Prof. Sartaj Kumar Sahni
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Prof. Sartaj Kumar
Sahni is a Distinguished Professor and Chair Person of the Computer and
Information Science and Engineering Department at the University of
Florida. He is an Indian computer scientist, now based in the USA, and
is one of the pioneers in the field of data structures.
Prof. Sahni received his B.Tech.
in Electrical Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur, India, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer
Science from Cornell University, USA.
In 1997, Sahni was awarded the
IEEE Computer Society's Taylor L. Booth Education Award and in 2003 he
was awarded the IEEE Computer Society McDowell Award. Sahni was awarded
the 2003 ACM Karl Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award. He has
published over two hundred and eighty research papers and written 15
textbooks. His research publications are on the design and analysis of
efficient algorithms, data structures, parallel computing,
interconnection networks, design automation, and medical algorithms.
Prof. Sahni is a
member of the European Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM), the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS), and Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, and a
Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
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