Cover story Communications of the ACM, October 2022 on the genesis of the OMSCS program at Georgia Tech
(PDF) ;
Presentation (starts around 41 minutes into the video) on "Elevating the Edge to be a Peer of the Cloud" at the "Intelligent Edge" session, Microsoft Faculty Summit, 2018.
My father is a well-known Tamil writer
(pen name: Umachandran, author of the award winning novel
"Mullum Malarum" in the
Kalki magazine,
which was made into a
hit movie
starring
Rajnikanth).
My older brother
R. Nataraj,
is a Member of the Legislative Assembly in the State of Tamilnadu, India
(previously, he was the Director General of Police
for the Tamilnadu State).
I am married to
Vasanthi,
and we have two children
Hemant
and
Shalini.
As of 7/30/2017, I have a new status in life...a grandpa...Shalini
and her husband Sunil have given me this status boost through their baby
boy Shashvat.
On 6/25/2022, they doubled my status with the birth of their baby girl Shambavi.
On 10/10/2023, my son Hemant and his wife Joanna tripled my status with the birth of their first baby boy Ashirvad.
I am an avid squash player, and can be arm-twisted to hold a tennis
racket every once in a while!
Check out my daughter's assessment (at age 9) of how I look by clicking
here
.
Check out what I did during the winter break (2009-2010) by clicking
here
.
Professionally Speaking...
I received my Ph. D.
in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1986
under the direction of
Marvin Solomon.
Since then I have been with Georgia Tech (home of the yellow jackets),
where currently I am a Professor in the College of Computing.
Recently, I led a faculty team that defined the curriculum and the
implementation for an online MS program in Computer Science
(OMSCS)
using MOOC technology for the College of Computing,
which is currently providing an opportunity for students
to pursue a low-cost graduate education in
computer science internationally.
In the past, I have served as the Director of
STAR Center
from 2007 to 2014 (collaborative research between Samsung and Georgia Tech), and as the Director of
Korean Programs for the College of Computing from 2007 to 2011 (offering an MS in Embedded Software in S. Korea
funded by the South Korean Government aimed at students coming from leading industries
such as Samsung and LG).
For two years (July 2003 to August 2005) I served as the Chair of the
Core Computing Division within the College of Computing.
My research interests are in the area of
architectural design, programming, and
analysis of parallel and distributed systems.
Currently, I am leading a project that deals with
large-scale situation awareness using distributed
camera networks and multi-modal sensing with applications
to surveillance, connected vehicles, and transportation.
In the past, I have been involved in the design and evaluation of
several large experimental systems including Clouds, Beehive,
Stampede
(joint with (RIP) Compaq Cambridge Research Lab),
and
ubiquitous presence
(sensor-based distributed computing).
I received a Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) Award from the
National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1990, the Georgia Tech Doctoral
Thesis Advisor Award in 1993, the College of Computing Outstanding Senior
Research Faculty Award in 1996, the College of Computing Dean's Award in 2003 and 2014,
the
William A. "Gus" Baird Faculty Teaching Award
from the College of
Computing in 2004,
the
Peter A. Freeman Faculty Award
from the College of Computing in 2009 and in 2013,
the
Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award
from the College of Computing in 2014,
and became an
IEEE Fellow
in 2014.
My PhD Lineage
(Click here
for 2020 ACM Turing Award winner Jeff Ullman's progeny)
M. V. S. Ramanath,
Will E. Leland,
Nancy Jarrell,
Mary D. P. Leland,
Jonathan Kepecs,
Prasun Dewan(UNC-Chapel Hill),
William Kalsow.
Anthony Rich,
Igor Steinberg,
Paul Adams,
Odysseas Tsatalos.
Tracking my PhD Progeny
Dr. Yousef Khalidi (1989) - Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corp.
Dr. Joonwon Lee (1991) - Professor, Computer Systems Laboratory, School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Dr. Walter B. Ligon III (1992) - Associate Professor, Department of ECE, Clemson University, South Carolina
Dr. Martin Davis (1992) - (e-mail: martin (at) martinhdavisjr.com)
Dr. Ajay Mohindra (1993) - IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
Dr. Umakishore Ramachandran
Professor
College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Klaus Advanced Computing Building (KACB 2340)
266 Ferst Dr., Atlanta, GA 30332.
E-mail: rama at cc dot gatech dot edu
As a reward for visiting my homepage here is a recipe for
masala noodle
invented by my wife Vasanthi!
Umakishore Ramachandran