C. Mohan

C. Mohan
Born (1955-08-03) 3 August 1955 (age 69)
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology, Madras (1972–1977)
University of Texas, Austin (1977–1981)
Known forARIES
Database systems
Distributed database
Presumed Abort Commit Protocol
Transaction processing
Workflow management
Blockchain
Distributed ledger
SpouseKalpana Mohan
ChildrenPavithra Mohan
Parthiv Mohan
AwardsUS National Academy of Engineering 2009
ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award 1996
IBM Fellow 1997
IEEE Fellow 2002
ACM Fellow 2002
Indian National Academy of Engineering 2009
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University 2016
Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Madras 2003
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsTsinghua University (2016–)
IBM (1981–2020)
Kerala Blockchain Academy (2020–)
Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (2019–)
INRIA (1998–1999)
Thesis Strategies for Enhancing Concurrency and Managing Deadlocks in Data Base Locking Protocols
Doctoral advisorAbraham Silberschatz

Chandrasekaran Mohan is an Indian-born American computer scientist. He was born on 3 August 1955 in Tamil Nadu, India.[1] After growing up there and finishing his undergraduate studies in Chennai, he moved to the United States in 1977 for graduate studies, naturalizing in 2007. In June 2020, he retired from being an IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center (San Jose, California) after working at IBM Research for 38.5 years. Currently, he is a visiting professor at China's Tsinghua University.[2] He is also an Honorary Advisor at the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency[3] (TNeGA) in Chennai and an advisor at the Kerala Blockchain Academy[4] in Kerala.

  1. ^ "Life Events". Facebook. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Faculty". School of Software, Tsinghua University. Archived from the original on 23 January 2020. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  3. ^ "Announcement of Dr. C. Mohan as Honorary Advisor to TNeGA, News Letter, September - December 2019" (PDF). Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency, Government of Tamil Nadu. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Advisory Board". Kerala Blockchain Academy. Retrieved 23 September 2020.