Priti Shankar

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Priti Shankar (née Priti Monteiro; September 1947 – October 2011) was an Indian teacher, researcher, and educationist whose research focused on the areas of compiler design, formal language theory and algorithmic coding theory.[1]

Early life and career[]

Shankar was born into Goan family. Her father was a Brigadier in the Indian Army, Innocencio Monteiro while her mother, Sophia,[2] was math and French teacher.

In 1958 her parents moved from Khadakwasla, Pune to Jammu where her father served along India-Pakistan border in Surankote. As a result of the move Priti had skipped six months of school and therefore was coached at home by her mother. A few years later, she returned to Pune and enrolled into Fergusson College.[3] She later attended Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi from which she was the first female[2] to be graduated with a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering in 1968.[3] Following the graduation she applied to the University of Maryland, College Park from which in 1972 she received her Ph.D.[4] A year later she returned to India and was appointed as an assistant professor at the Centre for Automation at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.[3]

In 1979 Priti had pioneered the science field by developing a BCH code which were defined over finite fields and therefore became operational over finite rings. In 2002 she was a co-editor of CRC Press, along with Y. N. Srikant and also served on leadership board of the Resonance, a peer reviewed journal of India.[2]

Personal life[]

Priti had numerous siblings, including Vivek Monteiro, a theoretical physicist; Anjali Monteiro, a filmmaker and professor of media studies; and Nandita de Souza a developmental and behavioural pediatrician.[2] In 1974 she married P. N. Shankar, a theoretical fluid dynamicist at the National Aerospace Laboratories of Bangalore. In 1976 she gave a birth to a son named Nachiket and in 1983 Mridula, a daughter, was born.[3]

Honours[]

In 2007, Shankar received the Jaya Jayant award for teaching excellence and between 2006 and 2009 she was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[2]

Legacy[]

The Priti Shankar Library of Popular Math and Science is housed in the UMED building of the Navnirmiti Learning Foundation.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ "PROFESSOR PRITI SHANKAR" (PDF). Indian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Priti Shankar (1947–2011)" (PDF). Current Science. 102 (3). 2012.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "From the abstract to the concrete" (PDF). Computer Science Association. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Priti Monteiro (Shankar)". Mathematics Genealogy Project Department of Mathematics North Dakota State University. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  5. ^ "Priti Shankar Library". Navnirmiti Learning Foundation. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
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