V. Rajaraman, Ph.D. (Wisconsin) is an Emeritus Professor at the Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Earlier, Prof. Rajaraman was a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at IIT, Kanpur (1963–1982), Professor of Computer Science and Chairman of Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1982–1994), and IBM Professor of Information Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (1994–2001). A Padma Bhushan awardee in 1998, he is also a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1976, the Homi Bhabha Prize by U.G.C., Om Prakash Bhasin Award, the ISTE Award for excellence in teaching computer engineering, Rustam Choksi Award, the Zaheer Medal by the Indian National Science Academy.
Prof. Rajaraman is a lifetime contribution awardee of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the Computer Society of India. He has received a DSc (h.c.) from IIT, Kanpur, and the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Sibpur. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy, the National Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and the Computer Society of India. An author of several well-established and highly successful computer books, Prof. Rajaraman has published many research papers in reputed national and international journals. (A detailed biodata may be found in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Vaidyeswaran_Rajaraman).
Books written by V Rajaraman for PHI Learning https://www.phindia.com/SearchBooks/SearchphiBooks/?searchbooks=rajaramanNeeharika Adabala, Ph.D. (IISc), is the founder and chief architect of CybULab Pvt. Ltd., a company that applies information visualization techniques and cognition theory to develop educational services. She is also a co-founder of Lifetape Inc. She was previously a researcher at Microsoft Research India, where she worked on effective visualization of and interaction with information, as well as on use of semantics to improve user-computer interaction. She has worked in MIRALab at the University of Geneva and also in University of Central Florida. She has published papers in the areas of fluid simulation, realistic and abstract rendering techniques, and information visualization. She is on the editorial board of the Springer-Verlag journal for computer graphics and serves on the program committees of international conferences in the areas of computer graphics and animation.