Research Interests:

Database Systems   (Design, Implementation and Testing of Database Engine Components)

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 )

Senior Program Committee, CODS-COMAD 2024 Conference
Councillor, ACM India Council
Editorial Board, ACM Books
Chair, ACM India Eminent Speaker Selection Committee

Convenor, Database Systems Lab, CDS/CSA
Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee, CDS

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)