Jaideep Srivastava

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{{Short description|Computer scientist}}

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| fields = Data Mining, Machine Learning

| workplaces = University of Minnesota
Qatar Computing Research Institute

| alma_mater = Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
University of California, Berkeley

| thesis_title = Performance Modeling of Distributed Databases

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| thesis_year = 1988

| doctoral_advisor = Chittoor V. Ramamoorthy

| doctoral_students = Ajay Bhushan Pandey
Duminda Wijesekera

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Jaideep Srivastava is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and was awarded the Distinguished Research Contributions Award of the PAKDD, for his lifetime contributions to the field of data mining.{{cite web |title=Bio at Seminar in Nanjing University |url=https://www.lamda.nju.edu.cn/seminar_150717.ashx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 |website=LAMBDA Group at Nanjing University |access-date=6 October 2021}} He is also Distinguished Fellow of Allina’s Center for Healthcare Innovation. Previously, he was the director of Social Computing group at QCRI.{{cite web |url=https://www.motc.gov.qa/en/dic/programs/mentorship/dr-jaideep-srivastava-0 |website=Qatar Ministry of Transport and Communications |access-date=6 October 2021 |title=Dr. Jaideep Srivastava | Ministry of Transport and Communications |archive-date=6 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006011221/https://www.motc.gov.qa/en/dic/programs/mentorship/dr-jaideep-srivastava-0 |url-status=dead }} He has a Bachelor's of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in India. He has a Masters and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He was one of the principal investigators of the Virtual Worlds Observatory project along with Noshir Contractor, Marshall Scott Poole and Dmitri Williams.{{cite web |last1=Nicholson |first1=Christie |title=Online Games as Study Tool |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/online-games-as-study-tool-09-03-04/ |website=Scientific American |access-date=13 October 2021}} He received the IBM faculty award in 2002 and became an IEEE Fellow in 2004.{{cite web |title=Faculty National Awards |url=https://cse.umn.edu/cs/national-awards#IBMfaculty |website=University of Minnesota Department of Computer Science and Engineering News |access-date=22 October 2021}} In 2011 he co-founded Ninja Metrics with USC Professor Dmitri Williams and was assisted by Kyong Jin Shim, Nishith Pathak, Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad and Senthil Krishnamoorthy.{{cite news |title=U of M startup analyzes player behavior to enhance online gaming experience |url=https://cse.umn.edu/college/news/u-m-startup-analyzes-player-behavior-enhance-online-gaming-experience |access-date=12 November 2021 |publisher=University of Minnesota |date=26 July 2011}}

In 2021, Guide2Research ranked him as one of the top 1,000 researchers in Computer Science.{{cite web |title=Department faculty ranked among top CS researchers in the world |url=https://cse.umn.edu/cs/news/department-faculty-ranked-among-top-cs-researchers-world |website=University of Minnesota Department of Computer Science and Engineering News |access-date=6 October 2021}} He was also the Data Mining Architect at Amazon during the early days (1999-2000) of the organization.