Gautam Das (computer scientist)

Gautam Das[1] is a computer scientist in the field of database research.

He is an IEEE Fellow, the Distinguished University Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Associate Dean of Research of College of Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, Director of the Big Data Analytics Center (BigDAC) at UT-Arlington, and director of the Database Exploration Laboratory (DBXLAB) at the CSE department at UTA. Prior to joining UTA in 2004, Das has held positions at Microsoft Research, Compaq Corporation, and the University of Memphis. He graduated with a B.Tech in computer science from IIT Kanpur, India, and with a Ph.D in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Gautam Das has broad research interests in all aspects of Big Data Exploration, including databases, data analytics and mining, information retrieval, and algorithms. His research has appeared in premier data mining, database and algorithms venues, including ACM SIGMOD and VLDB. Gautam's erdös number is 2.

His work has received several awards, including the IEEE ICDE 10-Year Influential Paper award[2] received in 2012, Best Student Paper Award of CIKM 2013 ,[3] VLDB Journal special issues on Best Papers of VLDB 2012 ,[4] , VLDB 2019 ,[5] and VLDB 2007, ACM SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award (honorable mention) in 2014 (for his student)[6] Research Highlight Award of SIGMOD 2019, Best Paper of ECML/PKDD 2006, and Best Paper (runner up) of ACM SIGKDD 1998.

Gautam Das has been on the editorial board of the journals ACM TODS and IEEE TKDE. He has served as general chair of several conferences including ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2018.

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