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.

Early life and career Priti Shankar was born in a Goan family. Her father, Innocencio Monteiro, was a Brigadier in the Indian Army while her mother, Sophia, was a mathematics and French teacher.

In 1958 her parents moved from Khadakwasla, Pune to Jammu where her father served along India-Pakistan border in Surankote. As a result of the move Priti had skipped six months of school and therefore was coached at home by her mother. A few years later, she returned to Pune and enrolled into Fergusson College. She later attended Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi from which she was the first female A year later she returned to India and was appointed as an assistant professor at the Centre for Automation at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and worked there till retirement.