He is currently Visiting Associate Professor at the Biological Engineering Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, USA). He also holds the position of Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) Fellow in Computation and Systems Biology program (2005 - 2010). Sourav received his Ph.D. in computer engineering in 2001. His current research interests include tree and graph data management, systems biology data management, web data management and data mining. He has published more than 100 papers in major international database and data mining conferences and journals such as VLDB, IEEE ICDE, ACM WWW, ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGKDD, ACM CIKM, ER, PAKDD, IEEE TKDE, ACM CS, Information Systems, and DKE.