Arnab Nandi

I am a new Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. My research interests are in databases, large-scale data management and data interaction.
 

I am looking for undergraduate and graduate students to work with me on exciting research projects. If you’re interested, let’s talk!

 
Office: 689 Dreese Labs. Office hours: Monday / Wednesday 12:30pm — 1:45pm.
 
Publications:

  • Arnab Nandi, Cong Yu, Philip Bohannon, Raghu Ramakrishnan: Data Cube Materialization and Mining over MapReduce: IEEE TKDE “Best Papers in ICDE 2011” Special Issue
  • Arnab Nandi, H. V. Jagadish: Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm: VLDB, 2011 (Challenges & Visions Track) [pdf] [slides]
  • Arnab Nandi, Cong Yu, Philip Bohannon, Raghu Ramakrishnan: Distributed Cube Materialization on Holistic Measures: ICDE, 2011 [pdf] [slides]
  • Arnab Nandi, H. V. Jagadish: Qunits: queried units in database search: CIDR, 2009 [html] [pdf] [slides]
  • 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 recent Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, where I worked in the Database Research Group with H. V. Jagadish. My thesis addresses the problem of making search in databases easier, as part of my group’s broader goal of making databases usable.
 
I was a recipient of the Yahoo! Research PhD Fellowship for 2008-2010.
 
During my PhD, I was involved with the CSE Graduate Society board in various capacities including Secretary, Treasurer and President.
 
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 Question Answering group at Google in the summer of 2007, the Database Group at Microsoft Research in the summer of 2008, the Web Information Management Group at Yahoo! Research in the summer of 2009 and the Search Labs group at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley in the summer of 2011.
 
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. I also wrote BaconSnake, parts of which eventually made its way into Apache Pig 0.8’s Jython UDF feature.