Narain Gehani is a world-renowned expert in databases, web technologies and software. Dr Gehani has co-authored several major software systems, including the pioneering Ode database, the Concurrent C/C++ parallel programming language, and the Maps On Us website.
Dr Gehani holds 12 patents, has written and edited many books, and is the author or co-author of about 75 papers in computer science. He has served on the numerous program conference committees and was an ACM National Lecturer for several years. Currently, he is the dean of the College of Computing Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Before that, he was with Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. He got his PhD in computer science from Cornell University in 1975.