Profile

Office: ICS 424
Office Tel: +1(949)824-5975
Office Fax: +1(949)824-4056
E-mail: sharad@ics.uci.edu

Personal Web Page:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~sharad

Positions

• Assistant Professor, Information and Computer Science Department, University of Califorina at Irvine, July 1998 - to date.
• Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994-98.
• Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995-98.
• Scientist, Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory, 1993-94.

Education

• PhD (Computer Science) University of Texas at Austin , 1993.
• MS (Computer Science) University of Texas at Austin , 1990.
• B.Tech (Computer Science and Engineering) I.I.T. Kanpur, India , 1988.

Awards

• CAREER Award, NSF Information and Data Management Program, IIS Division, 1998.
• C. W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998.
• MCS Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 1988-90.

Research Interests

Multimedia Information Systems, Distributed Databases, Multidimensional Databases, Uncertainty in databases, data structures, information retrieval, geographical information systems, Transaction Processing, Heterogeneous Database Integration, Spatio-temporal Database Management, Data Mining and OLAP.