I am a fifth (and final) year PhD student in the Computer Sciences department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am advised by Prof. Jignesh M. Patel and am part of the UW-Madison Database Group.

My research focuses on achieving near bare-metal speeds in modern database management systems and data analysis tasks. I am interested in architecture-aware computation and hardware/software co-design, especially in the context of both existing (FPGA, GPU) and emergent (PIM, "Smart Storage") accelerator technology. This interest tends to manifest itself as a focus on the choices made when representing data for compute and storage, such as how adding an application-specific data encoding process can improve overall performance. More broadly, this research area borders on other fields I consider side interests of mine, such as information theory, signal processing, and computer systems design.

I received my Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. I originally entered Georgia Tech as an Electrical Engineering major; while I switched to C.S. halfway through, I kept my low-level architecture interests in the form of the Devices and Information Internetworks major concentrations (Threads). After switching to C.S., I was exposed to academic research when I joined the PL&SE Group, where I worked under (then graduate student) Prof. Mattia Fazzini and Prof. Alessandro Orso. I explored software fragmentation-related errors within the Android ecosystem for my undergraduate thesis.