About
Hari is a thought leader with extensive functional leadership experience in managing multi-disciplinary, high-performance teams of engineers, architects, and product owners across domains such as Telecom, Enterprise Application Development, and BFSI. He has built and nurtured technology teams in India, the US, Canada and Hungary, working with both government and private organizations including the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Hewlett-Packard, Bell Labs – Lucent Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, and Nokia Networks. Hari also ventured into entrepreneurship, serving as Group CTO and Managing Director at Testenium India Private Ltd. He is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore and holds a Master’s degree in Data Science Engineering from BITS Pilani.
Data Privacy
Encryption
Generative AI
5G
DevOps
Research Interests
Agentic AI
Data Privacy
PMP from Project Management Institute, USA
"Innovator of Registers R&D” Award from Nokia Networks
Patent pending : 20194100210 Method and Apparatus for de-centralizing networks

Harikumar Vasudevan Pillai Santhibhavan
Professor of Practice
M.Tech (Data Science & Engineering)School of Computer Science and Engineering