Kishor S. Trivedi
American computer scientist
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Kishor Shridharbhai Trivedi is an Indian-American computer scientist who is currently the Hudson Chaired Professor in department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University.
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Stochastic modeling formalisms
Software Aging and RejuvenationLife Fellow. IEEE. 2017
IEEE Reliability Society – Lifetime Achievement Award 2021Kishor S. Trivedi | |
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| Alma mater | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
| Known for | Reliability and Performance Evaluation
Stochastic modeling formalisms Software Aging and Rejuvenation |
| Awards | Technical Achievement Award. IEEE Computer Society. 2008
Life Fellow. IEEE. 2017 IEEE Reliability Society – Lifetime Achievement Award 2021 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Duke University |
| James Evans Robertson J. Richard Phillips | |
Doctoral students | |
| Website | https://ece.duke.edu/faculty/kishor-trivedi |
Education
Kishor S. Trivedi was born in India. He graduated from Indian Institutes of Technology Bombay in 1968 with B.Tech. in electrical engineering. He received a master's degree in computer science in 1972, and a PhD in computer science, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)[1] under supervision of James Evans Robertson[2] and J. Richard Philips.
Career
Kishor S. Trivedi is currently the Hudson Chaired Professor in department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University.[1] He has been on the Duke faculty since 1975.
Books
He wrote three well-known books including the bluebook "Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing and Computer Science Applications",[3] redbook "Performance and Reliability Analysis of Computer Systems: An Example-Based Approach Using the SHARPE Software Package"[4] and whitebook "Queueing Networks and Markov Chains".[5] In addition to these three books, he recently wrote a greenbook "Reliability and Availability Engineering".[6]
Publications
He has published more than 500 articles in international conferences, journals.[1]
Honors
He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellow[7] and a Life fellow of IEEE. He received 2008 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award “For pioneering contributions to the understanding of the phenomena of software aging and software rejuvenation."[8] He is an elected member of the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerance.[9]