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In his early career at Wipro Bangalore, he developed parallel computers for the Akash missile system led by honorable ex-President Dr Abdul Kalam (then head of DRDL) in 1980\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Dr Nanda has served in the Editorial Board of several internationally reputed journals such as IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, special issues of the IEEE Computer magazine and IBM Journal of R&amp;D. He holds fifteen US patents and has published over 100 papers in the areas of computer architecture, parallel computer systems, and applied AI.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View Personal Webpage Ashwini K. Nanda, Center-Director Prof. Ashwini K. Nanda is the Founding Center-Director of the AI and HPC Research Center (AHRC), and a Visiting Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bhubaneswar. 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