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Jayant Haritsa

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Jayant Haritsa
OccupationsFaculty of CDS and CSA departments at Indian Institute of Science
Years active1990−present
Websitedsl.cds.iisc.ac.in/~haritsa/

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[1]. 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

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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

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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

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  • 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

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Talks/Panel Discussions

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  • SIGMOD 2026 Invited Talk - Indian Database Research: The Journey to SIGMOD 2026. [6]
  • World Laureates Summit 2026 - AI Science Forum 2026.
  • PGConf 2026 - Performant SQL Rewrites using LLMs.

References

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  1. ↑ "Indian Institute of Science". Retrieved 9 August 2026.
  2. ↑ ACM Fellows Named for Computing Innovations that Are Advancing Technology in the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, 2015, archived from the original on 9 December 2015, retrieved 9 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Introducing the 2013 Fellows".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. ↑ Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards, 2009 Archived 2012-02-10 at the Wayback Machine, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. Accessed 2011-05-02.
  5. ↑ "Jayant Haritsa Home Page". dsl.cds.iisc.ac.in. Archived from the original on 21 November 2025. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
  6. ↑ "The 2026 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference: Bengaluru, India - SIGMOD Invited Talk". 2026.sigmod.org. Retrieved 17 September 2026.
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