Shaku Atre

Shakuntala Atre, known as Shaku Atre (1940 to November 2, 2024), was an Indian data scientist and American businesswoman. After a fourteen-year career at IBM she started her own firm and became widely regarded as an expert on business technology and database use. She is best known for her book Database: Structured Techniques for Design, Performance and Management: With Case Studies (1980), one of the first books written on managing databases, and her co-authored book Business Intelligence Roadmap, written with Larissa Moss. She served as an adjunct professor of data science at the University of Pune and at several institutions in the United States, and her works have been used as university textbooks.