Dr. Rudra Pratap is
on the management staff and is the Chairman of the
board of Systat Software's parent corporation. He is
a B.Tech. from IIT Kharagpur, an M.S. from the University
of Arizona and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. He
worked with IBM in the U.S. before taking up teaching
at Cornell, where he has been felicitated for his contribution.
He is now an Associate Profesㄴsor in Mechanical Engineering
at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Dr.
Rudra Pratap has published over 20 papers in prestigious
international journals and of the books authored by
him, "Getting started with MATLAB", a quick introduction
for scientists and engineers used by several Universities
all over the world.
Mr. Richard Gall serves
as President for Systat Software. Richard Gall
brings over three decades of techno-commercial experience
to the company. Richard spent a substantial portion
of his career at Texas Instruments and subsequently
worked with leading corporations such as defense technology
major Raytheon and product developer Parametric Technology.
During his career, Richard has developed deep relationships
with several Fortune 500 companies. He has also developed
strong process methodologies and is well grounded in
Six Sigma. Richard has a B.S. in electrical engineering
from Purdue University and an MBA. Richard is currently
on the management staff and a board member of Systat
Software's parent corporation.
Mr. Ron Brown, Chief
Software Architect for Systat Software, graduated
with a chemical engineering degree from Purdue University
in 1975 and has worked at 3M, Eastman Kodak, and
several Silicon Valley technology companies. He founded
AISN, a scientific software company, in 1988. His
company launched TableCurve 2D? TableCurve 3D? PeakFit?
and AutoSignal? products that have set the standards
in their respective analytical domains and which
are now part of the Systat Software product line.
Apart from over seeing the evolution of the products
he authored, Ron is also on board of Systat Software's
parent corporation.
Dr. T. Krishnan, Chief
Statistical Architect is an expert on various
aspects of Applied Statistics. He retired as Professor
of Applied Statistics from the Indian Statistical
Institute (ISI), Kolkata. He has over 40 years of
research, teaching and consulting experience at the
ISI and at various universities around the world.
His research interests and publications have been
in Biostatistics, Psychometry, Pattern Recognition
and Image Analysis, and the EM Algorithm. His book
with G.J.McLachlan titled 밇M Algorithm and Extensions?(New
York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997) has been a definitive
and authoritative source of material on the subject.
Mr. Rajiv Menon, Vice
President - Product Development is entrusted
with the Global Development activities of the Systat
Software range of products. This includes drawing
up the development road map of the future versions
of all the products and overseeing the day to day
activities in order to meet the requirements as per
the quality standards. Rajiv has a BS in Electrical
Engineering with Computer Engineering Emphasis from
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He brings over
12 years of technology experience to the company.
Dr. Richard Mitchell,
Senior Scientist graduated with a Ph.D. in Engineering
from Purdue University. His early industrial experience
includes working on the Atlas missile system that
put John Glenn in orbit and positions in the biomedical
engineering field at California Pacific Medical Center.
Richard has also served as adjunct professor at UC
Berkeley. He was one of the original founders of
Jandel Scientific, and for two decades, has been
the principal scientist overseeing the evolution
of technology in the Sigma family of scientific software
products.
