Ravi Sethi

Professor
Office: Gould-Simpson 724
Phone: 520-621-0689
E-mail: rsethi [at] email [dot] arizona [dot] edu

Biography

I returned to Academia and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Arizona in 2014, after holding senior executive positions at Avaya Labs and Bell Labs.

I am a co-author of the "classic definitive compiler technology text" [Wikipedia], popularly known as the "dragon book", and the author of a textbook on programming languages. I have served on Advisory councils for NSF and various universities and on the selection committee for the Turing Award, the highest award in computing (2007-2013).

After earning a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kanpur and a Ph.D. from Princeton, I was a professor at Penn State (1972-1976). My Bell Labs career (1976-2000) was in the research organization. I was senior vice president for computing and mathematical sciences (1996-1999) and communications sciences (1999-2000). When the parent company, Lucent , spun off its enterprise business, I was named president of Avaya Labs (2000-2014).

For my contributions to compilers and programming languages, I was nominated an ACM Fellow (1996); honored as a Distinguished Alumnus (2008) and as one of the top 50 alumni (2010); and selected for the first annual Pan-IIT Technology Leadership Award (2009).

Books

	A. V. Aho, M. S. Lam, R. Sethi, J. D. Ullman. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. (2007). Translated into Chinese (2009), French (2007), German (2008), Italian (2009), Japanese (2009), Korean (2009), Portuguese (2007), Russian (2007), Spanish (2010), ...
	R. Sethi, Programming Languages: Concepts and Constructs, 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. (1996). Translated into Chinese (2001)
	R. Sethi, Programming Languages: Concepts and Constructs. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. (1989). Translated into Italian (1994), Korean (1992), Spanish (1992)
	A. V. Aho, R. Sethi, J. D. Ullman. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. (1986). Translated into French (1989), German (1988), Japanese (1990), Polish (2001), Portuguese (1995), Russian (2001), Spanish (1990), ...