Given the question: Facts: - caption: shamkant b. navathe - fields: databases , bioinformatics - doctoral advisor: alan g. merten - work institution: georgia tech college of computing - awards: acm fellow -lrb- 2014 -rrb- - name: shamkant b. navathe - ethnicity: indian - alma mater: university institute of science , university of pune of michigan , ohio state university , indian Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of shamkant navathe .
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shamkant b. navathe is a noted researcher in the field of databases with more than 150 publications on different topics in the area of databases .he is a professor in the college of computing at georgia institute of technology and founded the research group in database systems at the college of computing at georgia institute of technology -lrb- popularly called georgia tech -rrb- .he has been at georgia tech since 1990 .he has been teaching in the database area since 1975 and his textbook : '' fundamentals of database systems '' -lrb- with r. elmasri , published by addison wesley , edition 5 , 2007 -rrb- has been a leading textbook in the database area worldwide for the last 19 years .it is now in its 6th edition and is used as a standard textbook in india , europe , south america , australia and south-east asia .the book has been translated into spanish , german , french , italian , portuguese , chinese , korean , greek , and in arabic .his research is in the area of bioinformatics navathe is working in advisory roles with indian companies like tata consultancy services -lrb- tcs -rrb- , and persistent systems .he is also consultant for companies in information systems and software products design area and is an independent director of gtl limited , a mumbai based telecommunications company .