Hemant Pande
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Pande brings several decades of rich technical and leadership experience to CeRAI. Most recently, he led ACM India as Executive Director, significantly increasing industry partnerships and funding, and brought to fruition many path-breaking innovations, such as ACM Minigraphs and the ACM India Pingala Interactions in Computing.
Earlier in his industry career spanning over 25 years, he had executive-technology leadership / CxO roles at Persistent Systems, eZest and KPIT, and research oriented roles in Siemens Research (USA) and TCS Research. He received a Bachelor’s degree from IIT Bombay and PhD from Rutgers University in Computer Science.