Kaliappa ("Ravi") Ravindran is a Professor of Computer Science in the Grove School
of Engineering at the City University of New York. Earlier, he had held faculty
positions at the Kansas State University and at the Indian Institute of Science. He
had also worked as a Control Systems engineer at the Indian Space Research Organization.
He obtained Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Ravindran's research projects are in the areas of service-level management of distributed
networks, autonomous networked system of things, network virtualization, system-level support for information
assurance, model-based software integration for cyber-physical systems, and distributed
collaborative systems. He also works on QoS auditing methods in cloud settings.