Education

• Working towards a PhD under the guidance of: Jeff Naughton.
• Master of Science, Computer Sciences, Dec. 1995, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Bachelor of Technology, Computer Sciences and Engineering, May 1994, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Research Interests

• Online Analytical Processing
• Query Processing
• Performance Evaluation

Publications

• Storage Estimation for Multidimensional Aggregates in the Presence of Hierarchies
  Amit Shukla, Prasad M. Deshpande, Jeffrey F. Naughton, and Karthikeyan Ramasamy

  22nd International Conference on Very Large Databases, Mumbai (Bombay), 1996. The paper in postscript. Slides from the presentation at VLDB96 ( ppt or ps).

Interesting Links

• Madison
• Running
  • Boston Marathon (MA)
  • Chicago Marathon (IL)
  • Madison Marathon (WI)
  • New York Marathon (NY)
  • Seattle Marathon (WA)
  • St. George Marathon (Utah)

Database Related Pointers

• ACT-NET: Research Network on Active Databases
• Bibliography Server on Databases and Logic Programming
• Competitive Profiles - TPC, SPEC, ... (IDEAS International)
• Database Conferences Sorted by Name (University of Trier)
• Database Conferences Sorted by Date (SIGMOD Server)
• Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Endowment
• Database Article Archive
• Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS) Initiative
• Multimedia Information Sources
• National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols (NIIIP) Consortium
• Transaction Processing Council (TPC)
• TransCoop - Transaction Management Support for Cooperative Applications
• An OLAP Page
• OLAP: An Introduction (Pilot Software)

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