Nishanth Sastry

Nishanth Sastry serves as the Associate Head of School (Research and Innovation), Professor, and Director of Research for the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Surrey since June 2020. Under Nishanth's leadership, research activities in Computer Science have flourished, evidenced by a notable income growth of 52% and 134% Year-on-Year over the last two years. Prior to this role, Nishanth held the position of Senior Lecturer at King's College London from September 2011 to June 2020 and worked as a Staff Software Engineer at IBM from February 2002 to May 2007, focusing on collaborative groupware and semantic web technologies. Nishanth's early career included an Extreme Blue Internship at IBM and a Software Engineer role at Cisco Systems. Notable education credentials include a PhD from the University of Cambridge and an MA from The University of Texas at Austin.