Priti Shankar

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. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland College Park in 1972. Shankar served as Professor at the Centre for Automation at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. The Priti Shankar Library of Popular Math and Science is housed in the UMED building of the Navnirmiti Learning Foundation.