Email: sri [at] iiitb [dot] ac [dot] in
Srinath Srinivasa heads the Web Science lab and is the Dean (R&D) at the International Institute of Information Technology – Bangalore (IIITB), India. Srinath holds a Ph.D (magna cum laude) from the Berlin Brandenburg Graduate School for Distributed Information Systems (GkVI) Germany, an M.S. (by Research) from Indian Institute of Technology – Madras (IITM) and B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from The National Institute of Engineering (NIE) Mysore, India. His research interests are in the area of Web Science– understanding how the WWW is affecting humanity; and how the web can enable social empowerment and capability building. Srinath has participated in several initiatives for technology enhanced education including the Edusat program by the Vishveshwaraiah Technological University, The National Programme for Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), a Switzerland based online MBA school called Educatis, and IIITB’s educational outreach program with Upgrad. He has served on various technical and organizational committees for international conferences like International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), ACM Hypertext, International Conference on Management of Data and Data Science (COMAD/CoDS), International conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE), International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA), ACM Web Science, etc. As part of academic community outreach, Srinath has served on the Board of Studies of Goa University, Christ University, and as a member of the Academic Council of the National Institute of Engineering, Mysore. He has served as a technical reviewer for various journals like the VLDB journal, ACM Computing Surveys, Springer AI Ethics, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He has also served as an Associate Editor of the journal Sadhana from the Indian Academy of Sciences. Srinath is also the recipient of various national and international grants and awards, from foundations and companies like: EU Horizon 2020, UK Royal Academy of Engineering, Research Councils UK, MEITy, DST, Siemens, Intel, Mphasis, EMC and Gooru. He has also lead the AI initiative for the “Karnataka Data Lake” project by the Planning Dept of the Govt of Karnataka, to promote data and evidence-based planning and decision-making.
Popular Writings
- The Power Law of Information: Life in a Connected World
- My 2006 book (when the Internet was just growing popular in India) speculating on how our collective lives would evolve in a connected world. Predicts a few things like the emergence of alternate money systems, the rise of social media and its impact on politics as well as individual mental health.
- Theory of Being: Systems Science from a traditional Indian perspective
- My first attempt to develop a comprehensive theory of complex systems based on Indian concepts of dharma and prana (corresponding to sustainability/resilience, and capability of a system of being). Written in popular style weaving my personal experiences into the narrative. We’re developing the above theory in a more formal way, some of which may be found in the Publications page.
- It’s a small world after all..
- My blog to note down my thoughts on what I see around me.
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