Jayant Haritsa

Jayant Haritsa
Born	Jayant
Occupation	faculty of Supercomputer Education and Research Centre and CSA departments at Indian Institute of Science
Years active	1970−present

Jayant R. Haritsa is part of 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). In 2009 he won a prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize sponsored by CSIR, India and also the Infosys Prize for Engineering in 2014.

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 and MS and PhD (Computer Science), Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Later he became a Research Fellow in Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland (College Park). Currently he is the chairman of CSA department at Indian Institute of Science.

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