C. Mohan
| C. Mohan | |
|---|---|
| Native name | சி. மோஹன் |
| Born |
August 3, 1955 Tamil Nadu, India |
| Residence | Saratoga, California |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions |
IBM 1981- INRIA 1998-1999 |
| Alma mater |
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 1972-1977 University of Texas, Austin 1977-1981 |
| Thesis | Strategies for Enhancing Concurrency and Managing Deadlocks in Data Base Locking Protocols |
| Doctoral advisor | Abraham Silberschatz |
| Known for |
ARIES Database systems Transaction processing Workflow management |
| Notable awards | US National Academy of Engineering 2009 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award 1996 IBM Fellow 1997 IEEE Fellow 2002 ACM Fellow 2002 Indian National Academy of Engineering 2009 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University 2016 |
| Spouse | Kalpana Mohan |
| Children | Pavithra Mohan Parthiv Mohan |
In this Tamil Indian name, the initial C. stands for Chandrasekaran, the name of the father of this person. In this patronymic naming scheme, where the concept of family name doesn't exist, the person should be referred to by the given name, Mohan.
C. Mohan is an Indo-American computer scientist. He was born on 3 August 1955 in Tamil Nadu, India. After growing up there and finishing his undergraduate studies in Chennai, he moved to the United States in 1977 for graduate studies. After having been an Indian citizen from birth, since 2007 he has been an American citizen and an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI). Currently, he is an IBM Fellow based at the IBM Almaden Research Center (San Jose, California). He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at China's Tsinghua University.
Mohan received his PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981. He received a B.Tech. in chemical engineering from IIT Madras in 1977. He had his pre-college education in Vellore, Tamil Nadu.
Immediately after finishing his PhD in the database area in December 1981, Mohan joined the birthplace of relational databases and SQL, namely IBM Research in San Jose, as a Research Staff Member, and worked on projects like R*, Starburst, Exotica, and DBCache.
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