Who is Ilango?
I (Ilango Leonardo Sriram) grew up tri-lingual (Tamil, English, German) in Chennai (India), Stuttgart (Germany), and Beerfelden-Airlenbach (a tiny countryside village in the Odenwald, south of Frankfurt). I studied computer science (Informatik) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), spent an academic exchange Semester at IIT Bombay, and graduated as Dipl. Inf. Univ. (comparable to a M.Sc.). I worked for a year at HP Labs in Bristol doing research on Adaptive IT in data canters. Since 2007 I am doing a PhD looking at scaling issues in large-scale complex IT systems.

What do I do?
I can hardly live without sports, especially football, gym, swimming and running. I love all sorts of intellectual activities, and am interested in international business and economics. In Bristol I am frequently seen at Cannons gym, at the running club and with Bristol Entrepreneurs. I'm also up for a night out in pubs or clubs. My interests in computer science include mobile computing, economic behaviours, patterns (e.g. in voice), and utility computing (virtualization, adaptive IT, cloud computing).

What are LSCITS?
Complexity science is a discipline that tries to describe the behaviour of systems where sub-parts are highly intricate, thus non-linear effects occurs when plugging together the sub-parts to a total. Small changes somewhere can lead to catastrophic events at other points due to the high level of interconnectedness, and unforeseen effects emerge. This makes it extremely difficult to understand the system with today's techniques even given perfect knowledge of all the components and the nature of their interaction.
Large-scale IT systems, such as future magnitude adaptive IT data centres, can be thought of as such complex systems. While the dimensions and interconnectedness in IT continues to increase during its evolvement, I am interested when and how the rules of complexity science are going to be relevant. See www.lscits.org