Santosh Shrivastava

	Position:	Professor
	E-mail:	santosh.shrivastava ncl.ac.uk
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	Mail:	School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU United Kingdom
	Office:	Room 812 , Claremont Tower
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Brief Biography

Santosh Shrivastava was appointed a Professor of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1986; he leads the Distributed Systems Research Group. He received his Ph.D. in computing science from Cambridge in 1975. His research interests are in the areas of distributed systems, fault tolerance and application of transaction and workflow technologies to e-commerce, virtual organisations and Grid-based systems. His group is well known as the developers of an innovative distributed transaction system, called Arjuna and a CORBA based dependable workflow system for the Internet.

He has led and managed several European Union funded, multi-partner research projects, beginning with BROADCAST (1992) to a project on complex service provisioning on the Internet, TAPAS, that started in 2002. Together with his colleagues he set up a company in 1998 in Newcastle to productise Arjuna transaction and workflow technologies. Now based within the University campus, Arjuna Technologies is a centre of excellence in transaction technologies and is focusing on building products to support reliable Web Services-based applications. Close industry-university collaboration is guaranteed, and research projects on E-commerce platform and services have been initiated.

Publications

A list of publications by Santosh Shrivastava is available.

Research Groups

Santosh is a member of the [ Distributed Systems ] research group(s)