Prof. H.V. Jagadish
Award Year: 2020 | Degree Year: 1981
H.V. Jagadish obtained his B. Tech in Electrical Engineering in 1981, and PhD from Stanford University in 1985. He is Bernard A Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science. Prior to 1999, he was Head of the Database Research Department at AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ.
Professor Jagadish is well known for his broad-ranging research on information management, and has approximately 200 major papers and 37 patents, with an H-index of 94. He is a fellow of the ACM, “The First Society in Computing,” (since 2003) and of AAAS (since 2018). He served on the board of the Computing Research Association (2009-2018). He has been an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Database Systems (1992-1995), Program Chair of the ACM SIGMOD annual conference (1996), Program Chair of the ISMB conference (2005), a trustee of the VLDB (Very Large DataBase) foundation (2004-2009), Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (2008-2014), and Program Chair of the VLDB Conference (2014). Since 2016, he is Editor of the Morgan & Claypool “Synthesis” Lecture Series on Data Management. Among his many awards, he won the David E Liddle Research Excellence Award (at the University of Michigan) in 2008, the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award in 2013, and the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award (at the University of Michigan) in 2019. His popular MOOC on Data Science Ethics is available on EdX, Coursera, and Futurelearn.
In honoring Prof. H.V. Jagadish, IIT Delhi recognizes the outstanding contributions made by him in Teaching and Research. Through his achievements, Prof. Jagadish has brought glory to the name of the Institute.
