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Sartaj Sahni

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Sartaj Sahni
Prof. Sartaj Sahni in 2015.
Born (1949-07-22) July 22, 1949 (age 75)
Pune, India
NationalityAmerican
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology, Cornell University
Known forData structures, Algorithms
AwardsIEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award, 1997
IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award, 2003
ACM Karl Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, 2003
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Florida
Doctoral advisorEllis Horowitz
Doctoral studentsTeofilo F. Gonzalez

Professor Sartaj Kumar Sahni (born July 22, 1949, in Pune, India) is a computer scientist based in the United States, and is one of the pioneers[citation needed] in the field of data structures. He is a distinguished professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida.[1]

Education

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Sahni received his BTech degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.[2] Following this, he undertook his graduate studies at Cornell University in the USA, earning a PhD degree in 1973, under the supervision of Ellis Horowitz.[3]

Research and publications

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Sahni has published over 280 research papers and written 15 textbooks.[4] His research publications are on the design and analysis of efficient algorithms, data structures, parallel computing, interconnection networks, design automation, and medical algorithms.

With his advisor Ellis Horowitz, Sahni wrote two widely used textbooks, Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms[5] and Fundamentals of Data Structures[6]. He has also written highly cited research papers on the NP-completeness of approximately solving certain optimization problems,[7] on open shop scheduling,[8] on parallel algorithms for matrix multiplication and their application in graph theory,[9] and on improved exponential time exact algorithms for the subset sum problem,[10] among his many other research results.

Books

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  • Concepts in Discrete Mathematics. Fridley, MN: Camelot Pub. Co. 1985. ISBN 978-0-942-45000-2.[11]
  • Fundamentals of Data Structures in Turbo Pascal: for the IBM PC. Rockville, MD: Computer Science Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-716-78152-3.
  • Software Development in C. Summit, NJ: Silicon Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-929-30616-2.[12]
  • Computer Algorithms/C++. New York, NY: Computer Science Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-716-78315-2.[13]
  • Data Structures, Algorithms, and Applications in C++. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. 1998. ISBN 978-0-071-09219-7.[14]
  • Data Structures, Algorithms, and Applications in Java. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. 2000. ISBN 978-0-071-09217-3.[15]
  • Software Development in Java. Summit, NJ: Silicon Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-929-30626-1.[16]
  • Handbook of Data Structures and Applications. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC. 2005. ISBN 978-1-584-88435-4.[17]
  • Fundamentals of Data Structures in C (2 ed.). New York: Computer Science Press, division of W. H. Freeman. 2007. ISBN 978-0-929-30640-7.[18]
  • Information Systems, Technology and Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2010. ISBN 978-3-642-12034-3.[19]
  • Handbook of Data Structures and Applications (2 ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. 2018. ISBN 978-1-315-11933-5.[20]

Awards and honors

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In 1997, Sahni was awarded the IEEE Computer Society's Taylor L. Booth Education Award[21] and in 2003 he was awarded the IEEE Computer Society McDowell Award.[22] Sahni was also awarded the 2003 Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award of the Association for Computing Machinery.[23]

Professor Sahni is a member of the European Academy of Sciences.[24] He was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1988,[25] and of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1996;[26] he is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected in 1995.[27] He is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.[2]

Sahni was given the Honorary Professor Award of Asia University in 2009.[28]

Volunteer activities

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He has served as editor-in-chief of ACM Computing Surveys.

References

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  1. ^ Faculty profile, CISE, U. of Florida, accessed 2011-10-10.
  2. ^ a b Distinguished Alumnus Awards-2000, IIT Kanpur, accessed 2011-10-10.
  3. ^ Sartaj Kumar Sahni at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  4. ^ Sartaj Sahni at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ Horowitz, E.; Sahni, S. (1978). Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms. Potomac, MD. ISBN 978-0-914-89422-3. OCLC 4135509.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ^ Horowitz, E.; Sahni, S. (1989). Fundamentals of data structures in Turbo Pascal: for the IBM PC. Rockville, MD. ISBN 978-0-716-78152-3. OCLC 18135361.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ Sahni, Sartaj; Gonzalez, Teofilo (1976), "P-complete approximation problems" (PDF), Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, 23 (3): 555–565, doi:10.1145/321958.321975, MR 0408313, S2CID 207548581.
  8. ^ Gonzalez, Teofilo; Sahni, Sartaj (1976), "Open shop scheduling to minimize finish time", Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, 23 (4): 665–679, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.394.1507, doi:10.1145/321978.321985, MR 0429089, S2CID 1642775.
  9. ^ Dekel, Eliezer; Nassimi, David; Sahni, Sartaj (1981), "Parallel matrix and graph algorithms", SIAM Journal on Computing, 10 (4): 657–675, doi:10.1137/0210049, MR 0635424.
  10. ^ Horowitz, Ellis; Sahni, Sartaj (1969), "Computing partitions with applications to the knapsack problem", Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, 21 (2): 277–292, doi:10.1145/321812.321823, hdl:1813/5989, MR 0354006, S2CID 16866858.
  11. ^ Sahni, Sartaj (1985). Concepts in Discrete Mathematics. Fridley, MN. ISBN 978-0-942-45000-2. OCLC 11286527.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  12. ^ Sahni, Sartaj; Cmelik, Bob (1995). Software Development in C. Summit, NJ. ISBN 978-0-929-30616-2. OCLC 30894104.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. ^ Horowitz, Ellis; Sahni, Sartaj; Rajasekaran, Sanguthevar (1997). Computer Algorithms/C++. New York, NY. ISBN 978-0-716-78315-2. OCLC 35928547.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. ^ Sahni, Sartaj (1998). Data Structures, Algorithms, and Applications in C++. Boston, MA. ISBN 978-0-071-09219-7. OCLC 37663183.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  15. ^ Sahni, Sartaj (2000). Data Structures, Algorithms, and Applications in Java. Boston, MA. ISBN 978-0-071-09217-3. OCLC 41412055.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  16. ^ Sahni, Sartaj; Kumar, Raj (2003). Software Development in Java. Summit, NJ. ISBN 978-0-929-30626-1. OCLC 50503251.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  17. ^ Mehta, Dinesh; Sahni, Sartaj, eds. (2005). Handbook of Data Structures and Applications. Boca Raton, FL. ISBN 978-1-584-88435-4. OCLC 55877387.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) eBook: OCLC 1028641676
  18. ^ Horowitz, Ellis; Sahni, Sartaj; Anderson-Freed, Susan (2007). Fundamentals of Data Structures in C (2 ed.). New York: Computer Science Press, division of W. H. Freeman. ISBN 978-0-929-30640-7. OCLC 105469053.
  19. ^ Prasad, Sushil; Vin, Harrick; Sahni, Sartaj; Jaiswal, Mahadeo (2010). Information Systems, Technology and Management. Berlin, Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-642-12034-3. OCLC 990477975.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  20. ^ Mehta, Dinesh; Sahni, Sartaj, eds. (2018). Handbook of Data Structures and Applications. Boca Raton, FL. ISBN 978-1-315-11933-5. OCLC 1028641676.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  21. ^ Past recipients for Taylor L. Booth Education Award, IEEE Computer Society, accessed 2011-10-10.
  22. ^ Past recipients for W. Wallace McDowell Award, IEEE Computer Society, accessed 2011-10-10.
  23. ^ Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, ACM, accessed 2011-10-10.
  24. ^ List of the members of the European Academy of Sciences, accessed 2011-10-10.
  25. ^ Alphabetical Listing of Fellows Archived 2011-08-20 at the Wayback Machine, IEEE, accessed 2011-10-10.
  26. ^ ACM Fellows listing, accessed 2011-10-10.
  27. ^ AAAS Fellows, accessed 2011-10-10.
  28. ^ Distinguished Professor and Chair Sartaj Sahni receives the Honorary Professor Award from Asia University, Taiwan, University of Florida, CISE, June 9, 2009. Sahni Accessed 2011-10-10.
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