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{{Short description|Computer scientist}}
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|name = Shamkant B. Navathe
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|fields = [[Databases]], [[bioinformatics]]
|work_institution = [[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing|Georgia Tech College of Computing]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Michigan]], [[Ohio State University]], [[Indian Institute of Science]], [[University of Pune]]
|doctoral_advisor = [[Alan G. Merten]]
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'''Shamkant B. Navathe''' is a noted researcher in the field of databases with more than 150 publications on different topics in the area of databases.<ref name="publications_1">{{cite web
| title = DBLP Computer Science Bibliography for Shamkant B. Navathe showing 156 publications from 1975 to 2009
| url = http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/n/Navathe:Shamkant_B=.html
}}</ref><ref name="publications_2">
{{cite web
| title = IEEE Bibliography for Shamkant B. Navathe
| url = http://www.ieee.org/web/web/search/results.html?cx=006539740418318249752%3Af2h38l7gvis&cof=FORID%3A11&q=Shamkant+B.+Navathe&qp=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&qt=Shamkant+B.+Navathe&sa.x=0&sa.y=0#1052
}}
</ref><ref name="publications_3">
{{cite web
| title = ACM Bibliography for Shamkant B. Navathe
| publisher = Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM )
| url = http://www.acm.org/search?SearchableText=Shamkant+B.+Navathe
}}
</ref><ref name="publications_4">
{{cite web
| title = Google Scholar results for Shamkant B. Navathe
| url = https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Shamkant+Navathe&hl=en&btnG=Search
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{{cite web
| title = Scientific Commons Bibliography for Shamkant B. Navathe showing 50 publications from 1989- 2008
| url = http://en.scientificcommons.org/shamkant_b_navathe
}}
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He is a professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology and founded the Research Group in Database Systems at the [[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing|College of Computing]] at [[Georgia Institute of Technology]] (popularly called Georgia Tech). He has been at Georgia Tech since 1990. He has been teaching in the database area since 1975 and his textbook ''Fundamentals of Database Systems'' (with [[Ramez Elmasri]], published by Pearson, Seventh Edition, 2015) has been a leading textbook in the database area worldwide for the last 19 years.<ref>{{cite book
| last1 =Elmasri
| first1 = R.
| last2 = Navathe
| first2 = S. B.
| title = Fundamentals of Database Systems, Seventh Edition, 2015
| publisher = Pearson
}}</ref> It is now in its seventh edition and is used as a standard textbook in India, Europe, South America, Australia and South-east Asia.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} The book has been translated into Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Greek, and in Arabic.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} His research is in the area of [[bioinformatics]]<ref name="publications_5">{{cite web
| title = Pubmed Bibliography for Shamkant B. Navathe
| url = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez
}}
</ref> Navathe is working in advisory roles with Indian companies like [[Tata Consultancy Services]] (TCS), and [[Persistent Systems]]. He is also consultant for companies in [[information systems]] and software products design area and is an independent director of GTL Limited, a Mumbai-based telecommunications company.<ref name="cv">{{cite web
| title = Prof Sham Navathe's Resume on College of Computing, Georgia Tech website
| publisher = College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
| url = http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~sham/
}}</ref>

==Education==
Navathe completed his S.S.C. from Modern High School, [[Pune]] in 1961 and F.Y.Bsc (Inter Science) in 1963 and at B.Sc. (Physics) in 1965. He obtained his B.E. degree in Electrical Communications Engineering at the [[Indian Institute of Science]], where he was a gold medalist. Navathe came to the U.S. in fall of 1969. He was working as a system engineer for [[IBM]] and [[Electronic Data Systems]] in Calcutta when he left India. He received an M.S. degree in Computer and Information Science in 1970 from Ohio State University. He then received a Ph.D. from University of Michigan Industrial and Operations Engineering in 1976. His doctoral thesis was on "A Methodology for Generalized Database Restructuring".<ref name="cv"/>

==Career==
Navathe taught as an assistant professor in the Computer Applications and Information Systems Department at the Graduate School of Business Administration [[New York University]] and at the Computer and Information Sciences Department at [[University of Florida]] before joining [[Georgia Institute of Technology]] in 1990. He has been a professor at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech since 1990 and is a faculty Member in the Bioengineering, Bioinformatics and the Health Sciences Institute programs at Georgia Tech.

He was the program co-chair at the 1985 ACM Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group on Management of Data, Austin, Texas, and also at the PARBASE 1990 First International Conference on Databases, Parallel Architectures and their Applications, Miami, Florida, March 6–9, 1990, IEEE Computer Society. He was the general chairman at the IFIP WG 2.6 Working Conference on Database Application Semantics (DS-6), Stone Mountain, Georgia, May 31-June 2. He was the conference chair at VLDB 1996 Very Large Database Conference, Mumbai, India, September 3–6, 1996.

He has been a member of international steering committees like PDIS (Parallel and Distributed Information Systems) International Conference (est 1991), Conceptual Modeling (Object Oriented and ER modeling) International Conference (est 1993), International Federation on Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS), (est 1994), IPIC (Information and Process Integration in enterprises Conference) (est 1996).

He has been the associate editor of ''ACM Computing Surveys'', September 1986 – December 1997, ''IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering'', Sept. '94. – Dec. '98, ''Data and Knowledge Engineering'', a North Holland Elsevier Journal, (since June 1985), ''Journal of Data Semantics'' (since 2005).

He has also been a member of editorial board for ''Information Systems'', a journal published by Pergamon Press], since 1987, Parallel and Distributed Database Systems, a journal published by Kluwer Academic Press, (since 1992), Information Technology and Management, a journal by Chapman and Hall, (since 1999), The World Wide Web Journal, Kluwer Academic Press, (since 2001)

He is the editor of the series on "Database Systems and Applications," Benjamin Cummings Publishing Co., Redwood City, California (est 1985), and the Series on Emerging Directions in Database Systems and Applications, CRC Press; which was launched in 2008.<ref name="cv"/>

==Awards==
Navathe was elected to fellow of [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] (2014) for ''contributions to [[database model]]ing, data design, and database education.'' <ref name="Shamkant B Navathe ACM Fellows 2014">[http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/navathe_1444884.cfm Shamkant B Navathe ACM Fellows 2014]</ref>

==Bibliography==
Books written by Navathe:<ref name="cv"/>

*{{cite book
| last1 = Elmasri
| first1 = R.
| last2 = Navathe
| first2 = S.B.
| title = Fundamentals of Database Systems, Sixth Edition
| publisher = Pearson
| year = 2010
| pages = 1200 pp
}}

*{{cite book
| last1 = Bussler
| first1 = C.
| last2 = Castellanos
| first2 = M.
| last3 = Navathe
| first3 = S.B.
| title = Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprises, First International Workshop BIRTE 2006
| publisher = Springer LNCS 4365
| year = 2007
| location = Seoul, Korea
| pages = 156pp
}}
*{{cite book
| last1 = Elmasri
| first1 = R.
| last2 = Navathe
| first2 = S.B.
| title = Fundamentals of Database Systems, Fifth Edition
| publisher = Addison Wesley
| year = 2007
| pages = 1040 pp
}}
*{{cite book
| last1 = Elmasri
| first1 = R.
| last2 = Navathe
| first2 = S.B.
| title = Fundamentals of Database Systems, Fourth Edition
| publisher = Addison Wesley
| year = 2004
| pages = 1015 pp
}}
*{{cite book
| last1 = Elmasri
| first1 = R.
| last2 = Navathe
| first2 = S.B.
| title = Fundamentals of Database Systems, Third Edition
| publisher = Addison Wesley
| year = 2000
| pages = 955 pp
}}(Translated into German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Greek, Korean)
*{{cite book
| last1 = Wakayama
| first1 = T.
| last2 = Kannapan
| first2 = S.
| last3 = Khoong
| first3 = C.M.
| last4 = Navathe
| first4 = S.B.
| last5 = Yates
| first5 = Yates
| title = Information and Process Integration in Enterprises: Rethinking Documents
| publisher = Kluwer Academic Publishers
| year =1998
}}
*{{cite book
| last1 = Elmasri
| first1 = R.
| last2 = Navathe
| first2 = S.B.
| title = Fundamentals of Database Systems, Second Edition
| publisher = Addison Wesley
| year = 1994
| pages = 873 pp
}}(Translated into Spanish, Korean, Greek and Chinese in 1997)
*{{cite book
| last1 = Batini
| first1 = C.
| last2 = Ceri
| first2 = S.
| last3 = Navathe
| first3 = S.B.
| title = Conceptual Database Design: An Entity Relationship Approach
| publisher = Benjamin Cummings
| date = August 1991
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/conceptualdataba00bati_665/page/n490 470] pp
| url =https://archive.org/details/conceptualdataba00bati_665
| url-access = limited
}}
*{{cite book
| last1 = Rishe
| first1 = N.
| last2 =Navathe
| first2 = S.B.
| last3 = Tal
| first3 = D.
| title = Databases: Theory, Design and Applications, IEEE Computer Society Press
| year = 1991
}}
*{{cite book
| last1 = Rishe
| first1 = N.
| last2 =Navathe
| first2 = S.B.
| last3 = Tal
| first3 = D.
| title = Parallel Architectures, IEEE Computer Society Press
| year = 1991
}}
*{{cite book
| last1 = Elmasri
| first1 = R.
| last2 = Navathe
| first2 = S.B.
| title = Fundamentals of Database Systems, First Edition
| publisher = Benjamin Cummings
| date = February 1989
| pages = 802 pp
}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~sham Link to Sham Navathe’s GT webpage]

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