Anand Tripathi works in distributed systems with specific focus on problems pertaining to novel programming paradigms, system security, fault-tolerance, and scalable architectures. His current research is on Blockchain systems. Some of his recently completed projects include the development of a framework for parallel programming of large-scale graph problems on cluster computers, techniques for scalable transaction management in key-value based data storage systems, and a generative programming framework for secure collaboration systems. He teaches courses on operating systems and distributed systems.

Research Division
Computing Systems

Current Research
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Ajanta

Ph.D. Graduates
Vinit Padhye (2013); Devdatta Kulkarni (2009); John Eberhard (2006); Tanvir Ahmed (2004); Robert Miller (2002); Neeran Karnik (1998); Donald Hamnes (1997); Khaled Day (1992); Shiva Azadegan (1991); Mehmet Aksit (1989, University of Twente; co-advised with Prof. Niemegeers); Vijay Raghavan (1989).

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (1980)
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (1978)
B. Tech in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (1972)

Professional Background

Anand Tripathi joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in 1984 as an assistant professor and was later promoted to a professor in 2001. He received his M.S. (1978) and Ph.D. (1980) in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the University, he served as a scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (India) from 1972-75, as a senior principal research scientist at Honeywell Inc. from 1981-84 and as the program director in the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the National Science Foundation from 1995-97. In 2007, he was named an IEEE Fellow and has been an IEEE Distinguished Visitor since 2019.

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Teaching Subjects

• Operating Systems
• Distributed Systems

Honors and Awards

2008: IEEE Fellow

Selected Grants
CSR: Small: Scalable Transaction Management and Consistency Models for Cloud Data Storage Systems
Tripathi, A. R.; National Science Foundation; 9/15/13 - 8/31/18