IIM-Lucknow Prof tagged 'Best Prof of I

Lucknow, Oct 7 (UNI) Prof Bharat Bhasker, the Professor of Information and Systems at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM-Lucknow) has been conferred 'The Best Professor of Information and Technology' by the Asian Brand Summit and Dewang Mehta Business School Awards.

Prof Bhasker is a senior Professor at IIM-Lucknow in the area of Information Technology and Systems. In addition, as a principal investigator he is responsible for setting up Internet Commerce Research Centre in the institute, besides to conduct research and development in the focus area of Internet Commerce.

He had also received and managed a grant for implementing the IIMNet (an intranet of four IIMs in India) worth Rs 10,00,000 from Digital Equipment Corporation (India) Ltd.

The Prof was honoured with several awards earlier too and had also held a number of important positions in his illustrious carrier spanning over two decades. He was also assoicated with NASA for seven years.

The awards, supported by Director of Onward Foundation for Dewang Mehta Awards Sheila Mehta, had concluded recently.

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