Academic Work
Education
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Ph.D. in Computer Science
Duke University, Durham NC, USA
Thesis:
"Automatic Tuning of Data-Intensive Analytical Workloads"
Advisor: Shivnath Babu
Fall 2009 - May 2012
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M.S. in Computer Science
Duke University, Durham NC, USA
Thesis:
"zTuned: Automated SQL Tuning through Trial and (Sometimes) Error"
Advisor: Shivnath Babu
Fall 2007 - Spring 2009
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B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics
University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
Baltimore MD, USA
GPA: 4.0 / 4.0
Fall 2003 - Spring 2007
Academic Awards / Honors
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Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Computer Science
Spring 2012
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Steele Endowed Fellowship
Spring 2008
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Cyprus-America Scholarship awarded by the
Cyprus Fulbright Commission
Fall 2003 - Spring 2007
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UMBC President's Scholar Award (Scholarship)
Fall 2003 - Spring 2007
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National Residence Hall Honorary - member
Spring 2004 - Present
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National Society of Collegiate Scholars - member
Spring 2004 - Present
Computer Skills / Qualifications
- Java
- C / C++
- C# / Visual C++
- JSP / Java Servlets
- HTML
- PHP
- Perl
- Javascript
- Python
- MapReduce Hadoop
- Parallel Programming (PThreads, MPI, CUDA)
- DBMS (PostgreSQL, DB2, MySQL)
Duke University, Durham NC, USA
Thesis: "Automatic Tuning of Data-Intensive Analytical Workloads"
Advisor: Shivnath Babu
Fall 2009 - May 2012
Duke University, Durham NC, USA
Thesis: "zTuned: Automated SQL Tuning through Trial and (Sometimes) Error"
Advisor: Shivnath Babu
Fall 2007 - Spring 2009
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore MD, USA
GPA: 4.0 / 4.0
Fall 2003 - Spring 2007
Spring 2012
Spring 2008
Fall 2003 - Spring 2007
Fall 2003 - Spring 2007
Spring 2004 - Present
Spring 2004 - Present
- Java
- C / C++
- C# / Visual C++
- JSP / Java Servlets
- HTML
- PHP
- Perl
- Javascript
- Python
- MapReduce Hadoop
- Parallel Programming (PThreads, MPI, CUDA)
- DBMS (PostgreSQL, DB2, MySQL)