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|alma_mater = [[Indian Institute of Technology]] ([[B.Tech.]], 1965) [[New York University Tandon School of Engineering]] ([[Master of Science|M.S.]], 1966) [[MIT]] ([[Ph.D.]], 1969)
|thesis_title = Parametric Decomposition Programming
|thesis_year = 1969
|doctoral_advisor = Jeremy Frank Shapiro<ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=75246}}</ref>
|doctoral_students = [[Laura M. Haas]] [[Peter Hofstee]] [[Don Towsley (computer scientist)|Don Towsley]]
|known_for = [[BCMP network]] [[Chandy–Herzog–Woo method]]
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'''Kanianthra Mani Chandy''' (born 25 October 1944) is the Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the [[California Institute of Technology]] (Caltech).<ref>[http://directory.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/search.cgi?uid=mani K. M. Chandy] at the Caltech Directory</ref> He has been the Executive Officer of the Computer Science Department twice, and he has been a professor at Caltech since 1989. He also served as Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://mascots.cs.vt.edu/mascots2012/index.html%3Fpage_id=451.html | title=Keynote 2: Prof. Chandy - Prof. K. Mani Chandy, Caltech - 'Modeling Complex Socio-Technical Systems on Massively Parallel Computers' | publisher=IEEE 20th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems | accessdate=19 May 2018 }}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Chandy received his Ph.D. from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in Electrical Engineering with a thesis in [[Operations research]]. He also earned a Master's from the New York University, and a Bachelor's from the [[Indian Institute of Technology]], [[Madras]].

==Career==
He has worked for [[Honeywell]] and [[IBM]]. From 1970 to 1989, he was in the Computer Science Department of the [[University of Texas]] at Austin, serving as chair in 1978–79 and 1983–85. He has served as a consultant to a number of companies including IBM and [[Bell Labs]]. He also served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the [[Infosys Prize]] in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Infosys Prize - Jury 2019 |url=https://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/jury/jury-2019.asp#Engineering-and-Computer-Science |website=Infosys Science Foundation |access-date=1 March 2021}}</ref>

==Research==
In 1984, along with J Misra, Chandy proposed a new solution to [[Dining philosophers problem]].<ref>Chandy, K.M.; Misra, J. (1984). [http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/misra/scannedPdf.dir/DrinkingPhil.pdf The Drinking Philosophers Problem]. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems.</ref>

Chandy does research in [[distributed computing]]. He has published three books and over a hundred papers on distributed computing, verification of concurrent programs, [[parallel programming]] languages and performance models of computing and communication systems, including the eponymous [[BCMP network]]s.<ref>{{cite journal| last1 = Baskett | first1 = Forest | last2 = Chandy | first2 = K. Mani | authorlink2 = K. Mani Chandy | last3 = Muntz | first3 = R.R. | last4 = Palacios | first4 = F.G. | title=Open, closed and mixed networks of queues with different classes of customers | journal=Journal of the ACM | year=1975 | volume =22| issue = 2| pages=248–260 | doi=10.1145/321879.321887| s2cid = 15204199 }}</ref> He described the [[Chandy-Lamport algorithm]] together with [[Leslie Lamport]].

==Recognition==
He received the [[IEEE]] Koji Kobayashi Award for Computers and Communication in 1987, the A.A. Michelson Award from the Computer Measurement Group in 1985, and the [[International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium#IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award|IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award]] in 1993.

Chandy was elected a member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]] in 1995 for contributions to computer performance modeling, parallel discrete-event simulation, and systematic development of concurrent programs.

He was elected as an [[ACM Fellow]] in 2019 "for contributions to queueing networks, performance analysis, distributed and parallel programming, and distributed simulation".<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2019/december/fellows-2019|title=2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|accessdate=2019-12-11}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081006042521/http://www.infospheres.caltech.edu/people/mani Homepage and Bio at Caltech]
* [http://leecenter.caltech.edu/chandy-bio.html Another Bio and discussion of his work]

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