Prof. Sudarshan is currently a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has a distinguished academic and research career, including a tenure as a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, and as a Principal Investigator (Member of Technical Staff) in the Database Research group at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey.
He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and both an MS and a PhD in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.
He is a co-author of an internationally best – selling textbook 'Database System Concepts now in its 7th edition, and his research publications are highly cited. He is a fellow of the ACM, IEEE, INAE, INSA and IASc