Sumit Mookerjee

Overall responsibility for all computing infrastructure and software development. Planned and implemented the development of the infrastructure from a few desktop computers to a thousand-node network across six buildings, operating its own mail, web, proxy, firewall and database servers along with a national HPC facility with about six hundred users from a hundred and fifty research groups across India. Set up the ion-matter simulation group to complement the Centre’s experimental materials science program. Served as a technical advisor in the planning and purchase of data centre, HPC cluster and storage, and network equipment at many universities, research institutes and government science and technology departments, including the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi and the Indian Biological Data Centre, Faridabad.

Taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in a number of areas of Physics, including high energy and nuclear physics, wave and classical mechanics, mathematical physics, and quantum mechanics. As a member of the experimental high energy physics group at the department, participated in the EMU-01 and WA98 international collaborations conducting experiments at the accelerator facility in CERN, Geneva.