Gautam Das is a

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in the field of

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research. He is an

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(since 2021) and

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(since 2020). He is a Distinguished University Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Associate Dean of Research of College of Engineering at the

University of Texas at Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA or UT Arlington) is a public research university in Arlington, Texas. The university was founded in 1895 and was in the Texas A&M University System for several decades until joining the University of ...

, and director of the Database Exploration Laboratory (DBXLAB) at the CSE department at

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. His is known for his work in

, data mining, computational geometry, and

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Biography

He graduated with a B.Tech. in

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from

IIT Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कानपुर) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It wa ...

, India, and with a Ph.D. in

from the

University of Wisconsin, Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...

. Prior to joining

in 2004, Das has held positions at

Microsoft Research Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was created in 1991 by Richard Rashid, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technologi ...

Compaq Compaq Computer Corporation (sometimes abbreviated to CQ prior to a 2007 rebranding) was an American information technology company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products and services. Compaq produced ...

and the

University of Memphis } The University of Memphis (UofM) is a public university, public research university in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1912, the university has an enrollment of more than 22,000 students. The university maintains the Herff College of Engineering ...

Research

Das's early research interests were in computational geometry and graph algorithms. His Ph.D. dissertation made several significant contributions, most notably the discovery of greedy graph spanners. Greedy spanners – for general weighted graphs as well as in the geometric setting – have been continuously and extensively studied ever since, and have been shown to be almost as good as any other graph spanner in both lightness and edge sparsity. In the subsequent decades, his research interests broadened to all aspects of Big Data Exploration, including data management, data analytics, machine learning and data mining. He contributed to early research on the intersection of databases and information retrieval, in particular keyword search (e.g., the DBXplorer system) and ranked retrieval in database systems. Other highlights of his research have been in time series mining, approximate query processing, and Deep Web analytics. He is presently working on areas such as machine learning approaches for approximate query processing, and fairness and explainability in data management systems. His work has received several awards, including the Communications of ACM Research Highlight in 2021, Research Highlight Award of

SIGMOD SIGMOD is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Management of Data, which specializes in large-scale data management problems and databases. The annual ACM SIGMOD Conference, which began in 1975, is considered one of ...

2019, ACM

SIGKDD SIGKDD, representing the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, hosts an influential annual conference. Conference history The KDD Conference grew from KDD (Knowledge Di ...

Doctoral Dissertation Award (honorable mention) in 2014 (for his student), IEEE ICDE 10-Year Influential Paper award received in 2012, and numerous other awards. Gautam Das has been on the editorial board of the journals

ACM TODS The ''ACM Transactions on Database Systems'' (''ACM TODS'') is one of the journals produced by the Association for Computing Machinery. ''TODS'' publishes one volume yearly. Each volume has four issues, which appear in March, June, September and D ...

and IEEE TKDE. He has served in the organization roles of several major conferences, including as General Chair of ACM

/ PODS 2018.

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