He received a master's degree in computer science in 1972, and a PhD in computer science, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)[1] under supervision of James Evans Robertson[2] and J. Richard Philips.
Kishor S. Trivedi is currently the Hudson Chaired Professor in department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University.
He wrote three well-known books including the bluebook "Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing and Computer Science Applications",[3] redbook "Performance and Reliability Analysis of Computer Systems: An Example-Based Approach Using the SHARPE Software Package"[4] and whitebook "Queueing Networks and Markov Chains".
[5] In addition to these three books, he recently wrote a greenbook "Reliability and Availability Engineering".
"[8] He is an elected member of the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerance.