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 taking over as the second chairman (following the tenure of Prof. B. L. Deekshatulu) of IISc/CSA, which was then called School of Automation. He joined IISc after serving as a faculty member at IIT Kanpur. 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. | |||
(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. | |||
(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. | |||
When I joined IISc in 2017, I was one of seven University of Wisconsin—Madison alumni on the IISc CSA faculty (out of 30). That made IISc/CSA the largest faculty gathering of University of Wisconsin—Madison alumni in any academic department worldwide!