Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016
Dr. Joshi was born in New Delhi, India, many (or not so many, depending
on your POV) moons ago. Assorted geeeky acts like memorising the schedule
for Indian Railways (North Zone) at an early age showed to all and sundry
that he was destined to be a Professor. He set out to fulfil this prediction
with gusto, in the process asking long, complicated and troublesome questions
of his teachers at Modern School and IIT
Delhi. While in his senior years in high school, and through his undergraduate
education, he continued his interest in asking (and answering) questions
by representing his institutions in debating and quizzing at an intercollegiate
level. He also got involved in research activities, which lead him to Purdue
University in 1989, from where he obtained his Ph.D degree in
1993. After a stint at Purdue as a research faculty, he headed off to
the University of Missouri in
1996, and spent two wonderful years there as Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science.
In Fall of 1998, he exchanged life in small town midwest surrounded by fields
of corn for life in suburban big town east cost. Currently,
he is found roaming the campus of the University
of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he is now free to profess, after several years of first assisting and then associating with other professors. In AY 09-10, he is visiting IIT Delhi, teaching a course, and supervising some B. Tech projects. He is also a visitin scientist at IBM Research -- India. He continues to ask many questions as a part of the UMBC Ebiquity Research Group, though he concentrates on answering only some of them.