Kamala Krithivasan (born 1948) is an Indian computer scientist specializing in automata theory, picture languages, and unconventional computing. She is retired as a professor of computer science and engineering at IIT Madras. [1]
Krithivasan is originally from Tamil Nadu, where she was born in 1948. After studies at Madras Christian College in Chennai, [2] she completed a Ph.D. at the University of Madras in 1974, with the dissertation Studies in Parallelism and Picture Languages supervised by Rani Siromoney. [3]
She joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Madras in 1975, and retired as a full professor in 2014. [1] Among her doctoral students there was Meena Mahajan, who completed her Ph.D. in 1993. [3]
Krithivasan is the coauthor of the textbook Introduction to Formal Languages, Automata Theory and Computation (with Rama R, Dorling Kinderley, 2009).
Krithivasan is a member of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. [4]