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'''Kamala Krithivasan''' (born 1948) is an Indian computer scientist specializing in [[automata theory]], [[picture language]]s, and [[unconventional computing]]. She is retired as a professor of computer science and engineering at [[IIT Madras]].{{r|iitm}}<br />
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==Education and career==<br />
Krithivasan is originally from [[Tamil Nadu]], where she was born in 1948. After studies at [[Madras Christian College]] in [[Chennai]],{{r|mahram}} she completed a Ph.D. at the [[University of Madras]] in 1974, with the dissertation ''Studies in Parallelism and Picture Languages'' supervised by Rani Siromoney.{{r|mg}}<br />
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She joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Madras in 1975, and retired as a full professor in 2014.{{r|iitm}} Among her doctoral students there was [[Meena Mahajan]], who completed her Ph.D. in 1993.{{r|mg}}<br />
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==Book==<br />
Krithivasan is the coauthor of the textbook ''Introduction to Formal Languages, Automata Theory and Computation'' (with Rama R, Dorling Kinderley, 2009).<br />
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==Recognition==<br />
Krithivasan is a member of the [[Indian National Academy of Engineering]].{{r|wfi}}<br />
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<ref name=iitm>{{citation|url=https://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/profile.php?arg=NTU=|title= <br />
Kamala Krithivasan|work=Member Profile|publisher=Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras|access-date=2024-10-29}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=mahram>{{citation<br />
| last1 = Mahalingam | first1 = Kalpana<br />
| last2 = Rama | first2 = Raghavan<br />
| date = September 2018<br />
| doi = 10.1007/s12572-018-0233-x<br />
| issue = 3<br />
| journal = International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics<br />
| pages = 179–180<br />
| title = Theory of computation: P systems. Articles dedicated to Kamala Krithivasan on her 70th birthday, Issue-I<br />
| volume = 10}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=wfi>{{citation|url=https://www.ias.ac.in/Initiatives/Women_in_Science/Women_Fellows_of_INAE|title=Women Fellows of INAE|publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences|access-date=2024-10-29}}</ref><br />
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