Kamala Krithivasan

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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]

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Education and career

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]

Book

Krithivasan is the coauthor of the textbook Introduction to Formal Languages, Automata Theory and Computation (with Rama R, Dorling Kinderley, 2009).

Recognition

Krithivasan is a member of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Kamala Krithivasan", Member Profile, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, retrieved 2024-10-29
  2. Mahalingam, Kalpana; Rama, Raghavan (September 2018), "Theory of computation: P systems. Articles dedicated to Kamala Krithivasan on her 70th birthday, Issue-I", International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, 10 (3): 179–180, doi:10.1007/s12572-018-0233-x
  3. 1 2 Kamala Krithivasan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Women Fellows of INAE, Indian Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2024-10-29