Dhananjay Dhamdhere is Professor and ex-head in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has taught Operating Systems, Programming Languages and Compilers courses at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels for over 30 years at IIT Bombay and in US Universities. He has authored books titled Compiler Construction and Systems Programming and Operating Systems. Professor Dhamdhere has published several research papers in distributed algorithms for operating systems and optimizing compilers, and has received research funding from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Intel. He has been a consultant with IT companies like Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro. He holds B.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from IIT Bombay.