ADDRESS:	PHONES:
801 Atlantic Drive	(404) 894-0537 (office)
College of Computing	(404) 894-8358 (secretary)
Georgia Institute of Technology	(404) 894-9442 and 894-9846 (fax)
Atlanta, GA. 30332-0280	(770) 416-8901 (home)
E-mail:  sham@cc.gatech.edu	Personal Website:  http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~sham

Education
Ph.D. Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1976
M.S. Computer and Information Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 1970
B.E. Electrical Communications Engineering, Indian Institute of Science 1968
B.Sc. Physics, Mathematics, University of Poona, India 1965

Employment
Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology 1990-present
Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, Univ. of Florida 1986-1990
Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, Univ. of Florida 1980-1986
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business, New York University, New York, NY 1975-1979
System Engineer, Electronic Data Systems, Cincinnati, Ohio 1971
System Engineer, IBM World Trade Corporation, India 1968-1969

Awards and  Honors

1. Florida Governor's Second Annual Award for Outstanding Contribution to Science   and  Technology, presented by Governor Bob Martinez, April 10, 1990.
2. Appointed Assoc for Computing Machinery (ACM) Lecturer (Database), 1991-  93
3. Elected Trustee,  International Very Large Database Foundation, 1992-97.
4. General Chair, 1996 Internatioanal  Very Large Data Base Conference , Bombay, India, 1996.
5. Associate Editor, ACM Computing Surveys,  1986 - 1998.
6. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,  1994 -1999.

CURRENT FIELDS OF INTEREST
Database Modeling and Design, Web and electronic commerce applications of Databases, Business Intelligence, Object-oriented  and Heterogeneous Data Management, Design Tools, Legacy Databases, Reverse Engineering, Engineering and Health Care Applications.

BOOKS:
R. Elmasri and S.B. Navathe, Fundamentals of Database Systems, Addison Wesley, Third Edition,2000, pp. 955.
(This textbook is currently the most used  database textbook worldwide. It is used in over 175 universities in U.S. and Canada  alone as an undergraduate and graduate textbook).
C. Batini, S. Ceri, and S.B. Navathe, Conceptual Database Design:  An Entity Relationship Approach, Benjamin Cummings, 1992,  pp. 470.
(The above unique book gives a detailed treatment of data modeling based on the entity relationship model and shows how to design  databases in different database management systems.)

CONSULTING ASSIGNMENTS
 

1978	Siemens, AG, Munich, West Germany.
	Design and implementation of a new database processor.
	Evaluation of new software projects.
January, 1979	American Insurance Group of Companies
	Training for the top management in Information Systems.
July/Aug. 1979	Gesellschaft fur Mathematik und Datenverarbeigung mbH
	Bonn, West Germany.  Evaluation of Database Administration in Europe.
1979-1980	European Economic Community, Brussels, Belgium, and GMD, Bonn, West Germany.
	Development of guidelines for the users and implementors of  information systems in Europe.
1981	Teledyne Corporation, Software systems development. for Human Resources
1982	Nixdorf AG, Berlin, West Germany
	Development of a database design tool for distributed databases..
1983-1984	Honeywell Corporation, Computer Sciences Center, Minneapolis, MN.
	Development and implementation of Database integration tools.
1985-1986	Applied Data Research, Dallas, Texas
	Database product stategy.
1986-1987	Harris Corporation
	Database/AI integration in environmental studies and space applications..
1988-1989	Digital Equipment Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO.
	Development of a conceptual design toolset.
	(This work went into a suite of design tools marketed by Digital.)
1990-1992, 96	Equifax Corporation , Atlanta
	Insurance and Credit applications using relational and object-oriented technologies, Study of data warehousing.
1994-	Triada  Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan
	Development of high performance database applications for hudreds of gigabyte databases.
1997	Hewlett Packard, Ft. Collins, Colorado
	Training on Relational database application development
1997	Scientific Atlanta, Atlanta, Ga
	Training on Relational Database Design
1998	Technical Advisor, SRA Sytems , Chennai, India.

UNIQUE STRENGTHS:
 

• Navathe has an expertise in database modeling and design that has contributed to making his textbooks unique.  His ideas have found their way into database design and CASE tools on the market. A  tool called “relational designer” has been developed by Tata – Infotech in India based on his books.
• He has had a wide exposure to relational and object-oriented database management systems and is uniquely equipped to handle evaluation and use of these products and related tools in corporations.
• Navathe has published over 100 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings.
• He has lectured widely over U.S. , Canada, Europe, Japan, Korea, India, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey etc