Bina Ramamurthy

Dr. Bina Ramamurthy is a Professor of Teaching in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York. In 2019, she was awarded the State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor’s Award for excellence in teaching. Her current research interests are in the areas of decentralized systems and data science. See https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/bina

She is the Director of Blockchain Thinklab at the University at Buffalo. In the summer of 2018, she launched a four-course blockchain specialization on the Coursera platform for a worldwide audience. The suite of courses has been ranked number 1 among the best courses on blockchain technology and has enrolled more than 150,000 learners from all over the world.

She has been the principal investigator on four National Science Foundation (NSF) grants, Co-PI on two other NSF grants, and an investigator in six Instructional Innovative Instructional Technology Grants (IITG) from SUNY. She has given numerous invited presentations at prominent conferences in the areas of data-intensive and big data computing. She has been on the program committees of prestigious conferences, including the High- Performance Computing Conference and Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE).

Bina Ramamurthy received a BE (Honors) from Guindy Engineering College, Madras, India; an MS in Computer Science from Wichita State University, Kansas; and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University at Buffalo.