Teaching enduring foundational concepts in software engineering. Research focus on formally capturing knowledge with a view to build sustainable expert systems.

Offering the following services:1. Enabling sustainable business transformation2. Closing the business process gap: (a) Data analysis using python (b) Business process modeling (to comprehend the current state) (c) Business process re-engineering (to define the future state based on data analysis)3. Enterprise architecture modeling using Archimate (b) Enabling a smooth business transformation4. Software product line architecture to enable sustained product evolution5. Training the working professionals on: (a) Requirements engineering (b) Software architecture and design (c) Process customization (d) Data analysis6. Modeling, numerical simulation and optimization of chemical process units

- Software Engineering Services1. Software architecture and models - Process enablement, analysis and reviews2. Software engineering automation - Model transformations, traceability and impact analysis3. Business process management4. Application modernization5. Application integration- Product Engineering Services for clients1. Product engineering methodologies2. Product architecture, design and development- Research Area1. AI applications: representation of design knowledge; process synthesis and intensification (Chemical Engineering).- EducationAssociated Faculty, Software Engineering Masters Program, CMU, Pittsburgh(http://mse.isri.cmu.edu/software-engineering/faculty-new/sivakumar-s.html)1. Software Architecture2. Methods3. Application Integration4. Embedded and real time systems- Development of products for software engineering automation1. Automated model transformation, impact analysis and estimation tools2. Extensions to Rational Team Concert and Rational Software Development platforms

Associated Faculty for MS(IT), Institute of Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University.

- Solution Architecting for clients in Computer Services Industry (CSI)1. Architecting for business process automation using SOA2. Harvesting and Employing SOA Architectural Patterns3. Design and Development based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)4. Service Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA)5. Architectural Analysis- Software engineering services1. Implementation of Rational methodologies and tools2. Adoption of Object Oriented and Service OrientedAnalysis and Design2. Process Customization3. Adoption of Business Modeling and Requirements Management Best Practices