Bengaluru: Bengaluru-based Jayant Haritsa, a professor of database systems in Department of Computer Science & Automation (CSA) at the Indian Institute of Science here, won the Infosys Prize-2014 in engineering and computer science category.
The award, announced by the Infosys Science Foundation, consists of a purse of Rs 55 lakh, a 22-karat gold medallion and a citation certificate. Haritsa is an expert in the design and optimisation of database engines that are the core of modern enterprise information systems.
The other award categories and winners are as follows:
(Humanities category) — Prof Shamnad Basheer, founder of Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) and SpicyIP-India. (Life sciences) — Prof Shubha Tole of department of biological sciences at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)-Mumbai. (Mathematical sciences) – Madhusudan, adjunct professor at EECS department and CSAIL at MIT, USA. The award ceremony will be held at Kolkata on January 5.
