Professor Shamkant B. Navathe 
Georgia Institute Of Technology, USA

Shamkant Navathe is a Professor at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of 
Technology, Atlanta. He is well-known for his work on conceptual modeling, database 
design, data model mapping, constraint modeling, information integration and distributed 
database design. His current research interests include human genome data management, 
intelligent information retrieval, text mining, engineering and design applications, 
ontology and web services integration, GIS applications, mobile database applications, 
and security risk modeling in information systems.  He was the General Co-chairman of 
the 1996 International VLDB (Very Large Data Base) conference in Bombay, India. He was 
also program co-chair of SIGMOD 1985 and General Co-chair of the IFIP WG 2.6 Data Semantics 
Workshop in 1995. He has been an associate editor of ACM Computing Surveys, and IEEE 
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He is also on the editorial boards of 
Information Systems (Pergamon Press), Distributed and Parallel Databases (Kluwer Academic 
Publishers), Information Technology and Management, and the Journal of Data Semantics. 
He is an author of the book, Fundamentals of Database Systems, with R. Elmasri (Addison 
Wesley, Edition 5, 2007) which is currently the leading database text-book worldwide. 
He also co-authored the book Conceptual Design: An Entity Relationship Approach, (Addison 
Wesley , 1992), with Carlo Batini and Stefano Ceri. He organized a workshop at M.I.T. 
and published the proceedings of the workshop: Information and Process Integration in 
Enterprises: Rethinking Documents, ( Kluwer, 1998). Navathe holds a Ph.D. from the University 
of Michigan and has over 150 refereed publications.