Aditya Parameswaran

Aditya Parameswaran is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Illinois (UIUC), with affiliate appointments at the Institute for Genomic Biology and the Beckman Interdisciplinary Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. He spent a year as a PostDoc at MIT following his PhD at Stanford University, before starting at Illinois in August 2014. He develops systems and algorithms for “human-in-the-loop” data analytics, synthesizing techniques from data mining, database systems, and human computation. He has received multiple dissertation awards (from SIGMOD, SIGKDD, and Stanford), an “Excellent” Lecturer award from Illinois, a Google Faculty award, the Key Scientific Challenges award from Yahoo!, four best-of-conference citations, and a Gold Medal from IIT Bombay. His research group is supported with funding from the Siebel Energy Institute, the NIH (2x), the NSF (2x), Adobe, and Google.