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Shrisha Rao

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Professor & Dean (Faculty)

srao@iiitb.ac.in

Education : Ph.D. (University of Iowa)

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 full professor at IIIT-Bangalore.

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 S??dhan??, 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.

My work is broadly in the areas of artificial intelligence and resource management in complex systems (such as cloud computing, air cargo transport, influencer marketing, international digital trade, and hierarchical organizations); computational sustainability; and bioinformatics.   I have a particular interest in using agent-based modeling and AI techniques to investigate the social effects of individual traits and behaviors—such as cognitive biases, prejudices, panic, ethical and unethical conduct, and mood disorders. In terms of sustainability, my interests are in intelligent transportation systems (particularly using electric vehicles); the design of energy-efficient computational systems (and newer technologies and algorithms); and ways to use energy sources (particularly solar energy) effectively in computing and elsewhere. I also have an interest in studies of zoonotic (especially mosquito-borne) diseases; infectious pathogens and epidemics; as well as non-communicable diseases (especially cancers).