Department Level Infrastructure Management Committee(DLIC)

Committee Members:

  1. Dr. Arnab Paul (Chair)
  2. Prof. Vinayak Naik (Co-chair)
  3. Dr. Kanchan Manna
  4. Dr. Kunal Korgaonkar
  5. Prof. Sanjay Sahay
  6. Dr. Sougata Sen
  7. Shreenivas Naik (Support)
  8. Neha Naik (Support)
  9. Aditi Borkar (Support)

Members of this committee will perform the responsibilities stated below for at least one year. After one year, we can revisit for modification of responsibilities as well as members on a need basis. The HOD will certainly be involved, but the ownership of the following tasks will be with the committee.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  1. Envision the infrastructure requirement for teaching and research in the future (not just one year) and create an appropriate budget.
    The committee takes input from the department and creates a requirement.

    Why: This will help in having a bigger plan, based on which we can aggressively ask for new labs.

  2. Ensure NFA creations for infrastructure procurement and installation on time.

  3. Train and demand more manpower for lab support.

  4. Monitor the current infrastructure for its appropriate and optimal usage.

    • Bring more automation in monitoring, and create usage data for analysis and prediction.

  5. Proactive maintenance:

    • Interacting with the support team
    • Remote management of servers, desktops, software upgrades

  6. Asset audit, so that:

    • We know what we have, what needs upgradation
    • Track department-level and individual-level purchases
    • Make decisions to support faculty/students when they require infrastructure
    • Support faculty members in submitting external proposals where infrastructure details are needed

    Currently, we do not have any central place to get a list of what assets we have, whether we are duplicating the infra, whether the infra can be shared for optimal usage, etc. A faculty member may procure infrastructure for their project and lend it on a need basis.


  7. Leverage external/cloud-based resource usage:

    • Actively establish collaboration with IAAS providers like AWS, AZURE, Google (through alumni connect?) for long-term cloud-based infrastructure support
    • Leverage CDAC's supercomputing facility for our research and project use