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# CSE

**Source**: https://cse.iitk.ac.in/pages/DistinguishedLecturesSeries.html
**Parent**: https://cse.iitk.ac.in/pages/NRamaRaoChair.html

#### N Rama Rao Distinguished Lectures Series

N. Rama Rao Chair supports a Distinguished Lectures Series in Computer Science and Engineering Department at IIT Kanpur by eminent Computer Scientists from all over the world.

###### Schedule for 2005-06 II Semester (Jan-April, 2006)

- **Prof. V. Rajaraman** (April 12, 2006)\
  Honorary Professor, [Supercomputer Education and Research Centre](http://www.serc.iisc.ernet.in)\
- **Dr. Manindra Agrawal** (Feb 8, 2006)\
  Professor and Head,[Department of Computer Science and Engineering](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in)\
  [Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur](http://www.iitk.ac.in)\
  *[Click here for furhter details.](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2006.02.08.html)*
- **Dr. John Hopcroft** (Jan 17, 2006)\
  Professor,[Department of Computer Science](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/)\
  [Cornell University](http://www.cornell.edu)\
  *[Computer Science Theory for the Future](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2006.01.17.html)*
- **Dr. Keshav Pingali** (Jan 16, 2006)\
  Professor,[Department of Computer Science](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/)\
  [Cornell University](http://www.cornell.edu)\
  *[Is global search necessary in self-optimizing software systems?](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2006.01.16.html)*
- **[Prof. S. Keshav](http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/%7Ekeshav/)** (Jan 5, 2006)\
  Associate Professor,[Cheriton School of Computer Science](http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/)\
  [University of Waterloo](http://www.uwaterloo.ca/)\
  *[Delay Tolerant Networking: Concepts and Extensions](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2006.01.05.html)*
- **[Prof. Arvind](http://www.csg.csail.mit.edu/Users/arvind/)** (Jan 4, 2006)\
  Professor,[Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department](http://www.eecs.mit.edu/)\
  Member, [Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory](http://www.csail.mit.edu)\
  [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](http://www.mit.edu/)\
  *[Is Hardware Innovation dead?](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2006.01.04.html)*

###### 

###### Schedule for 2005-06 I Semenster (Aug-Nov , 2005)

- **[Prof. David Gries](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/gries/gries.html)**(Nov 16, 2005)\
  Professor,[Computer Science](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/)\
  [Cornell University](http://www.cornell.edu/)\
  *[Teaching program development](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2005.11.16.html)*
- **[Prof. Sandeep Sen](http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ernet.in/%7Essen/)**(Nov 11, 2005)\
  [Department of Computer Science & Engineering](http://www.iitkgp.ernet.in/%7Ecse/)\
  [Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur](http://www.iitkgp.ernet.in/)\
  *[Constructing optimal size spanners of weighted graphs in linear time](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2005.11.11.html)*
- **[Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb](http://www.iitk.ac.in/kangal/deb.shtml)**(Act 3 , 2005)\
  [Department of Mechanical Engineering](http://www.iitk.ac.in/mech/)\
  [Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur](http://www.iitk.ac.in/)\
  *[Optimization : An Indispensable Companion for Researchers and Practitoners](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2005.10.03.html)*
- **[Prof. Amit Kumar](http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/%7Eamitk/)**(Sep 8 , 2005)\
  [Department of Computer Science and Engineering](http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in)\
  [Indian Institute of Technology Delhi](http://www.iitd.ernet.in/)\
  *[Multi-processor scheduling to minimize flow time with epsilon resource augmentation](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2005.09.08.html)*
- **[Prof. Ashok Agrawala](http://www.cs.umd.edu/%7Eagrawala/)**(Aug 09, 2005)\
  Director, [MIND Lab](http://www.mindlab.umd.edu/) and\
  Professor, [Department of Computer Science](http://www.cs.umd.edu/)\
  [University of Maryland](http://www.umd.edu/)\
  College Park, USA\
  *[Inonovative Technologies from MIND Lab](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2005.08.09.html)*

###### 

###### Schedule for 2004-05-I Semester (Aug-Nov, 2004)

- **[Prof. Rajeev Sangal](http://www.iiit.net/%7Esangal/)** (Sep 15, 2004)\
  [Language Technologies Research Centre](http://ltrc.iiit.net/)\
  [International Institute of Information Technology](http://www.iiit.net)\
  Hyderabad, AP, India\
  [*Shakti Machine Translation System*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2004.09.15.html)
- **[Sajal K. Das](http://ranger.uta.edu/%7Edas/)** (Aug 04, 2004)\
  Director, [Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN)](http://crewman.uta.edu)\
  [Department of Computer Science and Engineering](http://www.cse.uta.edu)\
  [The University of Texas at Arlington](http://www.uta.edu)\
  Arlington, TX, USA\
  *[Mobility and Resource Management in Smart Home Environments](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2004.08.04.html)*

###### 

###### Schedule for 2003-04-II Semester (Jan-Apr, 2004)

- **[Prof. Charles Van Loan](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cv/)** (Feb 19, 2004)\
  [Department of Computer Science](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/)\
  [Cornell University](http://www.cornell.edu/)\
  Ithaca, New York, USA\
  [*Computational Multilinear Algebra*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2004.02.19.html)
- **[Prof. Charles Van Loan](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cv/)** (Feb 19, 2004)\
  [Department of Computer Science](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/)\
  [Cornell University](http://www.cornell.edu/)\
  Ithaca, New York, USA\
  [*Block Matrix Computations and the Singular Value Decomposition*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2004.02.17.html)

###### 

###### Schedule for 2003-04-I Semester (Aug-Nov, 2003)

- **[Prof. V Arvind](http://www.imsc.ernet.in/%7Earvind/)** (Aug 26 and 27, 2003)\
  [Institute of Mathematical Sciences](http://www.imsc.ernet.in/)\
  Chennai, India\
  [*The Graph Isomorphism Problem*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2003.08.26.html)

###### 

###### Schedule for 2002-03-II Semester (Jan-Apr, 2003)

- **[Prof. Jayant Haritsa](http://dsl.serc.iisc.ernet.in/%7Eharitsa)** (Mar 27, 2003)\
  [Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC)](http://www.serc.iisc.ernet.in)\
  and\
  [Department of Computer Science & Automation (CSA)](http://www.csa.iisc.ernet.in)\
  [Indian Institute of Science (IISc),](http://www.iisc.ernet.in) Bangalore\
  [*Reducing Query Optimization Overheads Through Plan Recycling*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2003.03.27.html)
- **[Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala](http://www.tenet.res.in/jhun/index2.html)** (Mar 5, 2003)\
  Department of Electrical Engineering\
  [Indian Institute of Technology Madras](http://www.iitm.ac.in/)\
  Chennai, India\
  [*As Telecom Poises for Growth - Opportunity for India*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2003.03.05.html)
- **[Dr. Prathima Agrawal](http://www.telcordia.com/research/whoweare/staff/prath.html)** (Jan 10, 2003)\
  Assistant Vice President, [Internet Architecture Research Lab](http://www.telcordia.com/research/whatwedo/arlab/internet.html)\
  Executive Director, Computer Networking Research Department\
  [Telcordia Technologies,](http://www.telcordia.com) NJ\
  [*Mobile and Wireless Internet and ITSUMO*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2003.01.10.html)
- **[Prof. Vishwani D Agrawal](http://www.ece.wisc.edu/%7Eva)** (Jan 09, 2003)\
  Visiting Professor, [Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering](http://www.ece.rutgers.edu)\
  [Rutgers University,](http://www.rutgers.edu) New Brunswick, NJ\
  [*Minimum Dynamic Power CMOS Circuits*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2003.01.09.html)
- **[Prof. Satish Tripathi](http://www.engr.ucr.edu/faculty/tripathi/)** (Jan 03, 2003)\
  [Department of Computer Science and Engineering](http://www.cs.ucr.edu)\
  [Bourns College of Engineering](http://www.engr.ucr.edu)\
  [University of California, Riverside](http://www.ucr.edu)\
  [*Secure and Reliable MANETs: Making the Right Tradeoffs*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2003.01.03.html)

###### 

###### Schedule for 2002-03-I Semester (Aug-Nov, 2002)

- **Prof. Gautam Barua** (Sep 23, 2002)\
  [Department of Computer Science and Engineering](http://www.iitg.ernet.in/engfac/cse/public_html/)\
  [Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati](http://www.iitg.ernet.in)\
  [*Production and Storage of Digital Documents in an Office Environment*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2002.09.23.html)
- **[Prof. Bijendra N Jain](http://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/%7Ebnj/)** (Sep 06, 2002)\
  [Department of Computer Science and Engineering](http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in)\
  [Indian Institute of Technology Delhi](http://www.iitd.ac.in)\
  [*QoS Aware Path Protection Schemes for MPLS Networks*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2002.09.06.html)
- **[Prof. Vijay K Garg](http://www.ece.utexas.edu/%7Egarg)** (Aug 23, 2002)\
  [Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering](http://www.ece.utexas.edu)\
  [University of Texas, Austin,](http://www.utexas.edu) TX, USA.\
  and\
  N Rama Rao Professor,\
  [Department of Computer Science and Engineering](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in)\
  [Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.](http://www.iitk.ac.in)\
  [*Slicing to Detect Global Conditions in Distributed Computations*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2002.08.23.html)
- **[Prof. Manindra Agarwal](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/manindra)** (Aug 14, 2002)\
  [Department of Computer Science and Engineering](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/)\
  [Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur](http://www.iitk.ac.in/)\
  [*Primes is in P*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2002.08.14.html)
- **[Prof. Kishor S Trivedi](http://www.ece.duke.edu/%7Ekst)** (Aug 01, 2002)\
  Hudson Professor,\
  [Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering](http://www.ece.duke.edu)\
  [Duke University,](http://www.duke.edu) Durham, NC, USA.\
  and\
  Poonam and Prabhu Goel Professor,\
  [Department of Computer Science and Engineering](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in)\
  [Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.](http://www.iitk.ac.in)\
  [*Software Aging and Rejuvenation: Modeling and Analysis*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2002.08.01.html)

###### 

###### Schedule for 2001-02-I Semester (Aug-Nov, 2001)

- **[Prof. Samir K Brahmachari](http://www.cbt.res.in/Director.htm)** (Oct 15, 2001)\
  Director,\
  [Centre for Biochemical Technology](http://www.cbt.res.in)\
  Functional Genomics Unit\
  (CSIR), New Delhi\
  [*Functional Genomics in Silico*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2001.10.15.html)
- **Prof. Abhay Karandikar** (Sep 06, 2001)\
  [Department of Electrical Engineering](http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in)\
  [Indian Institute of Technology Bombay](http://www.iitb.ac.in)\
  [*Packet Scheduling Algorithms for QoS in Next Generation Routers*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2001.09.06.html)\
  [Presentation slides](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2001.09.06.ps) (PS: 212KB)
- **Dr. Manoj Kumar, Director** (Aug 31, 2001)\
  [IBM India Research Lab](http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/irl)\
  IIT Delhi campus, New Delhi\
  [*Electronic Markets*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2001.08.31.html)
- **[Prof. Jean-Claude Latombe](http://robotics.stanford.edu/%7Elatombe)** (August, 2001)\
  [Computer Science Department](http://www.cs.stanford.edu)\
  [Stanford University](http://www.stanford.edu)
  1. Aug 20, 2001 [*An Efficient Motion Planner Based on Random Sampling*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2001.08.20.html)
  2. Aug 28, 2001 [*Motion Planning With Visibility Constraints*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2001.08.28.html)
- **[Dr. Pravin Bhagwat](http://www.cs.umd.edu/%7Epravin)** (Aug 07, 2001)\
  [Reefedge, Inc.](http://www.reefedge.com)\
  Fort Lee, NJ, USA\
  [*New Advances in Short Range Wireless Networking*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2001.08.07.html)

###### 

###### 2000-2001-II Semester (Jan-April, 2001)

- **[Prof. Jayant Haritsa](http://dsl.serc.iisc.ernet.in/%7Eharitsa)** (Feb 16, 2001)\
  [Department of Computer Science & Automation](http://www.csa.iisc.ernet.in)\
  [Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore](http://www.iisc.ernet.in)\
  [*Turbo-charging Vertical Mining of Large Databases*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2001.02.16.html)
- **[Prof. Fredric Cazals](http://www.inria.fr/prisme/personnel/cazals)** (Feb 12, 2001)\
  [INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France](http://www-sop.inria.fr/eng/welcome.html)\
  [*Voronoi-based Surface Reconstruction Algorithms*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2001.02.12.html)
- **[Prof. Keshav Pingali](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/annual_report/Pingali.htm)** (Jan 17, 2001)\
  [Computer Science Department, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/)\
  [*Fractal Symbolic Analysis for Restructuring Programs*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2001.01.17.html)

###### 

###### 2000-2001-I Semester (Aug-Nov, 2000)

- **[Prof. Sanjiva Prasad](http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/%7Esanjiva)**(Nov 14, 2000)\
  [CSE Department, IIT Delhi](http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/)\
  [*Is your protocol safe?*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2000.11.14.html)
- **[Prof. Sanjeev Kapoor](http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/%7Eskapoor)** (Nov 07-08, 2000)\
  [CSE Department, IIT Delhi](http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/)
  1. *[Shortest Paths in Euclidean Spaces](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2000.11.07.html)*
  2. *Constrained Shortest Paths for Quality of Service Routing in Networks*
- **Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala** (Oct 09, 2000)\
  [Electrical Department, IIT Chennai](http://www.ee.iitm.ernet.in/)

  1. *Technology and Business in India [PPT Slides](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2000.10.09-jj1.ppt)*
  2. *Enabling India through Telecom and Internet [PPT Slides](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2000.10.09-jj2.ppt)*
- **[Prof. Ketan Mulmuley](http://www.cse.iitb.ernet.in:8000/%7Eketan)** (Aug 02, 2000)\
  [CSE Department, IIT Bombay](http://www.cse.iitb.ernet.in/)\
  *Geometric Complexity Theory*

###### 

###### 1999-2000-II Semester (Jan-Apr, 2000)

- **Dr. P J Narayanan** (Apr 18, 2000)\
  [Center for Artificial Intelligence and Research, Bangalore](http://www.cair.res.in/)\
  [*Virtual Reality and Beyond*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2000.04.18.html)
- **Prof. P P Chakrabarti** (Apr 04, 2000)\
  [Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur](http://144.16.202.162:8081/)\
  [*Heauristic Search*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/2000.04.04.html)
- **[Prof. Sunita Sarawagi](http://www.it.iitb.ernet.in/%7Esunita/)** (Mar 08, 2000)\
  [KR School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay](http://www.it.iitb.ernet.in)\
  *I3: Intelligent, Interactive Investigation of Multi-dimensional Data cubes*

###### 

###### 1999-2000-I Semester (Aug-Nov, 1999)

- **Prof. Jaikumar Radhakrishnan** (Oct 25-29, 1999)\
  [Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai](http://www.tifr.res.in)\
  [*Schedule of lecture series*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/1999.10.25.html)
- **[Prof. Anurag Kumar](http://ece.iisc.ernet.in/%7Eanurag/Anurag_Kumar.html)** (Oct 13, 1999)\
  [Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore] (http://www.ece.iisc.ernet.in)\
  [*Measurement Based Source Shaping for Connection Admission Control in Packet Networks*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/1999.10.13.html)
- **[Prof. D. Janaki Ram](http://marimba.cs.iitm.ernet.in/pages/deps/cs/profs/djram)** (Sep 15, 1999)\
  [Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras](http://www.cs.iitm.ernet.in)\
  *Beyond Object Orientation: Making Objects Introspective*
- **[Prof. Arvind](http://foothill.lcs.mit.edu:8001/Users/arvind/)** (Aug 24, 1999)\
  [Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT, USA](http://www.lcs.mit.edu)\
  and\
  [N. Rama Rao Professor](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/nRamaRao.html) in\
  [Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/)\
  *Tutorial on Lambda Calculus*
- **[Prof. Krithi Ramamritham](http://www.cse.iitb.ernet.in:8000/%7Ekrithi)** (Aug 04, 1999)\
  [Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay](http://www.cse.iitb.ernet.in)\
  [*Reading Consistent and Current Data "Off thr Air"*](http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/chair/lec/1999.08.04.html)

###### 

###### 1998-99-II Semester (Jan-Apr, 1999)

- **Prof. Satish Tripathi** (Mar 30, 1999)\
  Dean, Bourns College of Engineering, Univ of California, Riverside\
  *Quality of Service Routing: Research Directions*
- **Prof. P. S. Thiagarajan** (Mar 25, 1999)\
  SPIC Mathematical Institute, Chennai\
  *Timed Automate: Basic theory and some new subclasses*
- **Prof. Huzur Saran** (Mar 10, 1999)\
  Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Delhi\
  *Effect of Buffer Policies for Fairness in TCP Flows*
- **Prof. S. Sudarshan** (Feb 25, 1999)\
  Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Mumbai\
  *Multi-Query Optimization*
- **Prof. R. K. Shyamsundar** (Feb 18, 1999)\
  School of Technology and Computer Science, TIFR, Mumbai\
  *Reactive Programming Paradigms and Hardware Modelling*
- **Dr. Mathai Joseph** (Feb 11, 1999)\
  Tata Consultancy Services, Pune\
  *Timing and Fault-Tolerance in Real-time Systems*
- **Prof. Arvind** (Jan 07, 1999)\
  MIT and N. Rama Rao Professor in Computer Science, IIT Kanpur\
  *Start Voyager: A Scalable Commodity Supercomputer*

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