I am a PhD student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working with the Database Group and advised by Neoklis Polyzotis. I have interests in database systems as well as file and storage systems. My current research is on physical design of database systems, particularly automated index tuning. I also work with the UCSC Systems Research Lab on data management for scientific computing. Some of my other research is on designing a framework for long-term storage, management, integration, and effective querying of various types of Earth Science data.

I received my MS from the University of California, San Diego. My thesis is on extending the reliability and performance of RAID architectures, working under Walt Burkhard in the Systems and Networking group. I earned a BS in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of South Florida, with work on encoding methods for DNA languages. Recently I worked as a Summer Research Associate at NEC Labs in the Data Management Group on the CloudDB project, and spent several previous summers at Google in the Platforms Storage group, and Teradata Labs in the Virtual Storage Group.

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