Arnab Nandi

 

Arnab Nandi is an
Assistant Professor of
Computer Science & Engineering at
The Ohio State University.

Office: DL 689 [send email]

Picture of Arnab    

Arnab’s research is in the area of database systems, focusing on challenges in big data analytics and data interaction. The goal of his group’s work is to allow end-users to explore information in large semi-structured and structured data. This involves solving problems that span the areas of databases, information retrieval, query interfaces and data mining.

Arnab currently serves on the Program Committees of VLDB (2013, 2014), SOCC (2013) and ICDE (2013) conferences and has been a reviewer for several conferences and journals including SIGMOD, TKDE, PVLDB, VLDB Journal, and WWW.

 

Publications [citations]

Data Interaction:

  • Arnab Nandi: Querying Without Keyboards: CIDR 2013 (Vision Track: Best Paper Award) [pdf]
  • Arnab Nandi, Michael Mandel: The Interactive Join: Recognizing Gestures for Database Queries: CHI 2013 (Works-In-Progress) [pdf]
  • Manish Singh, Arnab Nandi, H. V. Jagadish: Skimmer: Rapid Scrolling of Relational Query Results: SIGMOD 2012 [pdf] [slides]
  • Arnab Nandi, H. V. Jagadish: Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm: VLDB, 2011 (Challenges & Visions Track) [pdf] [slides]

Big Data Analytics:

  • Arnab Nandi, Cong Yu, Philip Bohannon, Raghu Ramakrishnan: Distributed Cube Materialization on Holistic Measures: ICDE, 2011 [pdf] [slides] [shipped: Pig 0.11]
  • Arnab Nandi, Cong Yu, Philip Bohannon, Raghu Ramakrishnan: Data Cube Materialization and Mining over MapReduce: IEEE TKDE “Best Papers in ICDE 2011” Special Issue [pdf]

Database Usability:

  • H. V. Jagadish , Arnab Nandi, Li Qian: Organic Databases: DNIS 2011 [pdf]
  • Arnab Nandi, H. V. Jagadish: Qunits: queried units in database search: CIDR, 2009 [html] [pdf] [slides]
  • 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

Social / Privacy / Search Query Log Mining:

  • Arnab Nandi, Stelios Paparizos, John Shafer, Rakesh Agrawal: With a Little Help from My Friends: ICDE 2013 (demo) [pdf]
  • Daniel Fabbri, Arnab Nandi, Kristen LeFevre, H. V. Jagadish: PrivatePond: Outsourced Management of Web Corpuses: WebDB 2009 [html] [pdf]
  • Soumen Chakrabarti, Jeetendra Mirchandani, Arnab Nandi: SPIN: searching personal information networks: SIGIR 2005 (demo) [pdf]

This research is made possible through the support of the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Yahoo! Labs, and Google Research.

 

I also have a sporadically maintained blog.

 

Students  

 

Teaching

  • Fall 2012: CSE 5249 Large-scale Data Analytics
  • Spring 2013: CSE 5242 Advanced Database Systems

 

Background

Arnab received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan where he was awarded the Yahoo! Research PhD Fellowship. At Michigan, he was part of the Database Research Group and was advised by H. V. Jagadish. His thesis addressed the problem of making search in databases easier, as part of the group’s broader goal of making databases usable. During internships at Yahoo! Research, Google and Microsoft Research, Arnab worked on various large-scale systems, dealing with problems in web and social search, data integration and data cubing.

 
During his PhD, Arnab was involved with the Michigan CSE Graduate Society board in various capacities including Secretary, Treasurer and President.
 
Before graduate school, he worked with Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti and Prof. S. Sudarshan at IIT Bombay. Arnab was part of the BANKS and SPIN projects, where he worked on various aspects of ranking graph-based data.
 
During his undergraduate years at the University of Delhi, Arnab teamed up with 2 of his college-mates to start idya Research, where he developed novel web-based applications.
 
He has also had the opportunity of interning with Media Lab Asia, and the technical research group at Yahoo! Bangalore. He 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, he has also been a contributor to Drupal, the framework that runs this website. Arnab created the Captcha and Similar Entries modules, which are now maintained by other members of the Drupal community. He also wrote BaconSnake, parts of which eventually made its way into Apache Pig 0.8’s Jython UDF feature.