Kishor S. Trivedi

Kishor S. Trivedi
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Known forReliability and Performance Evaluation

Stochastic modeling formalisms

Software Aging and Rejuvenation
AwardsTechnical Achievement Award. IEEE Computer Society. 2008

Life Fellow. IEEE. 2017

IEEE Reliability Society – Lifetime Achievement Award 2021
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsDuke University
Doctoral advisorJames Evans Robertson
J. Richard Phillips
Doctoral students
Websitehttps://ece.duke.edu/faculty/kishor-trivedi

Kishor Shridharbhai Trivedi is an Indian-American computer scientist who is currently the Hudson Chaired Professor in department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University.

Education

Kishor S. Trivedi was born in India. He graduated from Indian Institutes of Technology Bombay in 1968 with B.Tech. in electrical engineering. He received a master's degree in computer science in 1972, and a PhD in computer science, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)[1] under supervision of James Evans Robertson[2] and J. Richard Philips.

Career

Kishor S. Trivedi is currently the Hudson Chaired Professor in department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University.[1] He has been on the Duke faculty since 1975.

Books

He wrote three well-known books including the bluebook "Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing and Computer Science Applications",[3] redbook "Performance and Reliability Analysis of Computer Systems: An Example-Based Approach Using the SHARPE Software Package"[4] and whitebook "Queueing Networks and Markov Chains".[5] In addition to these three books, he recently wrote a greenbook "Reliability and Availability Engineering".[6]

Publications

He has published more than 500 articles in international conferences, journals.[1]

Honors

He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellow[7] and a Life fellow of IEEE. He received 2008 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award “For pioneering contributions to the understanding of the phenomena of software aging and software rejuvenation."[8] He is an elected member of the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerance.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Kishor S. Trivedi". Duke Electrical and Computer Engineering. 2021-06-01. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  2. ^ "MathTree - Kishor S. Trivedi Family Tree". academictree.org. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  3. ^ Trivedi, Kishor S. (2016-09-06). Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing and Computer Science Applications. doi:10.1002/9781119285441. ISBN 9781119285427.
  4. ^ Sahner, Robin A.; Trivedi, Kishor; Puliafito, Antonio (1996). Performance and Reliability Analysis of Computer Systems: An Example-Based Approach Using the SHARPE Software Package. Springer US. ISBN 978-0-7923-9650-5.
  5. ^ Bolch, Gunter; Greiner, Stefan; de Meer, Hermann; Trivedi, Kishor S. (2006-03-15). Queueing Networks and Markov Chains. doi:10.1002/0471791571. ISBN 9780471791577.
  6. ^ "Reliability and Availability Engineering | Engineering: general interest". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  7. ^ "IEEE fellow directory".
  8. ^ "Kishor Trivedi | IEEE Computer Society". Retrieved 2021-07-16.
  9. ^ "IFIP WG10.4 Members". www.dependability.org. Retrieved 2021-07-16.