Awards and Recognition

2024 IEEE MDM Test of Time Award for the paper “Shoji Nishimura, Sudipto Das, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi. MD-HBase: A scalable multi-dimensional data infrastructure for location aware services, IEEE MDM 2011.”. Award citation: “The paper broke new ground by extending open-source Big Data systems to support spatial and spatio-temporal queries”
Distinguished PC Member, ACM SIGMOD 2019.
Distinguished PC Member, ACM SIGMOD 2018.
Distinguished PC Member, ACM SIGMOD 2017.
2013 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award. [Award Citation] [SIGMOD News] [UCSB CS News]
2012 Lancaster Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Physical Sciences, & Engineering by the UCSB Graduate Division [UCSB CS News]
2012 Outstanding Dissertation Award in CS at UCSB. [UCSB CS News]
Best Paper Award at the 5th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) 2011. [UCSB CS News]
Best Runner-up paper Award at the 12th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) 2011.
2011 Outstanding Student Award in CS at UCSB. [UCSB CS News]
UCSB CS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for Fall 2008.
2006 TCS-JU Best Undergraduate Student Award.