Krithivasan is originally from Tamil Nadu, where she was born in 1948. After studies at Madras Christian College in Chennai,[2] she completed a Ph.D. at the University of Madras in 1974, with the dissertation Studies in Parallelism and Picture Languages supervised by Rani Siromoney.[3]
She joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Madras in 1975, and retired as a full professor in 2014.[1] Among her doctoral students there was Meena Mahajan, who completed her Ph.D. in 1993.[3]
Book
Krithivasan is the coauthor of the textbook Introduction to Formal Languages, Automata Theory and Computation (with Rama R, Dorling Kinderley, 2009).
^ ab"Kamala Krithivasan", Member Profile, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, retrieved 2024-10-29
^Mahalingam, Kalpana; Rama, Raghavan (September 2018), "Theory of computation: P systems. Articles dedicated to Kamala Krithivasan on her 70th birthday, Issue-I", International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, 10 (3): 179–180, doi:10.1007/s12572-018-0233-x