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Professor Shamkant B. Navathe
Prof Shamkant B. Navathe is an eminent researcher in the field of databases having more than 150 publications on different topics in the area of databases. Prof Navathe is presently a Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology  and founded the Research Group in Database Systems at the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology popularly called Georgia Tech. He has been at Georgia Tech since 1990. He has been teaching in the database area since 1975 and his textbook: “Fundamentals of Database Systems” (with R. Elmasri, published by Addison Wesley, Edition 5, 2007) has been a leading textbook in the database area worldwide for the last 19 years. It is now in its 5th edition; a special Indian edition gets printed in Delhi and has become affordable and very popular in India. It is used as a standard text all over India by hundreds of colleges now. Navathe’s textbook is prescribed by over 200 universities in the U.S. and Canada alone and is a standard textbook at many universities in Europe, South America, Australia, South-east Asia etc. The book has been translated edition after edition into Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portugese, Chinese, Korean, Greek, and most recently in Arabic. His research is presently in the area of bioinformatics – one of his Ph.D. students (Andreas Kogelnik) created a genome database Mitomap that is used as a resource worldwide. The database research group at Georgia Tech was ranked 7th among all U.S. universities in the U.S. News and World report rankings.

Navathe is working closely with Indian companies like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Persistent Systems in advisory roles. Navathe also consults with companies in information systems and software products design area and is an Independent Director of GTL limited (formerly Global Telecom Systems), a network engineering and enterprise solutions company based in Mahape, Navi Mumbai, which is the largest network services provider in India with major projects in the middle east and south-east Asia.

Education
Navathe had an illustrious academic career in India- he stood 2nd in the S.S.C. board in Maharashtra in 1961 from Modern High School, Pune and after getting the first position at F.Y.Bsc (Inter Science) in 1963 and at B.Sc. (Physics) in 1965, he went on to get his B.E. degree in Electrical Communications Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science where he was a gold medalist too. Navathe came to the U.S. in Fall of 1969. He was working as a System Engineer for IBMin Calcutta when he left India. He received an M.S. degree in Computer and Information Science in 1970 from Ohio State University with a GPA of 4.0 on 4.0. He then received a Ph.D. from University of Michigan Industrial and Operations Engineering in 1976. His doctoral thesis was on "A Methodology for Generalized Database Restructuring".

Career Profile
Nov 1968 to Sept 1969 Systems Engineer - IBM World Trade Corporation, India

Jan 1971 to Dec 1971 Systems Engineer - Electronic Data Systems, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1975 to 1979 Assistant Professor - Computer Applications and Information Systems Dept., Graduate School of Business Administration, New York University, New York, NY 10006.

1979 to 1986 Associate Professor - (visiting during 1979-80), Computer and Information Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

1986 to 1990, Professor - University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 1990 - 2009 Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Institute Of Technology He is also a Faculty Member in the Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Programs at Georgia Tech, as well as the Health Sciences Institute, Georgia Tech

Conferences Chaired
SIGMOD 1985 ACM Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group on Management of Data, Austin, TX – Program Co-Chair (with Al Dale, University of Texas)

PARBASE 1990 First International Conference on Databases, Parallel Architectures and their Applications, Miami, FL., March 6-9,1990, IEEE Computer Society - Program Co-Chair (with Naphthali Rishe and Doran Tal, Florida International University)

IFIP WG 2.6 Working Conference on Database Application Semantics (DS-6) IFIP WG 2.6 Working Conference on Database Application Semantics (DS-6)], Stone Mountain, GA, May 31-June 2. 1995– General Chairman

VLDB 1996 Very Large Database Conference, Mumbai, India, Sept. 3-6, 1996 - Conference Chair (with Prof. D.B. Phatak, IIT, Mumbai)

Editorial Boards
Associate Editor, ACM Computing Surveys, September 1986 - December 1997.

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Sept. '94. - Dec. '98

Associate Editor, Data and Knowledge Engineering, a North Holland Elsevier Journal, since its inception in June 1985.

Associate Editor, Journal of Data Semantics, since 2005.

Member, Editorial Board, Information Systems, a journal published by Pergamon Press, since 1987.

Member, Editorial Board, Parallel and Distributed Database Systems, a journal published by Kluwer Academic Press, since its inception in 1992.

Member, Editorial Board, Information Technology and Management, a journal by  Chapman and Hall, started  in 1999.

Member, Editorial Board, The World Wide Web Journal, Kluwer Academic Press, since 2001 Editor, Series on "Database Systems and Applications," Benjamin Cummings Publishing Co., Redwood City, California; series established in 1985.

Editor, Series on Emerging Directions in Database Systems and Applications, CRC Press; series launched in 2008.

International Steering Committees
Member, Steering committee, PDIS (Parallel and Distributed Information Systems)	International Conference ,conference established in 1991.

Member Steering committee, Conceptual Modeling (Object Oriented and ER modeling) International Conference, committee established in 1993.

Invited Member, International Federation on Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS), established in Fall 1994.

Member, Steering committee, IPIC (Information and Process Integration in enterprises Conference), conference established in 1996.

Interests
Navathe enjoys Indian classical music immensely. Although he had no formal training in it, he enjoys listening to vocalists like D.V. Paluskar, Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Jasraj,Rajan and Sajan Misra, Kumar Gandharva , Kishori Amonkar, Veena Sahasrabuddhe, Malini Rajurkar, and youngsters including Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar, Sanjeev Abhyankar and Ashwini Bhide Deshpande. After moving to Atlanta, he realized that there was no organization arranging Hindustani Classical concerts there. So with the help of some key supporters he launched the Indian Classical Music Society (ICMS) in 1994. They have been organizing 4 to 5 concerts by renowned artists every year and most Indian prominent artists have performed there now.

Family
He has a very accomplished family – wife Aruna, daughter Manisha Navathe Panchal and son-in-law Samir Panchal, and son Amol. He was married in India in 1979 to Aruna Pusalkar, daughter of Colonel Pusalkar. She came to U.S. and did a master’s degree in Nutrition and Dietetics at NYU. She has been working as the manager of the clinical nutrition group at the Children’s healthcare of Atlanta, a well-known children’s hospital in Atlanta. She is very active socially and in the community as well. His daughter Manisha did Chemical Engineering, then an M.D. and residency in Pediatrics at Stanford University and is currently practicing with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in California. Manisha is married to Samir, who is an electrical engineer, an M.B.A., and now a healthcare consultant. His son Amol has had quite a varied career, even compared to Manisha and Samir. He finished a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Economic Systems at Stanford, then worked for McKinsey and Co. as a consultant in health-care practice, and has now been pursuing a 7-year stint for an M.D. and Ph.D. in health economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Navathe is very proud that his son would have the most well-rounded education one can imagine -in engineering, medicine, and social sciences! Both children and Samir are also very well traveled, speak Marathi well and are proud of their Indian heritage. They played tennis on their high-school teams and Amol reached the top-30 player status for 16 and under in Georgia.