Bina Ramamurthy

Dr. Bina Ramamurthy is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York. In 2019, she was awarded the State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor’s Award for excellence in teaching.

She is the director of Blockchain Thinklab at the University at Buffalo. In the summer of 2018, she launched a four-course blockchain specialization on the Coursera platform for a worldwide audience. The suite of courses has been ranked number 1 among the best courses on blockchain technology and has enrolled more than 140,000 learners from all over the world.

She has been the principal investigator on four National Science Foundation (NSF) grants and a co-investigator on six Instructional Innovative Instructional Technology Grants (IITG) from SUNY. She has given numerous invited presentations at prominent conferences in the areas of data-intensive and big data computing. She has also been on the program committees of prestigious conferences, including the High-Performance Computing Conference and Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE).

Bina Ramamurthy received a BE (Honors) from Guindy Engineering College, Madras, India; an MS in Computer Science from Wichita State University, Kansas; and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University at Buffalo.