Jayant R. Haritsa is an Indian computer scientist and professor. He is on the faculty of the CDS and CSA departments at

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. He works on the design and analysis of

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. In 2009 he won the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Shanti or Shanthi may refer to: In Sanskrit * Inner peace, a state of being mentally and spiritually at peace, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress * Kshanti, one of the paramitas of B ...

sponsored by CSIR, India. In 2014 he won the Infosys Prize for Engineering.

Early life

He did his SSLC from Vijaya High School, Jayanagar, Bangalore and Pre-University in Science, from National College (Basavanagudi), Bangalore. He did his B.Tech (Electronics) from Dept. of Electrical Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras or IIT-M) is a Public university, public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the eight public Institutes of Eminence of India. As an Indian Institutes of ...

and MS and PhD (Computer Science), Computer Sciences Department,

University of Wisconsin, Madison A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Univ ...

Career

He became a Research Fellow in Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland (College Park). He later became the chairman of CSA department at Indian Institute of Science.

Professional activities

* Program Co-Chair, 42nd Intl. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2016, New Delhi, India * Program Co-Chair, 26th Intl. Conf. on Data Engineering, ICDE 2010, Los Angeles, USA * Tutorial Co-Chair, 19th Intl. World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2010, Raleigh, USA * Editorial Board, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE * Editorial Board, Intl. Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ), Springer * Editorial Board, Intl. Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases(JDPD), Springer * Editorial Board, Intl. Journal of Real-Time Systems (JRTS), Springer

Honors

Asian Scientist 100 The Asian Scientist 100 is an annually published list of 100 prize-winning Asian researchers, academicians, innovators and business leaders from across the Asia-Pacific region and a range of scientific disciplines. Recipients "must have received ...

, ''

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'', 2016 *

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of the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membe ...

, 2015 * Fellow, IEEE, 2013 * Distinguished Alumnus,

, India, 2012 * Fellow,

Indian National Academy of Engineering The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) was founded in 1987. It consists of India's engineers, engineer-scientists and technologists covering the entire spectrum of engineering disciplines. The academy is registered under the Socie ...

(INAE), India, 2010 * Fellow, The

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, NGO, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the ...

(NASI), India, 2006 *

, CSIR, 2009 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards, 2009
,

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR; IAST: ''vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada'') is a research and development (R&D) organisation in India to promote scientific, industrial and economic growth. Headquarter ...

. Accessed 2011-05-02.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Haritsa, Jayant Living people Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology 2015 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellows of the IEEE Database researchers Indian computer scientists IIT Madras alumni Scientists from Bengaluru Fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering Year of birth missing (living people) Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science