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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.
Mohan was named an IBM Fellow, IBM's highest technical position, 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 Impact Paper Award for the widespread commercial and research impact of his ARIES work. From IBM, he has received two corporate and eight outstanding innovation/technical achievement awards. He holds 34 patents and was named an IBM Master Inventor in 1997.
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, Informix, Cloudscape, 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 steering committee member of IBM's Software Group Architecture Board and a member of IBM's Information Management Architecture Board, and is working on database caching, clustered databases and next generation messaging in the context of DB2 and WebSphere. Mohan received his Ph.D. 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.
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