Urjaswala Vora

Education

• Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay
• B.E., Computer Science, University of Pune

Research Interests

• Complex Systems, System of Systems, Edge Computing, Internet of Everything, Distributed Architecture, Software Architecture, Software Engineering

Experience

• Associate Teaching Professor, College of IST, Pennsylvania State University (Jan 2022—May 2026)
• Associate Director, C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST) (Jun 1997—Jul 2021)
• Associate Consultant, HCL – HP India (Feb 1995—Aug 1995)
• Computer Programmer, Dalal Consultants & Engineers (Sep 1994—Feb 1995)

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

• Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society
• BOEHM Center for Systems and Software Engineering (Boehm CSSE)

Awards

• Project eSangam (National eGovernance Service Delivery Gateway: NSDG - Phase I and II) (January 2007 - July 2020)
  • Manthan Award South Asia & Asia Pacific in eInfrastructure Category, 2012.
  • SKOCH’s ‘The World is Open Award’, 2008
• Project IASF: Intelligent Advisory System for Farmers (June 2010 – May 2013)
  • 4th eNorth East Challenge Award 2013.

Publications

Selected recent publications

• Urjaswala Vora, ”Identifying and Architecting Microservices for Edge Computing”, Tutorial presented and published in the Proceedings of 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, 2025, pp. 173-174, DOI: 10.1109/ICSA-C65153.2025.00032.
• Urjaswala Vora, “Architecting for Fairness”, In Proceedings of 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, March 2025, DOI: 10.1109/ICSA-C65153.2025.00052.
• Urjaswala Vora, “Architecting a SDS for Microservices-based Distributed Edge Computing Systems”, In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2024), Spain, December 2024.
• Urjaswala Vora, “Process Framework for Edge Computing Systems”. In: Pichappan, P., Rodriguez Jorge, R., Chung, YL. (eds) Advances in Real-Time Intelligent Systems. RTIS 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 950. Springer, Cham, March 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55848-1_3.
• Urjaswala Vora, "Measuring Incremental Technical Debts in Agile Development Lifecycle", Presented at 2023 International Boehm COCOMO® Forum on Systems and Software Cost Modeling with Practical Software and Systems Measurement User Group, November 2023.
• Urjaswala Vora, “HCI in IoT-based Modern Systems”, an Invited Tutorial presented in the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction (IHCI) 2023, South Korea, November 2023.
• Urjaswala Vora. "Software Architecture for Distributed Edge Computing Systems", In the CEUR Workshop Proceedings of ICSOB’22: 13th International Conference on Software Business, November 2022, Italy.
• Urjaswala Vora, “Measuring the Technical Debt”, In the Proceedings of 17th Annual System of Systems Engineering Conference (SOSE), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), USA, June 2022. Pages 185–189.
• Urjaswala Vora et al., ”Precept-based Framework for Using Crowdsourcing in IoT-based Systems”, In the Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), USA, June 2019.
• Urjaswala Vora et al., “Formal Concept Analysis for Predictive Modelling and Sustainable Infrastructures”, In the Proceedings of 2019 Engineering Mechanical Institute (EMI) International Conference, INSA Lyon, France, Jul 2019.
   

Projects

• Biometric Deduplication Engine (January 2021 – December 2025)
  • Funding Agency: Indian Navy
• Long Range Tracking and Identification (LRIT) (January 2019 – March 2024) 
  • Funding Agency: Directorate General of Shipping
• Smart City Mission Mode Projects
  • Role: eGovernance Expert and ICT Specialist   
    • Kandla Smart Industrial Port City (July 2016 - December 2019) 
    • Mangaluru Smart City Project Management Consultancy (May 2017 – May 2022)
• eSangam (National eGovernance Service Delivery Gateway: NSDG - Phase I and II) (January 2007 - July 2020). 
  • Funding Agency: Mission Mode Project of National eGovernance Plan (NeGP)
• Biometrics R & D Lab for UIDAI (June 2014 – March 2016)
  • Role: Project Head
    • Funding Agency: Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)

Grants

Selected grants

• Design and Development of Software Architectural Framework for Distributed Edge Computing Systems (proposed)
  • Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) Program (NSF 22-632)
• e-RA: eGovernance Integration Suite with Reconfigurable Architecture (September 2012 – September 2015)
  • Funding Agency: R & D in NeGP by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
• AFDES: Architecture Framework for Development of e-Governance Systems (April 2009 – March 2011)
  • Funding Agency: R & D in National eGovernance Programme by MeitY

Professional Activities

Selected professional activities

• Board of Studies Member of Department of Computer Science of SNDT Women’s University.
• Paper Reviewer for many international conferences and journals such as CSI Transactions on ICT; IEEE Transactions on Services Computing; Wiley Journal: Software Practice and Experience; Elsevier Journals: Future Generation Computer Systems and Model Management and Analytics for Large Scale Systems and IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering.
• Technical Consultancies to ECGC Limited (Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Ltd), Ministry of Commerce, Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF), Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL), Saraswat Bank, Directorate General of Shipping etc.