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, approximate query processing, distributed, P2P and heterogeneous data management, applied graph and network algorithms, computational biology and computational geometry. 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 75 papers, many of which have appeared in premier data mining, database and algorithms conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, KDD, STOC, SODA, and SoCG, as well as in several leading journals and invited book chapters. Dr. Das has served as Best Paper Awards Chair of KDD 2006, Program Co-Chair of CIT 2004 and SIGMOD-DMKD 2004, as well as in program committees of premier conferences such as PODS, SIGMOD, ICDE, KDD, ICDM, SDM, ICML and others.

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