About me
Meenakshi D'Souza is a Professor and HoD (Department of Computer Science) at IIIT Bangalore, and the President of ACM India. Her research interests are in Formal Methods and Software Testing. Meenakshi has worked on many sponsored research projects from the Government of India and also from the R&D industry. She is also interested in gender diversity and accessibility issues in IT. Meenakshi teaches courses on Software Testing, Automata theory and Computability, Discrete Mathematics, Graph Theory, and Design and Analysis of Algorithms in the institute. Meenakshi's course on Software Testing has been offered on the NPTEL, Swayam platform since 2017 and more than 70,000 learners have enrolled for this course over the years. Meenakshi also teaches in the online B. Sc. degree program of IIT Madras.
Meenakshi did her Bachelor's and Master’s degree in Mathematics from University of Madras, Chennai and her Ph. D. in Theoretical Computer Science from The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. Prior to joining IIIT Bangalore, Meenakshi worked in the research department of Honeywell Technology Solutions, Bangalore, for seven years.
