Hridesh Rajan

About

Hridesh Rajan holds a Ph.D. and an MS from the University of Virginia, both in Computer Science. His B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering is from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi (formerly IT-BHU). Dr. Rajan is the Kingland Professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University, where he served three years (2017-2019) as the founding Professor-in-charge (equivalent to a director role) of Data Science Programs. During this period, he founded the annual Midwest Big Data Summer School to deliver broadly accessible data science training, served on the steering committee of the Midwest Big Data Hub, and led TADS (Theoretical and Applied Data Science), a cross-campus transdisciplinary research initiative of faculty and students interested in foundations and applications of Dat

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, The University of Virginia, 2005
• M.S., Computer Science, The University of Virginia, 2004
• B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Varanasi, 2000