Prof Somesh Jha
Award Year: 2021 | Degree Year: 1985
Prof Somesh Jha received his BTech from IIT Delhi in Electrical Engineering in 1985. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Prof. Edmund Clarke (a Turing award winner). Currently, he is the Lubar Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin (Madison).
Prof Jha’s work focuses on the analysis of security protocols, survivability analysis, intrusion detection, formal methods for security, and analyzing malicious code. Recently, he has focussed his interests on topics related to trustworthy ML. Somesh Jha has published several articles in highly-refereed conferences and prominent journals. His work has been highly cited (according to Google Scholar his h-index is 86 and he has more than 38,000 citations). He has won numerous best-paper and distinguished-paper awards. Prof Jha has also received the NSF career award and the CAV award. Prof. Jha is a fellow of the ACM and IEEE.
In honoring Prof Somesh Jha, IIT Delhi recognizes the outstanding contributions made by him in Teaching and Research. Through his achievements, Prof Jha has brought glory to the name of the Institute.
