Dr. Eswaran Subrahmanian received his PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University. He worked as Trainee Design Engineer, MN Dastur & Company, Consulting Engineers, Calcutta during. He also worked at CMU at various capacities during 1976-1998. He is holding a position as a Research Professor, Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, CMU since 1998. Right now he is working as a Chief Architect/Founder, Elefon Incorporated since 2002.

 

Dr. Subrahmanian had Consulting Assignments with ABB Corporate Research, Billingstad, Norway, Hosch Research Technology Center, Pittsburg, University Industry Research Co-operation, Boeing Seattle, WA: Technology Consulting, World Bank, Air Products and Lytix. He has published several books and also published several papers in referred journals. He has attended various conferences both in India and abroad.

Dr. Ramaswamy earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1994. He is a member of the Society for Computer Simulation International, Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility, a Senior member of the IEEE and a Senior member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He is an active member of IEEE SMCS Technical Committee on Distributed Intelligent Systems and also serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews. In the local community, Dr. Ramaswamy was an active Rotarian in Club 99, the rotary club of Arkansas Little Rock.

Dr. Srini Ramaswamy is currently leading Industrial Software Systems research at ABB, the Swiss Multinational Fortune 500 company at its India Corporate Research Center (INCRC) in Bangalore, India. His primary responsibility is in research team building and leadership, developing university relationships and engaging in applied research for the creation and execution of projects with transformative value for the company's power technologies and process automation business units. On the academic front, he also serves as a visiting professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and an honorary adjunct professor at the Indian Institute of Information Technology – Bangalore. His research interests are on intelligent and flexible control, behavior modeling, analysis and simulation, empirical software systems research, software stability and scalability; particularly in the design and development of complex software systems. Specific applications include real-time control issues in automation and manufacturing, data mining and distributed real-time applications. His work is motivated by the desire to understand the various requirements to build scalable, intelligent software systems with the inherent ability to successfully respond to observed and reported behavioral changes in their environment.

Earlier in academia for 16 years (1994-2010), his research was funded by government agencies as well as corporate organizations, and he had been a recipient of, or actively participated in, grants totaling over $20M. From 2005-2010 he was a tenured professor and chairperson of the Computer Science Department at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. At UALR, he was associated with several active program building and research initiatives, which include: development of an applied PhD program in Integrated Computing, serving as the statewide program manager for WiNS (Wireless Nano-sensors and Systems) center (2007-2009), the principle investigator for a UALR-wide High Performance Computing initiative, and the research coordinator for collaboration on Engineering Innovative Software Systems for Marine Transportation Logistics with the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in Rouen, France. At UALR, he also initiated a very successful High School Research Program (HSRP) that brought talented high school students to campus and engaged them through an on-campus 3-week STEM-related ‘embedded’ research experience and mentorship with faculty-student groups across various science and engineering disciplines. Previously, he served as chairperson of the Computer Science Department at Tennessee Tech, where he established a unique and highly successful graduate program in Internet Computing and developed sustainable collaborative relationships with both the Engineering and Medical programs at Vanderbilt University. He also established the Software Automation and Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), an facility with a focus on team-based software research and development to serve local and regional industries. He was an invited visiting professor at INSA de Rouen, France in 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010. During the summers of 2003 and 2004, and in 2007, he was a visiting research professor in the Institute of Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt University. In 1994-1995, and subsequently during the summers of 1996 and 1998, he was a post-doctoral research fellow / visiting scientist at the University of Texas at Austin where he helped with research efforts on Modeling and Analysis of Sensible Agents, Virtual Reality and Multi-Agent Systems.

Dr. Ramaswamy has also been a successful software consultant. He built his company Resilient Systems, LLC as a customized software development and managed outsourcing company. From a business perspective, his interests are in the design, development and delivery of large scale software systems, ensuring timely planning, coordination, execution and alignment of a set of sub-services while understanding issues of prioritization, perception and performance in order to deliver value-added services to address a specific business need. He actively consulted on a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sponsored advanced technology project on intelligent document analysis for aligning timely research with business needs of organizations using technology roadmaps. He also served widely as an expert witness on global software development, outsourcing, database and algorithmic design for arbitrations and litigations. He served on the board of several start-up software companies in the US and India.

Dr. Ramaswamy has over 150 publications with over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles in IEEE, Elsevier, Journal of Systems and Software, etc. Additionally over 45 reviews have appeared in the ACM Computing Surveys, the leading online review service for books and articles across all areas of computer science, providing an up-to-date overview of the computing field. In 2007, he was selected as one of their featured reviewers.

Dr. Ramaswamy has actively participated in over 50 M.S student project and thesis works in Computer Science, Applied Sciences, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Information Systems. He has additionally participated in over 5 PhD student dissertations in Applied Computing in the USA, served as external co-advisor for 3 PhD students in France and served as evaluator for 2 PhD students in India. He currently serves in about 6 PhD student committees.