Research Interests:

Database Systems   (Query Optimization, Data Mining, XML Databases, Biological Databases, Multi-lingual Databases)

For details of my technical activities, see Database Systems Lab. The associated publications are available at Publications and (a subset) in my DBLP listing.     (Curriculum Vitae:   HTML   PDF)

Program Co-Chair, 26th Intl. Conf. on Data Engineering, ICDE 2010, Los Angeles, USA
Tutorial Co-Chair, 19th Intl. World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2010, Raleigh, USA

Editorial Board, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE
Editorial Board, Intl. Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ), Springer
Editorial Board, Intl. Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases(JDPD), Springer
Editorial Board, Intl. Journal of Real-Time Systems (JRTS), Springer

Board of Studies, Intl. School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore
Scientific Advisory Board, 3i Infotech, Mumbai
Distinguished Scientist, ACM;   Senior Member, IEEE;   Life Member, CSI

Convenor, Database Systems Lab, SERC/CSA
Convenor, Faculty Recruitment, SERC
Chair, Computer Rate Contract Committee, IISc
Member, Senate Committee on Research Conferments (SCRC), IISc
Member, Centenary Post-Doctoral Fellow Committee (CPDF), IISc

Favorite Quotes:
In Silicon Valley, if you stop for lunch, you will be lunch !

(Comment left on a blog article)     IISc is an institution set up to provide a luxurious life for egotists and lunatics while they pretend to be professors. Of all the professors there, perhaps 1% make the grade to qualify as good human beings.

(Comment left on a blog article)     Education to the Indian middle class is largely a job ticket carried in a wallet, or a designer shirt flaunted at a party. Education is acquired and owned, it does not permeate and transform people.


My Erdos number is 3.

General Info:    

IISc IP Policy (by Intellectual Property Cell, IISc)
PhD program in Computer Science (by Mor Harchol-Balter)
Technical Writing (by Vikram Pudi)