C. Mohan

Who is C. Mohan?

C. Mohan is an IBM Fellow based at the IBM Almaden Research Center.

He joined IBM Research in 1981 where he has worked on a number of topics in the areas of database, workflow and transaction management. From June 2006 until January 2009, he worked as the IBM India Chief Scientist, based in Bangalore.

Mohan is the primary inventor of the ARIES family of recovery and concurrency control methods, and the industry-standard Presumed Abort commit protocol. He was named an IBM Fellow, IBM's highest technical position, in 1997, for being recognized worldwide as a leading innovator in transaction management. In 2009, he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.

Mohan received the 1996 ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award in recognition of his innovative contributions to the development and use of database systems. In 2002, he was named an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. At the 1999 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, he was honored with the 10 Year Best Paper Award for the widespread commercial and research impact of his ARIES work which has been widely covered in textbooks and university courses. From IBM, Mohan has received 2 Corporate and 8 Outstanding Innovation/Technical Achievement Awards. He is an inventor on 34 patents and was named an IBM Master Inventor in 1997. Mohan works very closely with numerous IBM product groups and his research results are implemented in numerous IBM and non-IBM prototypes and products like DB2, MQSeries, WebSphere, Informix, Cloudscape, Lotus Domino/Notes, Microsoft SQLServer and System Z Parallel Sysplex.