Dr. Vettakkorumakankavu Sitaram UMAmaheswaran (alias Uma) is a Senior
Development Analyst at the National Language Technical Centre, IBM Toronto
Laboratory, Toronto, Canada. He joined IBM in 1983. He is the IBM Standards
Project Authority for Coded Character Sets and he represents IBM in many
standardization groups dealing with Internationalization including the Unicode
Technical Committee, the NCITS L2 Committee, CEN Workshops related to
Internationalization, and the w3c Internationalization working group. He has
been the chair of Canadian Advisory Committee for JTC1/SC2 since 1983, and
actively participates in the work of ISO/IEC JTC 1/ SC2 and its working groups
as a Canadian accredited expert. Dr. Uma received his Doctorate in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1973.
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