Krithi Ramamritham

Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor (also, Dean of R&D, IIT Bombay)
Department of Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Mumbai 400076 India
Web: www.cse.iitb.ac.in (email
:krithi at iitb.ac.in)

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1981.
Master of Technology, Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, July 1978.
Bachelor of Technology, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, June 1976.

EXPERIENCE

July 06 - June 09 Dean of Research & Development, IIT Bombay.

April '03 - July 06 Head, Kanwal Rekhi School of IT, IIT Bombay.
Since June '98 - Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay.
June '94 - June '95 Visiting Professor.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras.
Sep '93 - August '01 Professor. Department of Computer Science, Univ. of Massachusetts.
Sep '92 - August '93 Associate Chair for Facilities.

Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts.
Sep '87 - August '93 Associate Professor.

Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts.
Jun '88 - Aug '88 Visiting Professor, Technical University, Vienna, Austria.
Sep '87 - Jun '88 Visiting Fellow, Science and Engineering Research Council (U.K.),

University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
Sep '81 - Aug '87 Assistant Professor,

Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Massachusetts.
Sep '78 - Aug '81 Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant,

Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

 

RESEARCH

 

Interests

Timeliness and consistency issues in computer systems, in particular, databases, real-time systems, and distributed applications.

Recent work addresses these issues in the context of Dynamic Data in sensor networks, embedded systems, mobile environments, and the Web.

During the last few years interested in the use of Information and Communication Technologies for creating tools aimed at socio-economic development.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

All; DB-Related (DBLP link)

 

5 Books

25+ Book chapters

75+ Journal articles

165+ Conference publications

Most Cited Researcher currently in Indian Computer Science Institutions

 

AWARDS and HONOURS

Doctor of Science (honoris causa)

University of Sydney, May 2007.

 

Distinguished Alumnus Award

IIT Madras, April 2006.

 

Fellow, Technical Organizations

Fellow of the Indian  Academy of Sciences, Jan 2010.

Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Jan 2005.

Fellow ACM, Jan 2001.

Fellow IEEE, Jan 1998.

Board Member

Very Large Databases (VLDB) Foundation (completed).
Persistent Systems Private Ltd. (PSPL), India.
Walking Stick Solutions Private Limited (completed).

Technical Advisory Board Member

TTTech, Vienna, Austria
Microsoft Research India
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Technology Board
International Institute for Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad, India
ACM SIGMOD (completed)

Contribution to Socio-Economic Development
Manthan Award for aAQUA

Editorial Board

Real-Time Systems, Editor-in-Chief, since Jan 2006.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, since Jan 2006.
Distributed and Parallel Databases, September 2004 (completed).
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,  2002 (completed).
IEEE Internet Computing, 2002-2009.

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Sys., Jan 1997 - Dec 2000.
World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems, 2003-2008.
The VLDB Journal, May 2002 – April 2007.

Program Chair, General Chair, Member

Numerous Conferences devoted to Databases, Real-Time Systems, Web, etc.

Major Sponsored/Consultancy Projects

Development Gateway Foundation (C-DAC / DGF) sponsored

ICT Research & Training Centre (6.6 crores)

National Agricultural Innovation Project (Indian Council for Agriculture Research)

TCS sponsored Intelligent Systems Lab (almost 2 crores)

PAN Asia sponsored project

Media Lab Asia sponsored (several crores)

Agro Explorer

Interfaces for All

Polysensors

Developmental Informatics

Education of Rural Children

In addition, projects from organizations such as Bhabha Atomic Research Center,

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, Satyam Computers R&D Lab,

Dept.of Sc. and Technology

 

Detailed but not-quite-uptodate vita can be viewed at http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~krithi/vita.html