About Me

Hello World! 

I am Kunal, a Technical Program Manager and Computer Scientist with 11+ years of experience in innovation and software engineering. I am passionate about contributing to society by creating solutions to existing problems using computer science and I enjoy long conversations on topics related to technology and philosophy.

I am working as a tenured researcher in computer science at the LIST institute (i.e., Laboratory for Integration of Systems and Technology) within the CEA.

 

Previously I have worked as a joint PostDoc at CEA & ESTACA. I received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Université Paris-Saclay, which was conducted at Télécom SudParis and funded by CEA Paris-Saclay. During my Ph.D. program, I worked in the "Executable Language Engineering and Optimization Laboratory" (LIDEO) at CEA LIST and the SAMOVAR lab (UMR 5157) at Télécom SudParis.  At CEA, my work included feature contribution to Eclipse open source ecosystem via the Papyrus framework. It is well known and is extensively used for model-driven engineering (MDE) in both industry and academia. 

Before my Ph.D., I worked as a Research Engineer at the Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE), France (later acquired by Naver Labs Europe in 2017).  I completed a joint masters program in the European Union (EU) at universities in Germany, Greece, the Netherlands each. This masters was fully funded by the EU under the prestigious Erasmus Mundus scholarship program. 

My other industrial experiences include working at Adobe Systems, India and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India.

Education

Degree	Institute	Period
Ph.D. in Computer Science	Université Paris-Saclay, France	2016-2019
M.Sc. in Information Management	Tilburg University, the Netherlands	2012-2013
M.Sc. in Computer Science	University of Stuttgart, Germany	2011-2013
International Master in Service Engineering - Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD)	University of Crete, Greece	2011-2013
B.Tech. in Computer Science	Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), India	2004-2008

Experience

Role	Organization	Period
Technical Program Manager | Researcher	CEA Paris-Saclay, France	Feb. 2020 – till present
Project Lead  | PostDoc	ESTACA Paris-Saclay, France	Feb. 2019 – Jan. 2020
Junior Researcher | Doctoral Candidate	CEA & Télécom SudParis, France	Jan. 2016 -Jan 2019
Research Engineer	Xerox Research, France	Feb. 2013 – Dec. 2019
Program Mgmt. Associate	Adobe Systems, India	Jan. 2011 – June 2011
Software Engineer	Tata Consulting Services, India	Aug. 2008 – Jan. 2011

Awards & Scholarships

Title	Issuer	Period
Best Student Paper Award	Services Conference Federation (SCF 2018), U.S.A.  Best student paper award for my research work presented at the 15th International Conference Services Computing (SCC) in Seattle, USA.	July, 2018
Best IoT project Award	SenZations Summer School 2017, Cyprus Received the best project ward for a collaborative project work with a team of international researchers.	Sept., 2017
Summer School Scholarship 2016	Université Paris-Saclay, France  Received a scholarship from University Paris-Saclay intended for PhD students to attend renowned international scientific summer schools across EU.	June, 2016
Ph.D. Research Funding	French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) 3 years full funding for Ph.D. work (research & development) from CEA (French: Contrat de formation par la recherche (CFR)) More info: http://www.cea.fr/recrutement/Pages/je-cherche/une-these.aspx	Jan., 2016 till Jan., 2019
Masters Scholarship	Erasmus Mundus (now Erasmus+), European Commission of Education and Training, EU Full scholarship for 2 years, i.e., Aug. 2011 - Aug. 2013, for completing the European joint masters program conducted in Germany, Greece, the Netherlands. Scholarship covered tuition fees, monthly stipend (€1000), and other benefits such as insurance, visa charges along with an annual travel allowance of €2000. Funding for two advanced summer schools in Crete, Greece (2012, 2013)	Aug., 2011 till Aug., 2013
TCS Gems Award 2010	Tata Consultancy Service (TCS), India  Best Team for excellence in IT service delivery management in TCS and year on year retention of their clients	2010
TCS Gems Award 2009	Tata Consultancy Service (TCS), India  2 On Spot awards & certificate for good performance and contributions to my project and other TCS community activities	2009
Merit Award for Subject Topper in High School	Cambridge School, New Delhi, India  Merit certificate & award for securing first position in the school for chemistry subject at the all-India CBSE board exams for 12th standard	2002

Teaching Experience

Course	Professor In-charge	Period
Cloud Computing Taught a graduate level coursework on cloud computing based on Amazon AWS.	Bruno Defud	June 2018
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) Taught a graduate level coursework during Spring 2018 to Masters students of computer science at Telecom SudParis, France as follows: REST Web Services SOAP Web Services Workflow Management Systems Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).	Prof. Walid Gaaloul	April - June 2018
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) Taught a graduate level coursework during winter 2017 @Department of Computer Science, Télécom SudParis, France for COMNETS Master Program as follows: REST Web Services SOAP Web Services Info: The Communication Networks & Services (COMNETS) is a joint Euro-Asian masters program given by Telecom SudParis (France), Asian Institute of Technology (international organisation), NCTU (Taiwan) and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). Prof. Walid Gaaloul	Prof. Walid Gaaloul	Nov. - Dec. 2017

Others

Community Service	Program Committee (PC) Member & Reviewer WETICE (2018 - present): PC at the Validation of Safety critical Collaboration systems (VSC) track of the IEEE WETICE conference. SCC 2019 Sub-Reviewer/ Student Reviewer IFAC 2016, ICWS 2017, BPM (2016 - 2018)
Google Scholar
ORCID	orcid.org/0000-0002-2341-5343

Last updated: 01.03.2022