User:Peter Ellis/Suparna Bhattacharya

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Suparna Bhattacharya is a Linux kernel developer and Senior Technical Staff Member at the IBM India Systems and Technology Lab, where she works with IBM's worldwide Linux Technology Center.

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[edit] Education

Suparna Bhattacharya was educated as an electronics and communication engineer at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Kharagpur), Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.

[edit] Work

Suparna Bhattacharya began working at IBM in 1993. She is an elected member of the IBM Academy of Technology, and a senior member of IEEE. Since about 2000, she has been working with the Linux kernel, including investigating block I/O, asynchronous file system I/O, direct I/O, kernel dynamic probes, kexec, first failure data capture mechanisms, and ext3 (now ext4) and ReiserFS file system enhancements[1]. She is one of the very few female kernel developers.

[edit] Conferences, Articles and Publications

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Mingming Cao, Theodore Y. Ts'o, Badari Pulavarty, Suparna Bhattacharya (2005-07-26). "State of the Art: Where we are with the Ext3 file system". 2005 Linux Symposium, Ottawa, Canada: IBM Linux Technology Center. Retrieved on 2008-04-12. 
  2. ^ Suparna Bhattacharya (2006-11-24). "Linux and the art of minimalist development (presentation, biography, photo)"., National Science Symposium Centre, IISc, Bangalore, India: FOSS.IN. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.