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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.
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