Sports, Student Activities, Interviews, Hobbies, Subjects Taught
Sports and Extra Curricular Activities
Represented Bangalore University Cricket team, 1976-1979.
Represented State Cricket Pentangular Tournament, 1978.
Represented Bangalore University Athletics Team, 1977-1978.
Athletic Champion, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, 1974 – 75.
Athletic Champion, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, 1976 – 77.
Represented St. Joseph’s Indian High School in athletics, 1968 - 72.
Represented St. Joseph’s College in Cricket and Athletics, 1972 – 74.
Represented University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore University, Bangalore, in Athletics and Cricket, 1974 – 79.
Captain, College Cricket team, UVCE, Bangalore, 1976 – 77, 1977 - 78.
Captain, College Athletics team, UVCE, Bangalore, 1977 - 78.
Triple Jump, Second place, Bangalore University, Intercollegiate Athletics Meet, 1977.
Triple Jump, Second place, Inter University Athletics Meet, Mysore, 1978.
4 x 100 mt, relay, First place, Bangalore University, Intercollegiate Athletics Meet, 1977 - 78.
4 x 100 mt, relay, First place, Bangalore University, Intercollegiate Athletics Meet, 1978 - 79.
Bangalore University, Intercollegiate Cricket, winners, Indian Institute of Science, 1976 – 77.
RV College, Cricket Tournament, runners, 1975.
High Jump, Second place, Bangalore Schools Association, Athletic Meet, 1970.
Claimed more than 200 wickets for UVCE, Left arm spin bowler, and averaged more than 40 runs as middle order batsman.
Secretary, Society for Indian Culture Music among Youth, SPICMACAY, New Delhi, 1990.
Member of Sun Club, Cosmos Jaycees, and Lion Club.
Student Representative
St Joseph’s Indian High School, Bangalore 1969-1972.
St Joseph’s College, Bangalore, 1972-1974.
University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, 1974-1979.
Bangalore University Student’s Council, Bangalore, 1977-1978.
Central College, Bangalore University, Bangalore 1983-1984.
S. J. R. C. College of Law, Bangalore, 1982-1985.
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore, 1986-1989.
Karnataka Engineering Student Council, 1977-1978.
Interviews in Media
(1) Chandana Vahani, Dooradarshan (DD : Kannada) “Profile of Achievers” in Belagu Programme(30 Minutes), 2004.
(2) UDAYA TV, Parichaya Programme(30 Minutes), 2000.
(3) Chandana, Dooradarshan (DD: Kannada), An Interview(30 Minutes), 2002.
(4) Insatiable Hunger for Knowledge, The Hindu, Saturday, March 25, 2000.
(5) A Ceaseless Attempt at Learning and Teaching, The Sunday Times of India, March 12, 2000.
(6) UDAYA TV, Samvedana (30 Minutes), 2008.
(7) Bangalore Kannada Times: Hannondu Degreegala Saradara, 2008.
(8) Heegobba Vidhyadahi, Pravajavani, 19th June 2004.
(9) Dr. K R Venugopal : Ondu Aparoopada Vilakshana Vyakthithva, Kaadina Mithra Weekly, 2001.
(10) City Cable, An Interview(15 Minutes), 2003.
(11) Talks on computers, law and Economics on A.I.R and TV.
(12) Computer and Society Talk on AIR, Bangalore, 1983.
(13) Inflation and Oil prices Talk on AIR, Bangalore, 1983.
(14) Legal Aid to Poor, documentary Doordarshan, 1984.
(15) UVCE, 16th June 2008, Times of India Kannada.
(16) UVCE Launches 9 New Courses, Times of India, (8.8.08), Samyukta Karnataka, Udaya Vani, Kannada Prabha (10.8.08).
(17) Computer Sciences Language Writer : Venugopal K R, Times of India, Kannada (May 27, 2008).
(18) Venkatagiri Gowda Auditorium Work starts (12th July 2008), Prajavani.
(19) Teacher’s Incredible Achievement, Times of India, Kannada, May 27, 2008.
(20) Continuous Transformation in Engineering in the need of hour, Times of India, Kannada, 1st June 2008.
(21) One Teacher for Eight Hundred Students in UVCE, Times of India, Kannada, Times of India, English, 27th January 2007.
(22) Basic Science is more Important than Application Sciences, Samyukta Karnataka, July 2008.
(23) Focus on Traditional Engineering Branches, The Hindu, 28th March 2006.
(24) A Cook Book for Pascal and C, The Hindu, 23rd May, 1995.
(25) Assembly Spoken Here, Express Computers, 11th December 1995.
(26) Another Net Invades Class Room, The Hindu, September 2000.
Hobbies
· Social Work, Photography, Poetry
Subjects taught for Postgraduate and Undergraduate Students
· Distributed Computing, Transaction Processing, Internet programming, Database Management, Operating System, Data Structures, Compilers, Advanced computer Architecture, Computer Organization, Computer Networks, UNIX and C, Parallel Processing, C++, Java, High Performance, Computer Networks, Neural Networks, Simulation and Modeling, Finite Automata and Formal Languages, Data Mining and Warehousing.