Biography:Hridesh Rajan

From HandWiki
Short description: American computer scientist
Hridesh Rajan
20170817 Rajan Hridesh045.jpg
Academic background
EducationB.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, 2000, Indian Institute of Technology
MS, computer science, 2004, PhD, computer science, 2005, University of Virginia
ThesisUnifying Aspect and Object-Oriented Program Design (2005)
Academic work
InstitutionsIowa State University

Hridesh Rajan is an American computer scientist. He was 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."

Early life and education

Rajan completed his Bachelor of Technology in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology before moving to North America and enrolling at the University of Virginia for his graduate studies.[1] He wrote his dissertation, "Unifying Aspect and Object-Oriented Program Design," under the guidance of Kevin J. Sullivan.[2] [3]

Career

Following his PhD, Rajan joined the Department of Computer Science faculty at Iowa State University as an assistant professor in 2005.[4] In this role, he developed programming language designs to enable improved modularity for complex software systems to reduce defects and to improve software quality.[5] As a result, Rajan received a 2009 National Science Foundation CAREER Award (NSF) for his project "Mutualism of Modularity and Concurrency Goals."[4] The following year, he won another NSF award to improve modularization and reasoning mechanisms for Aspect-oriented programming languages.[6] Upon his promotion to associate professor, Rajan was awarded multiple grants from the NSF to improve multicore programming.[7][8]

By 2017, Rajan was appointed the Kingland Professor of Data Analytics[9] and named an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Member.[10] The following year, Rajan was awarded a 2018-19 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.[11]

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.[12] He was also awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and eventually establish the Dependable Data-Driven Discovery Institute at Iowa State University.[13] In June 2020, Rajan was selected to receive a Facebook Probability and Programming Award for his project "Manas: Big Code Assisted Neural Architecture Search."[14] A few months later, his co-authored paper "On Decomposing a Deep Neural Network into Modules" was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.[15]

In November 2020, Rajan was appointed chair of the Department of Computer Science, removing his interim title.[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] The following year, Rajan served as the general chair for the 2021 ACM SIGPLAN conference SPLASH (Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity).[18] In 2023, Rajan was reappointed to a second term as chair of the Department of Computer Science.[19] After Beate Schmittmann announced her retirement as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,[20] Rajan was one of four finalists considered for the position,[21] which was filled by Benjamin Withers.[22]

Books

  • An Experiential Introduction to Principles of Programming Languages (2022)[23]

References

  1. ↑ "Hridesh Rajan". https://faculty.sites.iastate.edu/hridesh/. 
  2. ↑ "Hridesh Rajan". https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=130277. 
  3. ↑ Rajan, Hridesh (2005). Unifying aspect- and object-oriented program design (Thesis). ProQuest 305411599.[page needed][non-primary source needed]
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Hridesh Rajan Receives 2009 NSF CAREER Award". February 27, 2009. https://www.cs.iastate.edu/hridesh-rajan-receives-2009-nsf-career-award. 
  5. ↑ "Rajan and Zhang awarded NSF grant to study specification and verification challenges for Security Protocols in Sensor Networks". September 1, 2006. https://www.cs.iastate.edu/rajan-and-zhang-awarded-nsf-grant-study-specification-and-verification-challenges-security-protocols. 
  6. ↑ "Hridesh Rajan Awarded NSF Grant for Programming Language Research". August 6, 2010. https://www.cs.iastate.edu/hridesh-rajan-awarded-nsf-grant-programming-language-research. 
  7. ↑ "Rajan, Nguyen Receive NSF EAGER Grant for Boa Project". September 13, 2013. https://www.cs.iastate.edu/rajan-nguyen-receive-nsf-eager-grant-boa-project. 
  8. ↑ "Hridesh Rajan Awarded NSF Grant to Improve Multicore Programming". June 14, 2011. https://www.cs.iastate.edu/hridesh-rajan-awarded-nsf-grant-improve-multicore-programming. 
  9. ↑ "Hridesh Rajan Named Kingland Professor of Data Analytics". May 3, 2017. https://www.cs.iastate.edu/hridesh-rajan-named-kingland-professor-data-analytics. 
  10. ↑ "Hridesh Rajan named ACM Distinguished Member". November 8, 2017. https://news.las.iastate.edu/2017/11/08/hridesh-rajan-named-acm-distinguished-member/. 
  11. ↑ "Prof. Hridesh Rajan receives 2018-19 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award". March 7, 2018. https://design.cs.iastate.edu/news/2018/03/07/hridesh-rajan-fulbright/. 
  12. ↑ "Iowa State computer scientists launch data science infrastructure to advance COVID-19 research". March 30, 2020. https://news.las.iastate.edu/2020/03/30/iowa-state-computer-scientists-develop-data-science-infrastructure-to-advance-critical-covid-19-research/. 
  13. ↑ "Hridesh Rajan secures $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation". January 31, 2020. https://news.las.iastate.edu/2020/01/31/hridesh-rajan-secures-1-5-million-grant-from-the-national-science-foundation/. 
  14. ↑ "Hridesh receives Facebook award". June 1, 2020. https://news.las.iastate.edu/2020/06/01/hridesh-receives-facebook-award/. 
  15. ↑ "Paper authored by Rangeet Pan and Hridesh Rajan receives ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award". October 7, 2020. https://news.las.iastate.edu/2020/10/07/paper-authored-by-rangeet-pan-and-hridesh-rajan-receive-acm-sigsoft-distinguished-paper-award/. 
  16. ↑ "Rajan appointed chair". October 30, 2020. https://news.las.iastate.edu/2020/10/30/rajan-appointed-chair/. 
  17. ↑ "Six Iowa State researchers named AAAS Fellows for advancing science". November 24, 2020. https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2020/11/24/aaas20. 
  18. ↑ "Hridesh Rajan named general chair for SPLASH 2021". March 30, 2021. https://news.las.iastate.edu/2021/03/30/hridesh-rajan-named-general-chair-for-splash-2021/. 
  19. ↑ "Dr. Hridesh Rajan Reappointed as Department Chair". Iowa State University Department of Computer Science. March 24, 2023. https://www.cs.iastate.edu/dr-hridesh-rajan-reappointed-department-chair. 
  20. ↑ Schweers, Rob (April 20, 2023). "Search launches for next LAS dean". Iowa State University. https://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2023/04/20/lasdean. 
  21. ↑ Waagmeester, Jay (October 11, 2023). "Desiring deans pitch to LAS faculty as dean search continues". Iowa State Daily. https://iowastatedaily.com/282760/news/dean-pitch-faculty-search-cont/. 
  22. ↑ "Benjamin Withers named dean of Iowa State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences". Iowa State University College of Liberals Arts and Sciences. November 17, 2023. https://news.las.iastate.edu/2023/11/17/benjamin-withers-named-dean-of-iowa-state-universitys-college-of-liberal-arts-and-sciences. 
  23. ↑ An Experiential Introduction to Principles of Programming Languages, Hridesh Rajan, MIT Press, May 2022.. MIT Press. May 22, 2022. ISBN 9780262045452. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/experiential-introduction-principles-programming-languages. Retrieved June 21, 2022. 

External links

Hridesh Rajan publications indexed by Google Scholar



Retrieved from "https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Biography:Hridesh_Rajan&oldid=3439215"