithm adapt to new data sets.
iv).Technical Status vis-a-vis objectives :
v).Financial Status (Total Project outlay: Rs. 10 Lakhs.
expenditure to date)
vi).Duration and year of initiation:18 months, initiated in 2004.
vii).Expected date of completion: December, 2005.

. i) Project Title : Wavelet based Vibrational analysis for spacecraft structures.
ii)Funding Agency (or internal funding): Indian Space Research Organisation
iii) Brief Project Summary : This project aims at developing wavelet based algorithm for vibration analysis for a variety of fault conditions.
iv)Technical Status vis-a-vis objectives : Developed a fault simulation hardware, which can simulate about 25 fault conditions. Softwares are being developed
v)Financial Status (Total Project outlay: Rs. 10 Lakhs.
expenditure to date)
vi)Duration and year of initiation:24 months, initiated in 2004.
vii)Expected date of completion: December, 2006.
c). i) Project Title : Flow visualization using PIV and PLIF imaging techniques.
ii)Funding Agency (or internal funding): Indian Space Research Organisation
iii)Brief Project Summary : This project aims at developing softwares for analyzing laser based images captured using particle image velocimetry and planar laser induced fluorescence imaging techniques.
iv)Technical Status vis-a-vis objectives : Software is already developed for image analysis. Hardware is being developed.
v) Financial Status (Total Project outlay: Rs. 10 Lakhs.
expenditure to date)
vi)Duration and year of initiation : 24 months, initiated in 2004.
vii) Expected date of completion : December, 2006.
8. Brief summary of other project proposals (submitted by any of the Investigators) awaiting consideration of MIT and other funding agencies like DST, DRDO, DSIR, MHRD, ICICI, IDBI etc.
NIL
9. Infrastructure and other facilities available at the institute for undertaking this project :
a)List of major equipment along with model numbers, specifications etc
Partly available. We have hundred Compaq machines exclusively for training
b)Existing manpower and other personnel with names available for the project on full-time basis:
Several Research Associates and faculty of both Computational Engineering and Biotechnology are available
10. Expensive Equipment/facilities available elsewhere which could be made use of for the project.
Data Projectors, parallel computing clusters etc.
11. Details of collaborating agencies (As this would vary from project to project, necessary details may be given as appropriate)
NIL
12. Additional information, if any:
NIL

PART II: TECHNICAL INFORMATION
1. Aim and Scope of the project :
A study for the development of Methodologies, Detection Tools for Digital Contents Plagiarism and other Piracies
2. Detailed description of the Project : The project aims to study the extent of software piracy and other digital content piracy in India, the methods by which piracy is done, and also the common methods adopted by organizations to curtail piracy of their intellectual properties.
The project also aims at finding or developing softwares used for detecting digital content plagiarism.
The project also intends to make a comparative assessment of the legal framework for intellectual property rights protection in India, and a few other countries.
3. Need, forecast and urgency for the technology proposed to be developed with justification such as importance of know-how, import substitution role, pay off with respect to purchase of know-how or development of technology competitiveness, technology exports, international alliances possibilities etc.
Details attached as Appendix- A
4. Specific manner in which know-how generated here is envisaged to be translated
into production, details regarding the end product (with specifications to be attained etc.)
5. a) Name of production agencies willing to productionise and market surveys, if any made by them regarding demand for the product : NA

Alternative production/user agencies : NA
6. Period required for completing the project : 2 years
7. Details of work already done by present investigators/R&D team in this or other areas:
a). Successfully completed on schedule :
i). Designed and implemented massively parallel linear solver.
ii). Designed and implemented massively parallel SVM classifier.
iii). Team at CEN developed “Sudhamani 3.6” which is ranked 46 among the
top 500 super computing cluster.

Currently in progress :
i). Target Identification using Support Vector Machines
ii). Wavelet based Vibrational analysis for spacecraft structures
iii). Flow visualization using PIV and PLIF imaging techniques.
iv). Parallel Video compression and encryption for e-learning facility.
c) Ananconed:
d) Industry interaction/know-how transferred:
For further information, please see the Resume of the investigators
8. Summary of similar work being done elsewhere in the country
NIL
9. Information regarding specific intermediate milestones (year-wise)
1st year : Secondary research, Comparative assessment of the legal systems regarding IPR protection in India and a few countries, Pilot survey, development of instruments for data collection, detailed survey, analysis.
2nd year : Continuation of the survey, Development of specifications for the software, design and development
10. a) Specific problems, hold-ups and difficulties foreseen in the implementation of the project
NIL

If the answer is not Nil to 10(a), how MITs Chief Investigator propose to overcome them?
11. Detailed PERT/BAR Chart (Separate Sheet) : Gantt Chart attached as Appendix B
12. Details of possible alternative arrangements if the Chief Investigator leaves institution or is unable for any other reason to continue on this project:
Mr. A. V. Shyam / Dr. Deepak Gupta will take up the task
13. Name of other organisations in India or Abroad jointly participating in this effort, Extent of their involvement, specific division Or responsibility, accountability etc.
To be identified
14. List the personnel already working in the organisation who would be transferred to work full time on this project :
Many research scholars are already working in related areas and they will be available on full-time basis
15. Name of experts whom the Chief Investigator would invite to join the project team as full time/part time member :
We have a Systems department in our School of Business with expertise in the subjects related to this and capable of conducting the survey and research activities and they will start working on this.
PART-III FINANCIAL DETAILS
Table -I Yearly Break-up
Budget requirements for the Year 1

Head
Capital Equipment
Books and documents
Consumable Stores
Manpower
Travel/Training
Contingencies/other expenditure
Overheads, if any

Total Expenses = Rupees twenty five lakhs and seventy one thousand only

* Total cost of the project and contribution to be made by the organization/other
organization should be shown separately.
Budget requirements for the Year II

Head
Capital Equipment
Books and documents
Consumable Stores
Manpower
Travel/Training
Contingencies/other expenditure
Overheads, if any

Total Expenses = Rupees Sixteen Lakhs and Twenty one thousand only

* Total cost of the project and contribution to be made by the organisation/other
organisation should be shown separately.

Table -III : Manpower Details

S.No.

1
2
3

Total : 2,40,000 + 5,76,000 + 5,76,000 = 13,92,000/- ( Rupees Thirteen Lakhs ninety two thousand only)

Note: The search engine being developed by us as part of the project identifies the similar documents and brings them to our server where it is analyzed for finding the extent of similarities. This involves a huge computing power since there can be large number of documents to be searched for both text and graphics data. This process requires a parallel or grid computing platform. Hence the cost of the capital equipment comes to Nine Lakhs.
PART IV
Endorsement by the Head of the Institution
1) I have read the terms and conditions including special terms and conditions for financing/governing the grant-in-aid and I agree to abide by them.
2) I certify that I have no objection to the submission of this research proposal for consideration by the Ministry of Information Technology.
3) In case the project is approved, I undertake to make available facilities to carry it out, to arrange for the submission of periodic progress reports and other information that may be required by the Ministry of IT and in general to ensure that the conditions attached to the award of such grant are fulfilled by my institution /organisation.
4) I certify that in case present chief investigator is not available for any reason to continue work on this project, the following persons will be available to carry it through to completion.
Name Designation
1. Mr. A. V. Shyam, Faculty Associate, Amrita School of Business,
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
2. Dr. Deepak Gupta, Associate Professor, Amrita School of Business,
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
5) I certify that the facilities mentioned in the body of this report are available at my
institution.
6) I certify that I shall ensure that accounts will be kept of the funds received and spent
and made available on demand , as specified and required by the Ministry of IT.
7) I certify that I am the competent authority, by virtue of the administrative and
financial powers vested in me by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Coimbatore to undertake the above stated commitments on behalf of my institution

Signature
Head of the Institution
Date Designation.

Brief Bio-data of
Dr. K.P.Soman, Chief Investigator

1. Name : Dr. Soman K. P.

2. Age : 43 years

3. Designation : Professor and Head,
Centre for Excellence in Computational Engg. and Networking,
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

4. Degrees conferred :

Degree

B.Sc. (Engg)

P.M. Diploma

M.Tech.

Ph.D.

5. Research Work / Training Experience:

Institution

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Keltron Counters, Trivandrum.

GKW, Howrah.

6. Current fields of research : Interior Point Methods for Optimisation Problems, High Performance Computing, Protein fold prediction, Protein fold classification using Support vector machines, Parallel algorithms in bioinformatics, Graph theory based methods for clustering data sets, Machine learning using Support Vector Machines, Signal Processing, Wavelets and Fractals.

7. Projects undertaken at CEN
Sponsored :
Ø Particle Image Velocimetry and Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence studies for flow visualization and characterization.(funded by ISRO)
Ø Massively Parallel Support Vector Machines for target identification(funded by DRDO)
Ø Fault simulation and analysis of spacecraft structures using wavelets(funded by ISRO)
Ø Parallel Video compression and encryption for e-learning facility.(funded by ISRO)
Developmental work done at CEN
Ø Developed several Beowulf linux clusters for academic research.
Ø Designed and implemented massively parallel linear solver.
Ø Designed and implemented massively parallel SVM classifier.
Ø Team at CEN developed “Sudhamani 3.6” which is ranked 46 among the top 500 super computing cluster.

9. Partial list of publications:

Book:
Dr. K.P. Soman and Dr. Ramachandran K.I of CEN have authored a book on Wavelets titled "Insight into Wavelets– From Theory to Practice" scheduled to be published by Prentice-Hall India in June 2004.

Contributed a chapter of the book, “Fuzzy sets and probability theory in reliability and safety related problem” edited by Takshian Onisawa and Janusz Kacprzyk

Partial list of Papers:

1. K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, Multistate Fault Tree Analysis using Fuzzy Probability Vectors and Resolution Identity.

2. K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, Moments of order statistics using orthogonal inverse expansion method and its application in reliability, Microelectronics and Reliability Vol.32, pp. 469 – 473, 1992.

3. K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, Fuzzy Fault Tree analysis using resolution identity, International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Mathematics, Vol. I, No.1, pp. 193 – 212, 1993.

4. S. Patra, K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, Fuzzy Reliability of a Communication Network, International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Mathematics, Vol. I, No. 3, pp. 58 – 64, 1993.

5. K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, A Simple Method of Computing Variance Sensibility Coefficients of Top Events in a Fault Tree, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 929 – 934, 1994.

6. K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, Bayesian Sequential Estimation of Parameters of a Weibull Distribution, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 35, pp. 1010 – 1015, 1994.

7. K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, Bayesian Estimation of System Reliability, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 33, No. 10, pp. 1455 – 1459, 1993.
8. K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, A Least Square Estimation of Three Parameters of a Weibull Distribution, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 32, pp. 303 – 305, 1992.

9. K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, A Simple Method for Determining the Moments of a Top Event, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 50 – 60, 1996.

10. S. Patra, K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, Fuzzy Event Tree Analysis of a Power System using Bayesian and Fuzzy Set Approach, Institution of Engineers, India, pp. 60 – 65.

11. K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, Multistate Fault Tree Analysis using Fuzzy Probability Vectors and Resolution Identity., Contributed as a chapter of the book, “Fuzzy sets and probability theory in reliability and safety related problem” edited by Takshian Onisawa and Janusz Kacprzyk.

12. K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, Moments of order statistics using orthogonal inverse expansion method and its application in reliability, Microelectronics and Reliability Vol.32, pp. 469 – 473, 1992.

13. K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, Fuzzy Fault Tree analysis using resolution identity, International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Mathematics, Vol. I, No.1, pp. 193 – 212, 1993.

14. S. Patra, K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, Fuzzy Reliability of a Communication Network, International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Mathematics, Vol. I, No. 3, pp. 58 – 64, 1993.
15. K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, A Simple Method of Computing Variance Sensibility Coefficients of Top Events in a Fault Tree, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 929 – 934, 1994.

16. K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, Bayesian Sequential Estimation of Parameters of a Weibull Distribution, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 35, pp. 1010 – 1015, 1994.

17. K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, Bayesian Estimation of System Reliability, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 33, No. 10, pp. 1455 – 1459, 1993.

18. K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, A Least Square Estimation of Three Parameters of a Weibull Distribution, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 32, pp. 303 – 305, 1992.

19. K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, A Simple Method for Determining the Moments of a Top Event, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 50 – 60, 1996.

20. S. Patra, K. P. Soman and K. B. Misra, Fuzzy Event Tree Analysis of a Power System using Bayesian and Fuzzy Set Approach, Institution of Engineers, India, pp. 60 – 65.

21. K. P. Soman, A General Algorithm for Uncertainty Propagation in Fault Trees, 7th International M.I.R.C.E. Symposium on System Operational Effectiveness, 1998, University of Exeter, United Kingdom.

22. K. P. Soman and M. V. Asokan, Prediction of Reliability Based on Early Failures – A Case Study, 7th International M.I.R.C.E. Symposium on System Operational Effectiveness, 1998, University of Exeter, United Kingdom.

23. K. P. Soman, Sequential Estimation of Weibull Parameters using Kalman Filter and its application in Quality and Reliability Engineering, 7th International M.I.R.C.E. Symposium on System Operational Effectiveness, 1998, University of Exeter, United Kingdom.

24. K. P. Soman, Left Shoulder Detection using Support Vector Machines, ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance, Vol. 8, pp. 5 – 13, May 2002.

25. K. P. Soman, M. Shyam Diwakar, P. Madhavadas, Efficient classification and analysis of Ischemic Heart Disease Using Proximal Support Vector Machine based Decision Trees, IEEE Region 10 Conference, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, October 2003.

Brief bio-data of Shyam A. V(Co-investigator)

SHYAM A. V

Amrita School of Business
(formerly known as Amrita Institute of Management)
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Coimbatore
Tamil Nadu, 641105
Phone: (0422)-2656422 , extn: 433
Email: av_shyam@ettimadai.amrita.edu

Education

Amrita Institute of Management, Ettimadai, Coimbatore, India
Post Graduate Diploma in Management, 1999.

Government Engineering College, Thrissur, University of Calicut, India
B Tech (Honours) Mechanical Engineering, 1996

Cochin University of Science and Technology, India
Certificate in Computer Aided Design (2D & 3D), 1997

Positions

Faculty Associate, Amrita School of Business (formerly known as Amrita Institute of Management), July 2004-present
Research Associate, Amrita School of Business (formerly known as Amrita Institute of Management), June 2000-June 2004
Executive Assistant to the Director, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, June 1999-June 2000

Awards and Honors

Gold Medallist in post graduation, 1999
College Topper in the Mechanical Engineering branch, 1996
Certificate and prize in lieu of scholarship, Pre Degree examinations, 1992
Certificate and prize in lieu of scholarship, Senior School Leaving Certificate examinations, 1990
National Merit Scholarship, 1987-1990

Teaching Experience

MBA Introduction to computers Core
MBA Fundamentals of IT and Java Programming Core
MBA Quantitative Methods for Management Core
MBA Management Information Systems Core

MBA Decision Support Systems elective
MBA Decision Analysis and Decision Support Systems elective
MBA Advanced Tools for Decision Support elective
MBA Computational Finance elective (half the course)
MBA Advanced Tools for Decision Support elective

Academic Service

Post Graduate Programme committee member: Amrita School of Business
Secretary to the Faculty council: Amrita School of Business

Administrative Experience

As Executive Assistant to the Director, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, 1999-2000
The responsibilities included pursuing of ISO 9001 certification requirements, liaison with project personnel to ensure compliance with management's requirements in project implementation, administrative co-ordination of the Director's office and the Cardio Vascular and Thoracic Surgery department, etc.

As Faculty Associate (earlier Research Associate) at Amrita School of Business
Preparation of class schedules (upto 26 electives in a trimester)
Preparation of examination schedules
Arrangement and co-ordination of industry visits
Involvement in the admissions process, including making presentations, answering queries from prospective students and their parents, scrutiny of documents, evaluating group discussions, conducting interviews etc.
Co-ordination of the admissions process (2004)
Co-ordination of the Institution day celebrations, which involves conducting many cultural, sports and games competitions after dividing the students and staff into groups.
Participation in various screening processes for sending teams of students to various competitions
Co-ordination of the AIMA-INFOSYS management game (South zone round) held at the School

Other Academic Activities

· Handled sessions on Cluster Analysis in the AICTE- ISTE sponsored Short Term Training Programme on “Information Retrieval and Security” held at Amrita School of Engineering. (Nov 22 - Dec 3, 2004)
· Handled the sessions on “Decision Making enabled by Information Technology” in the 15 day MDP for the officers of the Proficiency Interface Cell of the District Industries Centres under the Directorate of Industries & Commerce, Department of Industries and Social Welfare, Government of Kerala. (July 12 – July 28, 2004)
· Handled the sessions on “Information systems in management”, in the 10 day in-company management development programme conducted by the Institute for M/s Thirumalai Chemicals Ltd. (Feb 23 – Mar 04, 2004)
· Taught a few sessions in “Decisions 2003”, a summer school on ‘Advanced Techniques for Marketing Decisions’ conducted at Amrita Institute of Management (June 02 - 07, 2003)
· Taught a few sessions and jointly with another Professor, handled all the laboratory sessions in an AICTE-ISTE sponsored Short Term Training Programme on “Computational Finance in Portfolio Management”, conducted at Amrita Institute of Management (July 01 – 13, 2002)
· Delivered a talk on 29th November, 2001 at the Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT) in AICTE- ISTE short term training programme on Genetic Algorithms in Engineering applications.(Nov 19 - Dec 02, 2001)
· Taught a few sessions in “Emergence 2001”, summer school on emerging technologies for e-commerce conducted at Amrita Institute of Management (May 12 - 25, 2001)
· Was a faculty for the MDP on Project preparation, appraisal and financing (July 6 – 7, 2001)
· Served as question paper setter for the BBA and MBA examinations of the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala
· Served as the question paper setter and evaluator for the MBA examination of the Bharathidasan University (2003)

Papers Presented

At the International Conference on “Statistics in Industry and Business”,
Jan 2-4, 2003 at the Cochin University of Science and Technology

1. Shyam, A.V., and K. P. Soman, Spread Sheet Implementation of a fast algorithm for computing corporate default probabilities
2. Shyam, A.V., and K. P. Soman, Use of Support Vector Machines to enhance the effectiveness of Direct Marketing

Brief bio-data of Dr. Deepak Gupta (Other Investigator)
DEEPAK GUPTA
A-11/5, Vasant Vihar,
New Delhi - 110057
g_deepak@ettimadai.amrita.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Globalization, Higher Education, and Labor Markets (2004).
University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.

- An Interdisciplinary Ph.D. with Economics, Sociology, and Higher Education as my three major fields. In my doctoral research, I explore and analyze the incidence, timing, and career outcomes of returning home for foreign students who receive their doctoral degrees in the United States. Based on a unique and richly detailed micro-level dataset, my work is one of the first analyses of the actual career histories of foreign-born US Ph.D.s, both those who returned and those who stayed back in the US. Complementing in-depth econometric analysis with qualitative description, I focus on the crucial choice to immigrate/ return home. Specifically I investigate the factors influencing the incidence and timing of return, and the subsequent career outcomes, such as income and job satisfaction, more than a decade after the completion of the Ph.D. I situate my work in the larger context of the international migration of skilled labor at a time of an increasing globalization of knowledge, cultures and economies—a phenomenon sometimes referred to as the "Brain Drain”, and an issue of increasing relevance and importance to national education and labor policy determination.

Masters in Marketing (1998).
University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.

- A Masters of Science degree in Marketing. The field of specialization was Consumer Behavior.

Masters in Economics (1993).
University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.

- A Masters of Arts in Economics. The fields of specialization were Economic theory and Industrial organization.

Masters in Business Administration (1987).
Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

- A Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM). The fields of specialization were Marketing and MIS.

Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering (1985).
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Education Sector:

Amrita School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Tamil Nadu
Associate Professor (Marketing, International Business)

- Currently serving as Associate Professor at Amrita School of Business (ASB). The courses I have taught or co-taught include International Business, International Marketing, Consumer Behavior, and Marketing Management. I have also served as member of the MBA Admissions Committee and Faculty Coordinator for Summer Placements for 2005.

University of California, Berkeley, California.
Graduate Student Researcher (GSR).

- Art Historians…Ten Years Later (2001-2002): This research project, funded by the Getty foundation, surveyed the post-Ph.D. job and family histories of Art History Ph.D.s in the US, a decade or so after they graduated. The research responsibilities, while I was involved with the project, involved the conceptualization, creation, analysis, and maintenance of the survey data. A unique facet of this project was the comprehensive use of the Internet to collect, analyze, and disseminate the data online. The statistical program SAS was used extensively in this work.

- PhD’s…Ten Years Later (1997-2001): This important and unique national survey covered around 3700 Ph.D.s from 6 fields and 61 universities across the United States (see referred publication). The research work was multi-faceted. A key responsibility was the use of SAS programming to create, manage, and analyze a comprehensive dataset involving different elements of post-Ph.D. career histories and subjective retrospective evaluations of the doctoral experience. Auxiliary responsibilities included the development of statistical weights for the data analysis, and the analysis and writing of a National Science foundation (NSF) funded research report on the relative outcomes of those in the data who were awarded NSF pre-doctoral fellowships.

- An Analysis of Commuter Choice Behavior (1995-1996): The research work involved an econometric analysis of survey data on the factors influencing commuter departure times using data collected in Brussels, Belgium. The research on commuter flexibility in travel times is a key component of policy research on traffic congestion in Transportation studies. Micro-economic consumer behavior models were fitted using the Multinomial Probit framework (see referred publication). The statistical programs LIMDEP and SPSS were used in this work.

University of California, Berkeley, California.
Graduate Student Instructor (GSI)

- Taught sections in a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses both at the Business school and the Economics department during the period 1991-1996. The courses were: Introductory Economics; International Business; Strategic Planning; and Marketing Research. The responsibilities as a GSI included regular lectures to complement class-room material, weekly individual and group discussions with students, and evaluation and grading of the students problem sets, papers, and exams.

Non-Profit Sector:

Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (CAPART), India.
Consultant: 1989 - 1990.

- Advised CAPART, a Government of India agency that is responsible for the allocation of resources towards the dissemination of appropriate and rural technology, on the development of a marketing program for rural arts and crafts. The work included primary market research with village based Non-Government Organizations (NGO's) and independent artisans.

For-Profit Sector:

Ponds (India) Limited, India.
Area Sales Manager,1987 -1989.

- Planned, implemented, and controlled the sales of Pond's products in specified geographical locations in the Southern and Eastern parts of India. A market leader in personal products in India, Pond's (India) was then a subsidiary of Chesebro Pond’s (US). Apart from considerable responsibility, the job also offered a lot of flexibility in operations with an active encouragement of individual initiative. It was an excellent learning ground in sales planning and management.

TEACHING INTERESTS

- Economics: Introductory Microeconomics; Introductory Econometrics; Industrial Organization
- Methods: Research Methodology; Surveys and Survey Methods; Basic Quantitative Analysis.
- Business: International Business Management; Managing in the Global Economy.
- Sociology: The Knowledge Society.
- Marketing: Consumer Behavior; Marketing Research
- Education: Current Issues in Higher Education Management.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Economics: The econometric modeling of individual choices. The nature of individual choice (and markets) in a networked, information-intensive environment.
- The statistical analysis of program interventions and policy implementations.
- Sociology: Globalization, migration of the highly skilled and the issue of “Brain Drain”. The role of formal and informal networks in skilled labor markets.
- The formal analysis of Careers and Job Satisfaction.
- Education: The theory and practice of value-based education.
- The conceptualization and measurement of the “quality” of higher education institutions. Investigating successful institution building in higher education.
- The Knowledge Economy: An abiding interest in formal investigations into the pervasive nature of social and economic changes that have characterized the last few decades. A particular interest in issues of equity, access to “valuable” knowledge, and the growing divide between the rich and the poor.

ANALYTICAL SKILLS

- Proficient in quantitative analytical research methods. Well-versed in econometric regression methods including discrete choice modeling, hazard analysis, etc. Some experience with Qualitative Research.
- Experienced in the design, implementation, and analysis of consumer surveys, as well as the management of large datasets. The most recent experience has been with a principally on-line (web based) survey.
- A strong competence in the use of statistical and econometric software including SAS, LIMDEP, SYSTAT, and SPSS.
- Strong programming skills. Some familiarity with database applications and web programming.

PUBLICATIONS

- Gupta D., (2004) “The Return Choice And Career Outcomes Of Phds From Abroad In The “Ph.D.s…Ten Years Later” Data” – forthcoming chapter in ”The Ph.D: Passport to Multiple Destinations,” edited by Maresi Nerad and Joseph Cerny.

- Gupta D., Nerad M., and J. Cerny (2003) “The Road Home: Exploring the Choice to Stay or Return of International Ph.D.s,” International Higher Education: Number 31, Spring 2003. Center for International Higher Education. Boston, Massachusetts

- Nerad M., Armstrong A., and D. Gupta (1999) “Graduate Women's Expectations in Doctoral Programs and Beyond: Marriage, Family, and Career,” Proceeding of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools. Chicago, Illinois.

- de Palma A., Khattak A., and D. Gupta, (1997) "Commuters' Departure Time Decisions In Brussels." Transportation Research Record 1537, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., pp. 46-54.

WORKING PAPERS (BASED ON THESIS)

- Gupta D. (2003) “Ties That Bind: An Econometric Analysis Of The Return Home of Foreign-born US Ph.D.s,” Work in Progress.

- Gupta D. (2003) “Citizenship And The US Academe: Investigating The Impact Of Doctoral Citizenship Status On Job Satisfaction And Salaries a Decade After The Ph.D.,” Work in Progress.

AWARDS AND EXTRA-CURRICULAR INTERESTS

- Doctoral Tuition Fellowship at U.C. Berkeley for the years 1990 -1995.
- Awarded the National Talent Search Scholarship (India), 1978 -1987.
- Recipient of the Junior Science Talent Scholarship (India), 1976-78.
- Best creative writer, IIT Delhi, 1981, 1984.
- Member of IIT Delhi Squash ladder, Captain of the Hostel Squash Team.
- Have a strong interest in writing and communications. Was the editor of the Chemical Engineering Society Journal, IIT, Delhi, and the Science Journal, IIT. Was also the Chief Editor of PULSE (IIT Magazine) and POINT BLANK (IIM Magazine) Conceptualized and created an audio-visual on student life in IIM Calcutta.
- A deep and abiding interest in the wisdom traditions and yoga as a foundation for living.

Appendix – A

Software piracy has been a major problem that the software manufacturers were facing in the recent days. There are quite a number of organisations working in India like NASSCOM, who attempts to identify the software piracy and stop this. Another serious issue that we face is the piracy in the digital media and the intellectual property rights. The books authored and other digital data unless it is protected and a piracy or plagiarism identified quickly, we may not be able to protect the intellectual property rights of the author. We as part of this project, attempt to develop software that will enable to identify these in a short span of time.

Our objective is to help position India as a trusted source of digital data through a process of engagement, education, enactment and enforcement with a strong focus on IP protection and robust legislative framework, through implementing an efficient method to identify the piracy in digital media and preventing it.

The idea is to have a culture of digital security, cyber security and safety. We will recommend how to harmonise the piracy laws in our country and elsewhere too so that any attempt to violate the copyrights policy and digital piracy can be identified and the level of piracy determined.

Methodology intended to be adopted:

I) Secondary search
Secondary search will include information gathering from the sources given below.
1) Existing studies available with the central government ministries, state governments, research institutions etc.
2) Research papers from journals, magazines etc.
3) Internet search
4) Search for and audit any existing software for detecting plagiarism.
5) Study the legal framework for intellectual property rights protection in India, and a few other countries.

II) Indepth Interviews
We plan to interview:
1) Experts in this area from Government agencies
2) Research students from IITs and other leading institutions
3) Persons working in the IT security field
4) Retailers selling pirated software (students can be used to contact and get details from them)
5) Consultants who are users of pirated software
6) Experts in hacking
7) Household PC users
In these studies, we may have to hide the identity of the respondents

III) Consolidation of interview data and analysis
IV) Findings and conclusions
V) Software development

Appendix B - Gantt Chart
Survey

Secondary search

Indepth interviews

Analysis, findings and conclusion

Study of legal frameworks related to IPR and comparative assessment

Software Development **

Requirement Analysis

Procurement of equipment and setting up cluster environment for analysis

Design

Development and Testing

Duration in months-->03691215182124

** The software sought to be developed has two parts. First a special search engine is to be developed which will search for and download the documents
related to the document being studied, into our server for the analysis. Secondly, a software to locate the occurance of key terms, patterns, diagrams

their count etc, and to assess the level of similarity between the documents. This will help in gauging the extent of plagiarism.

An attempt will also be made to reverse engineer hardware coded data to study the possibility of the same

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Comments

Tripathi

on Mar 21, 2005

To the chairman and the members of " IPR Advisoy committee of DIT"

With the growth of the Internet and increasing volume of computer software products Plagarism of the digital contents and piracy of the computer software need to be controlled / curtailed. IPR cell DIT , on getting representation from industry association("FICCI" Delhi), took up this issue with an expert group / centre of excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking , "Amrita Vishva Vidyapeetham , Ettimandai,Coimbatore - 641105 to evolve methods and tools suitable for detection of Plagarism in digital content and piracy of computer softwares. Working jointly the enclosed propsal with total outlay of Rs. 41.92 lakhs over a period of two years has been evolved.

2. The proposal after discussion in DIT and with the chairman on 18th.3.05 , is posted herewith for able comments of expert members of the IPR Advisory Committee to record their comments/views/recommendatons for DIT funding.

3. Members may also kindly note that this weblog is open for one week, viz. upto 27.03.05 only. If no comment is received from any member, it will be presumed that the specific member is in favour of DIT funding this projrect

Members may therefore are hereby kindly requested to send their comments/recommendations in regard of funding of this project by DIT as soon as possible but not later than 27.03.05

- R.C. tripathi, Member-Convenor " IPR Advisory Committee"

r y deshpande

on Mar 25, 2005

dear tripathiji,

On going thru subject proposal submitted by Amirita School of Business, Coimbtore, i would like to submit as under -

Proposal Details
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#. The proposal is for the study of various mechanism of piracy and
plagiarism present today.
#. The proposal targets text based and binary s/w (I assume binary)
piracy/plagiarism.
#. The objective is to bring out tools which will assist in tracking down
the problems mentioned in the proposal.
#. Time frame 2years for an outlay of 41.92 lacs

My Comments
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#. The proposal's main stay is the study on the various techniques involved
in these problems but specific mention as to how this study will be
better than various literature already available in form of books,
whitepapers, etc.would have enabled to understand the proposal still better.
#. The software is good for text plagiarism but any mention of how s/w
piracy will be tracked using standard debugger etc.may pl be mentioned
#. There already exists host of anti-piracy mechanisms like "Microsoft's
Product Activation Technology", "FLEXnet Software Based Licensing", "Aladdin
HASP Technology", etc. The proposal does not clarify whether it will just
study or also propose a new mechanism to prevent, track and expose these
problems.
# Mention of Schedule( quarterly/half yearly timelines) with milestones and deliverables would enable better appreciation of proposal. suggest to incorporate the same.
# Breakup of budget/cost estimates ( salary, equipments, overhaead etc..) may pl be mentioned.
# suggested countries for comparative study of copyright legal framework/laws prevailing in different countries are japan,china,germany,singapore besides usa and europe
# gantt chart is not visible.

IPR cell may like to consider above. However, proposal is recommended for favourable consideration in view of importance of indicated study and s/w deveopment/tools for piracy/plagarizm detection

Regards

r y deshpande

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