ACM India Council

Venkatesh Raman obtained his PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and since 1991 he has been at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, where he is currently a Professor. His primary research interests are in the area of data structures and algorithms, in particular in Succinct Data Structures and Parameterized and Exact Algorithms. He has organized or participated in several faculty development programs (FDPs) on Algorithms in institutions all over the country.

He has been serving on the ACM India council since 2016 where he served as Vice-President during 2018–2020 and Secretary/Treasurer during 2020–2022. During these periods, he was on the Steering Committee of COMPUTE, CTiS, and ARCS symposiums, and was part of the Education Committee and Steering Committee of summer/winter schools of ACM India council.

ACM-W India Committee Chair Heena Timani was Chair and Founder/Vice-Chair of the ACM Ahmedabad Professional Chapter. She was a member of the ACM-W India Committee from 2017 to 2019 and has been reappointed as Chair for the term July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. She is Director of iAnanya Datalytix Pvt. Ltd. Her specialization is Bayesian inference and applications of Bayesian networks in business intelligence and analytics. She is actively involved in supporting and organizing computing events for women in India under ACM-W.