H. V. Jagadish

H.V. Jagadish (Hosagrahar Visvesvaraya Jagadish) is a preeminent computer scientist and the Edgar F. Codd Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan. He currently serves as Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) and has made groundbreaking contributions to database systems and data science. After earning his PhD from Stanford University in 1985, he began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories before joining the University of Michigan in 1999. His research focuses on human-data interaction, database usability, and the ethical implications of data science. He has authored over 200 major papers and holds 38 patents in information management. His achievements have earned him numerous honors, including fellowship in the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS, the 2013 ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award, and the 2019 Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the University of Michigan. As a founding Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment and member of the National Academies Panel on Data Governance, he continues to shape the fields of database management and data science through his work on data modeling, schema design, and analytics processes. Under his leadership, MIDAS has grown to include over 420 affiliate faculty members across multiple campuses, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration in data science and artificial intelligence.