PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Musti Narasimha Murty

Also known as M. Narasimha Murty, M. N. Murty

Musti Narasimha Murty is a computer scientist at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore whose research covers pattern recognition, data clustering and data mining. Born in 1954, he earned his BE, ME and PhD at IISc, worked as a project leader in industry, and joined its Department of Computer Science and Automation as a research associate, then assistant and associate professor. In 1999 he coauthored the ACM Computing Surveys article Data clustering: a review with Jain and Flynn, and in 2003 he led the team that won task 1 of the KDD Cup. He wrote textbooks with Susheela Devi, including Pattern Recognition: An Algorithmic Approach in 2011, became a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, in 2011, and received an IISc Distinguished Alumni Award in 2022. Today he is an Honorary Professor at IISc, where his earlier posts included Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.

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Timeline

  1. 1954–1982

    Andhra University to an IISc PhD

    Born in 1954, he earns a B.Sc. at Andhra University in Visakhapatnam in 1972. At the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, he takes a B.E. in 1975 and an M.E. in 1978 in electrical engineering, then a PhD in 1982.

  2. 1982–1990

    From industry to IISc faculty

    In 1982, he becomes a project leader at Processor Systems of India in Bangalore. He joins IISc's Department of Computer Science and Automation as a research associate in 1983, an assistant professor in 1984 and an associate professor in 1990. In 1987, he coauthors Pattern clustering: an artificial intelligence approach with B. Shekar and G. Krishna in the proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Milan.

  3. 1999

    A review of data clustering

    In 1999, he coauthors Data clustering: a review with A. K. Jain and P. J. Flynn, published in ACM Computing Surveys. The article is the most frequently downloaded one from ACM publications in 2004, 2005 and 2006.

  4. 2003

    Winning the KDD Cup

    In 2003, he leads the team that wins task 1 of the KDD Cup, organized by Cornell University.

  5. 2007–2011

    Alumni award and NASI fellowship

    In 2007, IISc gives him its Alumni Award for Excellence in Research for Engineering. In 2011, he becomes a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India.

  6. 2011–2015

    Pattern recognition textbooks

    In 2011, he and V. Susheela Devi publish Pattern Recognition: An Algorithmic Approach with Springer. In 2012, they offer the web course Pattern Recognition on NPTEL, and in 2015, World Scientific issues their Introduction to Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning in the IISc Lecture Notes Series.

  7. 2022

    IISc Distinguished Alumni Award

    In 2022, IISc selects him for a Distinguished Alumni Award. The award recognizes his contributions to pattern recognition, among them a divide-and-conquer framework for clustering large datasets and a genetic K-Means algorithm.

  8. As of October 2026

    Honorary Professor at IISc

    He is an Honorary Professor in IISc's Department of Computer Science and Automation, specialising in pattern recognition and data mining. His earlier posts there include Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.

Career

  1. Since 1983Indian Institute of ScienceResearch Associate, Assistant Professor
  2. From 1982Processor Systems of IndiaProject Leader

Education

  1. 1982Indian Institute of ScienceB.E., M.E., PhD
  2. 1972Andhra UniversityB.Sc.

From the biography.

  1. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Indian Institute of Science. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Indian Institute of Science. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.
  4. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIWe estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.

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Sources and credits

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  1. Musti Narasimha Murty (Indian Institute of Science academic profile, ICDAR 1999) cedar.buffalo.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. IISc announces Distinguished Alumni Awards 2022 iisc.ac.in. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Expert Profile View - Indian National Academy of Engineering inae.in. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Computer Science and Automation - IISc: M. Narasimha Murty csa.iisc.ac.in. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. KDnuggets News 00:12, item 21, Publications kdnuggets.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Pattern Recognition, IISc Bangalore (NPTEL) nptel.ac.in. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. IISc to hold Distinguished Alumni Awards 2022 in December; 5 alumnae to be awarded news.careers360.com. Checked 21 October 2026.