Dr. Krishnamachar Sreenivasan

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Designation: 
Visiting Professor
Department: 

Computer Science & Engineering

Email: 

sreenivasan@iitrpr.ac.in

Biography: 
Prof. Sreenivasan was born in Tumkur, studied High School in Mandya, and attended The National College, University College of Engineering (BE)(renamed as Visweswariah College of Engineering), and The Indian Institute of Science (M.Sc), all in Bengaluru, Karnataka. He received his Ph. D from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. His employers include the Indian Institute of Science, the University of Pennsylvania, The Mitre Corporation (Mass), Stanford Research Institute, and Hewlett Packard Company. He was an Adjunct faculty at Boston University, San Jose State University, Santa Clara University. He is Professor of General Education at the Northwestern Polytechnic University, Fremont, Ca and he is on Sabbatical leave from there. He was a visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science during the Fall 2002 and was a visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Guwahati, Assam during 2010-2012.
Areas of Research: 
Cloud Computing
Performance Modeling
Application of Theory of Similitude to Performance Evaluation
Apply stochastic theory to study flow in large cloud networks.
Analogy between clop (cloud operation) flow in hyper-threaded blade and fluid turbulence
Power consumption and temperature distribution in Intel Itanium single chip multiprocessor
Education: 
Ph. D (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
M. Sc Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
B. E. University College of Engineering, (renamed Visweswariah College of Engineering, Banagalore)
Work Experience: 
Currently working in IIT Ropar
Visiting Professor of Computer Science, IIT Guwahati, 2010-12
Professor, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Fremont, Ca
Adjunct Professor Boston University, San Jose State University, Santa Clara University
Research Staff Manager, Hewlett Packard, 1987-2001
Stanford Research International, Menlo Park
The Mitre Corporation (spin off MIT lab) 1972-77
U of Penn, Post Doctoral Fellow 1966-69
RCA, Amdahl Corporation, Ford Aerospace Corporation, GE Calma
Selected Publications/Patents: 

On a Method of Constructing a Representative Synthetic Test Workload, Comm. ACM, v17, 127-133, 1974 (reviewed by a Stanford Professor as a "... a major contribution to the field of performance evaluation." in Com. Reviews, June 1974.) (Krishnamachar Sreenivasan and A. J. Kleinman)Determination of Thermal Diffusivity of Thermal Energy Storage Materials, Part II - Molten Salts Beyond their Melting point, Journal of Power, Trans. ASME, 189-197, 1969. (K. Sreenivasan and M. Altman)Effect of Vibrations on Heat Transfer from a Horizontal Cylinder to a Normal Air Stream, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, V3, 60-67, 1961 (Krishnamachar Sreenivasan and Arcot Ramachandran) 

Other Information: 

He was an invited speaker at the Indo-US International Cloud  workshop held in Coimbatore in Aug. 2012. He lead a workshop on ‘What is common among Cloud computing, Nanotechnology and green computing?’ at IIT, Guwahati, Assam (Jan. 2012).  He conducted a workshop on Cloud Computing at NIT, Silchar, Assam (Feb. 2012). He was an invited speaker at Plenary session of The 2nd National Conference on Computational Intelligence and Signal Processing (CISP)  held on 2nd-3rd March 2012 at Don Bosco College of Engineering and Technology, organized by Assam Don Bosco University and technically sponsored by IEEE and supported by AICTE.He is a member of  Scientific & Acdemic Publishing: Editorial Board.  He was an invited Expert speaker at The 3rd National Symposium on "HPC in Academia & Beyond”, first of its kind national initiative in High Performance Computing for Scientific, Academic and Engineering. He was a  recipient of an N.  Welander Grant at the University of Minnesota while teaching Peace Corps Volunteers in 1962. He was a member of Technical Committee of ICCA '2012 (In association with ACM, SERSC, Korea and ASDF, India). He conducted a Cloud Workshop at the Girijanandan College, Guwahati and Assam College of Engineering, Guwahati.
He was a referee for Communications of ACM, a panelist at ACM National Conference (1975), a panelist at Hot Chip Conference (1995), a reviewer for ACM Surveys, a referee for the Army Basic Institute, a Peace Corps Instructor (1962),  a Red Cross volunteer(2008), and a Radio talk Show host(2010) for a Public Service Program in the Bay Area. He was a member of Water polo team in College (1956), table tennis champion at IISc (1958), was on the Faculty Squash team at Penn(1968), and plays tennis regularly. He is a volunteer driver at the Bank of the West (Stanford) and SAP (San Jose) Tennis tournaments for the last 30 years. His letters to the editor appears regularly in Financial Times, San Jose Mercury News, India Currents, and India West.   He retired from jogging at an early age (1999).