Shrisha Rao
Professor in Bengaluru, India
Shrisha Rao received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Iowa, and before that his M.S. in logic and computation from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a professor at IIIT-Bangalore, a graduate school of information technology in Bangalore, India.
Dr. Rao was an ACM Distinguished Speaker from 2015 to 2021, and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is also a life member of the American Mathematical Society and the Computer Society of India.
Dr. Rao is on the editorial boards of Sādhanā, The Knowledge Engineering Review, and PLOS ONE, and has had editing assignments for the IEEE Systems Journal and Frontiers in Public Health. He has been a reviewer for many journals of several major publishers, and has served as a program committee member for several international conferences. He has also been a regular reviewer, with over 90 published reviews, for the ACM Computing Reviews journal, which reviews a sample of the latest publications related to the computing sciences.
Dr. Rao is a contributing member of the LITD 14 "Software and System Engineering" sectional committee (a national mirror committee of the ISO/IEC sub-committees JTC 1/SC 7 Software and System Engineering, and JTC 1/SC 38 Cloud Computing) of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). He is also an expert committee member for the Technology Development Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
Dr. Rao is also a member of the Expert Committee on Technology for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) which comes under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.