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Short BiographyNaga Govindaraju is currently a senior researcher in the Many-core Technology Incubation Group at Microsoft Corporation. He received a B. Tech degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2001, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003 and 2004, respectively. Before joining Microsoft, Naga was a research assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Naga's research focuses on the design of efficient parallel algorithms to solve several computational problems in computer graphics, databases and high performance computing. He received the IEEE VR PRESENCE best paper award in 2005 and the Indy PennySort award in 2006 for designing the world's best reported performance/price sorting algorithm for large data management systems. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles in major graphics, database and HPC journals and conferences such as ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGMOD and ACM SuperComputing. Naga has organized and presented tutorials at ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SuperComputing, Eurographics, VLDB and IEEE ICDE. He has also served in the program committees of many conferences. |