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Hridesh Rajan

Hridesh Rajan is an American computer scientist. He serves as a Professor and Department Chair of Computer Science at Iowa State University. Previously, he served as the Professor-in-charge of the Data Science Program at Iowa State University. He has made significant contributions to the fields of programming languages, software engineering, and data science. He is well-known for his work on the Ptolemy and Boa programming languages, which have significantly impacted how crosscutting concerns are modularly reasoned about and how the barriers to data-driven software engineering are reduced.

Hridesh Rajan
Rajan in 2017
Born
Mokama, India
Nationality United States
CitizenshipUSA
EducationB.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, 2000, Indian Institute of Technology
MS, computer science, 2004, PhD, computer science, 2005, University of Virginia
Alma materUniversity of Virginia
IIT (BHU) Varanasi
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, specifically Software engineering and Programming Languages
InstitutionsIowa State University
Thesis Unifying Aspect and Object-Oriented Program Design  (2005)
Doctoral advisorKevin J. Sullivan
Doctoral studentsTyler Sondag, Robert Dyer, Yuheng Long, Mehdi Bagherzadeh, Ganesha Upadhyaya, Md. Johirul Islam, Hamid Bagheri, Samantha Khairunnessa, Rangeet Pan, Sumon Biswas, and Mohammad Wardat
Websitehttps://hridesh.github.io/

Early life and education edit

Rajan was raised in rural India.[1] His educational journey began with a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi, in 2000. He then moved to North America for his graduate studies, earning both his MS in 2004 and his Ph.D. in 2005 in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.[2] His doctoral research, guided by Kevin J. Sullivan, focused on "Unifying Aspect and Object-Oriented Program Design."[3] [4]

Work and academic career edit

Following his PhD, Rajan joined the Department of Computer Science faculty at Iowa State University as an assistant professor in 2005.[5] He rose through the academic ranks, becoming associate professor in 2011 and full professor in 2016.

His early work, focused on programming languages and software design, developed language features to enable improved modularity for complex software systems to reduce defects and to improve software quality.[6][5][7] He also focused on language features for improving concurrent programming. [8] For this research, he was named an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Member.[9]

His later works have focused on programming languages and data science infrastructure for analyzing large-scale datasets.[10] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Rajan co-developed a data science infrastructure to improve research efficiencies for scientists who study the novel coronavirus. The tool enables scientists to quickly and efficiently locate, navigate and analyze coronavirus research from all over the world.[11] He helped develop and establish the National Science Foundation Dependable Data-Driven Discovery Institute at Iowa State University.[12] For this work, he was awarded a 2018-19 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.[13] He was also appointed the Kingland Professor of Data Analytics.[14] His subsequent works have focused on improving deep learning, for which he has received a Facebook Probability and Programming Award, and an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award. [15][16] He was also elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for "distinguished contributions to data driven science, particularly to modularity and modular reasoning in computer software and the development of the Boa language and infrastructure."[17]

Rajan has also served as the chair of the Department of Computer Science since 2019.[18] [19]

Awards edit

  • AAAS fellow for distinguished contributions to data driven science, particularly to modularity and modular reasoning in computer software and the development of the Boa language and infrastructure.[20]
  • ACM distinguished member for outstanding scientific contributions to computing.[22]


Books edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Enhancing the dependability of data-driven discovery". forevertrueisu.com. Retrieved Feb 17, 2024.
  2. ^ "Hridesh Rajan". iastate.edu. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  3. ^ "Hridesh Rajan". mathgenealogy.org. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  4. ^ Rajan, Hridesh (2005). Unifying aspect- and object-oriented program design (Thesis). ProQuest 305411599.[page needed][non-primary source needed]
  5. ^ a b "Hridesh Rajan Receives 2009 NSF CAREER Award". iastate.edu. February 27, 2009. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  6. ^ "Rajan and Zhang awarded NSF grant to study specification and verification challenges for Security Protocols in Sensor Networks". iastate.edu. September 1, 2006. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  7. ^ "Hridesh Rajan Awarded NSF Grant for Programming Language Research". iastate.edu. August 6, 2010. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  8. ^ "Hridesh Rajan Awarded NSF Grant to Improve Multicore Programming". iastate.edu. June 14, 2011. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  9. ^ "Hridesh Rajan named ACM Distinguished Member". iastate.edu. November 8, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  10. ^ "Rajan, Nguyen Receive NSF EAGER Grant for Boa Project". iastate.edu. September 13, 2013. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  11. ^ "Iowa State computer scientists launch data science infrastructure to advance COVID-19 research". iastate.edu. March 30, 2020. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  12. ^ "Hridesh Rajan secures $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation". iastate.edu. January 31, 2020. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  13. ^ "Prof. Hridesh Rajan receives 2018-19 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award". iastate.edu. March 7, 2018. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  14. ^ "Hridesh Rajan Named Kingland Professor of Data Analytics". iastate.edu. May 3, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  15. ^ "Hridesh receives Facebook award". iastate.edu. June 1, 2020. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  16. ^ "Paper authored by Rangeet Pan and Hridesh Rajan receives ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award". iastate.edu. October 7, 2020. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  17. ^ "Six Iowa State researchers named AAAS Fellows for advancing science". iastate.edu. November 24, 2020. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  18. ^ "Rajan appointed chair". iastate.edu. October 30, 2020. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  19. ^ "Dr. Hridesh Rajan Reappointed as Department Chair". Iowa State University Department of Computer Science. March 24, 2023. Retrieved December 11, 2023.
  20. ^ "AAAS Fellows 2020 | American Association for the Advancement of Science".
  21. ^ "Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award 2018-19 | Fulbright Scholar Program".
  22. ^ "ACM Distinguished Member 2017 | Association for Computing Machinery".
  23. ^ "NSF CAREER Award 2009 | National Science Foundation".
  24. ^ An Experiential Introduction to Principles of Programming Languages, Hridesh Rajan, MIT Press, May 2022. MIT Press. May 22, 2022. ISBN 9780262045452. Retrieved June 21, 2022.

External links edit

Hridesh Rajan publications indexed by Google Scholar

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