About me
Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM), Database Research Group
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)
I am a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) working in the Database Research Group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center at Hawthorne, New York. My interests are in new research directions in data management and its applications. In particular I am interested in scalable database processing, clustering and indexing techniques, query processing and optimizations, information integration, access control and privacy protection.
Prior to joining IBM Research, I was associated with the Database Technology Group (DBT) at IBM Toronto Labs, Canada and the Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group (ANURAG) of the Ministry of Defence, Government of India, India.
Over the last several years I have been involved with the Multi Dimensional Clustering (MDC) physical layout scheme for relational tables. This has been incorporated in DB2 Universal Database Version 8 in collaboration with IBM Toronto Labs. This has applications in OLAP and data warehousing and potential benefits in OLTP environments too. Before that I was involved with the DB2 Parallel Edition (DB2 PE) project and the industries first ever TPCD benchmark.
I am also involved in exploratory projects in the areas of privacy preserving data federation and its applications, database access control and inter query optimizations at run time.
My work in the MDC project has been recognised with an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award and two Supplemental Outstanding Innovation Awards by the company. I was also nominated to the Corporate Technical Recognition Event (CTRE) 2006 for the same. This work is also part of two Research Division Accomplishments. Apart from this I have also received Patent Plateau and other lesser awards for my other contributions.
I am currently serving on the Program Committees of DEXA 2008 (Database and Expert System Applications), DAMON 2008 (Data Management On New Hardware) and EDBT 2009 (Extended Database Technology) Demonstration Program Committee.
Last updated 3 Jul 2008