March 7, 2012
Defended my thesis!

March 2, 2012
Just got back from the Strata conference. Interesting talks by Mike Olson, Hal Varian and Jake Porway.

Oct 30, 2011
Got a job offer as a Data Scientist from Case Commons.

Oct 5, 2011
Dan Shechtman, professor of materials science at ISU, wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Proud to be a cyclone!

Sep 30, 2011
A patent application (# US 61/467,529) "Critical Threshold Parameters for Defining Bursts in Event Logs" got filed for our work at SCR Princeton.

July 14, 2011
Presented our work "Space-efficient Tracking of Persistent Items in a Massive Data Stream" in ACM DEBS 2011 at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

May 23, 2011
Our paper, "Finding Critical Thresholds for Defining Bursts", written during my internship at SCR Princeton, got accepted in DaWaK 2011.

April 25, 2011
Our paper "Space-efficient Tracking of Persistent Items in a Massive Data Stream", a work done in collaboration with Intel Labs Berkeley, got accepted in ACM DEBS 2011.

March 29, 2011
Got a job offer from Kikin. Playing with social media/web data analytics should be fun!

February 17, 2011
Attended the talk "Algorithms for the Masses" by Dr. Robert Sedgewick at Princeton University.

October 14, 2010
Presented my work at the DIMACS Workshop on Network Data Streaming and Compressive Sensing in Rutgers University.

June 10, 2010
Attended the talk "A Brief History of the Internet" by Dr. Leonard Kleinrock at Bell Labs, Murray Hill.

May 9, 2010
Our journal papar, "Computing Frequent Items in a Network using Gossip", got accepted for publication in the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC).

April 13, 2010
Received this certificate for participating at ACM SRC 2010.

April 12, 2010
Moved to Princeton and joined the internship at SCR.

March 13, 2010
Presented my work on "A Generic Framework for Detecting Top-k Items from a Stream" in the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) at Milwaukee, WI.

Feb 3, 2010
Got the travel grant (sponsored by Microsoft Research) for attending ACM SRC.

Dec 16, 2009
Just got back from Phoenix, Arizona, presenting my paper in IPCCC 2009. The IEEE conference covered a wide range of topics, from sensor networks to Cognitive Radio. Nice to escape the Iowa winter for a few days!

Nov 24, 2009
The Encyclopedia of Database Systems by Springer is published. Srikanta and I wrote an invited article on random sampling techniques for data streams.

Nov 9, 2009
Came to know that I have become an Editorial Board Member of Springer.

Nov 7, 2009
Attended IMC 2009 in Chicago over last three days. Some papers, on data mining over social networks, were pretty cool!

Oct 15, 2009
Our paper "Finding Correlated Heavy-Hitters over Data Streams" got accepted in IPCCC 2009.

Sep 3, 2009
Won a ACM/USENIX travel grant for attending IMC 2009.