Ashwin Machanavajjhala - Research Scientist

Research Area: Web Information Management
Location: Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley

Profile

Ashwin Machanavajjhala is a Research Scientist in the Community Systems group at Yahoo! Research. His primary research interests lie in the area of data management, with specific focus on mining, uncertainty management and privacy on the web. Ashwin graduated with a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, Cornell University. His thesis work on defining and enforcing privacy was awarded the 2009 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award Honorable Mention. He has also received an M.S. from Cornell University and a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • Yahoo! Wins Best Paper Award at SIGMOD 2009 - Yahoo! earned three awards this year including the Best Paper Award for "Generating Example Data for Dataflow Programs" by Chris Olston, Shubham Chopra and Utkarsh Srivastava.