Shriram Krishnamurthi is a computer scientist, currently a professor of computer science at Brown University[1] and a member of the core development group for the Racket programming languages,[2] responsible for creation of software packages including the Debugger, the FrTime package, and the networking library.
Since 2006, Krishnamurthi has been a leading contributor to the Bootstrap curriculum, a project to integrate computer science education into grades 6–12.
[3] Krishnamurthi received his Ph.D. at Rice University in 2000, under the direction of Matthias Felleisen.
[4] His dissertation is on linguistic reuse and macro systems in the presence of first-class modules.
The award citation describes Krishnamurthi as "a prolific researcher who brings programming language theory to bear in many other disciplines, thus exposing its foundational value".