Background
Chandrasekaran, Balakrishnan was born on June 20, 1942 in Lalgudi, Tamil Nadu, India. Came to the United States, 1963. Son of Srinivasan and Nagamani Balakrishnan.
computer and information science educator
Chandrasekaran, Balakrishnan was born on June 20, 1942 in Lalgudi, Tamil Nadu, India. Came to the United States, 1963. Son of Srinivasan and Nagamani Balakrishnan.
Bachelor in Engineering, Madras University, Karaikudi, India, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1967.
Development engineer Smith Kline Instruments, Philadelphia, 1964-1965. Research specialist Philco-Ford Corporation, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, 1967-1969. Assistant professor computer and information science Ohio State University, Columbus, 1969-1971, associate professor, 1971-1977, professor, 1977-1995.
Senior research scientist, since 1995. Director Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research, Columbus, since 1983. Co-chairman Symposium on Potentials and Limitations of Mechanical Intelligence, Anaheim, California, 1971.
Chairman Norbert Wiener Symposium, Boston, 1974. Science director Summer School on Computer Program Testing, SOGESTA, Urbino, Italy, 1981. Visiting scientist Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, summer 1981, consultant fall 1981.
Visiting scientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science Laboratory, 1983. Director National Institutes of Health Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Workshop, 1984. Organizer panel discussion on artificial intelligence and engineering American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1985.
Visiting scholar Stanford University, 1990-1991. Keynote speaker World Congress on Expert Systems, Mexico City, 1998, International Conference on Diagrammic Reasoning, Callaway Gardens, Georgia, 2002. Technical area leader United States Army Research Laboratories Technology Alliance on Decision Architectures, since 2001.
Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (editor-in-chief Expert Journal 1990-1994), American Association for Artificial Intelligence (chairman workshops on diagrammatic reasoning 1992), Association for Computing Machinery. Member Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (vice president 1974-1975, pattern recognition committee 1969-1972, associate editor transactions since 1973, guest editor special issue on distributed program solving 1981).
Married Sandra Mamrak, October 21, 1978. 1 child, Mallika.