Recipient of DOE Early Career Award (2014) and Hellman Faculty Fellowship (2013).
Presented 3 papers at SIGMOD 2024 on suboptimal query plan classification, approximate sketches, and query optimization without cardinality estimation.
Supervised Asoke Datta’s Ph.D. dissertation (2024) on cardinality estimation impact; Asoke joined Google.
Supervised Yesdaulet Izenov’s Ph.D. dissertation (2023) on sketch-based query optimization; Yesdaulet joined Nazarbayev University faculty.
Published a technical report on spanning tree-based query plan enumeration (2023).
Serves on program committees of SIGMOD 2025 and VLDB 2025.