Jayant Haritsa

Professor Dr. Jayant R. Haritsa is faculty of SERC and CSA departments at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He works on Database Systems (Query Optimization, Data Mining, XML Databases, Biological Databases, Multi-lingual Databases). He has won in 2009, prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize sponsored by CSIR, India.

More information about Professor Haritsa can be found at his personal web page (http://dsl.serc.iisc.ernet.in/~haritsa/).

• His Erdős number is 3.

Professional activities

• 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
• Board of Studies, Intl. School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore
• Scientific Advisory Board, 3i Infotech, Mumbai
• Distinguished Scientist, ACM; Senior Member, IEEE; Life Member, CSI

Honors

• Distinguished Alumnus, Indian Institute of Technology (Madras), India, 2012
• Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), India, 2010
• Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India, 2006
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, CSIR, 2009
• Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, PRL, 2007
• Swarnajayanti Fellowship, Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, 2002
• Sir C V Raman Young Scientist Award in Computer Science, Govt. of Karnataka, 2001
• Research Awards from IBM, Google and Microsoft

History

• SSLC, Vijaya High School, Jayanagar, Bangalore
• Pre-University (Science), National College (Basavanagudi), Bangalore
• BTech (Electronics), Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Madras)
• MS and PhD (Computer Science), Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin (Madison)
• Research Fellow, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland (College Park)