He returned in September 2015 after a sabbatical as the founding Director of ICFOSS, an academic/research institution for the Government of Kerala. Satish was the President of the Computer Society of India (2012-13) and is its Golden Jubilee Fellow (2014). He was the IEEE Kerala Section Chair and the Asia Pacific Regional Coordinator of the IEEE Computer Society. He has been a member of ICANN’s NomCom (2014, 2015) and is presently the Chair of the APRALO. He is the Founding Chair of Internet Society’s Trivandrum Chapter.
