Prior to coming to MSR, I was at the wonderful Information Theory and Applications Center at UCSD. In 2007, I received my Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania where my advisor was Sampath Kannan. During graduate school, I spent a summer at DIMACS and three summers at the Fundamental Maths Department at Bell Labs. In the dim and distant past, I received the Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics (2001) and a B.A. in Mathematics (2000) from the University of Cambridge.
Since you're here, maybe you'd like to...
- attempt some open questions about data streams?
- peruse an entry on graph mining in streams from the Encyclopedia of Database Systems?
- submit a great paper to one of the following
conferences:
- 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing (DCOSS 2008)
- 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008)
- review some slides from recent talks on:
- "Streaming and sketching for distributions" (NIPS 2007)
- "The order of the stream" (MIT, UMich, UIUC 2007)
- "Robust lower bounds for communication" (Yahoo! Research, IBM Almaden 2007)
- "Declaring independence via the sketching of sketches" (SODA, ITA Workshop 2008)
"We know that five minus four is one
But a cloud minus a sailboat
Have no idea what it is."-- Another Kind of Mathematics, Nichita Stanescu