Brief bio
I got my PhD from the University of Seville, Spain in 2012. My advisors were Prof. David Ruiz and Prof. Rafael Corchuelo. During my PhD, I visited Prof. Alberto Pan at the University of A Coruña, Spain, Dr. Paolo Papotti at Roma Tre University, Italy, and Prof. Christian Bizer at Free University of Berlin, Germany. From 2013 to 2015, I worked as a postdoc at the University of Idaho, USA, collaborating with Prof. Hasan Jamil and Prof. H.V. Jagadish.
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Students
PhD students:
- Beshani Weralupitiya, 2023 - Current
- Diba Masihi, 2025 - Current
- Narayanan Asuri Krishnan, 2021 - 2025
- Md Towhidul Chowdhury (Naveen Sharma is the main advisor), 2022 - 2025
MS, theses:
- Lydia Klecan, 2026
- Yusra Khalid, 2025 (Thesis)
- Bhaskar Krishna Gangadhar, 2023 (Thesis)
- Maheen Riaz Contractor (first job: Microsoft), 2022 (Thesis)
- Narayanan Asuri Krishnan, 2021 (Thesis)
- Aishwarya Rao, 2021 (Thesis)
- Iti Bansal (first job: researcher at UIUC), 2020 (Thesis)
- Wilberto Z. Nunez, 2018 (Thesis)
MS, capstone projects/independent studies/others (selected):
- Clinten Hopkins, Marie Mellor, Sayantan Saha (co-advisor: Beshani Weralupitiya), 2025
- Shrunjala Pranik Mul, Vaidehi Kalra, 2024
- Afe Omiyi, 2023
- Gabriella Wolf, 2022
- Yuying Mao, 2021
- Pranshu Bheda, Eric Hartman, Mayur Jawalkar (first job: Amazon), Pawan Shetty, Sam Snyder, Sudhanshu Tiwari, 2020
- Komal Bhavsar, Corie Both, Gourang Patil, 2019
- Hema Bahirwani (first job: Visa), Harnisha Gevaria (first job: Amazon), Hiteshi Shah, Shweta Yakkali (first job: Cloudera), 2018
- Manasi S. Bharde (first job: IBM), Lakhan D. Bhojwani (first job: Amazon), Kanth Dayanand (first job: Intuit), Krish Godiawala (first job: Amazon), Raj K. R. Korpally (first job: Amazon), Akshata Patil (first job: Microsoft), 2017
- Ankit Bhankharia (first job: Amazon), Pranav Dadlani (first job: Visa), Ishan Gulhane (first job: IBM), Tobin Pereira (first job: Microsoft), Vishwas Tantry (first job: Cisco Systems), 2016
- Yogesh Jagadeesan (co-advisor: Peizhao Hu), (first job: Microsoft), 2015
Undergraduate (selected):
- Lydia Klecan, 2025
- Cara Stievater, 2024
- Jodie Miu (first job: Amazon), Siddhartha Nutulapati (first job: Amplify), 2018
- Andrew Carpenter (first job: Amazon), 2017
- Meridangela Gutierrez Jhong (first job: Accenture), 2016
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Teaching
Primarily, I teach database and data mining courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Check my current teaching : here.
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Service
Program committees (selected):
- The ACM Web Conference (WWW): 2018-26
- ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR): 2026
- ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM): 2023-26 (best reviewer award in 2025)
- ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM): 2024-25
- ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD): 2022-24
- SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM): 2022-25
- ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC): 2021-2022
- International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC): 2017-2018
- Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC): 2015-2018
Journal reviews (selected):
- 2026 - Journal of Web Semantics
- 2026 - Knowledge-Based Systems
- 2026 - Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
- 2026 - Journal of Systems and Software
- 2025 - Knowledge-Based Systems
- 2025 - ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
- 2025 - Automated Software Engineering
- 2025 - Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
- 2024 - Knowledge-Based Systems
- 2024 - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
- 2023 - The VLDB Journal
- 2023 - Knowledge-Based Systems
- 2023 - Journal of Systems and Software
- 2023 - Computers in Biology and Medicine
- 2022 - Communications of the ACM
- 2022 - Knowledge-Based Systems
- 2021 - Knowledge-Based Systems
- 2021 - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems
- 2020 - Knowledge-Based Systems
- 2019 - Future Generation Computing Systems
- 2019 - Knowledge-Based Systems
- 2018 - IEEE Access
- 2017 - Future Generation Computing Systems
- 2017 - Information Systems Frontiers
- 2015 - Journal of Systems and Software
- 2014 - ACM Transactions on Database Systems
- 2013 - ACM Transactions On Web
Funding (selected):
Diversity
- Panelist in the 2023 ACM Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month LinkedIn Live Panel: "Communities Matter: Celebrating Hispanic-Latino Alliances in Computing."
At RIT:
- Outstanding scholar award, GCCIS, 2023-2026
- Tenure-track hiring, Computer Science, 2015-2022, 2023-2024
- PhD admission committee, GCCIS, 2018-2019
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