I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. I work in the Database Research Group group with H. V. Jagadish.
My research interests fall under the areas of databases and information retrieval. My current focus is on making search in databases easier, as part of my group’s broader goal of making databases usable.
Publications:
- Arnab Nandi, Philip A. Bernstein: HAMSTER: Using Search Clicklogs for Schema and Taxonomy Matching: VLDB, 2009 [pdf] [ppt]
- Arnab Nandi, H. V. Jagadish: Qunits: queried units in database search: CIDR, 2009 [html] [pdf] [ppt]
- Arnab Nandi, H. V. Jagadish: Assisted querying using instant-response interfaces: SIGMOD 2007 (demo) [html] [pdf]
- Daniel Fabbri, Arnab Nandi, Kristen LeFevre, H. V. Jagadish: PrivatePond: Outsourced Management of Web Corpuses: WebDB 2009 [html] [pdf]
- H. V. Jagadish, Adriane Chapman, Aaron Elkiss, Magesh Jayapandian, Yunyao Li, Arnab Nandi, Cong Yu: Making database systems usable: SIGMOD 2007 [pdf]
- Magesh Jayapandian, Adriane Chapman, V. Glenn Tarcea, Cong Yu, Aaron Elkiss, Angela Ianni, Bin Liu, Arnab Nandi, Carlos Santos, Philip Andrews, Brian D. Athey, David J. States, H. V. Jagadish: Michigan Molecular Interactions (MiMI): putting the jigsaw puzzle together: Nucleic Acids Research 35(Database-Issue) 2007
- Soumen Chakrabarti, Jeetendra Mirchandani, Arnab Nandi: SPIN: searching personal information networks.: SIGIR 2005 (demo) [pdf]
I am a recipient of the Yahoo! Research PhD Fellowship for 2008-2010.
I am informally involved with the CSEG board after 3 years as Secretary, Treasurer and President of the CSE Graduate Society.
Before graduate school, I worked with Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti and Prof. S. Sudarshan at IIT Bombay. I was part of the BANKS and SPIN projects, where I worked on various aspects of ranking graph-based data.
During my undergraduate years at the University of Delhi, I teamed up with 2 of my college-mates to start idya Research, where we developed novel web-based applications.
I have also had the opportunity of interning with Media Lab Asia, and the technical research group at Yahoo! Bangalore. I worked with the Q&A group at Google in the summer of 2007, the Database Group at Microsoft Research in the summer of 2008, and the Web Information Management Group at Yahoo! Research in the summer of 2009.
Apart from research, I have also been a contributor to Drupal, the framework that runs this website. I created the Captcha and Similar Entries modules, which are now maintained by other members of the Drupal community.