Honorary Professor: Prakash Panangaden

Prakash Panangaden has been made an Honorary Professor.

He received an MSc from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, an MS from the University of Chicago and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, all in physics.

After postdoctoral research at the University of Utah he switched to computer science and obtained an MS from that university.

He was employed as an Assistant Professor in computer science at Cornell University, where he worked on semantics, concurrency, type theory and logic.

He moved to Canada in 1990 and has been at McGill University ever since, except for visiting professorships at Denmark's University of Aarhus and the University of Oxford (twice).

His main activity has been the theory of Markov processes from the viewpoint of computer systems (rather than algorithms) but he has also worked on topics in pure mathematics, physics and quantum computation.

He has been a SICSA Distinguished Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and has held visiting positions at The University of Technology, Sydney; CWI Amsterdam; The Computer Laboratory, Cambridge; The University of Paris VII and Queen’s University, Canada.

He is looking forward to being a frequent visitor to the University of Edinburgh and enjoying its vibrant academic life as well as enjoying the unsurpassed cultural life of the city of Edinburgh.