Jayant R. Haritsa is an Indian computer scientist and professor. He is on the faculty of the Computational & Data Science (CDS) and Computer Science & Automation (CSA) departments at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He is also the Dean, Faculty of Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science. 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 the Computer Science & Automation department at the Indian Institute of Science.
Professional activities General Co-Chair, SIGMOD 2026 Co-Chair, ACM PTF on Regional Offices Member, ACM India Awards Steering Committee 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, Asian Scientist, 2016 ACM Fellow, 2015. IEEE Fellow, 2013 Distinguished Alumnus, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 2012 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, CSIR, 2009Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards, 2009 , Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. Accessed 2011-05-02. President, Association of Computing Machinery, India (ACMI), 2020–22 Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), 2020 Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), India, 2010 Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), India, 2009 Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India, 2006 J C Bose National Fellow, DST, Govt. of India, 2015 IISc Alumni Award for Excellence in Research for Engineering, 2015 Infosys Prize (Engineering and Computer Science), Infosys Science Foundation, 2014 ACCS-CDAC Foundation Award, Advanced Computing and Communication Society, 2013 Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award (Electronics, Informatics, Telematics and Automation), PRL, Govt. of India, 2007 Swarnajayanti Fellowship (Engineering Sciences), DST, Govt. of India, 2002 Sir C V Raman Young Scientist Award (Computer Science), KSCST, Govt. of Karnataka, 2001 Research Awards from IBM, Google, Microsoft and HP
Talks/Panel Discussions
SIGMOD 2026 Invited Talk - Indian Database Research: The Journey to SIGMOD 2026. World Laureates Summit 2026 - AI Science Forum 2026. PGConf 2026 - Performant SQL Rewrites using LLMs.
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