Recipient of the VLDB Endowment Early Career Research Contributions Award (2022), NSF Career Award (2016), Google Ph.D. Fellowship (2011 - the first Google fellowship in Structured Data), SIGMOD Best Artifact Award - Honorable Mention (2023); Served as Distinguished Reviewer/PC member for conferences including SIGMOD 2023, VLDB 2021, etc.
Research Experience
Currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Duke University; Was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Washington's Department of Computer Science and Engineering, working with Prof. Dan Suciu; Involved in multiple projects such as AME (Almost Matching Exactly), HNRQ (Helping Novices Learn and Debug Relational Queries).
Education
Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Prof. Susan Davidson and Prof. Sanjeev Khanna; Interned at IBM Research, Almaden.
Background
Research interests lie in Databases, Data Management, and Data Analysis. Focuses on foundational aspects of big data processing and responsible data analysis.
Miscellany
Spent a wonderful sabbatical in Berkeley, CA during 2023-24; Co-organized a semester-long program titled 'Logic and Algorithms in Database Theory and AI' at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley, in Fall 2023; Worked as a Visiting Scientist at RelationalAI and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley Sky Computing, hosted by Prof. Joe Hellerstein, in Spring 2024.