Gautam Das is an Associate Professor and Head of the Database Exploration Laboratory (DBXLAB) at the CSE department of UT-Arlington. Prior to joining UTA in Fall 2004, Dr. Das has held positions at Microsoft Research,  Compaq Corporation and the University of Memphis. He graduated with a BTech in computer science from IIT Kanpur, India, and with a PhD in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Dr. Das's research interests span data mining, information retrieval, databases, algorithms and computational geometry. He is currently interested in ranking, top-k query processing, and sampling problems in databases, as well as data management problems in P2P and sensor networks, social networks, blogs and web communities. While at Microsoft Research he was extensively involved in the design and implementation of association mining algorithms, sampling based approximate query processing, and in the integration of database and information retrieval techniques. Prior to Microsoft, he has worked in clustering of categorical data and time series similarity, and also in the classical algorithms areas of shortest paths, spanning networks and geometric visibility. His research has resulted in over 90 papers, many of which have appeared in premier data mining, database and algorithms conferences and journals.

Dr. Das has served as Program Co-Chair of COMAD 2008, CIT 2004 and SIGMOD-DMKD 2004, Best Paper Awards Chair of KDD 2006, as well as in program committees of numerous conferences. He has served as a Guest Editor for the ACM TKDD special issue devoted to the best papers of KDD 2006.

Dr. Das's research has been supported by grants from NSF, ONR, Microsoft Research, Nokia Research, Cadence Design Systems and Apollo Data Technologies.

Among his other interests, Dr Das loves traveling, music and sports.