Biographical note

Ajit K. Verma is a Professor in Engineering, Haugesund/Stord University College, Haugesund, Norway(since March 2012) and has been a Professor (since Feb 2001) with the Department of Electrical Engineering(currently) at IIT Bombay with a research focus in Reliability and Safety Engineering. He was the Director of the International Institute of Information Technology Pune, on lien from IIT Bombay, from Aug 2009-Sep 2010. He is also a Guest Professor at Lulea University of Technology, Sweden He has supervised/co-supervised 36 PhDs and 95 Masters theses in the area of Software Reliability, Reliable Computing, Power Systems Reliability (PSR), Reliability Centred maintenance (RCM) and Probabilistic Safety/Risk Assessment (PSA). He has executed various research projects to promote industry interface and has been course co-ordinator for industry CEPs like Reliability engineering, Six Sigma, Software Inspections, Competency Tracking System and Software Reliability for IT industries. He has jointly edited books on Reliability Engineering & Quality Management and is the Springer Book Series Editor of Reliable & Sustainable Electric Power and Energy Systems Management and jointly edited a book titled Reliability and Risk Evaluation of Wind Integrated Power Systems(Springer) and is also an author of books titled Fuzzy Reliability Engineering-Concepts and Applications (Narosa), Reliability and Safety Engineering (Springer) and Dependability of Networked Computer Based Systems (Springer). He has 247 publications in various journals (over 100 papers) and conferences.