Jaideep Srivastava

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Jaideep Srivastava is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Minnesota. He established and has led a laboratory that conducts research in databases, multimedia systems, and data mining. Dr. Srivastava has an active collaboration with the technology industry, both for research and technology transfer, and is an often-invited participant in technical and technology strategy forums. He led a corporate data mining team at Amazon.com and built a data analytics department at Yodlee from the ground up. More recently, he spent 2 years as the chief technology officer for Persistent Systems, where he built an R&D division from the ground up. In addition, he oversaw the redesign of the training and technical vitalization program for more than 2200 engineers, and also established collaborative research programs with a number of academic institutions. He has provided technology and technology strategy advice to a number of large corporations including Cargill, United Technologies, IBM, Honeywell, KPMG, 3M, and Eaton. He has served in an advisory capacity to a number of small companies, including Lancet Software and Infobionics.

Dr. Srivastava has a bachelor’s from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India, and an MS and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s premier professional society in the field. He has been appointed as IEEE’s Distinguished Visitor, and has given over 100 invited talks in over 25 countries.

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