Bio: Dr. C. Mohan has been an IBM researcher for 33 years in the information 
management area, impacting numerous IBM and non-IBM products, the research and 
academic communities, and standards, especially with his invention of the 
ARIES family of database locking and recovery algorithms, and the Presumed 
Abort commit protocol. This IBM, ACM and IEEE Fellow has also served as the IBM 
India Chief Scientist for 3 years. In addition to receiving the ACM SIGMOD 
Innovation Award (1996), the VLDB 10 Year Best Paper Award (1999) and numerous 
IBM awards, Mohan was elected to the US and Indian National Academies of 
Engineering, and was named an IBM Master Inventor. This Distinguished Alumnus 
of IIT Madras received his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an 
inventor of 45 patents. He has served on the advisory board of IEEE Spectrum 
and on the IBM Software Group Architecture Board’s Council. Mohan is a frequent 
speaker in North America, Europe and India, and has given talks in 40 countries. 
More information can be found in his home page at http://bit.ly/CMohan