He oversees data platform related co-innovation projects with hardware and software partners as well as collaborative research and internship programs with many universities in North America and Europe. His interests include database system architecture, in-memory and large scale distributed computing, self-management of software systems and cost modelling. Anil earned a PhD in CS from University of Waterloo. He also holds M.Tech. (CS) from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and B.E. (Electronics and Communications Engineering) from University of Delhi.