- Prof. Gopinath is on the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) board. In the past, he had consultancy projects with storage companies like NetApp.
- Prof. Shayan Srinivasa Garani is a SERB co-opt member since 2020.
- Prof. Shayan Srinivasa Garani was the chairman of the IEEE Data Storage Technical Committee from 2018-2020.
- Prof. Shayan Srinivasa Garani served on the jury of IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 Best Paper awards.
- Prof. K. Gopinath will be on a IISSM’19 panel on “Data Safety, Risk Mitigation and Business Continuity in the Digital Era”, at Bangalore, Nov 15, 2019.
- Prof. Shayan Garani is engaging in a consultancy with Analog Devices from Nov. 2019.
- Prof. K. Gopinath was on a DIRI’19 (Digital Identity Research Initiative) panel on Aadhaar at ISB, Hyderabad, Oct 11, 2019
- Prof. K. Gopinath gave a talk at SDC’19 (Storage Developer Conference)on “Resource Proportional Storage Processing in the age of Deep Learning”, May 23, 2019.
- Prof. Shayan Garani was invited by Samsung Memory solutions, India for a talk, Feb. 4, 2019.
- Professors K. Gopinath and P. Vijay Kumar have collaborated with storage-industry leader NetApp and have been past recipients of the NetApp Faculty Fellowships.
- Professor Shayan Garani is routinely invited to present at The Magnetic Recording Conference which is very prestigious in the field.
- Professor Shayan Garani's group has an active funded collaboration with Toshiba's Data-Storage Group.
- Professor Shayan Garani's group is also funded by DST, MeitY, IUSSTF, ISRO-STC.