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Research Areas

• Big Data
• Data Analytics
• Cloud Computing

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at New Mexico Tech where I am also the Director of the Cloud Computing and Big Data (C2BD) Lab.

I received my Ph. D. from Virginia Tech. My research aims at developing techniques to make cloud platforms more efficient and, in particular, Iam exploring new approaches to make cloud platforms support big data applications more efficiently