Utkarsh Srivastava

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

Profile

Utkarsh's research interests lie in scalable distributed query processing, and data streams. Utkarsh received his PhD from Stanford University and his BTech from IIT Kanpur. Utkarsh is a recipient of the Stanford Graduate Fellowship and the Microsoft Graduate Fellowship.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • PNUTS - Platform for Nimble Universal Table Storage - During brainstorming sessions with colleagues Philip Bohannon and Brian Cooper, Ramakrishnan wondered whether they could design a simpler...
  • Pig - Parallel processing is the name of the game. Our system runs on a cluster computing architecture, on top of which sit several layers of abstraction that ultimately bring the power of parallel computing into the hands of ordinary users.
  • Yahoo! at KDD and SIGMOD - It was an exciting week as two major conferences took place concurrently during the week of June 28. The 15th ACM SGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining took place in Paris, while the annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference found its base in Providence. Yahoo! walked away the winner of the Best Paper Award at both conferences, in addition to earning a high number of accepted papers.
  • 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.
  • Yahoo! Research at SIGMOD/PODS 2008 - The 28th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data/Principles of Database Systems was held June 9 to 12 in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. The joint conference is universally regarded as the leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users.
  • Yahoo! at VLDB 2008 - Yahoo! walked away with a total of 10 accepted papers, and several Yahoo! researchers served on various program committees.
  • Yahoo! Research at SIGMOD/PODS - Yahoo! Research was well represented at this year’s ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference, held in the bustling city of Beijing, China. The annual conference, which began in 1975, is considered one of the most important regular gatherings in Computer Science.
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