• Education
  
  • PhD in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 2003 (Advisor: Prof. Jeff Naughton). Current employment: Microsoft Research.
  • Master of Arts in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in December 2002.
  • B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India in July 1998.
    
  
  
  
• Publications
  
  • Book Chapters
    • Chapter on ``Information Retrieval and XML Data'' in the third edition of the book ``Database Management Systems'' by Raghu Ramakrishnan and Johannes Gehrke.
  • Papers
    • Raghav Kaushik, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Jeffrey F. Naughton and Raghu Ramakrishnan. On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists. SIGMOD 2004.
    • Surajit Chaudhuri, Raghav Kaushik and Jeffrey F. Naughton. On Relational Support for XML Publishing: Beyond Sorting and Tagging. SIGMOD 2003.
    • Raghav Kaushik, Philip Bohannon, Jeffrey F. Naughton and Pradeep Shenoy. Updates for Structure Indexes. VLDB 2002
    • Raghav Kaushik, Philip Bohannon, Jeffrey F. Naughton and Henry F. Korth. Covering Indexes for Branching Path Queries. SIGMOD 2002
    • Raghav Kaushik, Pradeep Shenoy, Philip Bohannon and Ehud Gudes.Exploiting Local Similarity to Efficiently Index Paths in Graph-Structured Data. ICDE 2002
    • Jin-Yi Cai, Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy, Raghav Kaushik and Jeffrey F. Naughton.On the Complexity of Join Predicates. PODS 2001
    • Karthikeyan Ramasamy, Jignesh M. Patel, Jeffrey F. Naughton and Raghav Kaushik.Set Containment Joins - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. VLDB 2000

Hobbies

• Music: Carnatic Music, Western Classical, Jazz, Indian Film music
• Cricket
• Movies

Links of interest

• Music India Online
• The Hindu - online Indian newspaper
• CricInfo Web Page
• IIT Madras - Computer Sciences
• Tamil Film Music Page