Krithi Ramamritham
Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor (also, Dean of R&D, IIT Bombay)
Department of Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology
Mumbai 400076
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,
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
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
Distinguished Alumnus Award
IIT
Fellow, Technical Organizations
Fellow of the
Fellow of the
Fellow ACM, Jan 2001.
Fellow IEEE, Jan 1998.
Board Member
Very Large Databases (VLDB)
Foundation (completed).
Persistent Systems Private Ltd. (PSPL),
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.
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