Venkatarama Krishnan

*VENKATARAMA KRISHNAN, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Previously, he has taught at Smith College, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Polytechnic University, University of Pennsylvania, Villanova University and Princeton University.

*He was the recipient of an Orson Desaix Munn Scholarship from Princeton and a Fulbright travel grant. He is listed in Who is Who in America 2010.

*He worked for two years (1974-1976) as a senior systems analyst for Dynamics Research Corporation on estimation problems associated with navigation and guidance and continued as their consultant for more than a decade.

*He was also a co-director (1992 - 2002) of the Center for Advanced Computation and Telecommunications at UMass Lowell.

*Professor Krishnan's research interests include estimation of steady-state queue distributions, tomographic imaging, aerospace, control, communications, and stochastic systems. He has taught Probability and Random Processes continuously for over forty years and received the best teaching award from UMass Lowell in 2000.

*Prof. Krishnan is a life senior member of IEEE.

* He has authored in addition to technical papers five books, the latest being Probability and Random Processes, Second Edition published by Wiley in July 2015.

He was invited to contribute a chapter, "Classification of Stochastic Processes", in the International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science published by Springer in December 2010.