Dr. C. Mohan joined IBM Almaden Research Center in 1981. He is the
primary inventor of the ARIES family of recovery and concurrency
control methods, and the industry-standard Presumed Abort commit
protocol. He was named an IBM Fellow in 1997 for being recognized
worldwide as a leading innovator in transaction management. He
received the 1996 ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award in recognition of his
innovative contributions to the development and use of database
systems. In late 2002, he was named an ACM Fellow and an IEEE
Fellow. At the 1999 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases,
he was honored with the 10 Year Best Paper Award for the widespread
commercial and research impact of his ARIES work. From IBM, he has
received 1 Corporate and 8 Outstanding Innovation/Technical
Achievement Awards. He is an inventor on 33 patents. Mohan works very
closely with numerous IBM product groups and his research results are
implemented in numerous IBM and non-IBM prototypes and products like
DB2, MQSeries, Lotus Domino/Notes, Microsoft SQLServer and S/390
Parallel Sysplex.  He has been an editor of VLDB Journal, and
Distributed and Parallel Databases. Currently, he is a member of IBM's
Software Group and Data Management Architecture Boards, and is working
on database caching and next generation messaging in the context of
DB2 and WebSphere. Mohan received his PhD in computer science from the
University of Texas at Austin in 1981. In 2003, he was named a
Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Madras from which he received a
B.Tech. in chemical engineering in 1977.