Guest Editor
IEEE Internet Computing, May 2004.
Real-Time Systems, June 2000.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, June 1999.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, July 1995.

Keynote/Invited Conference/Workshop Talks

Workshop on “Data from the Field”, Sydney, Australia, May 2007.

Australian Database Conference, Ballarat, Victoria, Jan 2007.

Conference on Management of Data, New Delhi, India, Dec 2006.
11th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2006), Singapore, April 2006.
International Conference on Information Technology, Bhuvaneshwar, India, Dec 2004.
Fourth ACM Intl. Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), Pisa, Italy, Sep 2004.
AMIC Annual Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2004.
International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, April 2004.
Microsoft (India) Academic Summit, Bangalore, April 2004.
IFAC Conference on New Technologies for Computer Control, Hong Kong, Nov. 2001.
TCS Heads of Institutions Conference, Trivandrum, Oct, 2001.
Embesy 2000, Trivandrum, August 2001.
Conference on E-governance, IGNOU, Delhi, 2001.
Third International Conference on Information Technology, Bhuvaneshwar, India, Dec 2000.
DNIS 2000: International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems, University of Aizu, Japan, Dec 2000.
International Conference on Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA'99), Dec 1999.
2 nd International Workshop on Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems, Florence, Italy, September 1999.
Workshop on E-commerce (keynote address on ``Global Trends in E-Commerce''), IIT Bombay, Jan 1999.
IFAC Intl. Workshop on Distributed Computer Control Systems, Seoul, South Korea, July 1997.
Intl. Workshop on Databases, Hong Kong, July 1997.
Symposium on Parallel and Distributed AI, Hyderabad, India, July 1996.
Workshop on Active and Real-Time Database Systems, Skoevde, Sweden, June, 1995.
Workshop on Embedded Systems, Bangalore, India, November, 1994.
Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Princeton, NJ, October, 1993.
Conference on Management of Data, Bangalore, India, Dec 1992.

Distinguished Lectures

National ICT Australia, Jan 2007.

Univ. of California, San Diego, Dec 2006.
Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden, Nov. 1999.
Rama Rao Distinguished Speaker Series, IIT Kanpur, August 1999.
Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series
(organized by NCSU, UNC-CH and Duke Univ.), Feb 1998.
Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, October 1996.
Univ. of Pittsburgh, March 1996.

Ph.D. THESES SUPERVISED

o       Huan Li, .Resource Management for Distributed Real-Time Sensor Systems”, Sep 2006.

o       H. Shrikumar, "Dynamic Composability: Building Flexible Complex Real-Time Systems", May 2004.

o       Cristobal Pedregal-Martin, "Recovery Guarantees in Data-Based Systems", September 2001.

o       Oscar Gonzalez Gomez, ``Middleware for Real-Time Systems," September 2000.

o       Ming Xiong, ``Real-Time Databases,'' May 2000.

o       Mohan Kamath, ``Failure Handling and Coordinated Execution of Concurrent Workflows,'' June 1996.

o       Lory Molesky, ``Recovery in Coherent Memory Database Systems,'' June 1996.

o       Fuxing Wang, ``Issues Related to Dynamic Scheduling in Real-Time Systems,'' August 1993 (co-chair).

o       Chia Shen, ``An Integrated Approach to Dynamic Task and Resource Management in Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems,'' August 1992.

o       Panos Chrysanthis, ``ACTA, A Framework for modeling and reasoning about Extended Transactions,'' July 1991. Nominated by the department for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.

o       K. Arvind, ``Protocols for Distributed Real-Time Systems,'' May 1991(co-chair).

o       Victor Yodaiken, ``An Arithmetic of Digital Systems,'' August 1990.

o       Gerry Pocock, ``The Design and Analysis of a Computer System for Sensory-based Robots,'' Dec 1989.

o       B.R. Badrinath, ``Concurrency-Control in Complex Information Systems: A Semantics-based Approach,'' Sep 1989.

o       Wei Zhao, ``A Heuristic Approach to Scheduling with Resource Requirements in Distributed Systems,'' Feb 1986. Nominated by the department for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.

o       Stephen T. Vinter, ``A Protection-oriented Distributed Kernel,'' Aug 1985 (co-chair).

CONFERENCE RELATED ACTIVITIES (neither complete nor uptodate)

Conference/Workshop Organization

IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering,  2008 (co-general Chair).

13th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2008), March  2008  (co-general Chair).

WWW: Intl. World Wide Web Conference, 2006, 2007 (track chair).
Conference on Management of Data, Pune, India, Jan 2005 (General Chair).
ISORC 2005 (co-program chair)..
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Feb 2003 (Program Chair).
IFAC Technical Committee on Distributed Computer Control (steering committee member).
DASFAA (Steering Committee Member).
Conference on Management of Data, Pune, India, Dec 2000 (Program Chair)
International Conference on Data Engineering, 1995, 2001 (Vice-chair).
NSF Workshop on Information and Data Management March 2000 (Steering Committee Member).
International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems (WECWIS 2000) June 2000 (Steering Committee Member).
Workshop on Databases: Active & Real-Time, 1996. (General Chair).
Real-time Systems Symposium, 1995. (General chair).
International Conference on Automation - ACAUTO '95 (Intl. Advisory Committee)
Real-time Systems Symposium, 1994. (Program chair).
Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, October, 1993. (Publicity chair)
(Joint) IEEE Workshop on Real-time Operating Systems and Software and IFAC Workshop on Real-Time Programming, May 1991. (Co-chair)
Workshop on Transactions and Objects, OOPSLA/ECOOP, Oct 1990. (Co-chair)
IEEE Workshop on Real-time Operating Systems, May 1987 (Program chair).

Member, Program Committee

DASFAA, 2003, 04, 05, 06.
WWW: Intl. World Wide Web Conference, 2003, 04, 05.
EUROMICRO conference on Real-Time Systems, 2002, 2005.
International Conference on Data Engineering 1992, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 2001, 2005.
Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, 1995, 1997, 2001, 04, 05.
Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2004.
EDBT 2004
VLDB TES 2003, 04.
Real-time Systems Symposium, 1986, 89, 90, 91,97,99, 2000, 2001, 02, 03.
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 1988, 89, 90, 91, 94, 2003.
IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication, March, 2003.
International Conference On Mobile Data Management, 2002, 2003.
International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002.
ACM Mobile Commerce Workshop, July 2001.
International Workshop on Electronic Commerce, Darmstadt, Germany, November 2001.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 1992, 1995, 1999, 2001.
International School and Symposium on Formal Techniques in Real-time and Fault-tolerant Systems, Sep 2000.
IFAC Workshop on Dist. Computer Control Systems, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000.
Workshop on Pervasive Computing, August 2000.
Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC'00), Dec 2000, Dec 2002.
International Conference on Mobile Data Access (MDA'99) December, 1999, Hong Kong.
Fifth International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MIS'99), Oct 1999.
Intl. Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS), April 1999.
Workshop on Databases: Active & Real-Time, 1998.
Conference on Management of Data, 1994, 1997, 1998.
International Conference on Computer Supported Organizational Work, June 1998.
Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, Dec 1997.
International Workshop on Active and Real-Time Database Systems, June 1995, Sep 1997.
Workshop on Real-Time Databases, March 1996, Sep 1997.
International Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems, Feb 1997.
Conference on Fault-Tolerant Systems, Dec 1995.
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, Dec 91, Jan 93, Oct 94.
International Workshop on an Infrastructure for Temporal Databases, June 1993.
IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, April, 1993.
Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Oct 1992, Oct 1994.
Second International Workshop on Responsive Computer Systems, Oct 1992.
IFAC/IFIP Workshop on Real-Time Programming, June 1992.
International Workshop on Configurable Distributed Systems, March 1992, March 94.
IEEE Workshop on Real-time Operating Systems and Software, 1990.

Conference Session Chair
Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, May 1997, June 1999, June 2004.
Web Information Systems Engineering, Dec 2002.
Real-time Systems Symposium, 1985, 86, 89, 93, 2000, 2002, 2003.
IEEE International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering, 2002.
International Conference on Data Engineering, 1992, 2002, 04, 05.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, May 1992, June 1996, May 2001.
Workshop on Real-Time Databases, Sep 1997.
Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 1997.
IFAC Workshop on Distributed Computer Control Systems, Sep 1991, July 1997.
International Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems, Feb 1997.
Conference on Management of Data, Bangalore, India, Dec 1992, Dec 1994.
th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Oct 1992.
IEEE Workshop on Real-time Operating Systems, 1990, 1993.
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 1989, 90, 2003, 04, 05.

Panelist in Conferences/Workshops

World Wide Web, Banff, Canada, May 2007.
VLDB BIRTE Workshop, Seoul,Korea, Sep 2006.
World Wide Web, Tokyo, Japan, June 2005.
The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Object-oriented Real-time Distributed Computing, Vienna, Austria, May 2004.
DNIS 2000: International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems, University of Aizu, Japan, Dec 2000.
Intl. Conference on Data Engineering, Feb 2000.
Intl. Conference on High Performance Computing, Dec 1999, 2002, 04.
NSF Information and Data Management PIs' Workshop, Vision Panel, March 1998.
MIT/ACM Strategic Directions in Computing Research Workshop, June 1996.
- member of database and real-time groups.
Workshop on Real-Time Databases: Issues and Applications, March 1996.
Workshop on Active Real-Time Databases, June 1995.
International Conference on Tools for AI, Nov 1993.
Workshop on Real-time Operating Systems, 1989, 1993.
Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Sep 1991 (chair).
IFAC Workshop on Distributed Computer Control Systems, 1991.
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 1989, 1990.
ACM SIGMOD, June 1989.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Technical Committee Position
Vice Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering, 1987-88.
Member of NSF Panels
Proposal Review Panel, May 1989, October 1990, April 1992, March 1994,
October 1996, May 1998.
Site Visit Panel, July 1989, June 1991, March 1996.
Courses/Tutorials
VLDB School, Bangalore, India, June 2004.
Design Automation Conference, New Orleans, June 2002, tutorial.
ACM Chapter, Hong Kong, August 1996.
Conference on Computer Networks, Madras, India, Dec 1994.
Conference on Management of Data, Bangalore, India, Dec 1994.
International University Menendez y Pelayo, Summer Seminar, Spain, July 1994.
(lectures on real-time systems and databases)
SCUOLA, Pisa, Italy, in April/May, 1994. (one week course on real-time systems).
Alcatel, Vienna, in April, 1993 (one week course on real-time systems).
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, June 1993.
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Paris, June, 1990, 2003.
Conference on Management of Data, Bangalore, India, Dec 1992.
Consultant
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (since July 1990).

OTHER TALKS AND COLLOQUIA

Sybase India, Pune,  July 2007.

Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, May 2007.

Monash Univ., Melbourne, Australia, May 2007.
Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany, September 2004.
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA, July 2004.
National Univ. of Singapore, June 2004.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, May 2004.
George Mason University, Washington DC, May 2004.
Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany, September 2003.
Technical University, Dresden, Germany, September 2003.
Mardelan Univ. Vesteras, Sweden, September 2003.
Univ. California, Riverside, March 2002.
National Univ. of Singapore, Nov 2001.
Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden, March 2001, Sep 2002.
IBM T.J. Watson Res. Ctr., May 1999.
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, April 1999.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Feb 1999.
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, Jan 1999.
Verifone (India) Ltd, Bangalore, India, Dec 1998.
Center for AI and Robotics, Dec 1998.
HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, May 1997.
State University of New York, Buffalo, April 1997.
University of Arizona, Tucson, March 1997.
Northeastern University, Boston, Jan 1997.
Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (Indian Space Research Organization), Trivandrum, India, June 1995.
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, April 1995.
Huazhong Univ of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, April 1995.
Computer Society of India, Bhuvaneswar chapter, India, Feb 1995.
Tata Consultancy Service, Calcutta, India, Feb 1995.
Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India, Feb 1995.
National Center for Software Technology, Bombay, India, Feb 1995.
Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bombay, India, Feb 1995.
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, Feb 1995.
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, Feb 1995.
Center for the Development of Advanced Computing, Pune, India, Feb 1995.
Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany, December, 1994.
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Madras, India, October 1994.
US Navy's next generation computer resources database management interface standards working group(DISWG), June 1994.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, March 1994.
IBM Yorktown Heights, NY, March 1994.
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Feb 1994.
SunLabs (east), Chelmsford, MA, October 1993.
Boston University, Boston, MA, March 1993.
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Dec 1992.
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Oct 1992.
University of Houston, Houston, TX, Oct 1992.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Oct 1992.
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA, June, 1992.
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, Feb 1992.
The Greater Boston Chapters of the ACM, IEEE Computer Society and SIGMOD, Jan, 1992.
York University, York, U.K. Sep 1991.
IEEE Bangalore (India) Chapter, Aug 1991.
Oregon Graduate Institute, OR, Jan 1991.
University of Pennsylvania, PA, Oct 1990.
BELLCORE, Morristown, NJ, July 1990.
General Electric Research Labs, Schenectady, NY, June 1990.
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Oct 1989.
United Technologies Research Center, Hartford CT, Sep 1989.
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, Aug 1989.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, Dec 1988.
NASA, Ames Research Center, Dec 1988.
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, Nov 1988.
Technical University, Vienna, Austria, June 1988.
Imperial College, London, U.K., May 1988.
Advanced Network Systems Architecture (ANSA) Inc. Cambridge, U.K., April 1988.
Technical University, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, March 1988.
Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, March 1988.
University of Warwick, U.K., Feb 1988.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Dec 1987 and Jan 1988.
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, July 1987.
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, Dec 1985.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Dec 1985.
Computer Society of India, Madras Chapter, July, 1985.
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, July 1985.
Indian Space Research Organization, Bangalore, India, June 1985.
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, June 1985.
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, May 1985.
IRISA - Rennes, France, Jan 1984.
INRIA - Rocquencourt, Paris, France, Jan 1984.
GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA, June 1984.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, March 1994.
IBM Yorktown Heights, NY, March 1994.
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Feb 1994.
SunLabs (east), Chelmsford, MA, October 1993.
Boston University, Boston, MA, March 1993.
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Dec 1992.
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Oct 1992.
University of Houston, Houston, TX, Oct 1992.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Oct 1992. 1992.
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, Feb 1992.
The Greater Boston Chapters of the ACM, IEEE Computer Society and SIGMOD, Jan, 1992.
York University, York, U.K. Sep 1991.
IEEE Bangalore (India) Chapter, Aug 1991.
Oregon Graduate Institute, OR, Jan 1991.
University of Pennsylvania, PA, Oct 1990.
BELLCORE, Morristown, NJ, July 1990.
General Electric Research Labs, Schenectady, NY, June 1990.
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Oct 1989.
United Technologies Research Center, Hartford CT, Sep 1989.
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, Aug 1989.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, Dec 1988.
NASA, Ames Research Center, Dec 1988.
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, Nov 1988.
Technical University, Vienna, Austria, June 1988.
Imperial College, London, U.K., May 1988.
Advanced Network Systems Architecture (ANSA) Inc. Cambridge, U.K., April 1988.
Technical University, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, March 1988.
Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, March 1988.
University of Warwick, U.K., Feb 1988.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Dec 1987 and Jan 1988.
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, July 1987.
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, Dec 1985.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Dec 1985.
Computer Society of India, Madras Chapter, July, 1985.
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, July 1985.
Indian Space Research Organization, Bangalore, India, June 1985.
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, June 1985.
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, May 1985.
GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA, June 1984.
IRISA - Rennes, France, Jan 1984.
INRIA - Rocquencourt, Paris, France, Jan 1984.
INRIA - Rocquencourt, Paris, France, June 1982.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Jan 1982.
GMD - Gesellschaft fur Mathematic und Datenverarbeitung,
MBH Bonn, West Germany, June 1981.
HMI - Hahn-Meitner Institute fur Kernforschung, Berlin, June 1981.
Italian Committee for Nuclear Research, Rome, Italy, May, 1981.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Mar 1981.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, Mar 1981.
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Feb 1981.
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Feb 1981.
Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY, Feb 1981.
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Feb 1981.
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, Jan 1981.
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Jan 1981.
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, June 1980.

PERSONAL DATA
Born: 28 Feb 1955, Madras, India.
Marital Status: Married.