Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in the School of computing at the University of Utah. I co-direct UtahDB Lab. I am also an Affiliate Faculty in the Performance and Algorithms Research Group at Berkeley Lab.
My goal as a researcher is to build scalable data systems with strong theoretical guarantees and employ them to democratize next-generation data analyses. My work applies to high-performance computing, computational biology, stream processing, and storage.
Previously, I was a Research Scientist at VMware Research for a year. Prior to that, I did postdocs at UC Berkeley/LBL and Carnegie Mellon University. I obtained my PhD in Computer Science at Stony Brook University in 2018.
I love outdoors and occasionally like to scribble my experience in a blog.
BIG NEWS! I’ll be moving to Khoury College Northeastern University, Boston in Spring 2025!
I will be part of the Data Lab. I am recruiting Ph.D. students at Northeastern in Boston for Fall 2025.
Drop me a note if you are interested in theory and practice of scalable data systems.
- Large-Scale Data Management
- Graphs Processing
- Computational Biology
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PhD in Computer Science, 2018
Stony Brook University
Media and Awards
Awards
- NSF CAREER: FACULTY EARLY CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD 2024
- IEEE-CS Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing 2023
- Catacosinos Fellowship for Excellence in Computer Science Research 2018
- Best paper award at FAST 2016
- Runners-Up to the best paper award at FAST 2015
Grants
- NSF CAREER Award (2024)
- One Utah Data Science Hub Seed Grant (2024)
- DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Award (2022)
Media
- Our IcebergHT paper from SIGMOD 2023 featured in Quanta Magazine
- The Counting Quotient Filter featured on the Morning Paper
- Our Counting Quotient File Paper is one of eight ACM SIGMOD 2017 most reproducible papers
- Our Computational Biology Research featured on VMware Research Blog
- Cell Systems Publishes Research on Mantis (RECOMB 2018), a New Sequencing Search Tool
Projects
Recent & Upcoming Talks
Featured Publications
All Publications
Teaching
- Fall 2023 CS 6530 Advanced Database Systems
- Spring 2023 CS 5958/6968 Data Str & Alg Scalable Comp
- Fall 2022 CS 6530 Advanced Database Systems
Students
- Hunter McCoy PhD (Started Fall 2022)
- Yuvraj Chesetti PhD (Started Fall 2023)
- Aaditya Rangarajan PhD (Started Fall 2024)
Contact
- prashant.pandey@utah.edu
- 72 Central Campus Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84112