Shri S Sreenath

Professor Sreenath is the Director of Case Systems Biology Initiative (Case SBI), and, a Co-Director of UNESCO Global Issues Education Network Initiative (GENIe). He is a recipient of NIH-National Cancer Institute (NCI) Research Career Award in 2004.

Hailing from the Silicon City of Bangalore, Sree N. Sreenath did his bachelors from Bangalore University (1980), masters degree (1982) from Indian Institute of Science, and received his doctorate (1987) from University of Maryland, College Park.

Sreenath’s research interest over the past two decades could be defined using a single phrase “Complexity analysis ”. Specifically, it has been in understanding complex systems through a holistic approach that has been central to ‘Systems Science’. Modeling as a representation of reality is a starting point and his work and is based on the goal of the objective (analysis, design, etc.). This is followed then by applying various analysis and design methods such as large-scale, multi-level and hierarchical systems analysis, nonlinear systems modeling, differential geometric control, structural properties analysis (controllability, stability, equilibria and robustness), uncertainty analysis, and, computer based analysis, simulation and design.

He has been a consultant to many developing countries and the UN agencies on issues of water, energy and policy development. He has lectured in more than twenty countries and has written a book on global warming.