I am a Researcher in the Data Management and Explorations group at Microsoft Research (MSR). I am part of the eXtreme Computing Group (XCG), one of MSR's twelve worldwide labs. 

My broader research interests span the horizon of "Big Data" problems. My thesis research focused on developing scalable, elastic, and autonomic transaction processing systems to support cloud application platforms. I have worked on projects to design large scale analytics platforms for multi-dimensional data to support location based services and to allow deep statistical analysis over large amounts of data. I have also worked on data management systems leveraging modern hardware paradigms such as flash memory or content addressable memory. In the past, I have also worked on data stream processing systems and wireless networks.

I graduated from the Department of Computer Science, University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) with a PhD in Fall 2011. I had the pleasure to be advised by Professors Divy Agrawal and Amr El Abbadi during the course of my PhD as a member of the Distributed Systems Lab.

During the course of my PhD study at UCSB, I received the 2012 Lancaster Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Physical Sciences, & Engineering by the UCSB Graduate Division. 2011 Outstanding Student Award in CS at UCSB, CIDR 2011 Best Paper Award, MDM 2011 Best Runner-up Paper Award, UCSB Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship, UCSB CS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for Fall 2008, and UC President’s Work Study award.

I am originally from the "City of Joy" Kolkata in India. My undergraduate study was in Jadavpur University, Kolkata. I completed my Bachelor of Engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in 2006. I was awarded the TCS-JU Best Student Award, an award honoring the best graduting undergraduate in the CS department at JU.

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• My dissertation, entitled "Scalable and Elastic Transactional Data Stores for Cloud Computing Platforms," was awarded the 2012 Lancaster Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Physical Sciences, & Engineering by the UCSB Graduate Division.
• Serving on the Program committee for VLDB 2013/Editorial board of PVLDB Vol. 6.