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class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="kpic.jpg"><span style='color:windowtext;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none'><img border=0 width=119 height=178 id="_x0000_i1034" src="index_files/kpic.jpg"></span></a></p> </td> <td width=15 style='width:10.95pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </td> <td width=584 style='width:438.25pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <h3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a href="http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~krithi/2pagebio.html">Prof. Krithi Ramamritham </a><o:p></o:p></span></h3> <h3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a href="http://www.siliconindia.com/magazine/articledesc.php?articleid=EZP539184474">Vijay and Sita Vashee</a> Chair Professor <br> <a href="http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/">Department of Computer Sc. and Engg.</a> <br> <a href="http://www.iitb.ac.in/">IIT Bombay </a><br> Powai Mumbai 400076 <br> (022) 2576-7740 (office) / 2576-8740 (home) <br> (022) 2572-0022 / 2572-0290 (fax) <o:p></o:p></span></h3> <address><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>krithi at iitb.ac.in<o:p></o:p></span></address> </td> <td width=11 style='width:8.45pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </table> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </div> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=1156 style='width: 867.0pt;mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td width=103 style='width:77.25pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <h3><span class=Heading4Char><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>E</span></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>ducation<o:p></o:p></span></h3> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> </td> <td width=16 style='width:12.25pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </td> <td width=1015 style='width:761.25pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal>Ph.D. in Computer Science from the <a href="http://www.cs.utah.edu/">University of Utah</a> (1981) <br> B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering (1976) and M.Tech. in Computer Science (1978), both from the <a href="http://www.iitm.ac.in/">Indian Institute of Technology Madras</a> </p> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </span></div> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=645 style='width:483.75pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td width=102 style='width:76.5pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <h3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Career <o:p></o:p></span></h3> </td> <td width=17 style='width:12.75pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </td> <td width=504 style='width:5.25in;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt' bordercolorlight="#800000"> <p class=MsoNormal>1981-2001: <a href="http://www.cs.umass.edu/">University of Massachusetts, Amherst</a> <br> Since 1998: <a href="http://www.iitb.ac.in/">IIT Bombay </a></p> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </span></div> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=644 style='width:483.0pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td width=102 style='width:76.5pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <h3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Research <o:p></o:p></span></h3> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> </td> <td width=18 style='width:13.3pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </td> <td width=502 style='width:376.5pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal>My research explores timeliness and consistency issues in computer systems, in particular, databases, real-time systems, and distributed applications. <br> My recent work addresses these issues in the context of <a href="http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~krithi/ddd.html">Dynamic Data</a> in sensor networks, embedded systems, mobile environments and the web. <br> During the last few years I have been interested in the use of Information and Communication Technologies for creating tools aimed at socio-economic development. </p> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </span></div> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=635 style='width:476.25pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td width=102 style='width:76.5pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <h3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Publications<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </td> <td width=18 style='width:13.8pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </td> <td width=492 style='width:369.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~krithi/publications.html">All</a></p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/r/Ramamritham:Krithi.html">DB-Related (DBLP link)</a> </p> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </span></div> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=957 style='width:717.75pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td width=77 style='width:57.75pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <h3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Laboratories<o:p></o:p></span></h3> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>&nbsp;</p> </td> <td width=20 style='width:15.3pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </td> <td width=836 style='width:627.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/infolab/">Informatics Laboratory</a> <br> <a href="http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/laiir/">Laboratory for Intelligent Systems Research</a> <br> <a href="http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/research/labs/erts_lab/index.php">Embedded Real-Time Systems Laboratory </a><br> <a href="http://www.dil.iitb.ac.in/">Developmental Informatics Laboratory</a>, <a href="http://www.mlasia.iitb.ac.in/">Media Lab Asia--IITB</a>&nbsp; (<a href="http://www.manthanaward.org/section_synopsis.asp?id=128">Awards </a>winning <a href="http://www.aaqua.org/">aAQUA -- almost All QUestions Answered</a>)</p> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </span></div> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=669 style='width:501.75pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td width=101 style='width:75.75pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <h3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Teaching<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </td> <td width=18 style='width:13.8pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </td> <td width=527 style='width:395.25pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <h3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal'><a href="http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~cs684"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Embedded Systems - software -- CS684 </span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal'><br> </span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a href="http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~cs671"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-weight:normal'>ICT for Development  CS671</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </span></div> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=823 style='width:617.25pt; mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td width=101 style='width:75.75pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <h3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Major Honors and Awards<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </td> <td width=18 style='width:13.8pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </td> <td width=681 style='width:510.75pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal>Fellow: &nbsp;<a href="http://www.ieee.org/">IEEE </a>, <a href="http://www.acm.org/">ACM</a>, <st1:placename w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indian</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">National</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:place></st1:placetype> of Engineering, Indian Academy of Sciences. <br> <a href="http://www.iitmadras.org/news/2006/daa/">Distinguished Alumnus Award</a> from IIT <st1:city w:st="on">Madras</st1:city>. </p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.usyd.edu.au/senate/Ramamritham.shtml">Doctor of Science</a> (honoris causa)<u1:p></u1:p>&nbsp; from The University of <ns0:city><ns0:city><st1:place w:st="on">Sydney</st1:place></ns0:city></ns0:city>, Australia.</p> <p class=MsoNormal>IBM Faculty Awards.</p> <p class=MsoNormal>DASFAA 10+ Best Paper Award for&nbsp; 2010 for&nbsp; <a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/dasfaa/KamathRT95.html">DASFAA1995</a> paper.</p> <p class=MsoNormal>IIT Bombay's <a href="http://www.ircc.iitb.ac.in/IRCC-Webpage/awards2.jsp#excellence">H. H. Mathur Award for Excellence in Research in Applied Sciences, 2010.</a></p> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </span></div> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=1022 style='width: 766.5pt;mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes'> <td width=101 style='width:75.75pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <h3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Journal Editorial Boards<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </td> <td width=18 style='width:13.8pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </td> <td width=880 style='width:660.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <h4><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Editor-in-Chief:&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></h4> <h4 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-weight:normal'><a href="http://computer.org/tmc"><span style='text-decoration: none;text-underline:none'>IEEE: &nbsp;</span></a><a href="eslinfo.pdf">Embedded Systems Letters</a><o:p></o:p></span></h4> <h4 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-list: Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a href="http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1386-145X"><span style='font-weight: normal;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Springer: </span></a>&nbsp;</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal'><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/communications/journal/11241">Real-Time Systems Journal</a></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></h4> <h4><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Editor:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal'><a href="http://computer.org/tmc"><span style='text-decoration:none;text-underline: none'>IEEE: &nbsp;</span>Transactions on Mobile Computing</a></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></h4> <h4><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Past Editor:&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></h4> <h4 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-list: Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-weight:normal'><a href="http://computer.org/tmc"><span style='text-decoration: none;text-underline:none'>IEEE: &nbsp;</span></a><a href="http://computer.org/tpds">Trans on Parallel and Distributed Systems</a>, &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="http://computer.org/tkde">Trans on Knowledge and Data Engineering</a>, <a href="http://computer.org/internet">Internet Computing</a></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></h4> <h4 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-list: Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a href="http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1386-145X"><span style='font-weight: normal;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Springer:&nbsp; </span><span style='font-weight:normal'>WWW Journal</span></a></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal'>,&nbsp; <a href="http://www.vldb.org/dblp/db/journals/vldb/index.html">VLDB Journal</a>, <a href="http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-153-70-35618429-detailsPage%3Djournal%7Cdescription%7Cdescription,00.html">Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal</a> </span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></h4> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:1;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td width=101 style='width:75.75pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <h3><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></h3> </td> <td width=18 style='width:13.8pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </td> <td width=880 style='width:660.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'> <h4><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></h4> </td> </tr> </table> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~krithi/help.html">Helping the Forgotten</a> <o:p></o:p></p> <!---- During his 1994-95 sabbatical in India, Prof. Ramamritham visited Indian CS institutions and laboratories. Based on these visits, he has written a <a href=" http://www.onr.navy.mil/onrasia/gnrl/krithi2.html">summary report</a> as well as a <a href="http://www.onr.navy.mil/onrasia/gnrl/krithi1.html">detailed report</a > on the research and development activities in India. </p> <hr> <p> Prof. Ramamritham received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the <a href="http://www.cs.utah.edu/">University of Utah</a>. Currently he is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts with a visiting position at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He was a Science and Engineering Research Council (U.K.) visiting fellow at the <a href="http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/nameplate.html">University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K</a> and has held visiting positions at the <a href="http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/">Technical University of Vienna, Austria</a> and at the <a href="http://sol.rutgers.edu/~sabesan/iit.html"> Indian Institute of Technology, Madras</a>. <p> Ramamritham's interests span the areas of <a href="http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/rts.html">real-time systems</a>, transaction processing in <a href="http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/db.html">database systems</a>, and <a href="http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/rtdb">real-time databases systems</a>. <p> texts on real-time systems, a text on scheduling in real-time systems, and a text on advances in database transaction processing. <hr> During 1994-95, Prof. Ramamritham spent a year in India. Based on his visits to Indian CS institutions and laboratories, he has written a <a href=" http://www.onr.navy.mil/onrasia/gnrl/krithi2.html">summary report</a> as well as a <a href="http://www.onr.navy.mil/onrasia/gnrl/krithi1.html">detailed report</a > on the research and development activities in India. <p><a href="http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/db.html"> <img ALIGN=MIDDLE src="http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/images/database150x75.gif"> To Database Systems</a> <a href="http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/rts.html"> <img ALIGN=MIDDLE src="http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/images/rts100x100.gif"> To Real Time Systems</a> </p> He was a Science and Engineering Research Council (U.K.) visiting fellow at the <a href="http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/nameplate.html">University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K</a> and has held visiting positions at the <a href="http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/">Technical University of Vienna</a>, Austria and at the <a href="http://www.iitm.ac.in"> Indian Institute of Technology</a> Madras. Ramamritham's interests span the areas of <a href="http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/rts.html"> real-time systems</a>, transaction processing in <a href="http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/db/">database systems</a>, and <a href="http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/rtdb">real-time databases systems</a>. He is applying concepts from these areas to solve problems in embedded systems, mobile computing, <a href="http://www.chutneysystems.com"> e-commerce </a>, <a href="http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/laiir/"> intelligent internet</a>, and the <a href="http://lass.cs.umass.edu/projects/broadway/"> Web</a>. <p> <p> His conference chairing duties include the Real-Time Systems Symposium -- as Program Chair in 1994 and as General Chair in 1995, the Conference on Data Engineering -- as a Vice-Chair in 1995 and 2001 and as a Program Chair in 2003, and the <a href="http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~dbms/comad2000">Conference on Management of Data</a> -- as Program Chair in 2000 and General Chair in 2005. He has also served on numerous <a href="http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~krithi/vita.html"> program committees</a> of conferences and workshops. He has co-authored two IEEE tutorial texts on real-time systems, a text on advances in database transaction processing, and a text on scheduling in real-time systems. <dd> <img src="krithi100x145.gif"></a> <br> ---></div> </body> </html>