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Chandrasekaran Mohan

Chandrasekaran Mohan

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Computer Science

D-Index
70
Citations
14957
World Ranking
1906
National Ranking
964

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to locking and recovery algorithms for database systems.
  • 2003 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to robust high-performance transaction management.
  • 2002 - ACM Fellow For contributions to reliable, high-performance transaction management.

Overview

Chandrasekaran Mohan is affiliated with IBM in the United States. Their research spans multiple topics primarily within computer science and engineering, with significant contributions in database systems and computing resource management.

Their recent papers include:

  • The Seattle Report on Database Research, 2020, ACM SIGMOD Record
  • The Seattle report on database research, 2022, Communications of the ACM
  • Implementation of innovative deep learning techniques in smart power systems, 2025, Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • The Cambridge Report on Database Research, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Among frequent co-authors are:

  • Daniel J. Abadi
  • Magdalena Bałazińska
  • Philip A. Bernstein
  • Peter Boncz
  • Surajit Chaudhuri

Key publication venues where Mohan's work appears include:

  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Their research engages with the following main topics:

  • Advanced Database Systems and Queries
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management

Subfields of study connected to their work include:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management

Mohan has received several awards recognizing contributions to transaction management and database systems, including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2009) for contributions to locking and recovery algorithms for database systems
  • IEEE Fellow (2003) for contributions to robust high-performance transaction management
  • ACM Fellow (2002) for contributions to reliable, high-performance transaction management

Best Publications

  • ARIES: a transaction recovery method supporting fine-granularity locking and partial rollbacks using write-ahead logging

    C. Mohan;Don Haderle;Bruce Lindsay;Hamid Pirahesh

  • Transaction management in the R* distributed database management system

    C. Mohan;B. Lindsay;R. Obermarck

  • Advanced transaction models in workflow contexts

    G. Alonso;D. Agrawal;A. El Abbadi;M. Kamath

  • ARIES/IM: an efficient and high concurrency index management method using write-ahead logging

    C. Mohan;Frank Levine

  • ARIES/KVL: A Key-Value Locking Method for Concurrency Control of Multiaction Transactions Operating on B-Tree Indexes

    C. Mohan

  • Exotica/FMQM: A Persistent Message-Based Architecture for Distributed Workflow Management

    G. Alonso;C. Mohan;R. Günthör;D. Agrawal

  • System and method for adaptive database caching

    Mehmet Altinel;Christof Bomhoevd;Chandrasekaran Mohan;Mir Hamid Pirahesh

  • Middle-tier database caching for e-business

    Qiong Luo;Sailesh Krishnamurthy;C. Mohan;Hamid Pirahesh

  • Functionality and Limitations of Current Workflow Management Systems.

    Gustavo Alonso;Divyakant Agrawal;Amr El Abbadi;C. Mohan

  • Concurrency and recovery in generalized search trees

    Marcel Kornacker;C. Mohan;Joseph M. Hellerstein

  • A snapshot differential refresh algorithm

    Bruce Lindsay;Laura Haas;C. Mohan;Hamid Pirahesh

  • Fast intersystem page transfer in a data sharing environment with record locking

    Chandrasekaran Mohan;Inderpal S. Narang

  • Method and means for backup and restoration of a database system linked to a system for filing data

    Luis Felipe Cabrera;Chandrasekaran Mohan;Inderpal Singh Narang

  • Alert: An Architecture for Transforming a Passive DBMS into an Active DBMS

    Ulf Schreier;Hamid Pirahesh;Rakesh Agrawal;C. Mohan

  • Asynchronous replica management in shared nothing architectures

    Anupam K. Bhide;George P. Copeland;Ambuj Goyal;Hui-I Hsiao

  • Method for generating a multi-tiered index for partitioned data

    David Mun-Hien Choy;Chandrasekaran Mohan

  • Efficient and flexible methods for transient versioning of records to avoid locking by read-only transactions

    C. Mohan;Hamid Pirahesh;Raymond Lorie

  • Efficient commit protocols for the tree of processes model of distributed transactions

    C. Mohan;B. Lindsay

  • Query Processing in R

    Guy M. Lohman;C. Mohan;Laura M. Haas;Dean Daniels

  • Cache tables: paving the way for an adaptive database cache

    Mehmet Altinel;Christof Bornhövd;Sailesh Krishnamurthy;C. Mohan

Frequent Co-Authors

Inderpal S. Narang
Inderpal S. Narang IBM (United States)
Hamid Pirahesh
Hamid Pirahesh IBM (United States)
Bruce G. Lindsay
Bruce G. Lindsay IBM (United States)
Mir Hamid Pirahesh
Mir Hamid Pirahesh IBM (United States)
Gustavo Alonso
Gustavo Alonso ETH Zurich
Frank Eliot Levine
Frank Eliot Levine IBM (United States)
Guy M. Lohman
Guy M. Lohman IBM (United States)
Vijayshankar Raman
Vijayshankar Raman Google (United States)
Divyakant Agrawal
Divyakant Agrawal University of California, Santa Barbara
Berthold Reinwald
Berthold Reinwald IBM (United States)

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