Kamala Krithivasan

Kamala Krithivasan (born 1948) 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.

Book Krithivasan is the coauthor of the textbook Introduction to Formal Languages, Automata Theory and Computation (with Rama R, Dorling Kinderley, 2009).

Recognition Krithivasan is a member of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.