Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in the School of computing at the University of Utah. I co-direct UtahDB Lab. I am also a core member of Utah Center For Data Science.
My goal as a researcher is to advance the theory and practice of resource-efficient data structures and employ them to democratize complex and large-scale data analyses. I work on building tools for large-scale data management problems across computational biology, stream processing, and storage.
Previously, I did a postdoc at UC Berkeley working with Prof. Aydin Buluc and Prof. Katherine Yelick. Prior to that, I spent one year as a Postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University working with Prof. Carl Kingsford. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stony Brook University, and defended my dissertation, Fast and Space-Efficient Maps: Shrinking Big Data Down to Size. At Stony brook University, I was co-advised by Prof. Michael Bender and Prof. Rob Johnson. (Dissertation committee: Mike Ferdman, Rob Patro, Guy Blelloch.)
I love outdoors and occasionally like to scribble my experience in a blog.
I’m looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students. Drop me a note if you want to
do cool research, run/hike in the mountains, and enjoy the world famous ski in Salt Lake City.
Specifically, I am looking for students who want to work at the
intersection of theory and systems.
In your email, please include two papers that you liked the most and why from the
publication list. Try and explain the main thesis of the paper in your own words.
- Data Structures for Big Data
- Graphs Processing
- Computational Biology
- Scalable Graph Neural Networks
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PhD in Computer Science, 2018
Stony Brook University
Media and Awards
Awards
- IEEE-CS TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing
- Catacosinos Fellowship for Excellence in Computer Science Research at Stony Brook University
- Our Counting Quotient File Paper is one of eight ACM SIGMOD 2017 reproducible paper
- Best paper award at FAST 16
- Runners-Up to the best paper award at FAST 15
Media
Projects
Recent & Upcoming Talks
Featured Publications
Recent 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 2022)
- Jinghua Yan PhD (Co-advised with Prof. P. Saday)
- Benwei Shi PhD (Co-advised with Prof. Jeff Phillips)
Contact
- prashant.pandey@utah.edu
- 72 Central Campus Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84112