Since its inception in 1969, the Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) can count, as of 2022, eleven University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni on its faculty at various points in time:
CSA Faculty Member | Degree/year/thesis | Advisor at UW-Madison | Notes | ||||
(1) | Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman | Ph.D. 1961 (ECE)
"Theory of Parameter-perturbation Adaptive and Optimizing Control Systems" | Prof. Vincent Rideout |
Joined IISc in 1982 after serving as a faculty member at IIT Kanpur from 1962-1982, where he started the first computer science academic program in India. He superannuated from IISc in 1994. | |||
(2) | Isukapalli Gopala Sarma | Ph.D. 1964 (ECE)
"Invariance Theory of Automatic Control Systems" | Prof. Thomas J. Higgins |
Joined IISc in 1969 after serving as a faculty member at IIT Kanpur. He took over as the first official chairman of the newly-established IISc/CSA department in 1971 (then called School of Automation) following the tenure of Prof. B. L. Deekshatulu, who was the convenor from 1969-71 of the Automation Unit, from where the notion of having a separate department grew. Prof. I.G. Sarma continued as the chairman of CSA until 1979. He passed away in 1996. The CSA department honors his memory through a distinguished lecture series named after him. | |||
(3) | Kanchi Gopinath | M.S. 1980 (CS)
| Prof. Charles Fischer |
Joined IISc in 1990 after obtaining his Ph.D. degree at Stanford in 1988, advised by Turing Awardee Prof. John Hennessy, and a post-doctoral stint at Stanford. He superannuated from IISc in 2021 and joined Plaksha University. | |||
(4) | Matthew Jacob Thazhuthaveetil | Ph.D. 1986 (CS)
"A Structured Memory Access Architecture for Lisp" | Prof. Andrew Pleszkun |
Joined IISc in 1991 after serving as a faculty member at Penn State from 1986-1991. He superannuated from IISc in 2023. | |||
(5) | Jayant Haritsa | Ph.D. 1991 (CS)
"Transaction Scheduling in Firm Real-time Database Systems" | Prof. Miron Livny and Prof. Michael Carey |
Joined IISc in 1993 after post-doctoral research at the University of Maryland-College Park. He served as the chairman of the CSA department from 2014 to 2017. | |||
(6) | Sriram Vajapeyam | Ph.D. 1991 (CS)
"Instruction-level Characterization of the Cray Y-MP Processor" | Prof. Gurindar Sohi |
Joined IISc in 1992 after serving as a research staff member at Cray, and was with IISc/CSA until 2001. | |||
(7) | Raghavan Komondoor | Ph.D. 2003 (CS)
"Automated Duplicated-Code Detection and Procedure Extraction" | Prof. Susan Horwitz |
Joined IISc in 2008 after serving as a postdoctoral researcher and then research staff member at IBM Research. | |||
(8) | Vinod Ganapathy | Ph.D. 2007 (CS)
"Retrofitting Legacy Code for Authorization Policy Enforcement" | Prof. Somesh Jha |
Joined IISc in 2017 after serving as a faculty member at Rutgers University from 2007-2017. | |||
(9) | Siddharth Barman | Ph.D. 2012 (CS)
"Approximation Algorithms for Network Design and Partitioning Problems" | Prof. Shuchi Chawla |
Joined IISc in 2015 after post-doctoral research at Caltech. | |||
(10) | Arkaprava Basu | Ph.D. 2013 (CS)
"Revisiting Virtual Memory" | Prof. Mark Hill and Prof. Michael Swift |
Joined IISc in 2018 after serving as a research staff member at AMD Research. | |||
(11) | Sumit K. Mandal | Ph.D. 2022 (ECE)
"Energy-efficient Communication Architectures for beyond von-Neumann AI Accelerators: Design and Analysis" | Prof. Umit Y. Ogras |
Joined IISc in October 2022. | |||
At the point when I joined IISc in May 2017, the CSA department had 30 faculty members, of whom seven of us were University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni. At that time, that made IISc/CSA the largest faculty gathering of University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni in any academic department worldwide!