Prof. Kavitha Ranganathan

Dr. Ranganathan’s dissertation in computer science explored novel scheduling algorithms for distributed systems including Grids and Peer-to-peer systems. She then worked as a researcher at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center in New York in the area of collaborative and distributed systems and has been awarded three patents for her research work while at IBM along with multiple publications. She has also authored a book, multiple cases and research articles on data visualization, ICT for development and digital inclusion. Kavitha has published widely in international conferences in high performance computing like HPDC, JSSPP, ICSOC, CC-Grid and P2PEcon and journals like the Journal of Grid Computing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems and Information Development. Her HPDC paper (International conference on High Performance Distributed Computing) on distributed scheduling algorithms was selected for the Top 20 papers in the history of HPDC award. She is the author of the book “Impactful Data Visualization: Hide & Seek with Graphs” published by Penguin Random House.