Jayant R. Haritsa is an Indian computer scientist and professor. He is on the faculty of the CDS and CSA departments at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He works on the design and analysis of Database Systems. In 2009 he won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 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 and MS and PhD (Computer Science), Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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

• Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, 2015^[1]
• Fellow, IEEE, 2013 ^[2]
• Distinguished Alumnus, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 2012
• Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), India, 2010^[3]
• Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India, 2006^[4]
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, CSIR, 2009^[5]