Medha Atre

Post-doctoral researcher (Sept 2011 - present)
Computer and Information Science,
University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA




Research | Education | Work | Miscellaneous

I am a post-doctoral researcher at Penn Database Group and Prof. Zack Ives is my advisor.

I did my Ph.D. from Dept. of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Jan 2007 - Aug 2011). Prof. James A. Hendler was my thesis advisor and I was affiliated to Tetherless World Constellation. I also collaborated with Prof. Mohammed J. Zaki from time to time.

Research:    

    Publications:


Education:

     Prior education:
         
Ph.D. (Computer Science), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Troy, NY (Jan 2007 - Aug 2011)
          M.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay) INDIA (July 2002 - July 2004)
         B.E. (Production Engineering), College of Engineering Pune (COEP) INDIA (July 1996 - July 2000)

Work:

       Professional experience:

 
      IBM T. J. Watson Research (Sept 2010 - Nov 2010)
        Oracle (Semantic Technologies Research Group) (May 2008 - August 2008)
        GS Lab Pvt. Ltd. (July 2004 - Dec 2006))
        Persistent Systems Ltd. (Sept 2000 - June 2002)

   
  Some contributions/work:
        
Source Code for BitMat (Ph.D. thesis work)
        Reverse engineering MSN Messenger's old file transfer protocol (Look up right at the end of the page)
        Neon WebDAV client library updates (Search for my name)
        Finding aggregates over streaming data in single pass
 

Miscellaneous:

   I am a big fan of music in its various forms, some of my favorite songs
    having great music and equally good lyrics are:

       Airtap (Eric Mongrain)
       Way back into love
       Don't expect me to be your friend
       Last beautiful girl

    Some entertainment:
       System of a Down - Chop Suey
       Charlie bit my finger

    Something I observed:
       Beatles - I wanna hold your hand and then watch Dekho Abb Toh (a Hindi song from Bollywood)

    A favorite Ph.D. comic!
       Grad Student Etiquette (Ph.D. Comic)

    Some Miscellaneous Stuff
       Killing Us Softly (by Jean Killbourne) (Interesting perspective about women and advertisement)
       My twitter feed (Some tit-bits about alternate medicines, ayurveda, naturopathy etc, somethings learned hard-way, shared here for the benefit of others!)