Rk Shyamasundar

Biography

Rudrapatna Kallikote Shyamasundar did his BE (Electrical) from University of Mysore, and ME (Electrical) and PhD (Computer Science and Automation) (1975) degrees from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He joined the National Centre for Software Development and Computing Techniques at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and then worked at Eindhoven Technological University (1978-79) as International Research Fellow to work under Edsgar Dijkstra. Thereafter, he started the Theoretical Computer Science Group at TIFR covering areas of concurrency, real-time programming, specification and verification of Software, etc. He was first Dean of the School of Technology and Computer Science at TIFR. He has held various assignments at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Eindhoven University of Technology, State University of Utrecht, Pennsylvania State University, University of Illionois, University of California, ENSMP Sophia Antipolis, IRISA, Rennes and so on.

Research Interest

Computer Science