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 The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, ...

sponsored by CSIR, India. In 2014 he won the

Infosys Prize The Infosys Prize is an annual award given to scientists, researchers, engineers and social scientists of Indian origin (not necessarily born in India) by the Infosys Science Foundation and ranks among the highest monetary awards in India to r ...

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 Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. As one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and has be ...

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

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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

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of the Association for Computing Machinery, 2015 * Fellow, IEEE, 2013 * Distinguished Alumnus,

, India, 2012 * Fellow,

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

(INAE), India, 2010 * Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India, 2006 *

, CSIR, 2009 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards, 2009
,

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. 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 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellow Members of the IEEE Database researchers Indian computer scientists IIT Madras alumni Scientists from Bangalore Fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering Year of birth missing (living people) Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science