Ray Harishankar (MS '90) received at The Ohio State University a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award. This award recognizes "distinguished achievement on the part of alumni in the field of engineering or architecture by reason of significant inventions, important research or design, administrative leadership, or genius in production." Harishankar received this honor for his work at IBM Research and Software divisions in making significant contributions in the area of asset strategies, cloud computing, service oriented architecture, actionable business architecture, reference architectures, enterprise technology architectures, and creation of scalable architecture solutions. Ray is also actively engaged with clients across multiple industries and has developed a recent focus on Smarter Cities.
Ray, who joined IBM in 1999, is an IBM Fellow (2006) and serves as vice president of technology and innovation within IBM's Global Business Services, Since 2003, Ray has received three Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards within IBM. Ray has played important roles in both external industrial advisory committees of the Ohio State College of Engineering and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and has been instrumental in Ohio State- IBM collaboration on big data R&D projects. Ray was named the 2009 Asian American Engineer of the Year by the Chinese Institute of Engineers USA.
The awards were presented on October 18, 2013 at a ceremony during the College's Homecoming Weekend activities. To see the other awardees, follow this link.