Currently, I am working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Hyderabad.

Prior to joining IITH, I spent three pleasant years in the Shivalik Range of the Himalayas as an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Electrical Engineering (SCEE), IIT Mandi.

I am an algorithmist, and work in the intersection of theory and practice. I am interested in developing "extremely simple", practical approximation algorithms with provable performance guarantees for real-world problems. Among other things, my current research focuses around sketching/dimensionality reduction algorithms. In particular, I'm focusing on: a) developing new sketching/dimensionality reduction algorithms for various data types and similarity measures, b) improving existing sketching/dimensionality reduction algorithms by making them fast, scalable and accurate, and c) exploring applicability of such results in various machine learning tasks such as learning node embedding in large scale network, itemset mining, model compression etc.

I generally use techniques from matrix algebra, sampling, random projection, and randomized hashing.

I earned my Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science from Chennai Mathematical Institute (Aug 2009 - Nov 2014).

Previously, I have been working with industry research labs in the areas of algorithms in Data Science and Machine Learning at Wipro-AI Research, Bangalore; and TCS Innovation Labs, New Delhi. I have also spent a few months at IIIT Bangalore as a Research Associate.