Awards and Recognition

Test of time

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”

Best Paper

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.

Dissertation

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]

Conference service

Distinguished Associate Editor (AE), PVLDB Vol. 19, VLDB 2026.
Distinguished Associate Editor (AE), PVLDB Vol. 18, VLDB 2025.
Distinguished PC Member, ACM SIGMOD 2022.
Distinguished PC Member, ACM SIGMOD 2019.
Distinguished PC Member, ACM SIGMOD 2018.
Distinguished PC Member, ACM SIGMOD 2017.

Student awards

2011 Outstanding Student Award in CS at UCSB. [UCSB CS News]
UCSB CS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for Fall 2008.
2006 TCS-JU (Tata Consultancy Services and Jadavpur University) Best Undergraduate Student Award.