Jignesh Patel
Department Head (Interim) at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJignesh Patel is a computer scientist and seasoned academic leader with 10+ years of professional experience, now serving as Interim Department Head and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in data systems, designing high-performance data analysis algorithms while also inventing methods to boost human productivity when interacting with data. Jignesh blends deep research credentials—a PhD from University of Wisconsin–Madison—with entrepreneurial grit, having co-founded multiple startups including DataChat and Locomatix and served as CEO and chief scientist in industry roles. His track record spans academia, corporate boards, and startup exits, reflecting an uncommon ability to translate research ideas into deployable systems and products. Based in Pittsburgh but with sustained ties to Madison and Silicon Valley, he is as comfortable leading departmental strategy as he is iterating on system-level optimizations. An underappreciated strength is his focus on human-centered tooling for data workflows, which consistently bridges performance gains with real-world user productivity.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
Github Skills (32)
postgresql10
data-warehouse10
data-platform10
database-design10
database10
parallel9
greenplum9
analytics9
sql9
database-management8
machine-learning8
warehouse8
java8
iterative8
relational8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
UWQuickstep/Grail
Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:74 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 7 months
analyticsgraph-analyticsrelationalrelational-databasesql
pateljm/homepage
Aug 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:30 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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