Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2001.
- M.S., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1999.
- B. Tech. , Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 1996.
Recent Professional Activities
- PC Member, SIGMOD 2016
- PC Member, WSDM 2016
- PC Member, VLDB 2016
- PC Member, VLDB 2015
- Area chair, Applications and Experiences (DB Track), CIKM 2014
- Workshop co-chair, VLDB 2014
- PC Member, ICDE 2014
- PC Member, ICDE 2013
- Member of Best Paper Award committee, ICDM 2011
- Area PC Vice-Chair, “Query Processing and Optimization” track, ICDE 2012
- Associate editor, TKDE
- Program co-chair, DBRank 2011 (at VLDB 2011)
- Member of Editorial Board, Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal
- PC Member, WWW 2011
- PC Member, ICDE 2011 (Demo track)
- PC Member, ICDM 2011
- PC Member, SIGMOD 2010
- PC Member, ICDE 2010 (Both Research and Demo tracks)
- PC Member, DBRank 2010
- PC Member, ICDM 2009
- PC Member, ICME (IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo) 2009
- PC Member, DBRank 2009
- PC Member, ICME 2008
- PC Member, ICDM 2007
- PC Member, DBRank 2007
- PC Member, ECML/PKDD 2007
- PC Member, ICDM 2006
- PC Member, ICDM 2005
Best Paper Awards
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Our paper Locally Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction for Indexing Large Time Series Databases awarded Best Paper of SIGMOD 2001
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Our paper Approximate Query Processing Using Wavelets awarded “Best of VLDB 2000” (along with 4 other papers) and invited to “Best of VLDB 2000” issue of VLDB Journal
Collaborators
All my work is in collaboration with the terrific engineers and researchers in the Data Management, Exploration and Mining Group. I also collaborate with various business groups within Microsoft to transfer our research work to Microsoft’s products and services. Finally, I had the good fortune to work with an amazing set of students over the last decade:
- Seung-won Hwang (2003, 2004)
- Dong Xin (2005, 2006)
- Tianyi Wu (2008)
- Mei Hui (2009)
- Senjuti Basu Roy (2010)
- Bahman Bahmani (2010, mentored by Dong Xin)
- Chi Wang (2011, 2012, 2013)
- Ndapa Nakashole (2011)
- Mohamed Yakout (2011, mentored by Kris Ganjam)
- Manish Gupta (2011, mentored by Tao Cheng)
- Meihui Zhang (2012)
- Bilyana Taneva (2012, mentored by Tao Cheng)
- Jeffrey Jestes (2012, mentored by Kris Ganjam)
- Yanyan Shen (2013)
- Mohan Yang (2013, mentored by Bolin Ding)
- Fotis Psallidas (2014, 2015)
- Vasilis Verroios (2015)
- Amit Chavan (2016)