Recent News

  • [Feb 9, 2022] Our paper titled “Enabling Large-Scale Human Genome Sequence Analysis on CloudLab” has been accepted as a demo paper at IEEE INFOCOM Workshop: Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT 2022).
  • [Jan 19, 2022] Successfully presented my work titled “A System for Large-Scale Image and Video Retrieval on Everyday Scenes” as a part of my Ph.D. Comprehensive examination.
  • [Jan 1, 2022] Excited to be working with TripleBlind as a part of the industry-sponsored research project.
  • [Dec 7, 2021] Organized the ACM/Code.org Hour of Code at Centro Latino.
  • [Dec 1, 2021] Our paper titled “Zero Shot Learning for Predicting Energy Usage of Buildings in Sustainable Design” has been accepted AAAI Workshop on AI to Accelerate Science and Engineering.
  • [Nov 30, 2021] Presented the demo for “Private-Share: A Secure and Privacy-Preserving De-Centralized Framework for Large Scale Data Sharing” virtually at ACM Multimedia Asia 2021.
  • [Nov 17, 2021] Honored to have received the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Scholarship Award (news).
  • [Nov 12, 2021] Honored to have received the ACM SIGMM Travel Grant to attend ACM Multimedia Asia 2021 at Gold Coast, Australia.
  • [Oct 27, 2021] Super excited to have our nominated for the Best Short Paper Award at CIKM 2021.
  • [Oct 12, 2021] Our demo paper titled “Private-Share: A Secure and Privacy-Preserving De-Centralized Framework for Large Scale Data Sharing” has been accepted to ACM Multimedia Asia 2021.
  • [Aug 20, 2021] Last day as an Engineering Intern at Arm Inc. I would be back at SDS Lab to continue working on my Ph.D.
  • [Aug 9, 2021] Our paper entitled “Accelerating Variant Calling on Human Genomes Using a Commodity Cluster” has been accepted to CIKM 2021.
  • [Aug 5, 2021] Grateful to the VLDB Endowment Committee for awarding me the SPEND grant.
  • [Jun 30, 2021] Thank you Janese, for featuring my internship experience.
  • [Jun 1, 2021] Started my internship at Arm Inc.
  • [May 11, 2021] I am honoured to be awarded the MU Graduate Professional Council Research Development Award.
  • [Apr 30, 2021] Presented our work “Deepfakes for Histopathology Images: Myth or Reality?” at the Mizzou Cybersecurity Center IAB Meeting.
  • [Apr 1, 2021] I would be joining Arm Inc as an Engineering Intern this summer. Looking forward to work on large scale infrastructure research at Arm.
  • [Mar 9, 2019] Presented the demo for “A Large-Scale Image Retrieval System for Everyday Scenes” virtually at ACM Multimedia Asia 2020.
  • [Dec 11, 2020] Our demo paper entitled “A Large-Scale Image Retrieval System for Everyday Scenes” has been accepted to ACM Multimedia Asia 2020.
  • [Nov 11, 2020] Our paper entitled “Evaluation of Internet-based Crowdsourced Fundraising to Cover Healthcare Costs in the United States” has been accepted to JAMA Network Open.
  • [Oct 29, 2020] Presented virtually at the Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2020).
  • [Oct 29, 2020] Presented updates on our collaboration with PlanIT Impact at the Fall CBL IAB virtual meeting.
  • [Oct 21, 2020] I have been selected as a student volunteer for NeurIPS 2020.
  • [Aug 29, 2020] Our paper entitled “Deepfakes for Histopathology Images: Myth or Reality?” has been accepted in the 49th Annual IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR) Workshop.
  • [May 12, 2020] Our paper “FoodKG: A Tool to Enrich Knowledge Graphs Using Machine Learning Techniques” has been accepted to Frontiers in Big Data.
  • [Mar 9, 2020] Our paper entitled “ QIK: A System for Large-Scale Image Retrieval on Everyday Scenes With Common Objects” accepted for oral presentation (Full Paper track) at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2020 (ICMR 2020), to be held in Dublin, Ireland from June 8-11, 2020.
  • [Mar 5, 2020] Presented my poster on QIK for our Engineering Research Day.
  • [Mar 3, 2020] My poster on QIK has been accepted for the Annual Mizzou Engineering Research Day presentation.
  • [Jan 18, 2020] I am now a Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri - Columbia.
  • [Dec 22, 2019] Our paper entitled “Large-Scale Storage of Whole Slide Images and Fast Retrieval of Tiles Using DRAM” has been accepted to SPIE 2019.
  • [Dec 10, 2019] Passed my Qualifiers Oral Exam!
  • [Oct 17, 2019] I have been selected as a student volunteer for NeurIPS 2019.
  • [Oct 17, 2019] Presented updates on our collaboration with SquareOffs at the Fall CBL IAB meeting at Gainesville, Florida.
  • [Apr 9, 2019] Showcased the demo of our Gossip-Based System for Fast Approximate Score Computation in Multinomial Bayesian Networks at ICDE in Macau, China.
  • [Mar 1, 2019] I am honoured to be awarded the Student Activity Fee Committee Travel Grant.
  • [Feb 6, 2019] I am honored to have received the UMKC School of Graduate Studies Travel Grant.
  • [Feb 5, 2019] I am honoured to be awarded the Balaji K. Memorial travel grant.
  • [Feb 2, 2019] My first paper “A Gossip-Based System for Fast Approximate Score Computation in Multinomial Bayesian Networks” has been accepted to ICDE 2019.