He received his PhD in Databases from UC Berkeley AMPLab where he led the research, design and development of BlinkDB (http://blinkdb.org), an open-sourced, massively parallel approximate query processing framework. He received his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati where he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal in 2009. He was a Qualcomm Innovation Fellow in 2012-13 and a Facebook Graduate Fellow in 2013-14.