Prior to UTA, Dr Das has held positions at Microsoft Research, Compaq Corporation and the University of Memphis. He graduated with a BTech in computer science from IIT Kanpur, India, and with a PhD in computer science from the University of Wisconsin- Madison.Dr. Das's research interests span data mining, information retrieval, databases, approximate query processing, applied graph and network algorithms, and computational geometry. His research has resulted in over 75 papers, many of which have appeared in premier conferences and journals such as SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, KDD, TODS, and TKDE. Dr. Das has served as the Program Chair of CIT 2004, as well as in program committees of premier conferences such as SIGMOD, PODS, ICDE, KDD, and ICML. His research has been supported by grants from NSF, ONR, Cadence, Apollo, and Microsoft.