I am a PhD student currently doing research on keyword search on RDF databases. Working on personalized and context-based keyword search on graph databases and linked data in general is the core of my research. I am also a teaching assistant where I teach programming courses to undergraduate students as a lab instructor.
An initiative that aims at offering a new way of data integration and interoperability by connecting data sources on the Web and exposing real life data using semantic technologies. Linked data are also known as semi-structured data as they do have an underlying structure or schema but not a rigid one. For example, tree data (XML) and graph data (RDF).
Keyword Search is by far the most popular technique for querying linked data on the Web. Keyword search offers a straightforward, intuitive, and flexible method for retrieving information. My research focusses on personalized and context-based keyword search to solve the problems associated with keyword search such as result ambiguity and performance scalability among others.
RDF is the most prominent and standardized means of representing data in the Semantic Web. RDF uses Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for identifying any real life thing (resource). The use of URIs enabled an easy way of linking different resources and information related to them.
The major part of my research deals with large RDF graphs. Studying the existing algorithms and theories on graph exploration as well as working on semantic and structural characterisitcs of graphs forms the core of keyword search on RDF data.
GPA: 3.55
GPA: 3.4
Java,C,C++,MATLAB,Python,HTML,CSS,MySQL
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Apart from research and teaching, I am a big sports enthusiast, soccer being the most prominent one. Other hobbies include playing various indoor games like badminton and table tennis and video games.
When forced indoors, I follow a number of sci-fi and fantasy genre movies and television shows, and I spend a large amount of my free time exploring the latest technolgy advancements in the field of databases and Computer Science in general.