Utkarsh Srivastava

Research Area: Community Systems
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

  • 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.
  • 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...
  • 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! 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.