inventor on 50 issued/pending patents and was named an IBM Master Inventor in 1997. Professional contributions Mohan has discussed his IBM and non-IBM professional activities in and outside Silicon Valley in a short video. He is a frequent speaker in North America, Western Europe and India, and has given talks in 40 countries. Mohan has been on the advisory board of IEEE Spectrum and an editor of VLDB Journal, and Distributed and Parallel Databases. He was a Steering Council member of IBM's Software Group Architecture Board, and a member of IBM's Technical Leadership Team (TLT), IBM Academy of Technology, and Information Management Architecture Board. In the past, he has also been a member of IBM's Research Management Council (RMC), IBM India's Senior Leadership Team, the IBM Asset Architecture Board, and the Bharti and Vodafone Technical Advisory Councils. He also served on the academic senate of the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at Bangalore. References External links Resume of C. Mohan Living people 1955 births University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences alumni American computer scientists Database researchers Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellow Members of the IEEE IBM employees IBM Fellows IBM Research computer scientists Indian computer scientists IIT Madras alumni Scientists from Bangalore Tamil engineers Tamil scientists American people of Indian Tamil descent Indian emigrants to the United States People from Saratoga, California Indian patent holders Indian Tamil academics 20th-century Indian inventors Scientists from Chennai Engineers from California