K. Mani Chandy

K. Mani Chandy
Kanianthra Mani Chandy
Institutions Caltech
Alma mater Indian Institute of Technology (B.Tech., 1965)
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (M.S., 1966)
MIT (Ph.D., 1969)
Doctoral advisor Jeremy Frank Shapiro[1]
Doctoral students Roman Ginis
Joseph Kiniry
Donald Towsley
Daniel M. Zimmerman
Known for BCMP network

Kanianthra Mani Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology.[2] He has been the Executive Officer of the Computer Science Department twice, and he has been a professor at Caltech since 1989.

Chandy received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering with a thesis in Operations research. He also earned a Masters from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and a Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

He has worked for Honeywell and IBM. From 1970 to 1989, he was in the Computer Science Department of the University of Texas at Austin, serving as chair in 1978-79 and 1983-85. He has served as a consultant to a number of companies including IBM and Bell Labs. Chandy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award for Computers and Communication in 1987 and the A.A. Michelson Award from the Computer Measurement Group in 1985.

Chandy does research in distributed computing. He has published three books and over a hundred papers on distributed computing, verification of concurrent programs, parallel programming languages and performance models of computing and communication systems, including the eponymous BCMP networks.[3] He described the Snapshot algorithm together with Leslie Lamport.

References

  1. ^ K. Mani Chandy at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  2. ^ K. M. Chandy at the Caltech Directory
  3. ^ Baskett, Forest; Chandy, K. Mani; Muntz, R.R.; Palacios, F.G. (1975). "Open, closed and mixed networks of queues with different classes of customers". Journal of the ACM 22 (2): 248–260. doi:10.1145/321879.321887. 

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