Dr. Harrick Vin

Dr. Harrick Vin is the Chief Technology Officer for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Bombay. Over the past 30 years, Harrick has been involved in developing novel solutions in variety of areas in computing, including: one of the first video-over-IP desktop conferencing and collaboration system (1989); one of the first digital video-on-demand server (1991); Quality-of-Service-aware Linux kernel (1996); Internet-scale distributed caching solution (1998); web-based content syndication and personalization solution (1999); a digital media entertainment gateway for homes (2002); a programming environment for designing high-throughput systems using multi-core multi-threaded processor architectures (2005); an intelligent enterprise IT infrastructure transformation planning and migration solution (2008); a predictive analytics solution for enterprise IT (2011); and ignio™, the world’s first cognitive automation product for enterprises (2015). These innovations led to three venture-backed startups in the US, and Digitate, a Tata Consultancy Services Venture. Harrick has authored more than 125 papers in leading international journals and conferences, as well as filed for 45 patents. Harrick is a recipient of many awards, and has served on the Editorial Board of several academic journals, and as the program chairperson and a member of technical program committee for many international conferences.