His research interests are in developing database technologies for emerging applications, e.g., spatial, multimedia, genomics, and sensor databases. He is also interested in indexing, data mining, and geographic information systems (GIS). His research has been supported by the NSF, Purdue Research Foundation, CERIAS, Panasonic, and Microsoft Corp. In 2001, he received the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. He is in the editorial board of the VLDB Journal and is a member of the ACM and the IEEE. For more information, visit http://www.cs.purdue.edu/~aref