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“As a school boy, I learned about the Caribbean, as was perhaps the case with almost every person in India, through West Indies Cricket. Later when I learned more about the Caribbean, it became one of my cherished desires to visit here at least once in my lifetime. I did not know that it was my destiny to work and live in the Caribbean! After working for eight years at UWI, I do not even think of working anywhere else but our paradise campus at Cave Hill. I would like to be remembered by my students as a simple and down-to-earth professor who made them believe in their abilities to produce globally competitive research.”

Professor Pranay Chaudhuri

PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS
FACULTY OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES
CAVE HILL CAMPUS, BARBADOS
Tel: (246) 417-4736 • Email: pchaudhuri@uwichill.edu.bb

PROFILE

Beginning in 1984, Professor Pranay Chaudhuri pursued an academic career, first, serving as a faculty member at the world-renowned Centre of Excellence in Science and Engineering – the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India – then at James Cook University and later, the University of New South Wales – both in Australia – and finally at Kuwait University, before his appointment as Professor of Computer Science at UWI Cave Hill in 2000. Professor Chaudhuri attended some of the leading research universities in India: Calcutta University, where he earned a BSc (Physics) and a BTech (Electronics), and Jadavpur University, where he received his ME (Computer Science and Engineering) and PhD (Computer Science and Engineering) degrees. Professor Chaudhuri has extensively published in leading international journals and his research, particularly in the areas of Parallel and Distributed Algorithms and Self-stabilization, has won him recognition and accolades all around the world. In the seven years since being appointed Professor of Computer Science at Cave Hill, he has supervised three doctoral students – the first two have already received their PhD degrees in Computer Science with high commendation and the third is nearing completion. Professor Chaudhuri has also successfully engaged his postgraduate students in publication at an international level from an early stage and in the past five years alone, co-authored 18 of his research papers with them. In 2007, he received the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for ‘Excellence in Research and Service to the University Community’.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Professor Chaudhuri’s research interests include Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Self-stabilization and Graph Theory. The focus of his research has been the design of fast and efficient algorithms for fundamental problems having applications in Science and Engineering. Besides publishing widely and prolifically in leading international journals since 1985, Professor Chaudhuri has also written a book on Parallel Algorithms published by Prentice-Hall in 1992. Since its publication, this book has been extensively used in different parts of the world as a reference at the postgraduate level and also by researchers.