Arnab Nandi
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering,
The Ohio State University
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How do we help humans work with data better, faster, and more effectively? Arnab's work focuses on bridging human interaction and data infrastructure, spanning areas of database systems, human-in-the-loop data analytics, and next-generation query interfaces. Arnab is a recipient of the US National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, a Google Faculty Research Award, and IEEE's TCDE Early Career Award for his contributions towards user-focused data interaction. Closer to home, Arnab received the University's Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the Early Career Innovator of the Year Award, and was also listed as Columbus Business First's "40 under 40". At Ohio State, he co-founded the OHI/O Program, that fosters a tech culture through hackathons and informal learning, and The STEAM Factory, an interdisciplinary research and collaboration network. Most recently, Arnab was founder and CEO of Mobikit, a connected vehicles data analytics startup that was acquired by Azuga Inc., a Bridgestone company. Arnab is an ACM Distinguished Member and holds a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Selected Service:
- Steering Committee Member, HILDA 2024–
- Workshops co-chair, SIGMOD 2025–26
- Demonstrations co-chair, SIGMOD 2024
- Area Chair, ICDE 2024
- Associate Editor, VLDB 2019
- Program Committee, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE: Multiple Years
Selected Projects:
- DREAM: Data Exploration in Augmented and Mixed Reality
- CropFusion: Multimodal Data Fusion for Precision Agriculture
- DBTutor: Integrating LLMs into Database Systems Education
- GestureDB: Querying Beyond Keyboards
- DICE: Distributed Interactive Cube Exploration
- Icarus: Amplifying Domain Expertise in Clinical Data Pipelines
- Perceptvis: Perceptually-aware Interactive Visualization Systems
- Crossroads: Interactive Vehicle Fleet Data Analysis
- Invisible Library: Interactive Analytics meets Public Art
- Prompt: Query Autocompletion for Structured Search in Databases
- OHI/O: Hackathon and Informal Learning Program
- STEAM Factory: Facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration
Students & Alumni:
- Dominik Winecki, PhD Student
- Luke Waltz, PhD Student (w/ Sami Khanal)
- Ritesh Sarkhel, PhD, Applied Scientist, Amazon AI
- Protiva Rahman, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, University of Florida
- Behrooz Omidvar Tehrani, PostDoc, Applied Scientist, AWS AI Labs
- Meraj Ahmed Khan, PhD, Senior Scientist, P&G Data Science & AI Research
- Lilong Jiang, PhD, Principle Machine Learning Engineer, Roblox
- Niranjan Kamat, PhD, Software Engineer, AWS Redshift
- Codi Burley, MS, Software Engineer, Optiwatt
- Karthik Tunga, MS, Software Engineer, Meta
- Prasanth Jayachandran, MS, Software Engineer, Apple
- Dalton Flanagan, BS, Software Engineer, Meta Generative AI
- Trey Hakanson, BS, Senior Software Engineer, Skydio