Dr. Krishnamachar Sreenivasan
Computer Science & Engineering
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)
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).