Kamala Krithivasan
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Kamala Krithivasan (born 1948) is an Indian computer scientist specializing in automata theory, picture languages, and unconventional computing. She is retired as a professor of computer science and engineering at IIT Madras.[1]
Krithivasan is originally from Tamil Nadu, where she was born in 1948. After studies at Madras Christian College in Chennai,[2] she completed a Ph.D. at the University of Madras in 1974, with the dissertation Studies in Parallelism and Picture Languages supervised by Rani Siromoney.[3]
She joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Madras in 1975, and retired as a full professor in 2014.[1] Among her doctoral students there was Meena Mahajan, who completed her Ph.D. in 1993.[3]
