Prakash Panangaden

Prakash Panangaden
Panangaden in 2014
Born(1954-03-11)March 11, 1954
NationalityAmerican/Canadian
Alma materIIT Kanpur
University of Chicago
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
University of Utah
Known forMarkov processes, programming language theory, concurrency theory and quantum field theory in curved space-time
Spouse
(died 2019)
[1]
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Physics
InstitutionsCornell University, McGill University
Doctoral advisorLeonard Parker
Websitewww.cs.mcgill.ca/~prakash

Prakash Panangaden is an American/Canadian computer scientist noted for his research in programming language theory, concurrency theory, Markov processes and duality theory. Earlier he worked on quantum field theory in curved space-time and radiation from black holes. He is the founding Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM SIGLOG).[2]

  1. ^ Lennox, R. B. (29 May 2019). "The passing of Prof. Laurie Hendren". McGill Faculty of Science.
  2. ^ Association for Computing Machinery. "SIG Governing Board". Retrieved 2015-04-05.