Received various awards including Kavli Fellow from the National Academy of Sciences (2023), IIT Bombay Young Alumnus Achiever award (2022), SIGMOD 2020 Best Paper Award (2020), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2020), VLDB Early Career Research Contributions Award (2019), Army Research Office Young Investigator Program Award (2018), NSF CAREER Award (2017), TCDE Rising Star Award (2017), Dean's Excellence in Research Award (2018), C. W. Gear Junior Faculty Award (2017).
Research Experience
Co-directs the EPIC Data Lab and the Police Records Access project. Co-founded Ponder, which was acquired by Snowflake in October 2023.
Education
Spent a year as a PostDoc at MIT CSAIL following his PhD at Stanford.
Background
Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley. Broadly interested in simplifying data science at scale, empowering individuals and teams to leverage and make sense of their large datasets more easily, efficiently, and effectively. Particularly interested in underserved application domains with limited data expertise.
Miscellany
Affiliated with the Berkeley Institute of Design and the Berkeley Institute of Data Science, and is part of the Data Systems & Foundations and Human-Computer Interaction groups at Berkeley.