Hridesh Rajan
Dean, School Of Science And Engineering at Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolHridesh Rajan is an academic leader and computer scientist who currently serves as Dean of the School of Science and Engineering at Tulane University, overseeing 11 departments and more than 2,700 students. He brings over two decades of faculty and leadership experience from Iowa State University, where as Kingland Professor and Chair he grew enrollment, faculty, and research funding while launching interdisciplinary data-science programs and the Midwest Big Data Summer School. His research in software engineering, programming languages, and data science is complemented by visiting appointments at Harvard, UT Austin, and a U.S.-UK Fulbright at Bristol, and recognized by awards such as the NSF CAREER and AAAS Fellowship. Known for strategic, mission-driven planning, he has launched Tulane’s 1000 Days Plan to accelerate translational, interdisciplinary research and experiential learning. Trained at IIT (BHU) and the University of Virginia (Ph.D.), he blends deep technical scholarship with sustained program-building and a focus on measurable impact for students and communities. An early career entrepreneur and former Bell Labs member, he retains a practical, systems-minded approach uncommon among senior academic administrators.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering, B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), VaranasiPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (20)
ranking10
science10
boa10
computer-science10
react10
java9
programming-language7
compiler6
java-compiler6
compiler-plugin5
concurrent5
ide-plugin4
eclipse-ide4
xtext4
mining3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hridesh/speclang
Dec 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
lab-design/design.cs.iastate.edu
Jan 2017 - Jun 2023
Contributions:3 PRs, 104 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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