Dinesh Saini Email and Phone Number

With a vast experience in academics --as a professor, researcher and administrator—in universities like BITS Pilani, King Saud, university of Queensland, Sohar University, and proven record of accomplishment of leadership skills in higher education and tertiary education sector.I have served as Dean in the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology of Sohar University in Sultanate of Oman for three years. I had been an Associate Professor at Sohar University Oman since 2008, and an Adjunct Associate and Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia between 2010-2015. I have also been the founder Program Coordinator and Head of Department for Business Information Technology for more than 10 years. I was instrumental in updating the entire curriculum of the faculty and getting it pass through the whole quality process, till it was approved by university academic board and the Ministry of Higher Education, Oman. I was in the advisory panel of ministry of higher education. I have supervised Ph.D. students in Indian universities and abroad. I won Emerald Literati Award for 2018 for article, ‘Modeling human factors influencing herding during evacuation' published in International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications. Besides my academic credentials aptly measured by different quantifiable metrics (e.g. Research gate score 31.89, and Google citation count 850, H-Index-11, i10 Index 19), I have initiated and coordinated with the entire team of the Faculty to produce the necessary documentation required for Australian Computer Society (ACS) Accreditation of the Faculty. I have been instrumental in curriculum design of three Master’s Program in the Faculty, M.Sc. Computer Science, Geographical Information Systems, Environmental Informatics and Creative Technologies. I revived all the International certificate level courses (SAP, CISCO, ORACLE, ADOBE & PMP) for the benefit of our students and the community at large. I believe in the spirit of teamwork and therefore I have constantly augmented and consolidated research capacity building at the faculty by encouraging and supporting my fellow colleagues and junior faculty members to publish in journals and conference participation.I can boost research capacity and will establish link with different funding agencies. I have visited USA, UK, France, Germany, Austria, UAE, Australia, Russia, Bharin, KSA, for academic purpose and learned lot of good practices in the universities of these developed countries . I can help in improving the systems.