Y.N. Srikant received his B.E in Electronics from Bangalore University (UVCE), and M.E and Ph.D in Computer Science from the CSA department of IISc. He is the recipient of Young Scientist medal of the Indian National Science Academy. His areas of interest are compiler design and software components. He is the editor of a handbook on advanced compiler design published by CRC Press in 2002.

Prof. Srikant is currently the Chairman of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. His home page is at http://www.csa.iisc.ernet.in/~srikant

May 2004