Srikanta Tirthapura is a computer science researcher and teacher, and is currently an associate professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He received his B.Tech. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1996, and his Ph.D., also in Computer Science, from Brown University in 2002. At Brown University, his research was supervised by Prof. Maurice Herlihy, and he wrote a dissertation titled Distributed Queuing and Applications. In 2009 and 2010, he worked in the industry as a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Corporation.
His current research aims to develop foundational techniques for processing massive data sets and data streams. He teaches courses on the algorithmic foundations of computer engineering and networking.
Program Committees and Professional Service
Spring 2012 courses:
- CprE 310: Theoretical Foundations of Computer Engineering (see Blackboard for course material)
- CprE 528: Probabilistic Methods in Computer Engineering
