He graduated with a Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2012, and got his B.Tech (in CS) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) -- Bombay in 2007. He has published more than 30 refereed papers in major venues, holds two U.S. patents and has given two tutorials (VLDB 2012 and ECML/PKDD 2012) at leading conferences. His work has also received a best paper award and two best-of-conference selections (CIKM 2012, ICDM 2012, ICDM 2011) and multiple travel awards. His research interests include Data Mining, Applied Machine Learning and Databases, with emphasis on big-data problems in large real-world networks and time-series. He is also a member of the Discovery Analytics Center at Virginia Tech. Aditya's homepage is at: http://www.cs.vt.edu/~badityap.