Prof Muthukrishnan has been Consulting Advisor to ceo, TCS, Deputy Director & Director-in-charge, IIT Madras and Professor of Computer Science& Engineering at IIT Madras in his career spanning 40 years He has guided 30 Research scholars for PhD and MS degrees, over 300students for MTech and BTech projects. Many of his students are holding top positions in academia and in reputed companies globally and many as entrepreneurs have created startups and developed them successfully.
He is actively engaged in Accreditation work for NBA and NAAC for about five years now. He consults for academic institutions and industry.
A chair in Computational Brain Research has been established in 2016 at IIT Madras by K.S Gopalakrishnan, his former student and co-founder of Infosys Limited.
He has more than 40publications in reputed International and National Journals and conferences. He has organized International conferences and has served in many committees of MCIT, AICTE, MHRD and DST. He was the principal coordinator of the multi-institution project on Information Technology during 1986-1993.He chaired the committee on e-Governance Meta Data and Data Standards of MCIT.
Prof CRM has consulted widely for Industry in India and Abroad including TCS, CMC, Collabnet, Google and Essentia. He was a member of the Tamil Nadu state IT Task Force 1998-2001, Indo-French Scientific Council member 2000-2005, He has been director on the Board of Tidel Park, Elcot, carritor and Indian Bank Limited. He is senior member of ACM, IEEE and ISTE. He is a Fellow of CSI and has received the Life Time Achievement award of CSI
He is a BTech (Hons) President Prize awardee for general proficiency from IIT Madras, MTech and PhD (1969) from IIT Kanpur.
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