Central Depository Services (India) Limited announced the appointment of Prof. Varsha Apte as Public Interest Director,subject to completion of due process of her appointment. Varsha Apte is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay and is currently the Head of the Department. She completed her M.Sc.

from Pune University in 1989, and PhD. from Duke University in 1994, both in Computer Science. After her Ph.D., she joined the Teletraffic Theory and Performance Analysis department in AT&T Bell Labs as a Member, Technical Staff, which later became the Network Design and Performance Analysis department of AT&T Labs.

She joined as faculty in the Computer Science and Engineering Dept, IIT Bombay in 2002. During the academic years 2009-2011, she was on leave from IITB and Visiting Faculty at the Computer Science and Automation Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. While in Bangalore, she also worked at IBM Research Labs as part-time Visiting Researcher from June 2009-May 2010.

From February 2016 to February 2019, she served as the Head of the Network and Computing Infrastructure department (called "Computer Centre") of IIT Bombay. Her areas of interest are performance analysis of computing systems and networks and building applications for online programming education, including AI for programming education. The term of appointment shall be for a period of three years as per the SEBI letter, which shall be effective from June 05, 2024 to May 30, 2027.