{"id":23,"date":"2016-08-14T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wcsu.edu\/murthys\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2019-08-27T06:43:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T10:43:24","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wcsu.edu\/murthys\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am an Associate Professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/cs.wcsu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Computer Science<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/wcsu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Western Connecticut State University<\/a>. I also head the Data Science &amp; Systems Lab (<a href=\"https:\/\/dassl.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DASSL<\/a>, read <i>dazzle<\/i>) which conducts research in data science and data-intensive systems.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Western, I was the Executive Director of and a Principal Researcher at The Else Institute. Prior to that, I setup and directed the Applied Research group at\u00a0Wipro Technologies. Prior to Wipro, I\u00a0founded Sunlet Software Systems, in Portland, Oregon, where I created tools for software-engineering activities such as defect management and configuration management.\u00a0Prior to that, I\u00a0designed international trade-finance sys\u00adtems at Tiger Systems in New York for use at banks such as Citibank, Chase, and Barclays.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0have taught graduate and undergraduate courses in data management and software engineering at Oregon Health &amp; Science University and at Oregon Institute of Technology. I\u00a0have published, organized, and chaired international conferences and workshops, and have been an invited speaker at venues such as the British Royal Society, IBM Research, and Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>I have\u00a0also provided consulting services on technology, techno-legal, and techno-financial matters to corporations and governments:\u00a0I was the chief architect of Automated Pickup Services at Federal Express.\u00a0I led the development of India&#8217;s national policy for IT\u00a0integration of the Indian Rupee sign; have\u00a0advised clients on\u00a0developing, prosecuting, and defending patents; have\u00a0conducted discovery and audit in legal and financial matters; and have testified in judicial proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>I am now, or have been,\u00a0associated with key professional organizations in Computer Science, Service Science, and Web Science. I am a member of Association for Computing Machinery (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ACM<\/a>), ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieee.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IEEE<\/a>), and IEEE Computer Society. I was a senior adviser to the Service Research and Innovation Institute (<a href=\"http:\/\/thesrii.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SRII<\/a>) and the Founding President of its\u00a0India chapter.\u00a0I\u00a0was also the first Industry Liaison at\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webscience.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Web Science Trust<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0have a PhD (CS)\u00a0from Portland State University and a Masters (CS, Data Intensive Systems) from Oregon Health &amp; Science University. My\u00a0current research interests include analytics, e-discovery, forensics, and software-and-data architecture for cloud-based high-performance systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Western Connecticut State University. I also head the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wcsu.edu\/murthys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wcsu.edu\/murthys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wcsu.edu\/murthys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wcsu.edu\/murthys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wcsu.edu\/murthys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wcsu.edu\/murthys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wcsu.edu\/murthys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}