Atri received his Bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 2000 and his Ph.D. from University of Washington in 2007. From 2000 to 2002, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi, India. His research interests lie in theoretical computer science and in particular, theory of error-correcting codes, database algorithms, linear algebra algorithms, sub-linear algorithms, computational complexity, finite field theory and applications. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award (2009), HP Labs Innovation Research Award (2010), ESA best paper award (2010), UB Exceptional Scholars - Young Investigator award (2011), PODS best paper awards (2012 and 2016), IBM Faculty Award (2013), UB SEAS Senior Teacher of the Year Award (2015) and SIGMOD Research Highlights (2016).