Prakash Panangaden

Prakash Panangaden FRS FRSC
Panangaden in 2025
Born(1954-03-11)March 11, 1954
NationalityAmerican/Canadian
Alma materIIT Kanpur
University of Chicago
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
University of Utah
Known forMarkov processes, programming language theory, concurrency theory and quantum field theory in curved space-time
Spouse
(died 2019)
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2013) Fellow of the Royal Society (2025)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Physics
InstitutionsCornell University, McGill University
Doctoral advisorLeonard Parker
Websitewww.cs.mcgill.ca/~prakash

Prakash Panangaden is an American/Canadian computer scientist noted for his research in programming language theory, concurrency theory, Markov processes and duality theory. Earlier he worked on quantum field theory in curved space-time and radiation from black holes. He is the founding Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM SIGLOG).