Jignesh M. Patel is a Professor of Computer Science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 in the Database Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Wisconsin Database Group

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Database Group is an academic data management research group. It is currently led by Professors Jeffrey Naughton, Jignesh M. Patel, AnHai Doan, Christopher Re and David J...

. He got his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998. He was a faculty member at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

 from 1999–2008, and joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008. He works in the area of large-scale data management and cloud computing.

He is also the founder of Locomatix, which was named the 20 hottest startup by MobileBeat, in 2010 and highlighted in the Innovation Showcase at CTIA

CTIA

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External links

• Jignesh M. Patel's homepage: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~jignesh/
• Database research at Wisconsin: http://www-db.cs.wisc.edu/
• Jignesh M. Patel's publications on DBLP: