Kamala Krithivasan
Kamala Krithivasan is an Indian computer scientist specializing in automata theory, picture languages, and unconventional computing. She is retired as a professor of computer science and engineering at IIT Madras.
Education and career
Krithivasan is originally from Tamil Nadu, where she was born in 1948. After studies at Madras Christian College in Chennai, she completed a Ph.D. at the University of Madras in 1974, with the dissertation Studies in Parallelism and Picture Languages supervised by Rani Siromoney.She joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Madras in 1975, and retired as a full professor in 2014. Among her doctoral students there was Meena Mahajan, who completed her Ph.D. in 1993.