I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Western Connecticut State University. I also head the Data Science & Systems Lab (DASSL, read dazzle) which conducts research in data science and data-intensive systems.

Before joining Western, I was the Executive Director of and a Principal Researcher at The Else Institute. Prior to that, I setup and directed the Applied Research group at Wipro Technologies. Prior to Wipro, I founded Sunlet Software Systems, in Portland, Oregon, where I created tools for software-engineering activities such as defect management and configuration management. Prior to that, I designed international trade-finance sys­tems at Tiger Systems in New York for use at banks such as Citibank, Chase, and Barclays.

I have taught graduate and undergraduate courses in data management and software engineering at Oregon Health & Science University and at Oregon Institute of Technology. I have published, organized, and chaired international conferences and workshops, and have been an invited speaker at venues such as the British Royal Society, IBM Research, and Microsoft.

I have also provided consulting services on technology, techno-legal, and techno-financial matters to corporations and governments: I was the chief architect of Automated Pickup Services at Federal Express. I led the development of India’s national policy for IT integration of the Indian Rupee sign; have advised clients on developing, prosecuting, and defending patents; have conducted discovery and audit in legal and financial matters; and have testified in judicial proceedings.

I am now, or have been, associated with key professional organizations in Computer Science, Service Science, and Web Science. I am a member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and IEEE Computer Society. I was a senior adviser to the Service Research and Innovation Institute (SRII) and the Founding President of its India chapter. I was also the first Industry Liaison at the Web Science Trust.

I have a PhD (CS) from Portland State University and a Masters (CS, Data Intensive Systems) from Oregon Health & Science University. My current research interests include analytics, e-discovery, forensics, and software-and-data architecture for cloud-based high-performance systems.