Mathai Joseph

Mathai Joseph
Born	India
Residence	Pune, India
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	University of Warwick, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Alma mater	Wilson College, Mumbai, University of Bombay, Welsh College of Advanced Technology, University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	David Wheeler
Notable students	Paritosh Pandya, Zhiming Liu
Known for	Real-time systems; formal methods

Mathai Joseph is a leading Indian computer scientist.

Joseph studied for a BSc in physics at Wilson College (Mumbai, India, 1962) and an MSc in the same subject at the University of Mumbai in 1964. He later studied for a Postgraduate Diploma in electronics at the Welsh College of Advanced Technology (1965) and then undertook a PhD in computing at Churchill College, Cambridge under the supervision of David Wheeler (awarded 1968).

From 1968–85, Joseph worked on programming as a Fellow and Senior Research Scientist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai, India) and then became professor of computer science at the University of Warwick in England for 12 years (1985–97). He returned to India in 1997. He then worked in industry as Executive Director at the Tata Research Development and Design Centre (Pune) and as Executive Vice-President at Tata Consultancy Services (1997–2007).

Joseph was a Visiting Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University (1980–81), Eindhoven University of Technology (1990–92), the University of Warwick (1997–98), and the University of York (2001–04). He was Board Chair of UNU-IIST (2004–06, United Nations University, Macau). Joseph was the first person from India to be elected to the Council of the ACM. In addition, he was a member of the ACM India Council until 2012. He now chairs the ACM India Education Committee.