I am a post doctoral fellow in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. I am part of the CMU Database Group and work closely with Prof. Jignesh M. Patel.

My research focuses on achieving near bare-metal speeds in modern database management systems and data analysis tasks. I am interested in architecture-aware computation and hardware/software co-design, especially in the context of both existing (FPGA, GPU) and emergent (PIM, "Smart Storage") accelerator technology. This interest tends to manifest itself as a focus on the choices made when representing data for compute and storage, such as how adding an application-specific data encoding process can improve overall performance. More broadly, this research area borders on other fields I consider side interests of mine, such as information theory, signal processing, and computer systems design.

I received my doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I was a member of the UW-Madison Database Group and was advised by Prof. Jignesh M. Patel.

I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. I originally entered Georgia Tech as an Electrical Engineering major; while I switched to C.S. halfway through, I kept my low-level architecture interests in the form of the Devices and Information Internetworks major concentrations (Threads). After switching to C.S., I was exposed to academic research when I joined the PL&SE Group, where I worked under (then graduate student) Prof. Mattia Fazzini and Prof. Alessandro Orso.