His research interests span in the area of big-data, big-graphs, and graph systems. He received his PhD from the Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara in 2013. After that, he was a post-doctorate researcher in the Systems Group at ETH Zurich from 2013-2015. Arijit is the recipient of the prestigious IBM PhD Fellowship in 2012-13. He published several papers in premier database and data-mining conferences and journals including SIGMOD, VLDB, TKDE, ICDE, SDM, EDBT, and CIKM. Arijit co-presented tutorials on emerging graph queries, big-graph systems, and uncertain graphs at ICDE 2012, VLDB 2014, VLDB 2015, and served in the program committee of KDD, ICDM, EDBT, WWW, CIKM, ICDE, VLDB, and SIGMOD. Arijit is serving as the co-chair of Big-O(Q) workshop co-located with VLDB 2015.