Sridhar Iyer: Short Biography

Sridhar Iyer has been a faculty member at IIT Bombay since 1999. Currently he is a Professor in the Educational Technology Programme, while earlier he was with the Dept of Computer Science & Engg.

His current research interests includes: Technology enhanced learning of disciplinary practices, Teacher use of educational technologies, and Computer science education research. Prior to Educational Technology, he has worked in wireless networking protocols and mobile applications.

Sridhar Iyer received the ACM India Outstanding Contrubution to Computing Education Award in 2020, the AECT International Contribution Award in 2019, and Excellence in Teaching Award at IIT Bombay in 2016 and 2013. He is also the President of the EdTech Society in India.

Some development projects that that he has conceptualized and led are: (i) Computer Masti, a series of books for teaching-learning of Computers in schools. These products have seen more than 100K downloads from 120 countries. In 2016, Computer Masti was acquired by a company and the books are now being used in ~1000 schools in India. (ii) Project OSCAR, a repository of ~450 Interactive Visualizations for topics at the school and higher education levels.

Sridhar Iyer received his BTech, MTech and PhD from the Dept of Computer Science & Engg at IIT Bombay. More information is available from his webpage: www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~sri

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